PART TWENTY-EIGHT

The Faringdon Line

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

Updated November 2009

28P67	Laura Ellen Collett was born at Stratton St Margaret in the Rural District of Highworth on 18.01.1901 and was one half of a set of twins that survived beyond the day of their birth. She married Victor William Cann in 1920 and they had two children Jack and Ray Cann. Victor was born at Probus in Cornwall in 1898 and at the outbreak of war was living with his parents Richard and Lillian Cann at Avening Street in Swindon. He lied about his age to join the army and survived the First World War to take part in the Second World War. His older brother Richard Cann was tragically killed in June 1915 whilst serving with the 1^st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment.
	The photograph above has been extracted from a larger family group picture resulting in a loss of definition. Laura Ellen died in 1989.
28P69	FRANK COLLETT, known as Curly, was born at Swindon on 28.11.1903. He was a keen footballer and played for Wroughton and gained an amateur international cap in 1926 playing for the English Railways team against the equivalent team from France. He was a member of St John’s Ambulance Service for many years and lost the sight in one eye as a result of an accident at the GWR foundry in Swindon. He met his future wife when the family moved to Elcombe near Wroughton sometime in the early 1920s and his brother Nelson lived in the thatched cottage on Overtown Hill in Wroughton right next door to the future Mrs Collett.
	It was as a result of his visits to Nelson’s house that Frank met and eventually married Margaret Alice Elliott on 24.12.1927 at Wroughton. Margaret was the daughter of farm worker Edward Elliott and Mary Ovens and was born at Wroughton in 1905 and who lived at Overtown Hill in Wroughton.
	Frank and Margaret’s first two children were born at Wroughton before the family moved back to Frank’s home town of Swindon during 1936, where their third child was born. Frank died at Swindon on 05.10.1973.
	28Q39	Anthony Roy Collett	Born in 1928
	28Q40	Pamela Joy Collett	Born on 13.01.1934
	28Q41	ROBERT JOHN COLLETT	Born in 1937
28P70	Alfred Collett was born at Swindon on 10.06.1905 where he was a cooper and general bricklayer. He married Beatrice Willoughby in the early to middle 1930s and the marriage produced one daughter. Alfred died on 01.07.1960 at Swindon.
	28Q42	Marion Collett	Born in 1936 at Swindon
28P73	Kate Collett was born at Swindon on 16.11.1910. She was in service at Lechlade when she met and married Charles Stephen Willis on 10.10.1931. Following the wedding, the couple moved into a house in Lechlade built by Charles grandfather who was a master builder. Following the birth of their only son, the family later moved to Beckhampton Street in Swindon, then to Johns Street Terrace and lastly to Victoria Road. Kate died on 21.12.2004 at Swindon.
	Their son later married Margaret Jean Collett (Ref. 1R33) whose origins are detailed in Part One – The Main Line.
	28Q43	John Willis	Born around 1934
28P74	Florence May Collett was born at Stratton St Margaret on 10.11.1897, the birth being registered in Swindon. At the time of the census of 1901 Florence May was three years old and was living with her parents Tom A Collett and Florence A Collett at St Phillips Road in Stratton St Margaret where she was presumably born. Curiously though she was not with them ten years later, after the family had moved into Swindon. A full search of the census of 1911 has not revealed her whereabouts.
	Seven years later Florence May Collett married Alfred William Heard at Swindon on 18.08.1918. Alfred was the son of Walter Heard and Emily Moxham and was born at Swindon on 02.10.1898.
	Shortly after they were married the couple emigrated to Canada and their four children were all born at Aurora in Ontario. The eldest daughter, who was born on 19.12.1919, died at Edmonton in Alberta in 2005, while their only son and youngest member of the family died at Aurora in 1997.
	Florence may have been the first member of the family to make the move to Canada as she and her husband were followed by her parents Tom and Florence Collett and her brothers Charles Alfred, Stanley and Edward (below).
	Only her sisters Winifred Dora and Alice (below) did not accompany the family across the Atlantic. Winifred stayed in England as she was betrothed to be married, while Alice was sent to live with her uncle Tom Collett in South Africa.
28P75	Winifred Dora Collett was born at Swindon on 29.12.1899. She married Harry F Parsons on 07.07.1924, the son of Alfred Parsons and Annie Booker. Harry was born in 1894 at Angmering near Littlehampton in Sussex. They coupled lived at Brighton in Sussex where their three children were born, the youngest of which died in the same year she was born.
28P76	Charles Alfred Collett was born at Stratton St Margaret on 11.07.1902. He married Phyllis Lily Gorton on 19.01.1924 at Swindon. She was the daughter of Edwin Gorton and Kate Hall and was born on 11.09.1901 at Brockley near Greenwich in London. At sometime in the four years following their marriage the couple emigrated to Canada where their daughter was born.
	28Q44	Phyllis May Collett	Born on 18.06.1928
28P77	Alice Primrose Collett was born at Swindon on 19.04.1905. When, in the early 1920s, the majority of her family emigrated to Canada, Alice was sent to live in South Africa under the parental control of her father’s brother John (Jack) Collett (Ref. 28O74). The eldest daughter of the family, Alice’s sister Florence May Collett (above) born in 1897, was supposed to be the one to go to live in South Africa but she refused. Alice, who was only 16 at the time, was ‘sold’ by her uncle Jack to an Italian for £500, this to provide the family with the funds to sail to Canada. However, upon her arrival in South Africa, Alice refused to have anything to do with the Italian gentleman.
	As a result of her action, she was made to live in a wooden hut right next door to her uncle’s house at Pietermaritzberg in Natal where she worked as a maid in his household. It was only with the help of the police that she managed to escape this dreadful life style.
	Five years later, in 1926, she met and married James Christopher Llewellyn Brayshaw. He was the son of an Australian father who settled in Africa in 1896 and a South African mother whose forefathers had settled in the 1850s.
	As James was a member of the municipal police, the couple initially lived in police quarters at Mountain Rise Police Station, a suburb of Pietermaritzburg which was the birth place for their three children. The municipal police force was later incorporated into the South African Police Force.
	The three children were Austin Llewellyn Brayshaw born in 1928, Audrey Brayshaw born in 1930, and Daphne Yvonne Brayshaw born in 1935.
	Due to a shortage of men at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, Sergeant Brayshaw was placed in command of the Mountain Rise Police Station. During the war James was seconded to work in Johannesburg with the radio controlled flying squad, and in 1945 Alice and the children made the move to join him there. Prior to this move, Alice did sterling work helping to entertain the wounded soldiers that were being treated at a nearby hospital in Pietermaritzburg.
	Tragically Alice’s and James’ daughter Audrey who suffered with an illness akin to autism was confined to an institution after the family moved to Johannesburg, and it was there only a few months later in late 1945 or early 1946 that she died.
	A second tragedy hit the family less than two years later when Alice died at Johannesburg on 24.11.1947 from cancer. She was buried at West Park Cemetery where James was buried following his death in June 1977 from lung cancer.
	Alice’s and James’ son Austin Llewellyn Brayshaw married Ethel in 1948 and they had two daughters Kathy born at Durban in 1953 and Cindy born in 1957. Austin died from a heart condition in August 1988 while his wife died in 2003. Eldest daughter Kathy married in 1976 and had two children (Garreth born in 1977 and Grant born in 1979) but was later divorced.
	In 2007 Kathy Belcher was living at Rail Street in Florida, Roodepoort near Johannesburg and it is thanks to her that this detailed account of her grandmother’s life can be told.
	Kathy’s sister Cindy married in 1980 and had three children (Aubrey born in 1981, Marian born in 1985 and Shaun born in 1989).
28P78	Stanley Herbert Collett was born at Swindon on 07.03.1907. He married Emily (Elsie as she was known) Sadler on 01.07.1931 at Aurora in Ontario. Elsie was also born at Swindon on 21.03.1909. Stanley and Elsie probably lived life most of their married life at Aurora where their only son, a honeymoon baby, was born.
	However, following the death of Stanley at Acton in Ontario on 01.04.1972 it would appear that Elsie returned to live in England as she died at Swindon in 1984.
	28Q45	Herbert John Collett	Born on 20.04.1932
28P79	Edward Thomas Collett was born at Swindon on 05.09.1909 but accompanied his parents when they emigrated to Canada. There on 02.02.1933 he married (1) Olive Foster who was born at Aurora on 11.09.1915 and together they had two children.
	Whatever the circumstance, and it certainly was not the death of Olive his first wife who lived until 2000, Edward had a third child in 1951 but with Mary Elizabeth Humphrey who was twenty years his junior having been born on 15.02.1929. He eventually married (2) Mary on 07.03.1952 when their son Donald was just a week over one year old.
	During the time period between the birth of the child and their marriage, it seems more than likely that Edward sought and secured a divorce from his first wife Olive. Edward died on 19.09.1995 at Newmarket in Ontario.
	28Q46	Jeanne Collett	Born on 16.09.1933
	28Q47	Edward Collett	Born on 16.10.1940
	28Q48	Donald Collett	Born on 28.02.1951
28P80	Elizabeth Collett was born at Swindon in 1898, the year after her parents were married. Not long after she was born her parents left Swindon and moved to the outskirts of the town where they settled in Stratton St Margaret.
	And it was there that they were living in March 1901, when Elizabeth was two years old. Around two or three years later her father was offered work on a farm, at which time the family moved the very short distance to Stanton Fitzwarren.
	By the time of the census in April 1911 the family was still living at Stanton where Elizabeth was referred to as Lizzie Collett aged twelve who was attending the village school.
	Elizabeth later married Sidney Cove who was born at Highworth in 1889 and who, at the time of his death a few years later, was working for the Great Western Railway. The marriage produced two daughters for Elizabeth and Sidney.
28P81	Frederick Collett was born in 1900 shortly after his parents moved to Stratton St Margaret. In the census of 1901 he was recorded as being under one year old. Sometime between 1903 and 1904 his moved made the move to nearby Stanton Fitzwarren where they were still living in 1911 when Fred Collett was ten years old.
28P82	William Collett was born at Stratton St Margaret in the latter end of 1901. Ten years later, as Willie Collett aged nine years, he was living with his family in the village of Stanton Fitzwarren.
	He later worked for the Great Western Railway in the maintenance department in south Wales. It is not known if he married, or if he had any children.
28P83	Anne Collett was born at Stratton St Margaret in 1903. Not long after she was born her family left Stratton and moved to Stanton Fitzwarren where they were living in 1911. In the census that year Anne was listed as Annie Collett aged seven.
	She married Stanley Edwin Hobbs who was born at Highworth in 1898. The couple had one son and, at the time of his death, Stanley was a boiler-maker with the Great Western Railway.
28P84	Lillian Collett was born at Stanton Fitzwarren near Highworth in 1904 and was still living there with her family in 1911 when she was referred to as Lily Collett aged six.
	She married William Shergold who was born at Swindon in 1903 and with whom she had one son. At the time of his death, William was a sign-writer with the Great Western Railway.
28P85	Albert Collett was born at Stanton Fitzwarren in 1907 and was three years old in 1911 when living at Stanton Fitzwarren with his family.
	He married Dorothy Plumb in 1930, Dorothy also having been born around 1907, and within the first two years of the marriage the couple were blessed with twin boys.
	28Q49	Gordon Collett twin	Born in 1932
	28Q50	Raymond Collett twin	Born in 1932
28P86	James Collett was born at Stanton Fitzwarren in November 1910 and was living there with his family in April 1911 at the age of five months. All that is known about James is that he was later employed as a coalman.
28P87	Ernest John Collett was very likely born at Stanton Fitzwarren just after 1911 since he was not listed with his family in the census for that year. It is not known if he married or had any children, but it is known that he was a butcher by trade. Previous information placed his date of birth around 1908.
28P88	Elsie Ann Collett was also very likely born at Stanton Fitzwarren, possibly around 1913, as she too was not with the family in 1911. However, it is established that she married Jack who was a wagon builder with the Great Western Railway. Previous information placed her date of birth around 1910.
28P89	John Collett, who was referred to as Jack, was born at Swindon on 08.01.1915. He married Winifred Huddy who was also born at Swindon on 15.11.1915. John worked for Plessey in Swindon where he was an oilman.
	28Q51	Anthony Collett	Born on 15.08.1933 at Swindon
	28Q52	Ivan Collett	Born on 17.08.1934 at Swindon
	28Q53	Trevor Collett	Born on 24.08.1936
	28Q54	Melvyn Collett	Born in 1941 at Swindon
	28Q55	Glenn Collett	Born in 1945 at Swindon
28P90	Edward Charles Collett, who was referred to as Charlie, was born at Swindon on 03.08.1917. He married Marjorie Woods who was born in London on 04.07.1918. All of their children were born at Swindon.
	When Edward died his occupation was recorded as that of a machinist, although at sometime during his working life he had been a GWR engine driver.
	28Q56	Paul Collett	Born on 23.09.1942 at Swindon
	28Q57	Stephen Collett	Born on 16.01.1944 at Swindon
	28Q58	Philip Collett	Born on 28.01.1945
	28Q59	Vivian Collett	Born on 03.08.1947 at Swindon
28P91	Leonard Stanley Collett was born at Swindon in 1922. At the age of twenty he was killed in action during the Second World War. He was Able Seaman C/JX312786 attached to the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Blean which was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-443on on 11.12.1942 west of Oran. The vessel had only been launch on 15^th January that same year.
	The Commonwealth War Graves Commission acknowledges that he was Leonard Stanley Collett the son of Fred and Maud Collett of Gorse Hill in Swindon. His name is included amongst those listed on the Chatham Naval Memorial.
28P92	Catherine Winifred Louise Collett was born at Pietermaritzburg in Natal, South Africa on 06.10.1912 where she married (1) George Leslie Neaves of that town around 1932. George died in 1958 at Pietermaritzburg and she later married (2) Frederick James Ashington who was born at Butterworth in the Cape Province. Frederick died in 1970.
	The first married produced two daughters born in 1932 and 1934 both at Pietermaritzburg.
28P93	Florence Ann Collett was born at Stratton St Margaret on 24.02.1908 and was two years old in the Stratton census of 1911. She later married Alfred Davis and the marriage produced two sons and two daughters for Florence and Alfred.
28P94	Albert William James Collett was born at Swindon on 13.02.1922. He married Moira Ellen Townsend around 1950. Moira was born on 08.09.1923 and was the daughter of dairy proprietor Stanley James Townsend (19.06.1896 to 1975) and Charlotte Griffiths who died in 1966.
	What is of interest is that the widow of Ernest George Collett (Ref. 28P62) re-married to become Mrs Townsend. Upon confirmation of his death after WW1 he was registered as the husband of E Townsend formerly Collett. It therefore seems highly likely that Moira Ellen, the wife of Albert Collett, would have been a relative of Mrs E Townsend, perhaps her niece.
	Albert was a machinist with the GWR and later with the Metal Box Company, before becoming a Quality Control Inspector with Rank Xerox.
	During her working life Moira was a shorthand typist with solicitors Lemon & Co. and retailers Morses Ltd., and later a secretary with the Science Research Council.
	28Q60	Nigel Anthony Collett	Born on 20.10.1952
	28Q61	Gavin James Collett	Born on 15.03.1955
28Q1	Ellen Elizabeth Collett, who was known as Nellie, was born at Heston in Middlesex on 17.02.1901 with the birth being registered at Southall. And it was at Heston where she was living with her parents at the time of the census of 1901 when she was just six weeks old.
	Ten years after, in April 1911, Ellen and her family were living at Norwood when she was confirmed as being ten years old and her place of birth having been Heston.
	On leaving school Ellen originally took up employment as a coil worker at a local factory. It was during this time in her life that she regularly attended the Salvation Army meetings with her parents where, in 1916, she took a serious calling and became a junior member.
	Ellen entered the Salvation Army training college on the 19^th August 1921 and was commissioned as a Lieutenant on the 18^th May 1922. Her first postings were to Norfolk, initially based at Blakeney, and then at Burnham Market. Further postings followed, the first of these being to Terrington in Yorkshire where she was promoted to Captain on Christmas Eve in 1925. After Terrington she moved to Sheffield.
	The next year saw Ellen embark on the journey that would cover thirty-three years service in India. She arrived in Madras on the 2^nd November 1926 where she assisted in the Women’s Industrial (Rescue) Home. As a result of her work there, she was rewarded with promotion to Ensign in 1929, and to Adjutant in 1932.
	After her first brief home leave in 1933, Ellen returned to the Rescue Home and was promoted to Major on the 19^th June 1937, taking commander-in-charge during the following year. At the outbreak of the Second World War she returned to England for another brief leave and it was during this time that she was appointed to the Eventide Home at St Leonard’s where she provided spiritual, physical and emotional support to the residents.
	Ellen was then posted to the Overseas Department at Strensall in Yorkshire during the February of 1942 where Ellen served at the ‘Red Shield’ providing facilities to the armed services akin to the NAFFI, although without the alcohol. Further Red Shield duties followed on her return to Madras in June 1944.
	August 1944 saw Ellen’s appointment to the Women’s Industrial Home in Madras as Superintendent Brigadier where she was to serve for the next fifteen years, except that is for two periods of brief home leave in 1949 and 1954. In her role as Superintendent Brigadier, Ellen was in charge of fifty-five women until her return to England on the 25^th July 1959
	Brigadier Ellen Collett retired on the 21^st December 1959 and settled with her sister Annie Mahaila Collett, known as Nance (below) in Southall. Still an active individual even after her retirement, Ellen undertook a number of responsibilities as the Home League Secretary, and represented the Salvation Army on the Local Council of Churches
	Ellen was known to be an exquisite needle-worker who taught her skills at sewing classes for Asian women. Although basically shy by nature, whilst serving in Madras she could often be found at the quayside offering her beautiful work for sale. The money raised from such sales was used to help others (see footnote).
	She was fluent in Tamil and Telugu and was a regular correspondent on the BBC Radio programme ‘Thought For The Day’ until her passing on 13.07.1970.
	This insight into a remarkable lady was kindly provided by Dave Considine who, at his own christening in 1963, was draped in a silk and muslin hand-woven christening gown that was made by his great aunt Ellen Elizabeth Collett.
28Q2	Annie Mahaila Collett, who was known within the family as Great Aunt Nance was born at Heston in 1902. By 1911 she and her family had left Heston and were living at Norwood, near to where her father was born.
	She later married Arthur Bradbury who was born in 1900 and who came from a family of shepherds in Shabbingdon in Buckinghamshire.
28Q3	Eric John Collett was born in 1904. It was originally thought that he had been born at Southall, but the census of 1911 revealed it was at Heston, where three of his siblings were also born. It is very likely that the birth was registered at Southall.
	In the 1911 census Eric was listed as living with his family at Norwood when he was six years old. However, it was at Southall that he later married Winifred May Macklin who was also born there in 1907. And it was there also that all nine of their children were born.
	28R1	Dennis Collett	Born in 1927 at Southall
	28R2	Eric Collett	Born in 1928 at Southall
	28R3	Alan Collett	Born in 1929 at Southall
	28R4	Sheila Collett	Born in 1930 at Southall
	28R5	Pauline Collett	Born in 1937 at Southall
	28R6	Ann Collett	Born in 1939
	28R7	Marion Collett	Born in 1940 at Southall
	28R8	Mary Collett	Born in 1942 at Southall
	28R9	Wendy Collett	Born in 1946 at Southall
28Q4	Margaret Collett was born at Heston in 1907 and was referred to within the family as Great Aunt Rita. By April 1911 she was four years old and was living at Norwood with her family. The census confirmed that she had been born at nearby Heston.
	She later married and had a daughter Cynthia who was living in France at the start of the 21^st Century.
28Q5	John Lionel Collett was born in 1909. Like his brother Eric (above), it was thought that he had been born at Southall. However, the census of 1911 stated that he had been born at nearby Heston and that he was aged one year when living at Norwood with his family.
	John married Mary Ellen Lancaster on 23.09.1933 at St John’s in Southall prior to emigrating to Australia with his younger brother Francis (below). Mary Ellen was known within the family as Great Aunt Mel and she and John had a son Peter Collett who was last heard of living in America.
	28R10	Peter Collett	Date of birth unknown
28Q6	Francis Wheeler Collett, who was known as Uncle Frank, was born at Southall in 1912, although this may have been at Norwood where his family was living in April 1911. It is more likely that the birth was registered at Southall.
	When he was in his twenties, Francis emigrated to Australia with his older brother John (above). A little while later he became a married man, although the marriage did not produce any children for the couple.
28Q7	Rupert Raymond Irving was born at Korumburra in Victoria on 13.03.1918 and he married Ruby Doris Martin who died in 2001.
	28R11	Heather Elizabeth Irving	Date of birth unknown
28Q9	A Collett daughter was born to Wilfred Herbert Collett and Marion Graham Richardson in late 1925 or the years thereafter. She married (1) Mr Clark with whom she had one child before later marrying (2) Mr Dennis. All three plus the Clark child were still alive in 2007.
28Q10	A Collett son was born to Wilfred Herbert Collett and Marion Graham Richardson around the late 1920s. He married a Miss Jacobs and the marriage produced four children for the couple. All the members of this family were alive in 2007.
	28R12	a son Collett	Date of birth unknown
	28R13	a daughter Collett	Date of birth unknown
	28R14	another Collett child	Date of birth unknown
	28R15	a son Collett	Date of birth unknown
28Q11	A Collett son was born to Neville Thomas Collett and Ida Duncan after 1926. He married a Miss Wilson and the marriage produced three children for the couple. All the members of this family were alive in 2007.
	28R16	a son Collett	Date of birth unknown
	28R17	a son Collett	Date of birth unknown
	28R18	a daughter Collett	Date of birth unknown
28Q12	A Collett son was born to Neville Thomas Collett and Ida Duncan in the late 1920s or early 1930s. He too married another Miss Wilson, possibly the sister of the previous Miss Wilson and this marriage produced two children for the couple. All the members of this family were alive in 2007.
	28R19	a son Collett	Date of birth unknown
	28R20	a son Collett	Date of birth unknown
28Q14	A Collett son was born to Eric Alexander Miller Collett and Gladys Elizabeth Matthews after 1936. He married a Miss Grant and together they had two children. All the members of this family were alive in 2007.
	28R21	a daughter Collett	Date of birth unknown
	28R22	a son Collett	Date of birth unknown
28Q15	A Collett son was born to Eric Alexander Miller Collett and Gladys Elizabeth Matthews around 1940. He married a Miss Bellano and together they had two children. All the members of this family were alive in 2007.
	28R23	a Collett child	Date of birth unknown
	28R24	another Collett child	Date of birth unknown
28Q16	A Collett daughter was born to Trevor David Collett and Olga Muriel Wiles after 1935. She married a Mr Hughes with whom she had four children and all six members of this family were alive in 2007.
28Q20	George Leonard Collett, who was known as Len, was born at Stoke-on-Trent on 07.05.1941. He married Nora Margaret Matthews in the early 1960s. Nora was the daughter of James Matthews and Catherine Fallon and was born on 03.06.1944.
	The couple’s two daughters were born while they were living at Alsager, near Crewe. After three years living at Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, their sons were born following a family move to Kingswinford in the West Midlands.
	The family settled in Millhouse Green at Penistone near Barnsley in 1974 and at the time of writing, Len and Nora were still living at Millhouse Green.
	28R25	Jane Catherine Collett	Born on 11.07.1966
	28R26	Verity Anne Collett	Born on 30.10.1967
	28R27	Thomas George Collett	Born on 08.11.1971
	28R28	William Leonard Collett	Born on 07.05.1973
28Q22	Henry Collett was born at Alvescot in 1883 and was the base-born son of Emma Collett of Alvescot. It is assumed that he continued to live with his mother, probably at the home of her parents in Alvescot.
	What is known is that following Emma’s married to Joseph Fitchett, Henry was living with his mother at Buckland in 1891 when he was seven years old.
	Just after the start of the new century Henry had returned to Alvescot and was living at the home of his grandfather George Collett (Ref. 28N28). According to the census of 1901, Henry was seventeen and was confirmed as having been born at Alvescot where he was employed as an under carter on a farm, probably working on the same farm as his grandfather.
	By the time Henry was twenty-seven he was married to Emily Ann and in April 1911 the childless couple were living within the Woodstock registration district. Henry Collett of Alvescot was 27, while his wife Emily Ann Collett was 28.
28Q23	Frederick James Edgington was born at Black Bourton in 1904. He married Sarah Isabella Godfrey who was born at Sunderland in 1909, and who was the daughter of Jonathan and Isabella Godfrey. Frederick’s and Sarah’s daughter was born at Greenford in West London in 1929.
	28R29	Iris Isabella Edgington	Born in 1929
28Q25	Frederick John Collett was born at Alvescot on 06.12.1908. He married Muriel Slatford who was born at Garsington just south-east of the City of Oxford on 20.01.1914. The marriage produced two children for the couple, both of whom were born at Oxford.
	28R30	Hazell Collett	Born in 1939 at Oxford
	28R31	Raymond Collett	Born in 1942
28Q26	Elsie Freda Mary Collett was born at Alvescot on 06.07.1913 where, on 29.06.1935 she married Thomas Henry Richards who was born in Oxford in 1908 and who was the son of Howard and Annie Richards.
28Q27	Dorothy May Violet Collett was born at Alvescot in 1923 she married John Mellor on 07.11.1939 at Alvescot who was born on 19.04.1915. At the time the couple were married John was serving with the Royal Air Force and was stationed at the Brize Norton air base.
28Q33	Ellen Collett, referred to by the family as Nelly, was born in 1914. She married Ellis Swayles with whom she had three daughters all born at Swindon. They were Janet born in 1938, Anita born in 1939 and Susan born in 1944.
28Q37	Ellen Collett was born at Swindon in 1919. She married William Christopher Meesam. The couple had two daughters and Ellen died in 2005.
28Q38	Kathleen Elizabeth Winifred Collett was born at Swindon in 1921. She married Dennis Thomas Dowson and they had three children.
28Q39	Anthony Roy Collett was born at Wroughton near Swindon on 08.10.1928. In 1951 he married Noreen French of Darlington in County Durham who was born there in 1931. The couple’s first child was born at Swindon while the others were born at Fulham in London.
	28R32	Janine Collett	Born on 10.01.1953
	28R33	Robert Martin Collett	Born on 10.12.1955
	28R34	Lorraine Collett	Born on 10.08.1957
28Q40	Pamela Joy Collett, who was referred to as Pam, was born at Wroughton on 13.01.1934. During 1936 the family moved to live in Swindon when Pam’s father Frank had been born and lived during his early life. Pam was educated at Ferndale School and later at Headlands Grammar School. On leaving school Pam took up employment with the Great Western Railway working in the Privilege Office. It was from the Priv. Office that GWR employees were given free passes and privilege tickets to travel at reduced rates on the railway. The length of service with the GWR determined the value of the tickets and passes.
	It was in Swindon that she met and later married Edwin James Bond in 1953. Edwin was born in Swindon on 21.03.1927.
	The marriage produced two children for Pam and Edwin; Kevin James Bond born on 15.07.1954 and Carole born on 16.09.1964, both having been born at Swindon.
	In 2002 Pam was diagnosed with cancer and had one kidney removed in an attempt to defeat the illness. Initially everything seemed to be fine for a while but the cancer returned and Pam passed away in the Prospect Hospice at Wroughton on the 7^th of June 2007.
	At the time of her passing Pam was the proud grandmother to four grandchildren and great grandmother to five great grandchildren.
28Q41	ROBERT JOHN COLLETT, who was referred to as Bob, was born at Swindon on 25.06.1937. He attended Ferndale Infants and Junior School and Headlands Grammar School. He served his 18 months National Service with R.E.M.E. in Libya.
	He was apprenticed as a turner, fitter and erector with British Rail before moving to Pressed Steel in Swindon where, during his time there, he was a toolmaker, a production line fitter, a foreman, and a team engineer.
	Pressed Steel later became Rover and was then taken over by the German motor manufacturer BMW. Following his retirement, after 38 years with Pressed Steel, he worked as a part-time salesman at Sainsbury Homebase for a further three years.
	He married Margaret Harris at Christchurch in Swindon on 05.07.1958. Margaret was born on 28.02.1937 and was the daughter of Stanley Ernest Harris who was born in 1901 and Olive Ellen Truman who was born in 1903. Both of their children were born at Swindon. This photograph of Bob and Margaret was taken in 2008 on the occasion of their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
	28R35	Leigh Anthony Collett	Born on 13.01.1962
	28R36	Darren Jon Collett	Born on 10.09.1964
28Q43	John Willis was born around 1933. He married Margaret Jean Collett who was born at Swindon on 06.06.1935. The marriage on 30.11.1957 produced two children Debbie and Gary Willis both born at Swindon where John Willis died on 14.11.2005 aged 72.
	Margaret Jean Collett (Ref. 1R33) was the daughter of artist and bank manager Ronald Ernest Collett (Ref. 1Q19) of Plymouth Street in Swindon whose family details are provided in Part One – The Main Line.
28Q44	Phyllis May Collett was born at Aurora in Ontario on 18.06.1928. There she married Eric Ronald Egerton on 18.06.1949. Eric was the son of Frederick Egerton and Alice Ryder and was born on 15.06.1924 at Whelford near Lechlade in Gloucestershire, England. The marriage produced four daughters while the family were living at Newmarket in Ontario. Eric died at Bradford in Ontario on 08.05.1988.
28Q45	Herbert John Collett was born at Aurora on 20.04.1932. He married Vivian Beatrice Beach on 31.01.1951 at Aurora.
	28R37	a son Collett	Born on 30.06.1952; died 30.06.1952
	28R38	Sheila Collett	Born on 30.06.1953
	28R39	Stanley Collett	Born on 17.07.1955
	28R40	Lesley Collett twin	Born on 02.02.1958
	28R41	Patricia Collett twin	Born on 02.02.1958
	28R42	Nancy Collett	Born in 1959
	28R43	Tracey Collett	Born in 1964
28Q46	Jeanne Collett was born at Aurora on 16.09.1933 where she married Ronnie Brown on 24.03.1951. Ronnie was born in 1930. The marriage produced three children.
28Q47	Edward Collett, who was referred to as Teddy, was born at Aurora on 16.10.1940 where he married Hazel McConnell on 21.09.1964.
	28R44	Edward William Collett	Born on 19.10.1969
	28R45	Tammy Collett	Born on 10.03.1972
28Q48	Donald Collett was born at Aurora on 28.02.1951 a year before his parents were married. He married (1) Pat Van Dyke Nichols in 1972 at Aurora and nearly twenty years later he married (2) Theresa Buck. It is not known if his first wife died or whether he was divorced from her. Each of the marriages produced just one child.
	28R46	Patti Collett	Born in 1973
	28R47	Rory Thomas Collett	Born on 08.10.1992
28Q53	Trevor Collett was born at Swindon on 24.08.1936. He married Evelyn Smith of Purton in Wiltshire who was born on 04.07.1939. Both of their daughters were born at Purton.
	28R48	Lynn Collett	Born on 26.12.1960 at Purton
	28R49	Deborah Collett	Born on 11.04.1962 at Purton
28Q58	Philip Collett, referred to as Phil, was born at Swindon on 28.01.1945. He married Sandra Dobson at St Mary’s Church in Swindon on 31.01.1971. Sandra was born on 15.02.1949 and was the daughter of Lesley and Doreen Dobson. Their two children were both born at Swindon.
	28R50	Darren Stephen Collett	Born on 10.01.1974
	28R51	Debra Sandra Collett	Born on 19.12.1976 at Swindon
28Q60	Nigel Anthony Collett was born at Swindon on 20.10.1952 and was educated at the Commonweal School in Swindon. He later attended St Peter’s College Oxford where he took a Bachelor of Arts in Modern History in 1973, becoming MA Oxon in 1977.
	After six months working at the Ministry of Defence as an Administrative Trainee in the Home Civil Service he joined the British Army as a 2^nd Lieutenant in the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, attending the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst in 1974.
	He was first posted to the 1^st Battalion the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment at Gordon Barracks in Gillingham as Officer Commanding 3 Platoon, A Company, and served in England and Cyprus before being posted to the Infantry Junior Leaders’ Battalion at Shorncliffe, as Officer Commanding Burma Platoon, Barossa Company, from 1975 to 1976.
	A tour as Battalion Intelligence Officer followed with 1^st Battalion D and D in Northern Ireland (North Queen Street) and Belfast Barracks, and at Osnabruck in Germany where he also commanded the Battalion’s ski hut at Sondhofen in Bavaria from 1977 to 1978.
	After attending the Junior Division of the Staff College at Warminster, Nigel returned to the 1^st Battalion D and D and became second in command of A Company for exercises in Soltau and Suffield in Canada. At the end of 1978 he was posted as Adjutant of the Prince of Wales’s Division Depot at Crickhowell in Wales.
	In 1981 he was seconded to the Sultan of Oman’s Land Forces and posted as an Acting Major to be Company Commander of D Company the Western Frontier Regiment at Thumrait in Dhofar. The soldiers of the regiment were all Pakistani Baluch who taught Nigel the language. From 1982 he served with BMATT Zimbabwe as a local Major and an instructor on the Company Commander’s Course at Nkomo.
	It was while he was there that he wrote the first of his many books “Grammar, Phrase Book and Vocabulary of Baluchi” which was published in 1984 and again in 1986. Whilst at Staff College in Camberley in 1984, he transferred to 6^th Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles and was promoted to substantive Major that same year. He was later posted to 6^th Gurkhas at Gallipoli Lines in Fanling and was to serve in Hong Kong continuously from 1985 to 1992.
	Nigel was made Chief of Staff of 48 Gurkha Infantry Brigade in Sekkong from 1987 to 1988 and was Brigade Major Brigade of Gurkhas in HMS Tamar in 1990. As a Lieutenant-Colonel he had the honour to command 6^th Gurkha Rifles in Hong Kong from 1991, then in Brunei from 1992 to 1993, also holding in the latter location the post of Garrison Commander Brunei.
	Between 1987 and 1994 with the help of two Gurkha Officers (Major Lyangsong Lepchha and Captain Harkaman Gurung) Nigel wrote “An English-Nepali-English Dictionary”. On its publication in the latter year, it became the Nepali dictionary used by the British Army, the Gurkha Contingent of the Singapore Police, and the Sultan of Brunei’s Gurkha Reserve Unit.
	That same year he retired and established Gurkha International Manpower Services Ltd, a company initially dedicated to finding employment for ex-British Army Gurkha soldiers, principally with shipping companies. He is Managing Director of the Company which has over 800 men and women onboard ships, mostly cruise lines, and has offices in Hong Kong and Kathmandu.
	Between 2001 and 2002 Nigel studied for a Master in Arts degree in Biography at the University of Buckingham, gaining a distinction and winning the Buckingham prize for Biography in 2003. In 2005, Hambledon and London published his book “The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer” which was reprinted in July that year by Rupa & Co of Delhi. He currently writes for Hong Kong-based newspapers and magazines and publishes reviews in the Asian Review of Books. He is also a moderator for the Hong Kong Man Booker Literary Festival.
	In addition to all of this he is a Companion of the Nautical Institute, Fellow of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, and Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors. In Hong Kong he is: a Church Councillor of Christ Church at Kowloon Tong; a member of the Committee of the Apostleship of the Sea; and Advisor to the Hong Kong Branch of the 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles Regimental Association.
	He has never married and currently lives with his partner in Hong Kong.
28Q61	Gavin James Collett was born at Swindon on 15.03.1955. During his working life he was an electrician with British Rail and later with Zimbabwe Railways, before becoming a Quality Control Manager with Tyco formerly Raychem.
28R6	Ann Collett was born at Southall in 1939 and she married Bernard Considine who was also of Southall and born there in 1938. They had three children between 1962 and 1979, the first two Julie and David being born at Hillingdon, while Graham was born at Ashford near Staines.
28R11	Heather Elizabeth Irving married Barry Owen Preston with whom she had one child. It was Heather that kindly provided details of her Australian ancestors which enabled this family line to be developed to include this new information.
28R12	A Collett son was born to Mr Collett and Miss Jacobs and he later married a Miss Smith and with whom he had one child.
	28S1	a Collett child	Date of birth unknown
28R13	A Collett daughter was born to Mr Collett and Miss Jacobs and she later married a Mr Murphy.
28R15	A Collett son was born to Mr Collett and Miss Jacobs and he later married a Miss Shelton with whom he had two children.
	28S2	a Collett child	Date of birth unknown
	28S3	a Collett child	Date of birth unknown
28R16	A Collett son was born to Mr Collett and Miss Wilson and he later married a Miss Lane with whom he had two children.
	28S4	a Collett child	Date of birth unknown
	28S5	a Collett child	Date of birth unknown
28R17	A Collett son was born to Mr Collett and Miss Wilson and he later married a Miss Bateup with whom he had three children.
	28S6	a Collett child	Date of birth unknown
	28S7	a Collett child	Date of birth unknown
	28S8	a Collett child	Date of birth unknown
28R18	A Collett daughter was born to Mr Collett and Miss Wilson and she later married a Mr Dewson with whom she had two children.
28R19	A Collett son was born to Mr Collett and another Miss Wilson (possibly the sister to the previous Miss Wilson who married a Collett brother). This Mr Collett later married a Miss Gale with whom he had five children.
	28S9	a Collett child	Date of birth unknown
	28S10	a Collett child	Date of birth unknown
	28S11	a Collett child	Date of birth unknown
	28S12	a Collett child	Date of birth unknown
	28S13	a Collett child	Date of birth unknown
28R20	A Collett son was born to Mr Collett and another Miss Wilson (possibly the sister to the previous Miss Wilson who married a Collett brother). This Mr Collett later married a Miss Smith with whom he had one child.
	28S14	a Collett child	Date of birth unknown
28R21	A Collett daughter was born to Mr Collett and Miss Grant and she later married a Miss Wales with whom he had two children.
28R22	A Collett son was born to Mr Collett and Miss Grant and he later married a Miss Keft.
28R25	Jane Catherine Collett was born at Crewe on 11.07.1966. She met Peter Wilde while she was working as a midwife in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, and they were married at Penistone. They currently live near Shrewsbury, where all four of their children were born.
	28S15	Edward Peter Wilde	Born on 28.11.1994 at Shrewsbury
	28S16	Alex Jane Wilde	Born on 11.07.1996 at Shrewsbury
	28S17	Katie Mae Wilde	Born on 05.12.1997 at Shrewsbury
	28S18	Joanne Margaret Wilde	Born on 20.03.1999 at Shrewsbury
28R26	Verity Anne Collett was born at Crewe on 30.10.1967. She studied metallurgy at Strathclyde University and currently lives at Didsbury in south Manchester.
28R27	Thomas George Collett was born at Dudley on 08.11.1971 when his family was living close by at Kingswinford. He married Claire Vanessa Moorhouse on 04.08.1997 at Luthrie in Fife. Claire is the only daughter of Melvyn Moorhouse and Marilyn Billington and was born at Barnsley on 01.07.1973.
	After attending Bangor University, Thomas joined the Royal Air Force as an aircraft engineer. At the time of writing, Thomas is based at RAF Waddington, near Lincoln. Their first son George was born at Lincoln, James was born at Basingstoke, and William was born at Canberra in Australia while Thomas was on an Exchange Tour with the Royal Australian Air Force.
	And it is Thomas who has kindly provided the details of his family line back to the Colletts of Faringdon in 1813.
	28S19	George Francis Collett	Born on 28.10.1998 at Lincoln
	28S20	James Christopher Collett	Born on 22.12.1999 at Basingstoke
	28S21	William Lachlan Collett	Born on 14.12.2002 at Canberra
28R28	William Leonard Collett was born at Dudley on 07.05.1973 at a time when his family was living at nearby Kingswinford. He later married Anna Goldthorpe at Worley on 29.12.1996. William studied mechanical engineering at Sheffield University, and went on to specialise in finite element analysis.
	At the time of writing, William and Anna live at Bunwell near Norwich, with their three children, all of whom were born at Norwich.
	28S22	Henry Collett	Born on 02.06.2001 at Norwich
	28S23	Beatrix Collett	Born on 02.02.2003 at Norwich
	28S24	Jemima Collett	Born on 06.04.2007 at Norwich
28R29	Iris Isabella Edgington was born at Greenford in 1929. She married Harold Norman Hoskins who was born in 1928. Their daughter was born at Uxbridge in Hillingdon. Iris died in 2004.
	28S25	Susan Naomi Hoskins	Born in 1957
28R31	Raymond Collett was born at Oxford in 1942. He married Gwendoline Chapman and they had two children, both being born at Oxford.
	28S26	Anthony Alan Collett	Born in 1969 at Oxford
	28S27	Sharon Ann Collett	Born in 1973
28R32	Janine Collett was born at Swindon on 10.01.1953. She married Nigel Woodford who was born in 1952. The marriage produced two children, Amanda born on 28.04.1970 and Robert born on 18.11.1975.
28R33	Robert Martin Collett was born at Fulham on 10.12.1955. He married Pamela Page (Ref. 1R41) in June 1978 with whom he had two children, but from whom he was later divorced.
	Robert was known within the family as Robbie and was a musician and band member for many years of the group Street Circus which played the clubs in and around the Swindon area. This information was supplied by his cousin Maria Fairchild nee Bramble.
	Pamela was the daughter Irene Rosanna Bramble (Ref. 1Q24) and the grand-daughter of Mabel Rose Collett (Ref. 1P41) whose family details are provided in Part One – The Main Line
	28S28	Lee Collett	Born on 28.01.1981
	28S29	Nathan Collett	Born on 23.05.1984
28R34	Lorraine Collett was born at Fulham on 10.08.1957. She married Martin Clarkson who was born at Weymouth in 1962.
28R35	Leigh Anthony Collett was born at Swindon on 13.01.1962. He was educated at Kingsdown Comprehensive School and joined the Royal Air Force in 1979 as an electronics technician working on flight simulators. He later qualified as a Trade Instructor and secured his release from the RAF in 1986.
	After employment with various IT companies, he established his own company Networks UK Ltd in 1994 where he was the Technical Director. This company was so successful that in 2001 it was acquired by Cable & Wireless.
	During the following year Leigh left Cable & Wireless and, together with a number of former colleagues, co-founded iSimile Limited at which he was the Managing Director. This new company provides IT security and performance solutions.
	In 1982 he married Tracey Escot who was also born in 1962, but they were later divorced. All of their children were born at Swindon.
	28S30	Ryan David Collett	Born on 01.09.1988 at Swindon
	28S31	Emily Francesca Collett	Born on 25.06.1990 at Swindon
	28S32	Antonia Rose Collett	Born on 21.02.1992 at Swindon
28R36	Darren Jon Collett was born at Swindon on 10.09.1964. His early education was undertaken at Kingsdown Comprehensive School and this was followed by time at the Metropolitan University London and the University of the West of England. In 1982 he joined Raychem as a student under the Youth Training Scheme and was offered full employment with the company at the end of the initial contract.
	During this period in his life he obtained a Masters Degree in Science, became a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and become a Chartered Chemist having obtained an Honours Degree in Chemistry.
	He married Allison Carol Mulhern who was born in 1967. All of their children were born at Swindon.
	At the time of compiling this family history, Darren was holding the post of Group Manager at Tyco Electronics where he was working on materials related to aerospace and defence development projects.
	28S33	Naomi Louise Collett	Born on 16.09.1987
	28S34	Alishia Jayne Collett	Born on 13.09.1989
	28S35	Aiden Jon Joseph Mulhern Collett	Born on 16.05.1993 at Swindon
28R38	Sheila Collett was born at Aurora on 30.06.1953. She married John McConnell who was born at Acton in Ontario in the early 1970s. Her uncle Edward Collett (Ref. 28Q47) had previously married John’s sister Hazel McConnell in 1964. Sheila and John had four children and John died in January 2004.
28R39	Stanley Collett was born at Aurora on 17.07.1955 and married Sharon Callaghan. It is not known if they had any children before Stanley died in 1982.
28R40	Lesley Collett was one half of a set of twins (see sister below) born at Aurora on 02.02.1958 and she married Douglas Mason with whom she had a daughter born in 1989.
28R41	Patricia Collett was one half of a set of twins (see sister above) born at Aurora on 02.02.1958 and she married Rene Levesque with whom she had two children born in 1982 and 1985.
28R42	Nancy Collett was born at Aurora in 1959 and she married Barry Vander Ende with whom she had a daughter born in 1976.
28R43	Tracey Collett was born at Aurora in 1964 and she married Michael Boomhour with whom she had a son born in 2001.
28R44	Edward William Collett was born at Aurora on 19.10.1969 and he married Tracy Hart at Newmarket in Ontario.
28R45	Tammy Collett was born at Aurora on 10.03.1972 and she married Jason Sabing in 1997 with whom she had two sons in 1998 and 2000.
28R50	Darren Stephen Collett was born at Swindon in the Princess Margaret Hospital on 10.01.1974. He was educated at Herod Parkway Comprehensive School which he left on 11^th June 1990 to take up employment with the Nationwide Building Society.
	On 22.06.2002 Darren married Claire Louise Morris. Claire was born at Plympton near Plymouth on 06.01.1978 and was the daughter of Thomas and Christine Morris.
	28S36	Ethan Jake Collett	Born on 17.12.2003
	28S37	Corey Jude Collett	Born on 31.08.2005
28S25	Susan Naomi Hoskins was born at Uxbridge in Hillingdon in 1957 and she married Mr Smith.
28S27	Sharon Ann Collett was born at Oxford in 1973 and in 2000 she had a son Joseph.
	28T1	Joseph Collett	Born in 2000
28S33	Naomi Louise Collett was born at Swindon in 1987 and in 2006 she had a daughter Faith Collett.
	28T2