PART THIRTY-THREE

The Bourton-on-the-Water Line

This is the second of two sections of the thirty-third part of the Collett family

Updated November 2009

Part 14 – The John Kyte Collett Line also deals with many Colletts of Bourton-on-the-Water

It seems likely, although not yet proved, that the origins of this line stem from

William Collett (Ref. 2H20) who was baptised at Bourton in 1624

This is the family line of Carole Hiscock to whom thanks must go for

providing detailed information and photographs relating to her family

Further Collett family members have been added thanks to Dave Oakey who manages a

website dedicated to villages in Oxfordshire including Alvescot and Clanfield www.ox18.com.

These Colletts, linked to his own Oakey family line, commence at William G Collett (Ref. 33Q19)

This is the family line of John Brain Collett (Ref. 33O27) and

his great grand daughters Shirley and Trisha Collett of New Zealand

who kindly provided details

33O19		John Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1837 and just like his older brother Robert Collett he married a girl from Great Rissington. So the question might be, were the two girls sisters?
		John Collett married Ruth Caroline Timms on 09.02.1862 by licence at Great Rissington. In the two censuses that preceded his wedding John was listed as (a) aged 14 an agricultural labourer living and working at Bourton in 1851 and (b) aged 24 unmarried and a carter working at the Lower Slaughter home of miller Edward Bee.
		There would appear to be other connections between the Collett and Timms families. In the 1851 Census a shoemaker John Timms aged 36 of Chipping Norton was lodging with shoemaker Joseph Collett (Ref. 2N20) aged 45 of Sherborne and his wife Elizabeth at Little Rissington.
		John and Caroline are known to have had four children but only the youngest daughter survived beyond childhood and she was born while John and Caroline were living at Cudham near Biggin Hill in Kent. And it was at Cudham that she was baptised, the baptism record confirming her parents as John and Ruth Caroline Collett.
		By the time of the 1881 Census John, aged 44 and his wife Caroline aged 41, were living at 10 Devonshire Street in Camberwell in Surrey where John’s occupation was that of a carman. Living with them was their 12 years old daughter Eliza.
		It is interesting to note that another John Collett (Ref. 14N26) who was 45 and also born at Bourton in 1835, the son of Thomas Collett and Mary Ransford, was living nearby in Camberwell at that same time in 1881.
		Ten years later the family of three was recorded as still living at Camberwell where John was 52, Caroline was 51 and daughter Eliza was 22.
		In April 1911 John was living in an institution in the Lewisham district of London. He was 74 and his place of birth was confirmed as Bourton-on-the-Water. Ten years earlier he had been 63 and living in Wandsworth and on both occasion there was no wife Caroline with him.
		33P29	John Collett	Born in 1863; died in 1863
		33P30	Lydia Collett	Born in 1864
		33P31	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1866; died before 1881
		33P32	Eliza Collett	Born in 1868
33O21		JOB COLLETT was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1841 where he was baptised on 17.06.1842 and probably at St Lawrence’s Church. He was confirmed as being aged 9 years and of Bourton in the 1851 Census. Ten years later he was listed as aged 17 and was working as a servant/carter at the Northleach home of George Giles, a master baker and grocer of Cirencester.
		Job married Hannah Freeman Goodway at the Church of St Michael in Market Street in Paddington in the third quarter of 1874. The marriage certificate confirmed Job was aged 32 a bachelor and the groom living at 30 Market Street. It also confirmed he was a railway stoker and that he was the son of Richard Collett. Hannah was given as a spinster aged 30 years indicating she was born around 1844.
		However, the 1851 Census for Bourton-on-the-Water listed Hannah as aged 10 the daughter of Joseph Goodway and Elizabeth (Freeman) and that she had been born at Bagendon which would make her year of birth 1841.
		The 1861 Census for Bourton listed Hannah as aged 20 and born at Bagendon living with her parents Joseph aged 60 an agricultural labourer of Great Rissington and Elizabeth aged 58 a laundress of Coln St Dennis. Also making up the rest of the family was brother John aged 27 and sister Elizabeth 17.
		What this census also revealed was that the Goodway family was living right next door to the family of Richard Collett, the father of her future husband Job Collett.
		About nine months after the census day Hannah gave birth to a base born daughter at Bourton. The child was Ellen Elizabeth Goodway and she was born on 27.01.1862.
		This event was confirmed in the 1871 Census when Hannah aged 28 was still living with her parents at Bourton but with the addition in the family of a grand daughter, this being Hannah’s daughter Ellen aged 9 born at Bourton. At this time Hannah’s occupation was that of a laundress like her mother.
		The next big event in Hannah’s life was her marriage to Job which took place in London in 1874, as detailed above. Less than a year later and the couple were presented with a son Joseph who was born at Bourton indicating that Hannah and Job had returned to their home town.
		It is understood that Job died only a couple of years later in 1877 at the relatively young age of 34 years and that this was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold. There is also a theory that he actually died while in India where he may have travelled as a result of his association with the railways. It is hoped that further information may be received in due course to verify this.
		Four years after his death, the 1881 Census confirmed that Hannah, now a widow and still a laundress, was aged 38 and that she was living in Sherborne Street in Bourton-on-the-Water just a few doors from her parents-in-law Richard and Sarah Collett.
		The census also revealed that living with her was her son Joseph aged 6 who was born at Bourton, and her grandson John C Parsons who was one month old and born at Charlbury in Oxfordshire. Also living with her was her unmarried older brother John Goodway aged 47, a general labourer who was also born at Moorwood in Gloucester, as was Hannah.
		The existence of the grandson indicates that Hannah’s base born daughter Ellen had in turn given birth to the child and the census also confirms that she was unmarried at the time. Furthermore it is very likely that the initial C in John Parson’ name stood for Collett.
		In 1891 Hannah was still a laundress living in Bourton but was now aged 50 and her only living companion was her brother John Goodway. Ten years previously he gave his place of birth as Moorwood like his sister, but on this occasion it was stated as being Bagendon near Cirencester which was as stated in 1851, 1861 and 1871.
		By 1901 Hannah Collett was a retired laundress of 61 years and was still at Bourton.
		33P33	Ellen Elizabeth Goodway	Born on 27.01.1862
		33P34	JOSEPH COLLETT	Born in March 1875
33O22		Elizabeth Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1845 as confirmed in the 1851 Census when she was aged 6. Ten years on and Elizabeth was a servant aged 16 at the Lower Slaughter home of 29 years old farmer William Matthews of Fifield and his wife Mary Stephens aged 20 and their eight months old daughter Mary.
		The great grandparents of Elizabeth Collett were William Collett (Ref. 33L1) and his wife Anne Matthews. The cousin of this William Collett was Thomas Collett (Ref. 33L4) whose daughter Sarah Collett married William Matthews of Bourton. William Matthews of Fifield (above) was very likely the nephew of William Matthews of Bourton, being the eldest son of his brother Thomas Matthews.
33O26		Caroline Sarah Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1848 and it would appear that she never married. In the churchyard of St Peter’s Church at Upper Slaughter a headstone marks her grave with the following inscription “In Loving Memory of Caroline Sarah Collett who departed this life 28^th August 1926 aged 77 years”
33O27		John Brain Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1851. He was listed in the Upper Slaughter Census for 1861 and 1871 as aged 9 and 19. Around five years later he married Annie who was born in 1853 at Chastleton in Oxfordshire which is just four miles north-east of Stow-on-the-Wold.
		By early April 1881 John and Annie were living in the village of Upper Slaughter where John B Collett was aged 29 and a farmer of 90 acres employing one man and one boy. Annie was listed as being aged 28 and her occupation was given as farmer’s wife.
		Living with them at Upper Slaughter was their daughter Mary A Collett aged 4, born at Bourton-on-the-Water, and son John B Collett aged 2 and born at Bledington.
		Rather curiously, no traced of John and his wife Annie has been found in the census 1891 or 1901, even though their son John was recorded within the 1901 Census as living in Birmingham.
		However both John and Annie feature in the census conducted in April 1911. John Brain Collett was 59, his wife Annie was 58, and living with the couple at Witney was their son Arthur who was 17.
		33P35	Mary Ann Collett		Born in 1876 at Bourton
		33P36	John Brain Collett		Born in 1878
		33P37	Arthur Frederick Collett		Born in 1893
33O29		George Edward Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1859 and appeared with his family in the 1861 and 1871 Censuses for Upper Slaughter aged 1 and 11 years respectively.
		On reaching working age he left home to seek his fortune in London and by 1881 was living as a boarder at 61 Pagnell Street in Deptford St Paul. Pagnell Street is still there in the twenty-first century running along the railway near New Cross Station.
		The family there was made up of Richard Cowdrey a 62 years old railway porter and his wife Charlotte of Swindon. George was listed as aged 21 and a baker of Upper Slaughter.
33O31		Francis William Collett was born at Upper Slaughter on 14.03.1867 and it was there that he lived all his life. He appeared in the 1871 Census aged 4 and was living with his family. By 1881 he was an apprentice carpenter living with his widowed mother Mary Ann Collett.
		Ten years later at the age of 24 he was still working as a carpenter and was still living with his mother. Just a few years after the 1891 census date Francis married Margaret Bell with whom he had five children all of whom were born at Upper Slaughter.
		The 1901 Census for Upper Slaughter revealed that the family was still living there and that Francis’ wife Margaret was 43 and a school mistress from Leamington Spa. The census record also confirmed that all five of their children were born at Upper Slaughter.
		These were Francis 6, Margorie 4, Fred 2, and the twins Violet and Dorothy who were six months old. Francis’ occupation at that time at the end of March 1901 had progressed from simply being a carpenter to being a carpenter and a wheelwright and by which time he was 34.
		Ten years later Francis and the family were still living at Upper Slaughter. Francis William was 44, and Margaret Bell Collett was 53. Their children were recorded as Francis George Brain Collett 16, Margorie Katharine Collett 14, Fred Holt Collett 12, and Violet Mary and Dorothy Elizabeth who were both ten.
		Francis died on 13.02.1933 and was buried at St Peter’s Church in Upper Slaughter where he was joined sixteen years later by his wife Margaret who died on 24.07.1949.
		The epitaph of the headstone that marks their grave reads “In Loving Memory of Francis William Collett 14^th March 1867 – 13^th February 1933 Also of his wife Margaret Bell died July 24^th 1949 aged 82 years”.
		33P38	Francis George Brain Collett		Born in 1894
		33P39	Margorie K Collett		Born in 1896 at Upper Slaughter
		33P40	Frederick Holt Collett		Born in 1898
		33P41	Violet Mary Collett twin		Born in September 1900
		33P42	Dorothy Elizabeth Collett twin		Born in September 1900
33O35		Martha J Collett was born at Wick Rissington in January 1851 and was just three months old at the time of the Wick Rissington census of 1851. No record of Martha and her family has been found in 1861, but by 1871 Martha was 20 and was with her 59 years old father Thomas James Collett at his brother’s farm in Upper Slaughter.
		Not long after that census day Martha’s father passed away, and by April 1881 Martha and her widowed mother Elizabeth Amelia Collett had left Gloucestershire and were living at Wootton Wawen in Warwickshire. Unmarried Martha J Collett of Wick Rissington was 30 years old with no occupation.
33P1		Emily Rebecca Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 05.12.1859. She was listed in the 1861 Census as the only child at that time of Charles and Sarah Collett, a grocer in Bourton. By the time of the 1871 Census she was aged 11 and living with her auntie Amy Hall a 42 years old milliner of Bourton.
		The 1881 Census for Bourton revealed that Emily was back living with her family aged 21 and was not yet married. However it is established from her gravestone in the churchyard of St Lawrence’s Church in Bourton that she later married Thomas Parsons who was born at Islington in London in 1860.
		By 1891 Emily Parsons was 31 and her husband Thomas was 30 and they were living at Sevenoaks in Kent with their two years old daughter Dora Mary Parsons. Over the next ten years further children were born into the family including Basil, Ruby, Florence, William and Eva.
		Just after the turn of the century the family was still living at Sevenoaks and comprised Emily R Parsons aged 41 who was born at Bourton-on-the-Water, Thomas Parsons who was 40 and born at Islington, and their children Basil 13, Dora 12, Ruby 9, Florence 7, William 2 and Eva aged one year.
		All of the children had been born at Sevenoaks where Thomas was working as a chemist and a druggist.
		Emily lived and exceptionally long life and died on 12.08.1960 aged 101. She was buried with her husband at St Lawrence’s Church in Bourton where a gravestone bears her married and maiden names. The grave adjoining that of Emily and her husband is shared by her brother George Collett (below) and his wife. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
		Thomas Parsons died on 29.09.1939 aged 79 and the couple’s joint headstone reads as follows: “In Loving Memory of Thomas Parsons who entered into rest on 29^th September 1939. Also Beloved wife of above Emily Rebecca (nee Collett) born 5^th December 1859 died 12^th August 1960.
33P2		John Charles Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in the second half of 1861 and appeared in the 1871 Census as Charles Collett aged 9 but was restored to being John C Collett by 1881. In that year he was living at Lansdowne in Bourton with his parents where he was a grocer like his father Charles Collett.
		He married Kate who was born at Notgrove in 1861 and together the couple appear in the 1891 Census for Bourton-on-the-Water, but with no children at that time. John was listed as a farmer of Bourton aged 29 with Kate also aged 29 but of Notgrove.
33P3		Amy L Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1863 but curiously was absent from the family home on 2^nd April 1871. However, she was back at the family home at Lansdowne in Bourton in 1881 and 1891 when she was aged 17 and 27 respectively and unmarried.
		By 1901, when she would have been 37 years old, it would appear that she may have married as there was no Amy L Collett listed in the census for that year.
33P4		Albert William Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1866 and, like his sisters and his brother, he was living with his parents at Bourton in 1871, 1881 and 1891 and was unmarried. His occupation was that of a grocer like his father with whom it is assumed he worked at the family business.
		At sometime during the first half of the 1890s but after April 1891 Albert married Edith who was born at Lower Slaughter in 1868.
		Albert was still a grocer at Bourton in 1901, then aged 33 and married to Edith F Collett aged 32. The marriage had produced two children for the couple by that time, son Walter was aged 3 and daughter Freda was two years old. Both children were born at Bourton.
		Two further daughters were added to the family, one later in 1901 and the second two years after that. So at the time of the next census in April 1911 the family was still living at Bourton and comprised Albert who was 44, Edith who was 42, and their four children Walter 13, Freda 12, Hilda 10, and 8 years old Iris.
		All five family members were buried in the same grave at St Lawrence’s Church in Bourton. Albert died on 01.04.1947 aged 80 and was followed exactly five months later by Florence who passed away on 01.09.1947 aged 79. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
		33Q1	Walter John Collett		Born in 1897
		33Q2	Freda Mary Collett		Born in 1899
		33Q3	Hilda Gertrude Collett		Born in 1901 but after 1^st April
		33Q4	Iris Collett		Born in 1903 at Bourton
33P5		George F Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1868. As with his brother Albert, he too was listed in the 1871, 1881 and 1891 Censuses as living at the home of his grocer father and mother.
		And just like his brother he followed in his father’s profession as a grocer and was a grocer’s assistance in 1891 aged 22, becoming a fully fledged grocer by 1901. Although it was recorded that he had not married by 1891, he later married Mary Jane during the middle of the 1890s with whom he had three sons.
		Mary may have been Mary Jane Batsford since on 17^th December 1899 their three month old son Roy Batsford died and was buried at St Lawrence’s Church in Bourton. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
		According to the March census of 1901, the family was living at Bourton where 32 years old George was a grocer of Bourton. His wife Mary J Collett was 31 and from Whatcote near Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire and their two surviving sons were Bernard who was 3, and Howard who was 2.
		Ten years later the complete family was still living in Bourton where George was 42, Mary Jane was 41, Bernard George was 13, and Howard John was 12.
		George died on 11.06.1925 aged 57, while many years later Mary Jane died on 23.05.1958 aged 88. Both were buried at St Lawrence’s Church in Bourton where a gravestone marks the plot. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
		Also buried with George and Mary Jane in the adjacent and adjoining grave was George’s sister Emily Rebecca Parsons nee Collett (above) who died thirty-one months after Mary Jane and was buried with her late husband Thomas Parsons. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
		33Q5	Bernard George Collett		Born in 1897 at Bourton
		33Q6	Howard John Collett		Born in 1898 at Bourton
		33Q7	Roy Batsford Collett		Born in September 1899 at Bourton
33P6		Florence Mary Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1873. She was listed in the 1881 and 1891 Censuses as aged 7 and 17, living with her parents and her family at Lansdowne in Bourton.
		She was still not married at the time of the 1901 Census when she was aged 27 and still living at home with her parents. No record of Florence Collett has been found in 1911 so it may be assumed that she was married by then.
		However, a Florence Mary Potter, who was 37 and had been born in Bourton-on-the-Water in 1873, was living at Oxford with her husband Christopher 44, together with their two sons Christopher Bruce Potter 5, and John Gordon Potter aged two years.
33P7		William Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1853. He was unmarried in 1871 and must have married when around twenty years of age but tragically he was a widower and the father of two daughters a few years later. His wife may have died during the birth of their second child in 1877 or sometime thereafter, but certainly prior to April 1881.
		According to the census record for that year, William of Bourton was a widower at 27 and was working as a labourer while he was living with his two daughters Emily aged 6 and Helen S aged 3 at the home of his father Paris Collett at The Bank in Bourton. Both children were confirmed as having been born at Bourton.
		Some years after the death of his first wife William married (2) Sarah of Bledington around the mid 1880s. Sarah was thirteen years younger than William and between the time they married and the turn of the century Sarah presented him with four children.
		The first of these was born in Bledington where Sarah was born, and this may have taken place at her parents’ house. The second and fourth child was born at Bourton, with the third child born at Lower Slaughter.
		In the 1891 Census the two children from his first marriage were still in the care of their grandparents Paris and Lucy Ann Collett at Bourton. The only change from 1881 being the slightly different interpretation of the name for the second child to Ellen aged 13 rather than Helen as in 1881.
		Also William and his new wife Sarah and their two sons were living back in Bourton. William was aged 39 and a general labourer, while Sarah was aged 26 and their sons were Percival 3 years and Ernest who was ten months. During the next decade two daughters were added to the family, the first at Lower Slaughter and the second at Bourton.
		The family of six was still living together at Bourton in 1901. William was aged 49 and was still working as a general labourer and his wife Sarah was 36. The couple’s eldest son was referred to as Percival W Collett aged 13, while their youngest son was referred to as Ernest R J Collett aged 10.
		The couple’s two daughters were recorded as being Blanche M Collett aged 7, and Winifred O M Collett who was under one year old.
		During the next ten years the two sons left the family home and went away to work for the Great Western Railway. By April 1911 the family comprised William of Bourton who was 59, his wife Sarah 46 and of Bledington, and their two daughters Blanche 17, and Winifred who was ten.
		33Q8	Edith Emily Collett		Born in 1875
		33Q9	Helen Louisa Collett		Born in 1877
		33Q10	Percival William Collett		Born on 24.10.1887
		33Q11	Ernest Reginald John Collett		Born on 06.06.1890
		33Q12	Blanche M Collett		Born in 1893 at Lower Slaughter
		33Q13	Winifred O M Collett		Born in 1900 at Bourton-on-the-Water
33P9		Paris Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1859 and was the son of Paris and Lucy Collett. During the earlier census returns in his life his date of birth fluctuated between 1857 and 1860, for example in 1881 he was 23 and a labourer living with his parents at The Bank in Bourton.
		In September 1892 he married Kate Burdock with whom he had four children during the following nine years. Kate was the sister of Ruth Burdock who married Paris’s distant cousin (two times removed) Joseph Collett (Ref. 33P34) at Bourton in 1895.
		By March 1901 Paris and his family was living at Bourton where he was 41 and employed as a general labourer, his wife Kate was 34, and their four children were Herbert P Collett 7, Arthur E Collett 6, Walter 4, and Kathleen who was one year old, all four children having been born at Bourton.
		During the next few years a second daughter was added to the while they were still living at Bourton, where they were also living in April 1911. The census return that year recorded the family as Paris 51, Kate 43, Herbert Paris 18, Arthur Edward 16, Walter George 14, Kathleen Eva 11, and Amy 7.
		33Q14	Herbert Paris Collett		Born in 1893
		33Q15	Arthur Edward Collett		Born in 1895
		33Q16	Walter George Collett		Born in 1897
		33Q17	Kathleen Eva Collett		Born in 1899
		33Q18	Amy Collett		Born in 1903
33P10		Mary Ann Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1860. When around 20 years of age she was working and living away from the family home but was back living with her parents Paris and Lucy Ann Collett according to the 1891 Census.
		In this she was listed as being unmarried aged 30 and of Bourton and with her was her base-born son William aged 7 also born at Bourton.
		However, by the turn of the century she was married to Charles Bowles and was living at Donnington just north of Stow-on-the-Wold. Charles was born at nearby Broadwell in 1862 and in 1901 was working as a general carter.
		It seems very likely that it was through this Donnington connection that Mary Ann’s son William met and married Margaret Iles whose father worked for the Donnington Brewery Company.
		33Q19	William George Collett		Born in 1883
33P11		Thomas Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1866 and was aged 15 in 1881 and living with his family at The Bank in Bourton. Ten years later he was 24 and was still living with his parents at Bourton where he was employed as an agricultural labourer.
		Just before the end of the century it would appear that Thomas became a married man and shortly after his wife presented him with a daughter while they were living in Bourton. However, no trace of his wife has been found and it might be presumed that she died giving birth to the child.
		So by the time of the Bourton census of 1901 Thomas was 34 and was working as a general labourer, and with him was his daughter Dorothy M Collett who was two years old.
		Ten years later in April 1911 Thomas and Dorothy were still living in Bourton, where Thomas was 45 and Dorothy Mary Collett was 12.
		33Q20	Dorothy Mary Collett		Born in 1898 at Bourton
33P12		Charles Collett was born at Maugersbury in 1865 and was the eldest son of Job and Mary Collett. At the time of the 1871 Charles was aged 5 years and was living with his parents at Stow-on-the-Wold. The village of Maugersbury lies less than one mile from Stow where Charles said he was born in later census records.
		Ten years later at the age of 15 he had left the family home, which was then in Maugersbury, and was living and working in the picturesque village of Lower Slaughter. His occupation was stated as being that of an agricultural servant and his employer was Thomas Yearp, farmer of Lower Slaughter.
		It is very likely that 68 years old Thomas Yearp was the son of Hannah Collett (Ref. 33M2) and Thomas Yearp and therefore the cousin of Charles’ grandfather John Collett.
		In addition to Charles Collett, the Yearp household in 1881 comprised Thomas and his wife Ann aged 70 and of Ashton-under-Hill, his married son Thomas Yearp, a butcher, and his wife Sarah Ann (both aged 35 and of Lower Slaughter), and general servant Lucy Ann Pearce 21 of Lower Slaughter.
		It would appear that within a couple of years of the 1881 Census Charles fathered a child with a girl from Stow-on-the-Wold by the name of Fanny Arthurs whom he later married. Fanny may have been the daughter of Edward and Mary Arthurs of Chadlington just over the border in Oxfordshire.
		It would also appear that once the couple discovered that they were expecting a child they left Gloucestershire and made their way north to Birmingham where the child was born. And it was also at Birmingham that their subsequent children were born.
		Perhaps because of his involvement with Thomas Yearp the butcher, it would seem that Charles also pursued this as a career later in his working life. According to the 1901 Census for Birmingham, Charles’ occupation at that time was that of a butcher’s assistant.
		The census recorded the family as Charles aged 35 of Stow, his wife Fanny aged 38 of Gloucestershire, and their four children Lillian 19, Ellen 12, Frederick 8 and Frances aged 6. Eldest daughter Lillian was working as a pupil teacher.
		33Q21	Lillian S Collett		Born in 1882
		33Q22	Ellen Collett		Born in 1888
		33Q23	Frederick Collett		Born in 1892
		33Q24	Frances Collett		Born in 1894
33P13		Emma Collett was born at Maugersbury near Stow-on-the-Wold in 1866 and was 4 at the time of the Stow census of 1871. Ten years later she had left school and at the age of 14 was working at The Manse House on the High Street in Bourton-on-the-Water where she was a general servant at the home of miller George Bumpus and his family. She gave her place of birth as being Stow-on-the-Wold.
33P16		Agnes Mary Collett was born at Maugersbury in 1872. Just after she was born her parents first moved south to Sherborne before returning to Maugersbury near to Stow-on-the-Wold, where the family was living at 22 Well Lane at the time of the census of 1881 when Agnes was 8 years old.
		In her later life Agnes more commonly used her second name of Mary. However, no record of her as Agnes or Mary has so far been found for the census years of 1891 and 1901. By 1911, and following the death of her mother Mary, she returned to Stow with her sister Edith (below) to care for their elderly father Job. The Stow census return recorded Agnes as simply unmarried Mary Collett of Stow aged 38.
33P17		Rosa Collett was born in 1874 and was the only member of her family to be born at Sherborne. It was also at Sherborne that she was baptised on 25.10.1874, the baptism record confirming that she was the daughter of Job and Mary Collett.
		Shortly after she was born her parents moved back to Maugersbury near Stow-on-the-Wold and by 1881 the family was living at 22 Well Lane in Maugersbury, where Rosa was listed as being 6 years old and of Sherborne. With no other record of her it is possible that she died while still a child.
33P18		Edith May Collett was born at Maugersbury (one mile from Stow-on-the-Wold) in November 1880 and it was there at 22 Well Lane that her family was living in April 1881 when Edith was just five months old.
		Edith appeared to be the only member of the family still living with her parents at Stow by the time of the census of 1891 when she was ten, although she has not been located ten years later in 1901.
		Following the death of her mother sometime after 1901, Edith returned to Stow to look after her father Job, which she shared with her sister Mary (above). It was as Edith May Collett aged 30 that she was listed in the April census of 1911. She was unmarried and gave her place of birth at Stow-on-the-Wold.
33P19		Emily Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1859 and was eleven years old by the time of the census of 1871 when she was living with her family at Upper Slaughter. On 14.02.1880 Emily married James Pearse who was born at Kingham in Oxfordshire in 1854 where he was baptised on 04.06.1854.
		James was the son of Charles Pearse and Maria Howes. Once they were married it would appear that they lived their life together at Kingham where Emily died and was buried on 23.08.1950. The couple are known to have had a son James Pearse who was born in 1887 and who was still living with Emily and James at Kingham in 1911.
		It was the Kingham census of 1901 in which Ann’s place of birth was confirmed as being Bourton-on-the-Water. Ann was 40 and her husband James was 46 and an engine driver, and their son James was 13.
33P20		Ann Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1861. Ten years later Ann and her family were living in Upper Slaughter where she was recorded as being nine years old. Towards the end of the 1870s her parents moved again and by 1881 the family was living at Guiting Power where Ann was 20 and her occupation was that of a domestic servant.
33P21		Charles Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1863 as confirmed by the census of 1881. However, according to the 1871 Census he was born at Upper Slaughter. By the time of the census of 1881 his family had moved to Guiting Power while Charles had left his family and was working on a farm ten miles north-west of Bourton.
		The census return listed Charles Collett as being 18, unmarried and a carter and agricultural labourer who was born at Bourton. At that time he was employed by Alfred Barrett, who was 48 and of Cheltenham, on his 130 acre Little Brockhampton Farm at Snowhill.
		Sometime around the mid 1880s Charles married Lucy with whom he had had four children by the spring of 1901.
		By March 1901 Charles was living at Winstone where he was a carter on a farm. His aged was given as 37 and his place of birth Bourton-on-the-Water. His wife Lucy was also aged 37 but was born at Winstone where all of the children were born.
		Their four children were Charles R Collett who was 12, Albert E Collett 5, Gladys 2, and 11 months old Amy. Charles’ eldest son Charles was very likely working with his father since he was also a carter on a farm.
		Later family members recall another son George who may have been born between sons Charles and Albert. However, there was no child of this name in the census returns for 1901 or 1911, by which time the family had moved north to live in Cheltenham. This does not rule out the possibility that he was the oldest child in the family and had left home by 1901.
		The census recorded the family as Charles and Lucy both 47, and three of their children Albert 15, Gladys 12, and Amy who was ten. All three children were confirmed as having been born at Winstone, like their mother.
		33Q25	Charles Robert Collett		Born in 1888
		33Q26	George Collett		Date of birth unknown
		33Q27	Albert E Collett		Born in 1895
		33Q28	Gladys Collett		Born in 1898
		33Q29	Amy Collett		Born in May 1900
33P22		John Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1865 although, in the census of 1881 when he was 16 and an agricultural labourer living with his family at Guiting power, his place of birth was Bourton-on-the-Water. By the time he was 35 he was living at Bibury where he was a general labourer, although the census return in 1901 gave his place of birth as being Lower Slaughter.
33P23		Mary Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1868. By the time she was aged 22 she was still unmarried and living at Bibury where she worked as a servant at the home of 93 years old widow Hannah Miles of Coln St Dennis who was listed in the 1901 as a ‘parish relief’.
33P30		Lydia Collett was born at Stow-in-the Wold in 1864 and in 1871 she was living with her grandparents Richard and Sarah Collett. Her older sister had died in 1863 the same year she was born and her younger sister born in 1868 also died while still a child.
		Lydia would have been 16 in 1881 but it must be assumed that she too had died young as there was no listing for her in that year’s census records when her parents were living at 10 Devonshire Street in Camberwell.
33P32		Eliza Collett was born at Cudham in Kent in 1868, where she was baptised on 06.06.1869. She was the only one of the four children of John and Ruth Caroline Collett to survive beyond infancy. In 1881 she was 12 years old and was living with her parents at 10 Devonshire Street in Camberwell.
		Eliza was still living with her parents at Camberwell ten years later in 1891 when she was 22. However, during the next few years she married Albert Fisher who was born at Tottenham in 1864 and by the end of the century their marriage had produced a son for the couple.
		It would appear that Eliza and Albert initially settled in Hampshire as their son Reginald was born at Micheldever in 1897, but by March 1901 the family of three had moved to Cudham where Eliza had been born. The census that year listed Albert as 36 and a gamekeeper, Eliza 32, and their son Reginald as 3.
33P33		Ellen Elizabeth Goodway was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 27.01.1862 and was the base born daughter of Hannah Freeman Goodway of Bagendon who married Job Collett (Ref. 33O16) in 1874.
		By the time of her nineteenth birthday in January 1881 Ellen was unmarried but was carrying the baby of John Parsons. And so it was that in February or March that year she gave birth to a base born son.
		This was confirmed in the April census that year, but by then the child aged one month was in the care of its grandmother Hannah Collett at Bourton, the child having been born at Charlbury in Oxfordshire.
		Further investigation of the 1881 revealed two important facts. The first that disgraced Ellen Goodway had been sent away to a family in Northamptonshire. It was the accepted custom in this middle England area that unmarried mothers were separated from their child and invariably ended up in Northamptonshire.
		In this particular case it was to the home of John Gee Esquire, farmer of 530 acres employing 16 men and 6 boys, that Ellen was sent. The farm was situated at Inn Street in the village of Welford and it was there that Ellen lived and worked as a domestic servant. She was listed as being aged 20 and of Rissington.
		The second interesting fact was that John Parsons aged 18 of Northleach and the father of Ellen’s illegitimate baby, was a lodger and agricultural labourer at the Colcutt home of grocer Isaac Smith in Coln St Dennis. Ellen’s connection with Coln St Dennis was that it was the village where her grandmother Elizabeth Goodway nee Freeman was born so may still have had connection around 1880.
		Also a lodger at the house in Colcutt was Arthur Hall 22 of Northleach another agricultural labourer and there were earlier Collett connections with Northleach and the Hall family.
		Strange as it may seem, John Parsons may have eventually made a permanent connection with the Collett family as sometime between 1891 and 1901 he is believed to have married Emily Rebecca Collett. See Ref. 33P1 for more details.
		33Q30	John Collett Parsons		Born in February/March 1881
33P34		JOSEPH COLLETT was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in March 1875. At the age of 16, according to the 1891 Census, Joseph was an apprentice carpenter and wheelwright at the Bourton home of 62 years old Joseph Griffin of Lower Slaughter and his wife Elizabeth aged 66 of Bourton. By 1901 Joseph Collett was a fully fledged carpenter at Bourton. Nine months after his twentieth birthday on 25.12.1895 he married Ruth Burdock at St Lawrence’s Church in Bourton. Three years earlier, Ruth’s sister Kate Burdock from Birmingham had married Paris Collett (Ref. 33P9) at Bourton.
		Ruth, who was born in 1877 at Great Rissington, was the daughter of journeyman baker Edward Burdock of Ablington in Gloucestershire and his wife Hannah of Enstone in Oxfordshire. At the time of the 1901 Census Joseph aged 26 and Ruth 24 were living at Sherborne Street in Bourton with sons Wilfred aged 4 and Victor aged 2. 1901 was also the year that the couple’s only daughter Doris was born, but this happen just six weeks after the census date.
		All of Joseph and Ruth’s children were born at Bourton-on-the-Water, and the previous inclusion of a son John Edward Collett was proved to be incorrect according to the census of 1911, when there was no such child listed with the family. He has therefore been removed.
		According to the April census of 1911, the family comprised Joseph 36, his wife Ruth 34, and their five surviving children Wilfred 14, Victor 12, Doris 10, Allan 7, and two years old Ivor.
		Joseph died on 08.05.1950 at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol and was buried that same month at St Lawrence's Church Cemetery in Bourton. Almost three years later Ruth passed away on 13.04.1953 and was laid to rest at St Lawrence’s with her husband. There is a long side stone on the grave in the cemetery that carries their names. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
		33Q31	Wilfred Harry Collett	Born on 10.10.1896
		33Q32	Frank Collett	Born on 15.11.1897; infant death
		33Q33	Victor Joseph Collett	Born on 08.11.1898
		33Q34	DORIS MAY COLLETT	Born on 12.05.1901
		33Q35	Allan George Collett	Born in 1903
		33Q36	Ivor John Collett	Born in 1910
33P36		John Brain Collett was born in 1878 at Bledington in Oxfordshire just over the county boundary from Gloucestershire. In the 1881 Census he was aged 2 years and was living with his family in Upper Slaughter where his father John Brain Collett was a farmer.
		No trace of John or his family has been found in the 1891 Census but ten years later John had left the family home and was living and working in Birmingham. The census confirmed he had been born at Bledington and that he was aged 22, and at that time in 1901 he was working on the railway.
		It was around this time that John married Annie Marie Carter and the couple settled down to live in the Lady Wood district of Birmingham where their first child was born. A further three children were born into the family before Annie sadly died while still relatively young.
		By April 1911 John Brain Collett was 32 and his wife Annie Marie was 31. Living with them in Ladywood at that time were five of their children, these being John Brain junior 7, Leonard George 5, Albert Edward 3, Hilda Annie 2, and six weeks old Beatrice Ethel Collett.
		John’s brother Arthur (below), together with other members of the Collett family emigrated to New Zealand around 1921. Included in the party was John’s eldest son, eighteen years old John Brain Collett junior, a move that may have been prompted by the death of his mother.
		Following the death of his wife Annie Marie, John was married for a second time and that marriage produced a further three children for John, these being Arthur, Estelle and Walter.
		Three more of John’s children emigrated to New Zealand at later times, to be reunited with their older brother, and these were son Leonard and daughters Hilda and Estelle.
		John Brain Collett senior and his second wife remained living in Birmingham for some years but the couple later moved to Ludlow in Shropshire, when John eventually retired. And it was at Ludlow that he died and was buried in 1976 aged 98.
		Walter, the youngest member of John’s family also lived at Ludlow and was still living there in 2008, while another son (either Albert or Arthur) remained living in the Birmingham area, but has since passed away. The other son (Albert or Arthur) was thought to have moved to live around the London area, but he too had also died by 2008.
		33Q37	John Brain Collett	Born on 14.05.1903
		33Q38	Leonard George Collett	Born in 1905
		33Q39	Albert Edward Collett	Born in 1907
		33Q40	Hilda Annie Collett	Born in 1909
		33Q41	Beatrice Ethel Collett	Born in 1911
		33Q42	Arthur Collett	Born after 1921
		33Q43	Estelle Collett	Born after 1921
		33Q44	Walter Collett	Born after 1921
33P37		Arthur Frederick Collett was born in 1893. No record of him or his parents has been found in 1901 although it is known that his much older brother John Brain Collett (above) had already moved to Birmingham by then.
		Ten years later in April 1911 Arthur was 17 and was living at Witney in Oxfordshire with his father John Brain Collett senior and his mother Annie who were both in their late fifties.
		What is known is that after his parents passed away he emigrated to New Zealand. This happened around 1921 and sailing with Arthur was his nephew Jack (John Brain) Collett, the eldest son of his older brother John Brain Collett (above).
		Arthur was known to have married Ella May and together they lived at Pahiatua in New Zealand, although it is also known that the marriage produced no children for the couple in the short time that they were together. This is because Arthur died at the relatively young age of 34 while in Wellington Hospital on 02.09.1927
33P38		Francis George Brain Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1895 and it was there he was living with his family in the 1901 aged 6. The only clues so far to his life can be found in the words on his headstone in the graveyard of St Peter’s Church in Upper Slaughter.
		This simply reads “In Loving Memory of Francis George Brain Collett a dear husband and father who died on 8^th June 1977 aged 82”
33P40		Frederick Holt Collett was born at Upper Slaughter in 1898 and was the youngest son of Francis William Collett. This information is based on the inscription on a headstone in the churchyard of St Peter’s Church at Upper Slaughter which reads
		“In Loving Memory of Fred Holt younger son of Francis W and Margaret E Collett entered into rest February 13^th 1931 aged 33 years”. It seems unlikely that he was married.
33P41		Violet Mary Collett was one half of a set of twins born at Upper Slaughter in September 1900. She married Mr Tyler and was buried in the churchyard of St Peter’s Church at Upper Slaughter. Her headstone reads “In Loving Memory of my wife Violet Mary Tyler nee Collett who died on 18^th September 1975 aged 75”
33P42		Dorothy E Collett was one half of a set of twins born at Upper Slaughter in September 1900. Tragically she died when she was only twenty years old and was buried in the churchyard of St Peter’s Church at Upper Slaughter. Her headstone reads “In Loving Memory of Dorothy Elizabeth Collett youngest daughter of Francis William and Margaret Bell Collett who entered into her rest on 20^th December 1928 aged 28”
33Q1		Walter John Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1897 and was aged 3 and living at Bourton with his family in 1901. The only information currently to hand regarding Walter has been gathered from his gravestone at Bourton.
		This indicates that he married Ella Katherine, that he was born in 1897 and died in 1960. Katherine died fourteen years after Walter in 1974 and both were buried with Walter’s parents and his two spinster sisters Freda and Hilda (below) in the churchyard of St Lawrence’s Church at Bourton. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
33Q2		Freda Mary Collett was born in Bourton-on-the-Water in 1899. She never married but lived a long life and died on 07.06.1979 aged 80. Freda was buried with her parents and two siblings at St Lawrence’s Church in Bourton where a headstone, coupled with her brother’s flat gravestone, identify the location of the grave. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
33Q3		Hilda Gertrude Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in the latter part of 1901 and certainly after the first of April that year. She died on 06.07.1983 aged 82 and just like her older brother and her sister (both above), Hilda was buried in the churchyard of St Lawrence’s Church in Bourton. Hilda also remained a spinster during her life like her sister. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
33Q8		Edith Emily Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1875. Her mother died before 1881 at which time she and her sister Helen (below) and their widowed father William were living with their grandparents at The Bank in Bourton.
		Over the next five years the girl’s father remarried and by turn of the century Emily had two half brothers and two half sisters. However, Emily and her sister Helen continued to live with their grandparents and where in 1891 Emily was aged 15.
		Around the middle of the 1890s Emily married William Packer of Bourton-on-the-Water and not long after they were married their first child was born at Bourton. The couple then moved to Birmingham their daughter was born after the turn of the century. It was very likely William’s work that took them north since in 1901 his occupation was that of a railway goods porter.
		According to the census of 1901 the family was recorded as living in the Aston district of Birmingham where railway goods porter William and Emily, who was referred to as Edith, were both described as being from Bourton and were aged 33 and 25 respectively. Their son was listed as William aged 5.
		Emily may have been expecting the couple’s second child on the census day in 1901, since later that year or early in the following year she gave birth to a daughter. During the next few years the family of four returned to Bourton where they were living in 1911. William was 43, Edith Emily was 35, and their son Harlon William was 15, while their daughter Polly was nine.
33Q9		Helen Louisa Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1877. Following the death of her mother shortly after she was born, she and her sister Emily (above) were taken in by their grandparents Paris and Lucy Collett to live with them in their home at The Bank in Bourton.
		It was at The Bank that Helen was living with her sister, and the girls’ father, in April 1881 and was recorded as Helen L Collett aged 3. Ten years later she was still living with her grandparents at the age of 13.
		Where Helen was living in 1901 has not been determined but it is established that she married William Stanford a few years later. The couple initially settled in Bourton where all of their four children were born before the family left Gloucestershire and move south to Shaftesbury in Dorset.
		William and Helen Louisa were both 33, and their children were Charlotte Annie, 6, Agnes Helen 4, Ethel Harriet 3, and George William who was two years old. Helen Louisa Collett confirmed her place of birth as being Bourton-on-the-Water, and the same for all of her children.
33Q10		Percival William Collett was born at Bledington on 24.10.1887 and possibly at the home of his grandparents on his mother’s, since his parents are known to have been living at Bourton-on-the-Water at that time.
		By 1891 Percival aged 3 and his brother Ernest (below) were living with their parents at Bourton. Just after the turn of the century in March 1901 the family had been increased by two daughters and the family of six was still living at Bourton where Percival W Collett was then employed as a grocer’s errand boy at the age of 13.
		Almost exactly five years later on 13^th March 1906 at the age of eighteen Percival was taken on by the Great Western Railway. Where this actually happened was noted in the GWR Staff Records, but just over twelve months later he finished with the GWR on 26^th March 1907 and this happened at Fairford.
		Four years later at the time of the census of 1911, an unmarried Percival Collett of Bledington was 23 and was still living at Fairford.
33Q11		Ernest Reginald John Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 06.06.1890 and was ten months old and living in Bourton with his family according to the census of 1891.
		He was recorded as Ernest R J Collett aged 10 in the census return of 1901 when he was still living at Bourton with his parents, his brother Percival (above) and his two younger sisters.
		Six and a half years after this, his full name and date of birth was listed in the Great Western Staff Records as starting work with the company on 25^th September 1907. He continued working for the company until 18^th October 1910 when his employment was recorded as ending while at Chippenham.
		And it was at Chippenham that single Ernest Reginald Collett was still living by April 1911 when he was listed in the census return as being twenty years old and from Bourton-on-the-Water.
		Sometime during the next decade Ernest married Emma Elizabeth and, it is believed, that the couple continued to live in Chippenham where their known son was very likely born. It was also at Chippenham that the couple was recorded as living during the Second World War when they received the news that their son had been killed in action.
		33R1	Stanley John Collett	Born in 1920
33Q14		Herbert Paris Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1893 and it was there that he was living with his family in March 1901 aged seven and again in April 1911 when he was eighteen.
		With the onset of the Great War three years later Herbert joined the 7^th Battalion The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment with whom he was Private Collett 242048. The regiment had previously been known as the Somerset Light Infantry.
		Sadly towards the end of the war he was killed in France whiling fighting in the Aisne area of the country. He died on 23.05.1918 and was buried in the British Extension of the Chauny Communal Cemetery at Aisne.
		The British Extension to the cemetery was established after the Armistice and was used for the burial of remains brought in from the battlefields of Aisne and the smaller cemeteries from the surrounding countryside.
		Over 1,000 casualties from the 1914-18 War are commemorated on this site, the majority of them having died in 1918. Included in the total figure are six soldiers of the United Kingdom whose identity had been established with reasonable, but not absolute certainty and who are commemorated by special memorial headstones bearing the superscription 'Believed To Be'.
		In addition to these, there are 26 soldiers of the United Kingdom and five from Canada whose graves can be identified collectively but not individually and who are commemorated by special memorial headstones bearing the superscription 'Buried Near This Spot'.
33Q15		Arthur Edward Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1895. At the time of the census of 1901 he was recorded as Arthur E Collett who was six years old and living at Bourton with his family.
		Ten years later in the April census of 1911 he was listed under his full name of Arthur Edward Collett when he was still living in the family home at Bourton aged sixteen. A few years later Arthur married Irene Strange with whom he had three daughters.
		In 1901 Irene V Strange was four years old, a similar age to Arthur, and she was born in London and was living within the Acton area of Middlesex with her father John Strange, who was licensed victualler, and her mother Eleanor, both of London.
		Ten years later the same Irene Victoria Strange was 14 and was living in the Brentford district of Middlesex with just her mother Eleanor Strange 49, and her older sister Vera Mary Strange who was 18.
		33R2	Barbara Collett	Date of birth unknown
		33R3	Marion Collett	Date of birth unknown
		33R4	Doreen Collett	Date of birth unknown
33Q19		William George Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1883. He appeared in the 1891 Census aged 7 living with his unmarried mother Mary Ann Collett at her parent’s house in Bourton. By 1901 he was aged 17 and was working as a railway porter at Bourton where he was still living with his grandparents Paris and Lucy Collett (Ref. 33O6). By this same time his mother was now married to Charles Bowles and the couple were living at Donnington just north of Stow.
		It was probably through living at Donnington that William eventually met and married Margaret Amelia Iles.
		In 1891 Margaret was aged 7 and was living with her parents at Fairford. Ten years later, at the age of 17, she was working as a domestic servant at Bibury at which time she gave her place of birth as being Barnsley near Cirencester. This could mean that she was the daughter of farm carter Henry Iles and his wife Martha, both of Ampney St Mary and living at The Lodge in Barnsley in 1881.
		At the time that William married Margaret her father was working at the brewery in the village of Donnington where William’s mother also lived. William appears to have been employed by the Great Western Railway for most of his life, during which he is known to have worked at stations in the villages of Fairford in Gloucestershire, and Langford and Alvescot in Oxfordshire.
		William and his young family were living at Fairford in 1911. By that time his marriage to Margaret had produced three children for the couple. The census return listed the family as William George Collett born at Bourton and aged 27, his wife Maggie Amelia aged 26, and their children Maggie Amelia 5, Cyril George 4, and Harold who was just one months old on 2^nd April that year.
		And it was later in his life that it is established that William held the post of Station Master Alvescot.
		33R5	Margaret Amelia Collett	Born in 1905
		33R6	Cyril George Collett	Born in 1907
		33R7	Harold Collett	Born in 1911
		33R8	William George Collett	Date of birth unknown
33Q25		Charles Robert Collett was born at Winstone in 1888 and was still living there with his family in March 1901 when he was twelve years old and had already started work as a carter on a farm, probably with his father Charles Collett who was also a carter on a farm in Winstone.
		During the following few years Charles’ family moved north to Cheltenham but he was not living there with them in April 1911. Instead unmarried Charles Robert Collett aged 22 and of Winstone in Gloucestershire had moved much further north to Derbyshire where he was living in the town of Bakewell.
33Q26		George Collett would have been born at Winstone but his date of birth is not known. It may have been between 1888 and 1895, the years in which his two brothers Charles (above) and Albert (below) were born. Even more mysterious is his absence from the 1901 and 1911 census returns.
		What is known is that he was married and the marriage produced two sons for George and his wife, one of which married Queenie Whitfield.
		33R9	? Collett (son)	Date of birth unknown
		33R10	? Collett (son)	Date of birth unknown
33Q27		Albert E Collett was born at Winstone in 1895 and was 5 years old by March 1901 and was still living in Winstone with his family. A little later Albert and his parents moved to Cheltenham where they were recorded as living in 1911 when Albert was 15.
		It is established that Albert was married and that he and his wife had four children. It is also known that his only son married Ena Goodhall and that they in turn had a Collett son of their own. The information relating to all of these members of the family has been withheld upon request as they are living in 2007.
		33R11	? Collett (daughter)	Date of birth unknown
		33R12	? Collett (son)	Date of birth unknown
		33R13	? Collett (daughter)	Date of birth unknown
		33R14	? Collett (daughter)	Date of birth unknown
33Q31	Wilfred Harry Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1896, the son of Joseph and Ruth Collett as confirmed in the Bourton 1901 Census. The record confirms his age as being 4 years, with the family living at Sherborne Street in Bourton. He married Agnes Botrill of Witney in Oxfordshire who was a nursery nurse. Wilfred worked in sales at the company of McVitie & Price.
		A calendar printed in the name of W H Collett Grocer Confectioner of Lansdowne in Bourton-on-the-Water seems likely to relate to Wilfred.
		Wilfred and Agnes had two children born in 1920 and 1924 but the names have been with-held as both are still alive in 2007. Wilfred Collett died at Oxford in 1980.
		33R15	? Collett	Born in 1920
		33R16	? Collett	Born in 1924
33Q33		Victor Joseph Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1899, the son of Joseph and Ruth Collett as confirmed in the Bourton 1901 Census. The record confirms his age as being 2 years, with the family living at Sherborne Street in Bourton. He was a motor engineer and founded the company V J Collett Garage at Bourton in 1921. He married Phyllis Winifred Ravenhill who was born at Knighton in Radnor in 1898, the daughter of Alfred S Ravenhill and Mary A Lloyd who were from Leominster in Herefordshire.
		The couple had a total of five children born at Bourton, of which two are still alive in 2007, the un-named son being the current owner of V J Collett Garage at Bourton.
		Victor died from a heart attack at 9 a.m. on 14.03.1959 and was buried in St Lawrence’s Church Cemetery at Bourton on 17.03.1959. Phyllis lived as a widow for the next seventeen years before she too died on 20.02.1976 and was buried with her husband at Bourton. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
		33R17	Olive Beryl Collett	Born on 09.06.1924
		33R18	Donald Victor Collett	Born on 27.04.1927
		33R19	Brian John Collett	Born in 1935; died in 1935
		33R20	? Collett (daughter)	Born in 1937
		33R21	? Collett (son)	Born in 1942
33Q34		DORIS MAY COLLETT was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 12.05.1901 where she was baptised on 07.07.1901. She was Confirmed on 13^th December 1916 and received her first communion on Christmas Day that same year. She married Bert Owen Hiscock of Salem Avenue at Wimborne in Dorset, Doris being his third wife. It would appear that the wedding possibly took place in 1928 after which the couple seem to have moved to live at The Mill House in Lansdowne at Bourton. The property is still there today. It was at Bourton-on-the-Water that their three sons were born.
		In the early 1940s the family returned to live at Wimborne where their eldest son attended the Canford School for Boys. Tragically Bert died from a sudden heart attack in 1947 leaving Doris with three young sons. Some years later for just a couple of years Doris lived in a caravan, but by the 1970s she was living at 70 West Borough in Wimborne.
		Doris, who was known to play the mandolin (see photo above), died at Poole General Hospital on 27.03.1978 and was buried in Wimborne Cemetery with her husband in an un-consecrated plot (grave 10182) having no memorial plaque.
		33R22	Derek Owen Joseph Hiscock	Born on 25.05.1929
		33R23	a Hiscock son	Born on 28.12.1934
		33R24	VICTOR BERT HISCOCK	Born on 08.02.1939
33Q35		Allan George Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water on 09.09.1903. He married Mabel Lord of Sherborne in Gloucestershire, but shortly after the ceremony he was made a widower when Mabel died. As a result of this, Allan remained a single gentleman for the rest of his life and lived with his parents Joseph and Ruth Collett at Bourton.
		His occupation was that of a carpenter and in the 1920s he was working for a Gloucester builder. He died at Bourton on 09.12.1964 aged 61 just fifteen years after his father had passed away and was buried at St Lawrence’s Church Cemetery on 11.12.1964 where a memorial stone marks the grave. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
		Also buried at Bourton, but so far unconnected to this family, was Winifred Olive May Collett who died on 19.04.1965 aged 64. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
33Q36		Ivor John Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1910 and his occupation was that of a garage mechanic. He married (1) Alice Winifred James who came from Littlebredy near Weymouth and with whom he had three children. In 2007 the eldest child was living in the London area, the second at Swindon, and the third at Weymouth. Tragedy struck the family in 1943 when Alice died at only 36 years of age. Her gravestone in the churchyard of St Lawrence’s Church in Bourton reads “Cherished Memories Alice Winifred Collett 1907 – 1943 Beloved wife of Ivor Dear mother of John, Pat and Gill. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
		Ivor later married (2) Edith Northing probably at the end of the Second World War and this coupling produced a further two children for Ivor. The youngest daughter Pauline was living at Oxford in 2007.
		It was at Oxford in the Radcliffe Hospital that Ivor died on 28.02.1961. He was buried a few days later at St Lawrence’s Church Cemetery in Bourton on 03.03.1961 but, at the time, without a memorial to mark the plot.
		However, by the summer of 2008 this had been rectified with a new headstone for both Ivor and Edith. It reads “Treasured Memories Ivor John Collett 1910 – 1961 Beloved husband and father Edith Collett 1914 – 2005 Loving wife and mother of Peter and Pauline”. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
		33R25	John Collett	Born in 1930
		33R26	Patricia Collett	Born in 1932
		33R27	Gill Collett	Born in 1940
		33R28	Peter Collett	Born in 1946
		33R29	Pauline Collett	Born in 1952
33Q37		John Brain Collett, who was referred to as Jack, was born at Ladywood in Birmingham on 14.05.1903. He and his parents were still living at Ladywood in April 1911 when, as John Brain Collett, he was seven years old.
		When he was around eighteen years of age Jack decided to leave Birmingham for a new life in the colonies and sailed to New Zealand with his uncle Arthur Frederick Collett around 1921. It was also around this same time that Jack’s mother died and his father remarried and this may have been the reason for him leaving.
		It was while in New Zealand that he married school teacher (1) Margaret Janet Shirley at Levin on 19.12.1931. The marriage produced six children for Jack and Margaret before her untimely death just over twenty years later on 04.04.1952 aged 49.
		Following the death of wife, John and his eldest daughter Shirley were ably supported by John’s sister Hilda and her husband Murray in looking after the younger children of the family.
		At some later date Jack married (2) Olive before he died at the age of 80 on 22.09.1983.