PART THIRTY-TWO

The Newfoundland Line

This is the first of three sections of the thirty-second part of the Collett family

Updated April 2011

This family line starts in Part Two – The Secondary Line at John Collett (Ref. 2L23) and

can be traced back through Part One – The Main Line to Thomas Collett (Ref. 1D1) in 1485.

This is the family line of Bonnie Brown (Ref. 32R5), Max Collett (Ref. 32Q91) of Placentia Bay,

and Natasha Young (see Ref. 32Q68) of Pasadena in Newfoundland and starts with the

aforementioned John Collett of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, England

More so than any other family line that I have ever had the pleasure to construct (with information kindly supplied by Bonnie Brown and Tony Young), this particular line is full of intrigue with the interweaving of many settler families. Whilst it is primarily a Collett family line, the other prominent families that appear many times throughout the work include: Bendle, Boutcher, Crann, Gabriel, Gilbert, Gregory, Hann, Hollett, Jarvis, Marshall, Masters, Pike, Shave, Tulk, Upshall and Wareham.

32L1	JOHN COLLETT (Ref. 2L23) was baptised at Bromsgrove in Worcestershire on 10.07.1775 where, in 1778 his father Richard Collett (Ref. 2K12) was the churchwarden at St John the Baptist Church. It was also at Bromsgrove on 17.11.1796 that John Collett married (1) Mary Harman, the daughter of James Harman and Sarah Patchett (or Pagett), who was born on 21.07.1774.
	The marriage produced six children, all of whom are likely to have been born at Bromsgrove. Tragically Mary died on 04.03.1813 and it would appear that her last born child, son James, was given his mother’s maiden name by way of a tribute.
	Shortly after her death, John married (2) Mary Freer and this may have been at the time that he was a Major in the North Worcestershire Volunteers and was posted to Newfoundland, where he went in 1815, accompanied by the whole family.
	It was in Newfoundland that the last four children were born.
	Although John died in 1818 there was believed to be a tenth child in the family who was born in 1820 but who died in 1829.
	32M1	John Pagett Collett	Born on 11.11.1797
	32M2	James Richard Collett	Born on 27.02.1799; infant death
	32M3	THOMAS EDWARD COLLETT	Born on 07.12.1800
	32M4	Mary Susanne Collett	Born on 10.02.1802
	32M5	Richard Collett	Born on 08.11.1803
	32M6	James Harman Collett	Born on 26.01.1808
	32M7	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1815
	32M8	Edward Frederick Collett	Born in 1816; died in 1820
	32M9	Barbara Collett	Born in 1818; died in 1828
32M1	John Pagett Collett was born at Bromsgrove on 11.11.1797 where he was baptised on 16.08.1799. He died in Newfoundland on 31.07.1824 and his Will was proved on 30.12.1824. In the Will he was referred to as ‘ John Pagett Collett, Gentleman of Bromsgrove’.
32M2	James Richard Collett was born at Bromsgrove on 27.02.1799 and died there on 07.08.1801.
32M3	THOMAS EDWARD COLLETT was born at Bromsgrove on 07.12.1800 where he was baptised on 01.01.1802. When only fifteen years old he moved to Newfoundland with his family.
	It was at Petty Harbour that he took up the occupation of printer for a government official and met and married a local girl Anne Marshall. She was born at Petty Harbour on 25.07.1804 and was the daughter of George Marshall and Anne Earl.
	The wedding took place on 17.08.1823 at Anglican Cathedral in St John’s and they had a total of thirteen children. After an initial period living at Petty Harbour where the first seven children were born, the family set up home at Harbour Buffett in Placentia Bay where Thomas later became a magistrate.
	In between times, judging from the birth of James and the christenings of siblings Anne and Emma, the family spent a short while at Burk’s Cove and Collett’s Cove in Placentia Bay before their final move to Harbour Buffett.
	It was at Harbour Buffett that Thomas died on 07.05.1884, while Anne had died there eighteen months earlier on 07.12.1882. The Harbour Grace Standard Times newspaper reported that Anne had died leaving eight children, fifty-seven grandchildren and fifty great grandchildren.
	Perhaps because they lived in small close-knit communities, it is interesting to note that the resulting families of two of Thomas Edward Collett’s children, Richard John Collett and his sister Phoebe Collett, were later linked back together through Anita Maude Best who was born at Merasheen in 1948.
	The connection is as follows: Anita father's grandmother was Lillias Collett, the daughter of Richard John Collett, while her grandfather's mother was Richard's sister Phoebe Collett.
	32N1	Mary Anne Collett	Born on 26.11.1824
	32N2	Richard John Collett	Born on 01.05.1826
	32N3	ELIZA COLLETT	Born on 04.08.1828
	32N4	John Edward Collett	Born on 25.04.1830
	32N5	George William Collett	Born on 03.10.1831
	32N6	Anne Collett	Born on 29.04.1833
	32N7	Emma Collett	Born on 17.05.1835
	32N8	James Collett	Born on 03.04.1837
	32N9	Thomas Edward Collett junior	Born on 18.04.1838
	32N10	Phoebe Collett	Born on 28.03.1841
	32N11	Eleanor Collett	Born on 03.02.1843
	32N12	Lucy Collett	Born on 23.04.1845
	32N13	Henry Holyoake Collett	Born on 16.01.1847
32M4	Mary Susanne Collett was born at Bromsgrove on 10.02.1802 and was baptised there on 27.05.1802.
32M5	Richard Collett was born at Bromsgrove on 08.11.1803. He moved with his family to Newfoundland in 1815 but some years later, perhaps as a soldier like his father, he was in Africa where he died on 06.11.1824 at Loango.
32M6	James Harman Collett was born at Bromsgrove on 26.01.1808 and he moved to Newfoundland with his family in 1815. He married Mary Chafe on 09.11.1833 at Petty Harbour. Mary (or Maria) was born in 1810 and died in 1894. James died earlier at Pokeham Path in St John’s on 26.06.1877.
32N1	Mary Anne Collett was born at Petty Harbour on 26.11.1824 where she was baptised on 11.12.1824. She married John Luther Haddon at Placentia on 14.11.1845. John was originally from England where he was born on 27.03.1823 at Harpenden in Hertfordshire.
	He was also an Anglican school teacher at Harbour Buffett and by 1864 he was a school inspector at Long Pond. Mary Anne died in 1904.
	32O1	James Norris Haddon	Born in 1846
	32O2	Thomas Collett Haddon	Date of birth unknown
	32O3	Eliza Jane Haddon	Born in 1849
	32O4	Emily Jones Haddon	Born in 1851
	32O5	William Laurence Haddon	Date of birth unknown
	32O6	Mary Smith Haddon	Born in 1858
	32O7	John Luther Haddon junior	Born on 19.12.1859
	32O8	another Haddon child	Born in 1866
	32O9	Ann Haddon m Reginald Heber	Date of birth unknown
	32O10	Martha Gill Haddon m Fred A Gear	Date of birth unknown
32N2	Richard John Collett was born at Petty Harbour on 01.05.1826, the eldest son of Thomas Edward Collett and his wife Anne Marshall. He married Sarah Upshall of Harbour Buffett who was born in 1831. It is interesting that Richard’s younger brother George William Collett (Ref. 32N5) married Sarah’s sister Susan Upshall, while his younger sister Anne Collett (Ref. 32N6) married Sarah’s brother George Upshall.
	Richard’s occupation was that of a planter at Harbour Buffett where all of his children were born and where Richard died in 1888.
	There are further links between the Collett and the Upshall families based in and around Harbour Buffett, as well as other links between these two families and those of the Masters and Shave families perhaps indicating that it was a tightly knit community.
	32O11	Margaret Collett	Date of birth unknown
	32O12	Thomas Edward Collett	Born on 07.10.1849
	32O13	Rebecca Moore Irene Collett	Born on 25.11.1852
	32O14	Emma Phoebe Collett	Date of birth unknown possibly 1854
	32O15	Peter J Collett	Born in 1856
	32O16	Lillias Collett	Born in 1858 d 1895
	32O17	Annie Collett	Born in 1860 d 1888
	32O18	Malcolm Collett	Date of birth unknown possible 1862
	32O19	Richard Collett	Born in 1864
32N3	ELIZA COLLETT was born at Petty Harbour on 04.08.1828 and was baptised on 01.12.1831. She married Samuel Masters on 24.10.1847 at Harbour Buffett. Samuel was eleven years older than Eliza and was born in 1817.
	It seems likely that the couple lived all of their married life at Harbour Buffett as this was where all of their children were born and where Eliza and Samuel were buried. Eliza died on 22.01. 1909 with Samuel having passed away four and a half years earlier on 31.08.1904.
	32O20	Emma Julia Masters	Born on 29.09.1849
	32O21	Eliza Ann Masters	Born in December 1850
	32O22	Thomas Edward Masters	Born in May 1854
	32O23	William Henry Masters	Born in May 1858
	32O24	Samuel Masters	Born in May 1858
	32O25	James Masters	Born in 1859
	32O26	Phoebe Masters	Born in July 1861
	32O27	Mary Masters	Born in May 1863
	32O28	FREDERICK MASTERS	Born on 01.08.1867
	32O29	George Masters	Date of birth unknown
32N4	John Edward Collett was born at Petty Harbour on 25.04.1830. He married Mary Ann Jarvis on 09.12.1851 at St Thomas Anglican Church in St John’s. Mary was born in 1835. Tragically Thomas died shortly after they were married in 1853.
	32O30	George Collett	Born in 1853
32N5	George William Collett was born at Petty Harbour on 03.10.1831. Sometime around the early 1860s George married Susan Upshall who was born in 1841 at Harbour Buffett. Susan was the younger sister of George Upshall who married George William’s sister Anne Collett in 1856 and Sarah Upshall who married George William’s older brother Richard John Collett around 1847/48.
	It seems likely that the couple lived all of their married life at Harbour Buffett, which was where all of their children were born and where George and Susan both died. George died in 1895 while Susan died on 05.02.1924.
	32O31	Emily Collett	Date of birth unknown
	32O32	Ellen Collett	Born in 1864
	32O33	Frederick Collett	Born in 1867
	32O34	Lewis M Collett	Born in 1875
	32O35	Margaret Alice Collett	Born in 1878
	32O36	Charles Collett	Born in 1880
	32O37	Hubert Collett	Born in 1881
	32O38	Peter Collett	Born in 1882
	32O39	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1886
	32O40	Sarah Collett	Date of birth unknown
32N6	Anne Collett was born at Petty Harbour on 29.04.1833. It was over three year’s later that she was baptised on 07.09.1836 at Burk’s Cove in a joint ceremony with her sister Emma. Anne married George Upshall on 11.09.1856 at the Wesleyan Parsonage in Harbour Buffett.
	George was born in 1829 at Harbour Buffett and was the brother of Sarah and Susan Upshall who married Anne’s brothers Richard John Collett and George William Collett respectively.
	George Upshall died in 1895 followed by Anne on 07.09.1900.
	32O41	Margaret Anne Upshall	Born in 1856
	32O42	George William Upshall	Born in 1858
	32O43	Josiah Wilson Upshall	Born in 1859
	32O44	Emma Julia Upshall	Born in 1860
	32O45	Josiah Andrew Upshall	Born in 1862
	32O46	Archibald Alexander Upshall	Born in 1864
	32O47	Elizabeth Ellen Upshall	Born in 1866
	32O48	Lillian Upshall	Born in 1868; died in 1868
	32O49	Richard Collett Upshall	Born in 1869
	32O50	Nelson Peter Upshall	Born in 1870
	32O51	Sarah Jane Upshall	Born in 1872; died in 1872
	32O52	Thomas Edward Collett Upshall	Born in 1874
	32O53	Walter Henry Upshall	Born in 1876
32N7	Emma Collett was born at Petty Harbour on 17.05.1835 and was baptised at Burk’s Cove on 07.09.1836 along with her sister Anne. She tragically died on 17.01.1854.before reaching her twentieth birthday.
32N8	James Collett was born at Collett’s Cove in Placentia Bay on 03.04.1837 where he died a few days later on 08.04.1837.
32N9	Thomas Edward Collett junior was named after his father and was born at Harbour Buffett on 18.04.1838 where he married Martha Gilbert. Martha was almost ten years younger than her husband and was born around 1847.
	Thomas died on 11.01.1899 and was buried at Harbour Buffett while Martha lived the life of a widow for the following twenty-four years and passed away on 26.06.1923.
	32O54	Lillias B Collett	Born in 1870
	32O55	John Collett	Born in 1872
	32O56	Samuel Collett	Born in 1873
	32O57	Albert Edward Collett	Born in 1876
	32O58	George Moore Collett	Born in 1879
	32O59	Ann Collett	Born in 1885
32N10	Phoebe Collett was born at Harbour Buffett on 28.03.1841, the daughter of Thomas Edward Collett and his wife Anne Marshall. Phoebe was a schoolteacher at Spencer’s Cove in 1871, and it may have been around that time when she married William Best, with whom she had a son Albert Best who was born in 1879. Just less than twenty years later Albert Best married Winifred Best, the daughter of William Best and Lillias Collett, the niece of Phoebe Collett, she being the daughter of her brother Richard John Collett (above).
	In the Census of 1921, Phoebe Best was living with her son Albert and his wife Winifred at their home in Merasheen, and it was during the following years that Phoebe Best nee Collett died in August 1922.
32N11	Eleanor Collett was born at Harbour Buffett on 03.02.1843. She married William Coady who was born in 1840 and who died in 1909. Eleanor died on 24.09.1926.
	32O60	Eunice Coady married Fred Grassier	Born in 1866
	32O61	Frederick Alfred Coady	Born in 1868; died in 1932
	32O62	Lillith Coady married William Shaw	Born in 1872
	32O63	Edward Albert Coady married Anne	Born in 1874
	32O64	Henry Coady	Born in 1876
32N12	Lucy Collett was born at Harbour Buffett on 23.04.1845. She married Edward Collins and died in 1879.
32N13	Henry Holyoake Collett was born at Harbour Buffett on 16.01.1847 and he died there ten months later on 28.11.1847.
32O1	James Norris Haddon was born at Harbour Buffett in 1846. He married Grace Patten Lake and died in 1921.
32O3	Eliza Jane Haddon was born at Harbour Buffett in 1849 and she married Reginald Heber Earle.
32O4	Emily Jones Haddon was born at Harbour Buffett in 1851 and she married Thomas Congdon Duder.
32O9	Ann Haddon was born at Long Pond around 1868 and she married Reginald Heber.
32O10	Martha Gill Haddon was born at Long Pond around 1870 and she married Frederick A Gear.
32O11	Margaret Collett, whose date of birth is not known but may be around 1848, married George Bonnell and is known to have had two sons.
	32P1	Richard Bonnell married Ella	Date of birth unknown
	32P2	William Bonnell	Born in 1889; died 1909
32O12	Thomas Edward Collett was born at Harbour Buffett on 07.10.1849 and was baptised on 05.06.1850 at St Thomas Anglican Church in St John’s. On 30.12.1880 he married Jemima Kirby Pike, the daughter on Emanuel Pike, who was born St Lawrence in 1862. Thomas’ brother Peter J Collett married Jemima’s younger sister Susannah Kirby Pike
	Thomas Edward died in 1926.
	32P3	William Collett	Born in 1883
	32P4	Maude Collett	Born circa 1886
	32P5	Laura Collett twin	Born in 1889
	32P6	Ernest Collett twin	Born in 1889
	32P7	Ethel Belle McLean Collett	Born in 1891
	32P8	Lillias Kingwell Collett	Born in 1893
	32P9	Fred Alfred Collett	Born circa 1895
	32P10	Arthur Shorter Collett	Born in 1898
	32P11	Mack Collett	Born circa 1900
	32P12	Alice May Collett	Born in 1902
	32P13	Mabel Collett	Born in 1904
32O13	Rebecca Moore Irene Collett was born at Harbour Buffett on 25.11.1852 and was baptised on 30.05.1853 at St Thomas Anglican Church in St John’s. She married John James Kingwell who was born in 1849. Rebecca died in 1930, with John having died twenty-four years earlier in 1906.
	32P14	Lillias Ann Kingwell		Born in 1875
	32P15	John Wilson Cleverly Kingwell		Born in 1877
	32P16	Richard Aubrey Kingwell		Born in 1878; died in 1944
	32P17	Malcolm George Crane Kingwell		Born in 1885
	32P18	Sarah Eva Kirkland Kingwell		Born in 1887; died in 1895
32O14	Emma Phoebe Collett was possibly born at Harbour Buffett around 1854 and she married Albert Boutcher. There were other links with the Boutcher family when Walter James Upshall (Ref. 32P81), the son of Nelson Peter Upshall (Ref. 32O50), married Hannah Boutcher around 1917 and his sister Ada Beatrice Upshall (Ref. 32P87) married Neil Kenneth Masters (Ref. 32Q40) the son of Kenneth Masters (Ref. 32P33) and Annie Boutcher.
	32P19	Lily Boutcher		Born in 1881; died in 1910
	32P20	Albert Boutcher married Elsie		Born in 1888
	32P21	Peter Upshall Boutcher married Hannah		Born in 1891
	32P22	Archie Boutcher		Born in 1893
32O15	Peter J Collett was born in 1856 and probably at Harbour Buffett. He married Susannah Kirby Pike who was born in 1864, the daughter of Emanuel Pike. Peter’s older brother Thomas Edward married Susannah’s older sister Jemima Kirby Pike in 1880.
	Peter died in 1940.
32O16	Lillias Collett was born in 1858, the daughter of Richard John Collett of Petty Harbour and his wife Sarah Upshall of Harbour Buffett. Around 1880 she married William Best who was born in 1851.
	Tragically Lillias Best nee Collett died in 1895, either during, or shortly after, the birth of the couple’s last child, leaving William a widower for almost thirty years, before he died in 1924.
	32P23	Winifred Best	Born in 1881
	32P24	Sarah Best	Date of birth unknown
	32P25	Richard Best	Date of birth unknown
	32P26	Lucy Best	Date of birth unknown
	32P27	Maude Best married Charlie Brinston	Date of birth unknown
	32P28	Ada Best married Mr Abbott	Date of birth unknown
	32P29	Annie Best	Date of birth unknown
	32P30	Lillias Best married Isaac Wakely	Born in 1895
32O17	Annie Collett was born in 1860 and died in 1888. Before she died Annie married Benjamin J Squire and gave birth to a son Richard Benjamin Squires in 1887. There was believed to be another child born the same year that she died which may have been the reason for her death.
	32P31	Richard Benjamin Squires	Born in 1887
32O20	Emma Julia Masters was born at Harbour Buffett on 29.09.1849 and was baptised there on 31.03.1850 by Rev. W K White.
32O21	Eliza Ann Masters was born at Harbour Buffett in December 1850 and was baptised there on 19.10.1851.
32O22	Thomas Edward Masters was born at Harbour Buffett in May 1854, and it was there that he died on 14.09.1935. In between these dates he married Matilda Hollett who was born in September 1856, the daughter of John Hollett and Elizabeth Bendle, and she died on 22.06.1929. All of their children were born at Harbour Buffett.
	For other links between the Hollett and Bendle families see reference 32O25 and 32O31.
	32P32	Willis Masters	Date of birth unknown
	32P33	Kenneth Master	Born in January 1875
	32P34	John Samuel Masters	Born in 1876; died in 1959
	32P35	Annie Eliza Masters	Born in 1891; died in 1959
	32P36	Tryphena Masters	Born in 1896; died in 1912
	32P37	Thomas Duey Masters	Born in April 1901; died 10.05.1941
32O24	Samuel Masters was born at Harbour Buffett in May 1858. He married Priscilla Drake on 26.12.1885 at St John’s. Priscilla was the daughter of Thomas Drake and died in 1911.
	It seems likely that the couple lived all their life at Harbour Buffett. They had four children: Eliza Masters (1886-1968); Bessie Masters (born in 1891); Walter Charles Masters (who was born in July 1894 and died on 20.09.1972); and George Oliver Masters (born in 1897).
	Samuel Masters’ oldest child, Eliza Masters, married John Marshall around 1908 and in 1909 she gave birth to a daughter, Jessie Beatrice Marshall, who married Austin Lewis Collett (Ref. 32P65) around 1927.
	Eliza Masters and John Marshall’s third child was David Hedley Marshall born in 1915. He married Catherine Upshall and their son, Leo George Marshall born in 1935, married Gwendolyn Mae Hann (Ref. 32Q97)
	Samuel Masters’ oldest son, Walter Charles Masters, married Eva Florence Reid in November 1914 at Harbour Buffett. Eva was born in August 1896 and died in December 1950 at Fairhaven where Walter died twenty-two years later.
	Walter and Eva had seven children born between 1915 and 1929. Their eldest son Samuel N Masters who was born at Harbour Buffett in August 1920 and died at Fairhaven in 1985 married Joan Buckland and it was their eldest daughter Wendy Masters that married Norman Collett.
	To date no family connection for Norman Collett has been determined.
32O25	James Masters was born at Harbour Buffett in 1859. He married Emma Bendle who was born at Harbour Buffett in May 1854. According to the 1921 Census for St John’s James’ wife was listed as a widow indicating he had died prior to this date.
	The marriage produced four children all of whom were born at Harbour Buffett. Nothing very much is known about their youngest son Thomas except that in later life he was living in the USA.
	32P38	Reginald Masters	Born in September 1885
	32P39	William Lambert Masters	Born in July 1891
	32P40	George Wesley Masters	Born in 1896
	32P41	Thomas Masters	Date of birth unknown
32O26	Phoebe Masters was born at Harbour Buffett in July 1861. She married Charles Knight, the son of Stephen Knight, who was born at St John’s in November 1860. The ceremony was conducted by the Reverend A C F Wood. John’s occupation was that of storekeeper at the post office in St John’s where he died and was buried prior to 1928. Phoebe died after 1935 while living at St John’s where she was also buried.
	They had just two children both born at St John’s. These were Edith Knight who was born in May 1900 and Stephen Knight born in August 1901 who went on to married Laura Churchill Upshall the daughter of Walter Henry Upshall (Ref. 32O53) and Mary Shave.
32O27	Mary Masters was born at Harbour Buffett in May 1863 where she married William A Gabriel on 14.04.1879. He was the son of the Reverend Alfred E Gabriel and was born in Devon in England in July 1857. Mary died on 09.04.1940 at Corner Brook and was buried at the Anglican Church Townsite Cemetery, while William was also buried there following his death on 07.01.1951.
	Mary gave birth to four children and adopted a fifth. They were: “first child” born 23.03.1880; Ada Blanche Gabriel born on 06.10.1890 at Amherst Cove and baptised at the Bonavista Anglican Church on 10.02.1891; Alfred Alexander Gabriel born at Middle Amherst Cove on 20.01.1891 and baptised at the Anglican Church on 05.11.1891; and Belle Gabriel born at Lark Harbour in August 1894. The couple adopted Mary Shepherd who was born in May 1912 at Lark Harbour..
32O28	FREDERICK MASTERS was born at Harbour Buffett on 01.08.1867. He married Elizabeth Cleason, the daughter of Henry Cleason, who was born in August 1868 at Come-By-Chance. All of their children were born at Harbour Buffett and it was there, on 23.05.1931, that Frederick died and was buried, as was Elizabeth who died four years later on 03.08.1935.
	32P42	Louisa Mae Masters	Born in December 1894
	32P43	Henry Lewis Masters	Born on 23.08.1895; died in 1896
	32P44	Lillias Beatrice Masters	Born on 04.06.1897
	32P45	Charles Oakley Masters	Born on 04.06.1899
	32P46	ALICE MASTERS	Born on 15.06.1902
	32P47	Ethel Masters	Date of birth unknown possibly 1904
	32P48	Eliza Masters	Born in May 1906
	32P49	Ethel Masters	Born after 1906; died age 3 years
32O29	George Masters whose date of birth in not known is likely to have been born around 1870. In the early 1890s he married Mary Ann Shave who was born in 1871. However, George died very young and was buried at Harbour Buffett in 1894 around the time that his only son William Samuel Masters was born.
	It seems very likely that Mary Ann Shave was the older sister of Annie Shave who married Lewis M Collett (Ref. 32O34), both girls being the daughters of Thomas Shave and Margaret Upshall (Ref. 32O41).
	Sometime after the death of her husband, Mary Ann married (2) Walter Henry Upshall (Ref. 32O53) with whom she had a further two children. Tragically Mary died in 1908 at the age of thirty-seven years.
32O30	George Collett was born in 1853 and he married (1) Mahala Crann and later (2) Mahala Senior. His only known child was a result of his first marriage and was born at Harbour Buffett.
	32P50	John Thomas Collett	Born in August 1873
32O31	Emily Collett whose date of birth is not known but who was born and died at Harbour Buffett, married Albert Hollett possible in 1884. Albert was the son of John Hollett and Elizabeth Bendle and was born in September 1862 at Harbour Buffett. Albert was the brother to Matilda Hollett who married Thomas Edward Masters (Ref. 32O22). It also seems very likely that Albert’s mother was in some way related to Emma Bendle who married James Masters (Ref. 32O25).
	Emily and Albert are known to have had two children. Their daughter Elizabeth Hollett was born at Harbour Buffett on 14.04.1885. She married (1) William Gregory and later, in the early 1930s, she married (2) Malcolm Henry Peach who was born in 1874. Both Elizabeth and Malcolm were buried at Arnold’s Cove, Malcolm having died there on 11.04.1943.
	Emily and Albert’s son James Hollett was born on 29.12.1886 at Harbour Buffett and he married Ann Marie Gilbert whose parents were John Gilbert and Elizabeth Gregory, yet another connection with the Gregory family. Elizabeth was probably the aunt to William Gregory who married James Hollett’s sister Elizabeth Hollett (Ref. 32P51).
	Emily Collett was the second wife of Albert Hollett, his first wife being Janetta Guy with whom it is believed there were no offspring. Upon the death of his second wife Emily, Albert married (3) the widow Hannah Hollett nee Hynes who had previously been married to another member of the Hollett family. This marriage produced a further son for Albert when Frank Earl Hollett was born in 1904. Frank Earl Hollett later went onto marry Alice Masters (Ref. 32Q57).
	Albert died on 18.10.1929 and was buried at Harbour Buffett where his wife Emily was also buried.
	The Collett family had later links to the Gregory family when Pearl Eleanor Collett (Ref. 32P80), the niece of Emily Collett (Ref. 32O31), married Douglas John Gregory (Ref. 32Q51). It is therefore very likely that Douglas’s father, John Robert Gregory (Ref. 32P38) was the brother of William Gregory who married Elizabeth Hollett (Ref. 32P51) above.
	32P51	Elizabeth Hollett	Born on 14.04.1885
	32P52	James Hollett	Born on 29.12.1886
32O32	Ellen Collett was born at Harbour Buffett in 1864. She married William Tulk who was born on 16.09.1858, also at Harbourt Buffett. Ellen died on 09.05.1931 at Harbour Buffett but her husband William died on 30.01.1958 at Coffin’s Cove just less than eight months short of his 100^th birthday.
	Together they had five children all born at Harbour Buffett. These were: Cleverly Joseph Tulk (born 1885 died 10.04.1968); Alice Tulk (born on 24.12.1889 and died in February 1989); Elsie Moore Tulk (born on 06.09.1895 and died on 15.03.1995 at Scio Twp in Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA); Ethel Tulk (dates unknown); and Ada Tulk (born on 06.08.1900 and died on 07.11.1990 at Bay Roberts).
32O33	Frederick Collett was born in 1867 and he married Isabella Burton who was born in 1874. Their early married life was scarred by the tragic loss of three of their first five children either during the birth or within the first few months of their lives.
	Frederick and Isabella both died in 1937.
	32P53	Evelyn Caldwell Collett	Born in 1900
	32P54	Neil Charles Collett	Born in 1901
	32P55	Gladys Grace Collett	Born in 1903; died in 1903
	32P56	Freeman George Collett twin	Born in 1905; died in 1905
	32P57	George Maxwell Collett twin	Born in 1905; died in 1905
	32P58	Arthur Gordon Collett	Born in 1911
	32P59	Ethel Collett twin	Born in 1913
	32P60	Douglas Collett twin	Born in 1913
	32P61	Effie Frances Collett	Born in 1917; died in 1918
32O34	Lewis M Collett was born in 1875. He married Annie Shave, the daughter of Thomas Shave and Margaret Upshall (Ref. 32O41), who was born in 1877. They and their ten children may have been residents of Harbour Buffett as this was where they both died, Lewis on 02.08.1951 and Annie on 16.06.1965.
	Annie Shave was the sister to Mary Ann Shave who married George Masters (Ref. 32O29).
	Lewis’ daughter, Augusta Blanche Collett, married her cousin Eric Hann, the son of Lewis’ sister Sarah Collett (Ref. 32O40) who married Thomas Hann.
	32P62	Jessie Beatrice Collett	Born in 1900
	32P63	Mae Collett	Born in 1901
	32P64	Malcolm T Collett	Born in 1902
	32P65	Austin Lewis Collett	Born in 1903
	32P66	Mary Edwina Collett	Born in 1906
	32P67	Reginald Gordon Collett	Born in 1909
	32P68	Augusta Blanche Collett	Born in 1912
	32P69	Lillian Collett	Born in 1914
	32P70	Charles Collett	Date of birth unknown
	32P71	Florence Cecilia Collett	Born in 1919
32O35	Margaret Alice Collett was born in 1878 and she married Christopher Hepditch the son of Richard Hepditch. Christopher was born in 1870 and died in 1924, with his wife Margaret having died nine years earlier in 1913.
	They had five children: Otto Cecil Hepditch (born in 1897); Richard Hepditch (born in 1899); Effie Shorter Hepditch (born in 1901); Alexander Hepditch (born in 1904); and Vera Hepditch (born in 1906).