PART THIRTY-SIX

The Barwick-in-Elmet (Leeds) Line

Updated October 2011

All Saints Church at Barwick-in-Elmet (pronounced Bar-rick)

lies within the Church of England Diocese of Ripon & Leeds.

New information has been received from Christina Hammond nee Collitt (Ref. 27R11),

following her meeting with Joyce Hidden nee Collett (Ref. 36S14) in the autumn of 2010 during

which she was shown a family tree produced by Keith Walker relating to the Featherstone Colletts.

The brief details contained therein indicate that this family line has its origins with

William Collett in 1496, who possibly came from Featherstone.

This discover, although unverified, takes this family line back a further four generations

from Ralph Collett (Ref. 36I1) to the said William Collett in 1496.

The August 2010 update was a radical change to this family line, resulting from the

removal of the complete family line from Richard Collett (Ref. 36L2) of Barwick-in-Elmet,

whose details are now contained in Part 55 – The Wakefield & Leeds Line.

During this process, a number of other families were displaced, and these can now

be found in the new Appendix 5 at the end of this file, until such time as they

can be correctly reconnected to a branch of this Collett family.

This is the family line of Mark Collett (Ref. 36T1), the line denoted by the names in capitals,

and Joyce Collett (Ref. 36S14) whose line is denoted by the names underlined,

And it was Mark who was instrumental in contact being made with the

publisher of the magazine The Barwicker which included two articles

on the Collett blacksmiths of Barwick-in-Elmet, the information from which

has now been incorporate into this family line as Appendices 2 to 4

During an earlier update there was one Collett family with a Barwick connection

that remained unresolved due to the apparent early death of the male

head of the household. Therefore, for completeness, the details of his wife

and his two known daughters are included in Appendix 1

36E1	WILLIAM COLLETT was born in 1496, and possibly at Featherstone. He is believed to have married Isabel Dearden who was born in 1499.
	36F1	WILLIAM COLLETT				Born in 1518 at Featherstone
36F1	WILLIAM COLLETT was born at Featherstone in 1518, the son of William Collett and Isabel Dearden. William later married Elizabeth of Featherstone around 1540, with whom he is known to have had at least two children, before he died in 1591, also at Featherstone.
	His wife Elizabeth had been born at Featherstone around 1521 and died three years before William, when she passed away at Featherstone on 15.09.1588. It is understood that, in addition to the four children listed below, two further children were added to the family in 1850 and 1854, although no precise details are known at this time.
	At the time of the death of William Collett in 1591, only his two eldest children were still alive.
	36G1	WILLIAM COLLETT				Born in 1541 at Featherstone
	36G2	Edward Collett				Born in 1543 at Featherstone
	36G3	Isabel Collett				Born in 1545 at Featherstone
	36G4	George Collett				Born in 1548 at Featherstone
36G1	WILLIAM COLLETT was born at Featherstone in 1541, the eldest son of William and Elizabeth Collett. William was twenty-two years old when he married Isabel Shilito at Featherstone on 14.11.1563.
	William was still alive in 1591, when his father died during that year.
	36H1		John Collett		Born in 1569 at Featherstone
	36H2		Thomasine Collett		Born in 1572 at Featherstone
	36H3		EDWARD COLLETT		Born in 1573 at Featherstone
36G2	Edward Collett was born at Featherstone in 1543, the second son of William Collet and Elizabeth Shilito. On 26.08.1565 Edward Collytt (sic) married (1) Agnes Greenwood at Featherstone, and so far, their only known child is their son Edward, who was born around eight years later.
	Other children may have been born into the family, and it may have been during the birth of one of them, around 1775 that Agnes died. Following her passing, Edward Collett married (2) Agnes Nockytt (Nockett?) at Featherstone on 03.11.1577.
	Edward was still alive in 1591, when his father died during that year.
	36H4		Thomas Collett		Born in 1569 at Featherstone
	36H5		William Collett		Born in 1571 at Featherstone
	36H6		Edward Collett		Born in 1574 at Featherstone
36G3	Isabel Collett was born at Featherstone in 1545, the daughter of William and Elizabeth Collett. It is believed that she was around thirty years of age, when she died at Featherstone in 1575.
36G4	George Collett was born at Featherstone in 1548, the third son of William and Elizabeth Collett. It is understood that he may have died around 1591, the same year that his father passed away.
36H1	John Collett was born at Featherstone in 1569, and it was there also that he was baptised on 09.10.1569, the son of William Collett.
36H2	Thomasine Collett was born at Featherstone in 1572, where she was baptised on 26.10.1572, the daughter of William Collett. She only survived for just over one week, when she was buried on 06.11.1572.
36H3	EDWARD COLLETT was born at Featherstone in 1573, the son of William Collett and Isabel Shilito. He was baptised at Featherstone on 01.01.1574, when it was only his father’s name that appear on the baptism record.
	It was around twenty-four years later that Edward married (1) Frances of Featherstone in 1598. It seems likely that Frances died around the turn of the century, perhaps during childbirth, since on 18.10.1601 at Normanton, just west of Featherstone, Edward Collett married (2) Mary Roebuck.
	Edward Collett had only been married to Mary for twelve years, when he died at Featherstone in 1613.
	36I1		RALPH COLLETT		Born circa 1610 at Featherstone
36H4	Thomas Collett was born at Featherstone in 1569, but was baptised at Ackton near Normanton on 03.07.1569, under the name of Thomas Collytt, the son of Edward Collytt of Ackton.
36H5	William Collett was born at Featherstone in 1571, and was baptised at Ackton near Normanton on 21.10.1571, the son of Edward Collett and Agnes Greenwood. He later married Katherine Laborne at Featherstone on 16.12.1589 and the first of their six known children was born within six months of the day of their wedding.
	36I2		William Collett	Baptised on 03.05.1590 at Featherstone
	36I3		Anne Collett	Baptised on 20.08.1593 at Featherstone
	36I4		Robert Collett	Baptised on 10.10.1594 at Featherstone
	36I5		John Collett	Born circ 1597 at Featherstone
	36I6		Thomas Collett	Baptised on 25.06.1598 at Featherstone
	36I7		Robert Collett	Baptised on 01.01.1599 at Featherstone
36H6	Edward Collett was born at Featherstone in 1574, although he was baptised at Ackton near Normanton on 13.03.1574, the son of Edward Collett and Agnes Greenwood. It would appear that his mother may have died during the birth of a subsequent child, since his father was married for a second time in 1577.
	At the time of the baptism of his children, Edward was referred to as Edward Collet of Ackton, and it is understood that his wife was Mary, although her name does not appear in any of the baptism records.
	36I8		Thomas Collett	Baptised on 12.11.1601 at Featherstone
	36I9		Edward Collett	Baptised on 28.09.1605 at Featherstone
	36I10		Mary Collett	Baptised on 17.02.1612 at Featherstone
36I1	RALPH COLLETT was born around 1610, and very likely at Featherstone near Pontefract, since that was where his father Edward Collett died in 1613. It was on 13.02.1631 that, with a licence from the Court, Ralph married Anne Vevers at Barwick-in-Elmet, which was presumably where Anne was living at that time, and where she may have been born.
	After they were married the couple appear to have lived the rest of their lives together at Barwick, where their seven known children were born, and where Ralph and Anne both died.
	Anne Collett nee Vevers died at Barwick in 1663, and was followed by Ralph who died there seven years later in 1670.
	The Vevers family of Scholes and Potterton originally came from Evre (Iver in Buckinghamshire) in the 14^th Century. They were yeoman farmers and tenants of the lord of the manor and landowners in the parish of Barwick-in-Elmet, although very secondary to the Gascoigne family who owned the Manor and after whom the current village inn is named ‘The Gascoine Arms’.
	William Vevers lived at Scholes Hall, but also owned land in Morwick and Potterton. His cousin Stephen Vevers owned Morwick Hall. Although the male line of this branch died out in 1767, the eldest son, and to a lesser extent the second son, was always married off as well as possible. The daughters and younger sons mostly married within the local area, although the head of the house tended to try and check whether their choice of spouse was worthy of the family
	36J1		William Collett		Born in 1632
	36J2		RALPH COLLETT		Born in 1634
	36J3		Edith Collett		Born in 1637
	36J4		Robert Collett		Born in 1639
	36J5		Mary Collett		Born in 1643
	36J6		Richard Collett		Born in 1646
	36J7		Jane Collett		Born in 1650
36I2	William Collett was born at Featherstone during January 1590, and it was there also that he was baptised on 03.05.1590, the eldest child of William Collett and Katherine Laborne. It is not evident from his children’s baptism records as to who his wife was, since they only gave the father’s name.
	However, the IGI does include the marriage of William Collett and Margaret Bouth, which took place at Featherstone on 09.12.1617, which corresponds perfectly with the birth of their first child nine months later.
	36J8		Edward Collett	Baptised on 30.08.1618 at Featherstone
	36J9		Mary Collett	Baptised on 01.11.1620 at Featherstone
	36J10		Mary Ann Collett	Baptised on 12.09.1627 at Featherstone
	36J11		Isabel Collett	Baptised on 23.11.1628 at Featherstone
36I3	Anne Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 20.08.1593, the daughter of William and Katherine Collett, but tragically she only lived for short of four months, when she died and was buried on 16.12.1593.
36I4	Robert Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 10.10.1594, the son of William and Katherine Collett. He only survived for less than four years, when he died at Featherstone on 26.07.1598, where he was buried.
36I5	John Collett was born at Featherstone around 1597, to William Collett and his wife Katherine Laborne. The name of his wife is not known, since it was simply John’s name that was recorded as the father of their son. However, there is a record at Featherstone which states that John Collett died there on 03.01.1648.
	36J12		Edward Collett	Baptised on 06.01.1619 at Featherstone
	36J13		George Collett	Baptised on 06.07.1620 at Featherstone
36I9	Edward Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 28.09.1605, the son of Edward Collett of Ackton and his wife Mary. He may have been living at Featherstone, since it was there in April 1660 that an Edward Collett died, and this may have been the father or the son.
	36J14		Edward Collett	Baptised on 09.12.1625 at Featherstone
36J1	William Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet around 1632. It was also there that he was baptised at All Saints Church on 11.11.1632, the eldest son of Ralph Collett and Anne Vevers. Sadly, he died during the following year.
36J2	RALPH COLLETT was around 1634 at Barwick-in-Elmet where he was baptised at All Saints Church on 07.05.1635, the second son of Ralph Collett and Anne Vevers.
	He later married Elizabeth with whom he had two known sons before he died, when the youngest child was only two years old. Ralph Collett died at Barwick in 1670, while his wife Elizabeth survived him by over thirty years, when she died at Barwick in 1701.
	36K1		Ralph Collett		Born in 1664
	36K2		WILLIAM COLLETT		Born in 1668
36J3	Edith Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1637 and was baptised there at All Saints Church on 05.11.1637, the eldest daughter and third child of Ralph Collett and Anne Vevers. She was around twenty years of age when she married James Hopwood at Barwick on 28.05.1657.
	Over the next twelve years Edith presented James with five children, and all of them born while the family was still living at Barwick. However, in each case the baptism record at All Saints Church in Barwick gave only the father’s name, which was David Hopwood.
	The five children of David Hopwood were Mary Hopwood (baptised 14.03.1662), Jennet Hopwood (baptised 07.08.1664), Christopher Hopwood (baptised 11.03.1666), Isabell Hopwood (baptised 08.03.1668) and Elizabeth Hopwood (baptised 13.02.1670).
36J4	Robert Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1639. He was baptised at All Saints Church on 02.04.1640, the son of Ralph Collett and Anne Vevers. Robert was twenty-one when he married Jennet Taylor at Barwick on 18.11.1661, Jennet having been baptised there on 02.10.1636.
	Their marriage produced eight children for the couple between 1662 and 1678, and all of them were born while the family was living in Barwick. The youngest of their eight children was only eighteen years old when both his parents died during the same month of the same year.
	Tragically Robert Collett was 57 and his wife Jennet was 60 when they died during November 1696. During his life Robert Collett was a churchwarden in 1673 and was an overseer of the poor in 1673 and 1689.
	36K3		Richard Collett		Born in 1663
	36K4		Robert Collett		Born in 1665
	36K5		William Collett		Born in 1667
	36K6		John Collett		Born in 1669
	36K7		Anne Collett		Born in 1671
	36K8		Anne Collett		Born in 1672
	36K9		Mary Collett		Born in 1673
	36K10		Matthew Collett		Born in 1676
	36K11		Thomas Collett		Born in 1678
36J5	Mary Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1643, the daughter of Ralph and Anne Collett. All that is known about Mary is that she married John Taylor on 06.11.1666 at All Saints Church in Barwick, and they had four children who were born while Mary and John were still living at Barwick.
	And they were John Taylor (baptised 27.08.1667), Thomas Taylor (baptised 16.11.1671), William Taylor (baptised 15.10.1673), and Ann Taylor (baptised 23.05.1677).
36J6	Richard Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1646, the youngest son of Ralph Collett and Anne Vevers. Later in his life Richard married Margaret, and he and his wife had three children.
	Margaret Collett died at Weeton in September 1705, and was followed four years later by her husband Richard Collett who died at Weeton in 1709, and who was buried at All Saints Church In Harewood on 23.11.1709.
	36K12		Richard Collett		Born in 1667
	36K13		Ann Collett		Born in 1670
	36K14		Ralph Collett		Born in 1673
36J7	Jane Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1650, the youngest child of Ralph Collett and Anne Vevers. She was born during the time of the English Republic established between 1649 and 1653 which followed the execution of King Charles I on 30^th January 1649, this being referred to as ‘The Commonwealth Period’
	Jane Collett was twenty-three when she married David Tuke at Barwick on 06.08.1673.
36J10	Mary Ann Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 12.09.1627, the second daughter of William Collett to be given the name Mary, so it may be assumed the earlier one had died before this Mary was born. It would appear that Mary Ann Collett later married Robert Hall at Featherstone on 24.06.1649.
	Robert Hall was born at Monk Fryston where he was baptised on 14.05.1627, the son of Lancelot Hall and his wife Katherine Richardson. The married produced at least four children for the couple, they being Frances Hall (born 1650), Prudence Hall (born 1653), Mary Hall (born 1655), and Ellen Hall (born 1659). All four daughters were born and baptised at Featherstone.
36J12	Edward Collett was born at Featherstone during 1618, where he was baptised on 06.01.1619, the son of John Collett. He may have only been less than one year old, when he died at Featherstone on 18.03.1619.
36J13	George Collett was born at Featherstone in March 1619, and was baptised there on 06.07.1620, the son of John Collett. A George Collett of Ackton near Normanton married (1) Elizabeth in 1653, and around two years later their daughter was born, died at Featherstone the following year.
	It would seem that George’s wife also died not long after their daughter, since on 08.11.1659 George Collett married (2) Grace Marsden at Featherstone.
	36K15		Elizabeth Collett	Baptised on 06.05.1655 at Featherstone
36J14	Edward Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 09.12.1625, the only known son of Edward Collett. Although it is established that Edward married Anna Yates, at the baptism of his two known children, only the name of Edward appeared in the parish records.
	36K16		Ann Collett	Baptised on 26.05.1649 at Featherstone
	36K17		Edward Collett	Baptised on 24.12.1650 at Featherstone
	36K18		Margaret Collett	Baptised on 29.04.1652 at Featherstone
36K1	Ralph Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet around 1664 and was the eldest son of Ralph and Elizabeth Collett. He was baptised at Barwick on 09.02.1665, and it was also at Barwick that Ralph married Hannah Breatcliffe on 17.11.1686.
	Their marriage resulted in the birth of four known children, and they were all born at Barwick where they were also baptised, and where two of them are known to have died while still very young.
	36L1		Jane Collett		Born in 1689
	36L2		Mary Collett		Born in 1691
	36L3		John Collett		Born in 1693
	36L4		Matthew Collett		Born in 1695
36K2	WILLIAM COLLETT was born at Barwick-in-Elmet around 1668, and it was there also that he was baptised on 03.06.1668, the son of Ralph and Elizabeth Collett. William later married Margaret Berry of Featherstone Moor, and this took place at Featherstone on 07.02.1696. It seems likely, although not proved, that William Collett of Barwick-in-Elmet was around twenty-two when first married Margaret Briggs at Barwick on 18.12.1690, even though no children have been found from that union.
	Once William and Margaret Berry were married, the couple settled in Barwick-in-Elmet, where eight of their nine children were born and baptised. The last child added to the family was born after they had left Barwick and had moved to Leeds. It was also at Leeds that William Collett around thirty years later in 1748.
	The Will of William Collett was made on 7^th May 1743 and proved on 17^th June 1749. In this there is reference to his four surviving sons Thomas, Richard, Benjamin, and Arthur, and his three surviving daughters Margaret Collett, Sarah Hebden and Elizabeth Pitt (see Will in Legal Documents).
	It is also from his Will that we learn that William Collett of Leeds was a schoolmaster. Other records for Barwick confirm that he was a schoolmaster and churchwarden in the village in 1692, and that in 1699 and 1700 he was a constable.
	36L5		Sarah Collett		Born in 1697
	36L6		Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1698
	36L7		Margaret Collett		Born in 1700
	36L8		Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1704
	36L9		Thomas Collett		Born in 1707
	36L10		Richard Collett		Born in 1710
	36L11		Benjamin Collett		Born in 1712
	36L12		Joseph Collett		Born in 1715
	36L13		Arthur Collett		Born in 1719
36K3	Richard Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1663, where he was baptised on 21.02.1664, the eldest child of Robert Collett and Jennet Taylor.
36K4	Robert Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet towards the end of in 1665, and was baptised at All Saints Church in Barwick on 09.01.1666, the son of Robert and Jennet Collett.
36K5	William Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1667, and was baptised there on 02.10.1667, the third son of Robert Collett and Jennet Taylor. William was only around eighteen years old when he married Mary Batley on 19.10.1685 at Whitkirk, midway between Leeds and Garforth.
	Following their wedding day, the couple returned to William’s place of birth, where they set up home and where all of their five children were born.
	36L14		Mary Collett		Born in 1691
	36L15		Jane Collett		Born in 1693
	36L16		William Collett		Born in 1695
	36L17		Margaret Collett		Born in 1699
	36L18		John Collett		Born in 1701
36K6	John Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1669, and was baptised at All Saints Church in the village on 17.12.1669, the son of Robert Collett and Jennet Taylor.
36K7	Anne Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1671, where she was baptised on 19.03.1671, the eldest daughter Robert Collett and Jennet Taylor. She survived for just over ten months, when she died on 26.01.1672.
36K8	Anne Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet shortly after her older sister of the same name (above) had died whilst still under one year old. The second Anne Collett born to Robert Collett and Jennet Taylor was baptised at Barwick on 14.03.1672, where she was simply recorded as the daughter of Robert Collett.
36K9	Mary Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet towards the end of 1673, and it was there at All Saints Church that she was baptised on 23.02.1674, the youngest daughter of Robert Collett and Jennet Taylor.
36K10	Matthew Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1676, where he was baptised on 06.09.1676, the son of Robert Collett who died in 1696.
36K11	Thomas Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1678, the youngest child of Robert Collett and Jennet Taylor. Thomas was baptised at All Saints Church in Barwick on 07.08.1678.
36K12	Richard Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1667 where he was baptised on 06.02.1668, the eldest of three known children of Richard Collett.
	In the early 1690s Richard married Hannah with whom he had eight children. During his life he was known as Richard Collitt of Weeton, which was a hamlet midway between Harrogate to the north and Leeds to the south, lying within the parish of Harewood.
	The continuation of this family line is provided in Part 27 – The Yorkshire Line
36K13	Ann Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1670 and was baptised there at All Saints Church on 26.05.1670, the only known daughter of Richard Collett. It seems very likely that Ann married Stephen Barrett in 1691, when she would have been twenty-one years old.
	The IGI records confirm that Stephen Barrett of Healthwaite Hill in Weeton married Ann Collett at Harewood on 05.11.1691. It was also at Healthwaite Hill that Stephen and Ann raised their family. Ann was 72 years old when she died at Healthwaite Hill in Weeton in September 1743.
36K14	Ralph Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1673 the youngest of the three known children of Richard Collett. Ralph was baptised at All Saints Church in Barwick on 07.05.1673, and it was there also, that he married Anne Glover on 03.08.1715.
	However, there is a record of a Ralph Collett who died at Weeton in November 1689. Further work therefore needs to be undertaken to resolve if it was this Ralph Collett who died in 1689 or married in 1715.
36K15	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 06.05.1655, the daughter of George Collett of Ackton and his first wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth was around fifteen months old when she died at Featherstone on 19.08.1656, and was followed by her mother who died some time during the next couple of years.
36K16	Ann Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 26.05.1649, the daughter of Edward Collett and his wife Anna Yates. Although not actually confirmed as this Ann Collett, someone of that name married Thomas Turner at Featherstone on 06.06.1681.
36K17	Edward Collett was baptised at Featherstone on 24.12.1650, the son of Edward Collett and his wife Anna Yates. It is not clear to whom he was married, since the baptism record for his two known children only included the father’s name.
	36L19		Judith Collett	Baptised on 07.11.1688 at Featherstone
	36L20		Kenneth Collett	Baptised on 22.08.1690 at Featherstone
36L1	Jane Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1689, the eldest of the four children of Ralph Collett and Hannah Breatcliffe. It was at All Saints Church in Barwick that Jane Collett was baptised on 20.03.1689.
36L2	Mary Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1691, where she was baptised on 25.05.1691, the daughter of Ralph and Hannah Collett.
36L3	John Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1693, the eldest of two sons of Ralph Collett and Hannah Breatcliffe. John was baptised at All Saints Church on 17.05.1693, but sadly he died when he was around three years old.
36L4	Matthew Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1695, the youngest of the four children of Ralph and Hannah Collett. He was baptised on 20.08.1695, but died just one year after his brother John (above), when he passed away in 1697.
36L5	Sarah Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1697, the eldest child of William Collett of Barwick and Margaret Berry of Featherstone. When she was twenty years old Sarah and her family left Barwick and moved to live in Leeds.
	And it was in Leeds, at the age of twenty-four, that Sarah Collett married Thomas Hebden on 11.04.1721. Twenty-seven years later, and following the death of her father in 1748, Sarah was named as a beneficiary under the terms of his Will as follows “Unto my daughter Sarah, the wife of Thomas Hebden of Leeds, butcher, I give the sum of Five Pounds”.
36L6	Elizabeth Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1698 where she was baptised on 18.04.1698. It has been assumed that, with another Elizabeth being added to the family in 1704, that this second daughter of William and Margaret died sometime between 1700 and 1704.
36L7	Margaret Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1700 and was baptised there at All Saints Church on 28.08.1700. When she was nearly seventeen years old her family moved to Leeds, taking Margaret and her other surviving siblings with them.
	It would appear that Margaret never married, since in the 1743 Will of her father William Collett, which was proved in 1749, she was named as a beneficiary in the following way. “Unto my daughter Margaret Collett, servant to Sir Basil Dixwell, I give the sum of Five Pounds”.
	Her employer, Sir Basil Dixwell, was the Second Baronet of Broome House in Kent, and he died during 1750, so what became of Margaret after his death is not known, unless she was retained by Sir Basil’s sister Elizabeth Oxenden (see historical note below).
	The Baronetcy of Dixwell of Broome House, Kent was created on 19^th June 1660 for Basil Dixwell the great nephew and heir of Sir Basil Dixwell of Tirlington, from whom he inherited the Broome House estate.
	His son, the aforementioned Sir Basil Dixwell, the Second Baronet, was Governor of Dover Castle and Member of Parliament for Dover from 1689 to 1690, and from 1699 to 1700. The Broome House estate then passed to his sister Elizabeth Oxenden.
36L8	Elizabeth Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1704 and was very likely named in memory of her older sister who had just recently died. It was at All Saints Church in Barwick that Elizabeth Collett was baptised on 14.04.1705.
	Around 1717 her parents took the family to live in Leeds, and it was there, seven years later when Elizabeth was twenty, that she married John Pitt on 28.05.1724. All of the seven children were born while Elizabeth and John were living in Leeds.
	The seven children were Margaret Pitt (born 17.03.1725; bapt 22.03.1725), Joseph Pitt (born 1727; died 11.02.1730), Elizabeth Pitt (born 15.03.1729; bapt 31.03.1729), Benjamin Pitt (born 05.02.1730; bapt 11.02.1730), John Pitt (born 03.03.1733; bapt 22.03.1733), William Pitt (born 02.05.1736; bap 20.05.1736), and Thomas Pitt (born 09.09.1738; bapt 26.09.1738).
	Elizabeth’s husband, John Pitt, died when the couple’s youngest child was only eighteen months old, when he passed away at Leeds on 05.03.1740. As a result of this, Elizabeth was referred to in her father’s Will of 1743 as “my daughter Elizabeth Pitt, widow” who received Eight Pounds and her father’s bed and all the rest of his household goods.
36L9	Thomas Collett was the son of William Collett of Barwick-in-Elmet and Margaret Berry of Featherstone Moor. He was born at Barwick-in-Elmet, perhaps in 1707, where he was baptised on 22.08.1707. When he was around ten years old his parents left Barwick when they went to live in Leeds, presumably for work reasons.
	However, unlike most of his siblings, Thomas appears to have returned to Barwick after a few years in Leeds. As an adult he married Elizabeth Watkinson at Barwick on 23.02.1730 and they subsequently had six children of their own, all of whom were also baptised at Barwick.
	At the time of the writing of his father’s Will in 1743, William Collett referred to his eldest son as ‘Thomas Collett of Barwick-in-Elmet, butcher’ who received Five Pounds. This was also the previously known occupation of Thomas’s youngest son Benjamin Collett of Barwick, so very likely handed down father to son.
	In addition to the aforementioned Five Pounds left to him by his father, a later clause in his Will bequeathed Thomas Collett and his brother Richard Collett (below) a further Three Pounds each. Thomas Collett died at Barwick-in-Elmet on 27.01.1792.
	A headstone in the churchyard of All Saints Church marks his grave, with the inscription “Sacred to the Memory of Thomas Collett of this town, who died the 27^th day of January 1792, aged 85 years. Also of his son Thomas Collett of Garforth, who died the 13^th day of January 1794 aged 57. This stone was erected by William Collett of Garforth, the son of the last named T Collett, the 4^th day of March 1817”.
	36M1		William Collett		Baptised on 29.12.1734
	36M2		Thomas Collett		Baptised on 16.05.1736
	36M3		James Collett		Baptised on 25.08.1740
	36M4		Betty Collett		Baptised on 28.04.1745
	36M5		Sarah Collett		Baptised on 28.04.1745
	36M6		BENJAMIN COLLETT		Baptised on 07.06.1749
36L10	Richard Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1710, where he was baptised on 01.05.1710. He married Mary Healey of Wakefield on 03.06.1734 at All Saints Church in Wakefield, where the couple settled and where all of their nine children were born and baptised.
	For the continuation of this family line see Part 55 – The Wakefield & Leeds Line
36L11	Benjamin Collett was born in 1712 at Barwick-in-Elmet where he was baptised on 03.09.1712, the son of William and Margaret Collett. At the time of writing his Will in 1743, Benjamin’s father referred to his son Benjamin Collett as “of the Excise Office in London” for which he received Five Pounds.
36L12	Joseph Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1715 the son William Collett and Margaret Berry, who was baptised at All Saints Church in Barwick on 03.08.1715. Sadly he only survived for a short while, when he died later that same year.
36L13	Arthur Collett was born at Leeds on 13.02.1719 and was baptised at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on one month later on 12.03.1719, the youngest child of William Collett of Barwick-in-Elmet and Margaret Berry of Featherstone.
	Arthur’s father died when he was twenty-nine years old, and his Will made in 1743 and proved in 1749, indicates that Arthur remained in Leeds when his family returned to Barwick-in-Elmet. Being the youngest son, Arthur Collett of Leeds, only received Four Pounds under the terms of the Will.
36L14	Mary Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1691, the eldest child of William Collett and Mary Batley who was baptised at All Saints Church in Barwick on 25.10.1691.
36L15	Jane Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1693 where she was baptised on 23.02.1693, the daughter of William Collett and Mary Batley.
36L16	William Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1695, and was baptised there on 03.07.1695, the eldest of two sons of William Collett and Mary Batley.
36L17	Margaret Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 08.11.1699, the youngest daughter of William Collett and Mary Batley. She was baptised at All Saints Church in Barwick on 28.08.1700 when the IGI records the event using the names ‘Margareta Collet the daughter of Gulielme Collet’.
36L18	John Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1701, the youngest of the five children of William Collett and Mary Batley. It was at All Saints Church in Barwick that ‘Johannes Collet’ was baptised on 13.01.1703, the son of ‘Gulielme Collet’, according to the IGI.
36M2	Thomas Collett, the son of Thomas Collett and Elizabeth Watkinson died at Garforth, south of Barwick, on 13.01.1794 at the age of 57. This places his date of birth around 1736, when an unnamed child of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Barwick-in-Elmet on 16.05.1736. The actual baptism record indicated that the child was female, which must have been made in error.
	Thomas Collett (junior) was buried at All Saints Church in Barwick in the same grave used for his father Thomas Collett of Barwick, who was a butcher in the village, who died there exactly two years earlier in January 1792.
	The headstone that marks the joint grave was erected on 4^th March 1817 by William Collett of Garforth, the son of Thomas Collett (junior). This provides the confirmation that Thomas Collett (junior) was married, and therefore there may have been other children besides his son William.
	The double reference to the town of Garforth may indicate that it was there that the Collett family lived. However, included in Appendix 5 of this file there was previously an unplaced Thomas Collett of Barwick who was married to Ann Wilson. This would make Thomas around 36 years old.
	This couple was married at Aberford near Garforth on 14.04.1772, and for the first few years of their married life they were living at Garforth where their son, the aforementioned William Collett of Garforth, was born and where he was baptised. Other children may have followed.
	Judging by the later birth of their daughter, the family had moved to Barwick by the time she was born, and it was there, just seven years later that Thomas Collett of Garforth died and was buried at the age of 57.
	In addition to all of this, it seems highly likely that Ann Wilson was the second wife of Thomas Collett since, on 21.02.1757 when he would have been nearly twenty-one, Thomas Collett married Agnes Thompson at Barwick-in-Elmet. So far no details have been found of any children from this marriage.
	36N1		William Collett		Born on 04.11.1775 at Garforth
	36N2		Sarah Collett		Born on 12.03.1787 at Barwick
36M6	BENJAMIN COLLETT was baptised at Barwick-in-Elmet on 07.06.1749, the son of Thomas Collett. Benjamin married Elizabeth Knapton at Barwick on 02.05.1768 and the couple were named as the parents of their sons Thomas Collett in 1768 and John Collett in 1777.
	It was at the time of the registration of the birth of their son William Collett at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1771 that Benjamin was confirmed as being a butcher.
	In addition to the couple’s four confirmed children listed below, it would be realistic to assume that there were other children born to Benjamin and Elizabeth and that one of these may have been Richard Collett who originally started this line when it was first compiled.
	However, no further information about Benjamin or his wife Elizabeth, or any other children is available at this time, although it is hoped that this might be resolved in the future.
	36N3		Thomas Collett		Born before September 1768
	36N4		William Collett		Born before November 1771
	36N5		Elizabeth Collett		Baptised on 21.08.1774 at Barwick
	36N6		John Collett		Born on 10.06.1777
	36N7		Sarah Collett		Born on 31.12.1784
36N1	William Collett was born on 04.11.1775 at Garforth, two miles to the south of Barwick-in-Elmet, and just a short distance from Aberford where his parents were married just over two years earlier. William was baptised at Garforth on 07.11.1775, the son of Thomas Collett and Ann Wilson.
	Not a great deal was previously known about William, except that on 4^th March 1817 he erected the headstone on the combined grave of his father Thomas Collett (junior) and his grandfather Thomas Collett (senior) in the churchyard of All Saints Church at Barwick-in-Elmet.
	However, thanks to Alison Reid of Tapitallee near Nowra in the New South Wales, Australia, we now know more about William, who was Alison’s great great great grandfather. It appears that he first married (1) Elizabeth Morret at All Saints Church in Wakefield on 10^th February 1800. So far the only record of any children seems to be Thomas Collett, named in honour of his grandfather, who was born at Wakefield in July 1807, where he was baptised the following month. The baptism also took place at All Saints Church, when the boy’s parents were named as William and Betty Collett.
	Following the death of his first wife, and just over three years before William erected the headstone for his father, he married (2) Hannah Stringer at St John’s Church in Wakefield on 2^nd January 1814. And it was also there, later that same year that their daughter Betty Collit (sic) was born. She was apparently named in honour of William’s late wife.
	William’s second wife Hannah was baptised at All Saints Church in Wakefield on 1^st November 1788, the fifth child of Richard Stringer and his wife Mary Teal, and although she was may have been in her late twenties when she married William, her two daughters are the only children from the marriage that have been found to date. Upon the occasion of the marriage of his youngest daughter Sarah in July 1837, William Collett was recorded on the marriage certificate as having the occupation of a joiner.
	According to the first census in 1841, William had a rounded age of 60, while his wife Hannah had a rounded age of 50, and at that time in their life the two of them were living in the Hunslet area of Leeds. It was also within the same area that William’s son Thomas Collett and his family were living in 1841 and 1851.
	By the time of the 1851 Census William Collett, age 58 (sic), and Hannah Collett, age 63, were still living at Hunslet, where William Collett from Garforth was a wheelwright. However, it is understood that he died during the following year, so by the time of the next census in 1861 his widow Hannah Collett, age 73 and from Wakefield, was still living in Hunslet, where she was recorded as a beer house keeper in Hillidge Road.
	By 1871 Hannah Collett nee Stringer was living at the home of her married daughter Sarah Grant.
	36O1		Thomas Collett		Born in 1807 at Wakefield
	36O2		Elizabeth (Betty) Collett		Born circa 1814 at Wakefield
	36O3		Sarah Collett		Born circa 1816 at Wakefield
36N3	Thomas Collett was born around 1768 and was baptised at Barwick-in-Elmet on 09.09.1768, the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Collett. By the time of the first census in June 1841 Thomas was living at Barwick-in-Elmet with his wife Martha. That year’s census gave a rounded age of 70 for, Thomas with his wife being slightly older at 75.
	Their son Thomas was baptised at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1799 when the records confirmed the child’s parents were Thomas and Martha Collett. Nearly ten years later the couple’s other son listed below was also born and baptised at Barwick. It seems highly likely that other children were born into the family during the intervening years.
	36O4		Elizabeth Collett		Born on 29.01.1797 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36O5		Thomas Collett		Born circa 1799 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36O6		William Collett		Born on 22.03.1809 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36N4	William Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1771 and it was there that he was baptised on 03.11.1771, the son of butcher Benjamin Collett and his wife Elizabeth.
	William did not follow into the trade of his father instead he became a blacksmith and was the first of many in the family. His occupation as a blacksmith was first confirmed in 1796 when he married Frances Pool who was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1761.
	After they were married William and Frances lived in Potterton Lane where their two sons were born. Frances died in 1846 at the age of 84 and William followed nine years later when he died at Barwick in 1855 aged 83. However no record of him has been found in the 1851 Census.
	In June 1841 William was aged 65 and living with him and his wife Frances was his grandson John Collett, the oldest son of William Collett and Elizabeth Dalby. Even though the house address was not stated in the census, it is thought their home was at what was later 70 Main Street close to where their son William was living at what was later 50 Main Street.
	William was affectionately referred to as William Collett the First (blacksmith of Barwick-in-Elmet) and was followed in the family business by his son William Collett (the Second), his grandson John Collett, and then by his great grandson William Richardson Collett (the Third).
	36O7		John Collett		Born on 12.12.1797 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36O8		William Collett		Born on 05.11.1799 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36N6	John Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 10.06.1777 and was baptised there on 13.07.1777, the son of Benjamin Collett and Elizabeth Knapton.
36N7	Sarah Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 31.12.1784, and it was there also that she was baptised 23.01.1785, when she was confirmed as the daughter of Benjamin Collett and Elizabeth Knapton.
36O1	Thomas Collett was born at Wakefield on 09.07.1807, and was baptised there at All Saints Church on 15^th August 1807, the son of William Collett and his wife of seven years Elizabeth Morret. The church register listed the names of his parents as Wm and Betty Collett.
	Thomas would have been around twenty-one years of age when he married Mary, and by the time of the first census in June 1841 the couple already had six children. Mary was born at Widnes in Lancashire and was a year or two younger than Thomas, and it would appear from the birthplaces of their children that the family initially resided in Liverpool, where the couple’s eldest child was born.
	From Liverpool the family returned to Yorkshire and settled within the Hunslet area of Leeds where they were recorded in June 1841. Thomas Collett was incorrectly listed in the census as being 30, a rounded down age like that of his wife Mary, who said to be 28, whereas she was more likely nearer 33. Living at Hunslet with them were five children, they being Elizabeth, who was 11, Harriet, who was nine, William, who was six, Joseph, who was three, and Ann who was one year old.
	The baptism records for the couple’s eldest daughter took place at St Peter’s Church in Liverpool, while the baptism of the couple’s next three children was conducted at St Peter’s Church in Leeds, even though the later census returns gave their place of birth as Hunslet. One more child was added to the family shortly after 1841, but by the time of the next census in 1851 Thomas’ youngest daughter Ann, who would have been eleven, was missing from the family. It is possibly that she had died while still very young, presumably as the result of a childhood illness. In addition, no baptism record for her has been found.
	In March 1851 the family was residing at a property in Branston Street in Hunslet from where Thomas Collett, age 45 and from Wakefield, had the occupation of a crown glass maker. It seems highly likely that he and his two sons were all employed at the renowned Hunslet Crown Glass Manufactory which operated out of premises in Jack Lane and Joseph Street between 1814 and 1861, making bottles and window glass. The two sons who were also Crown Glass Makers were William, who was 16, and Joseph, who was 14, both of them born at Hunslet.
	Thomas’ wife was listed as Mary Collett, age 44 and from Widdens [Widnes], while the remaining children were Elizabeth Collett, age 20, a flax spinner from Liverpool, Harriet Collett, age 18, from Hunslet who was also a flax spinner, and John Collett who was a scholar aged six years and from Hunslet. To date, no baptism record for son John has been found.
	It would appear that Thomas Collett died during the 1850s since Mary Collett was a widow in the Hunslet census of 1861 when, at the age of 53, she only had still living there with her, her two sons Joseph, who was 23, and John who was 15. It was a similar situation ten years later in 1871 when Mary Collett, age 64, was still living in Hunslet but with only her youngest son for company, John Collett who was 23 (sic).
	Mary’s age had increased further by the time of the census in 1881. On that occasion she was living and working at 26 Merrion Street in Leeds, the home of 76 years old widow Sarah Russell. The premises appear to have been a boarding house, where Mary Callett (sic), age 75 and from Widnes, was employed as a general domestic servant.
	36P1		Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1830 at Liverpool
	36P2		Harriet Collett		Born in 1832 at Hunslet, near Leeds
	36P3		William Collett		Born in 1835 at Hunslet, near Leeds
	36P4		Joseph Collett		Born in 1837 at Hunslet, near Leeds
	36P5		Ann Collett		Born in 1839 at Hunslet, near Leeds
	36P6		John Collett		Born in 1845 at Hunslet, near Leeds
36O2	Elizabeth Collett was born at Wakefield, either towards the end of 1814 or during the first few months of 1815. She was baptised at Wakefield on 20^th May 1815 when she was referred to as Betty Collit, the daughter of William and Hannah Collit (sic). It seems that Betty was named after her father’s first wife who was Betty (Elizabeth) Morret.
36O3	Sarah Collett was born around 1816 at Wakefield where her parents were married in 1814, and where she was baptised on 07.02.1818, the daughter of William and Hannah Collitt (sic). It was before reaching her twenty-first birthday that Sarah was married by banns to Joseph Claughton [pronounced Clafton] Grant on 10^th July 1837 at St Peter’s Parish Church in Leeds. The marriage certificate for the couple reflected that Joseph was of full age, and a clothier from Bramley [in Leeds], while his bride was recorded as a minor. Joseph’s father was named as Stephen Grant, who was also a clothier.
	Sarah and Joseph had a daughter Ann Grant who was born in 1856, and she married David Bennett Smith. Their daughter Beatrice Irene Smith married Lawrence James Blackburn and their son was Lawrence Gerald Blackburn who married Dorothy Eastwood. The aforementioned Alison Reid is their daughter. Lawrence and Dorothy emigrated to Australia in 1967 through the ‘ten pound poms’ assisted passage, and today in 2011 their daughter Alison Reid nee Blackburn, who kindly provided her family details, lives on the south coast of New South Wales at Tapitallee. This photograph of Sarah Grant, nee Collett, and supplied by Alison Reid, was possibly taken around 1882, the year before the birth of her first of six grandchildren by her daughter Ann Smith.
	It was a few years after the photograph was taken, when Sarah was living with Ann and David Smith at their home in Arkholme with Cawood in Lancashire that she died in 1891.
36O4	Elizabeth Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 29.01.1797, and less than two months later was baptised there on 05.03.1797, the daughter of Thomas and Martha Collett.
36O5	Thomas Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1799, where he was baptised on 24.09.1799, the son of Thomas and Martha Collett. At some time in his life, possibly during the mid to late 1820s, he married Elizabeth. The couple were listed with a rounded age of 40 in June 1841 and their children at that time were Thomas 10, Elizabeth 7, and George who was under one year old.
	From this it may be safe to assume that the couple’s elder son George had died before reaching ten years of age.
	In 1851 Thomas was aged 52 and was living in the Barwick area at that time and by 1861 he was 61 and his wife Elizabeth was 67. Ten years later they were 71 and 77 respectively although Thomas’ wife was then referred to as Betty Collett.
	According to the census of 1881 agricultural labourer Thomas Collett, who was aged 81 and had been born at Barwick, was married to Elizabeth who was aged 87 and from Brotherton just north of Pontefract.
	At that time the couple were living at Potterton Lane in Barwick-in-Elmet.
	36P7		George Collett		Born in 1827 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36P8		Thomas Collett		Born in 1830 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36P9		Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1833 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36P10		George Collett		Born in 1840 at Barwick-in-Elmet
36O6	William Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet on 22.03.1809, and was baptised there on 07.05.1809, the son of Thomas and Martha Collett. Sometime around 1830 he married Sarah and together they appeared in the 1841 Census for Leeds, both aged 30 years. Listed with them were their four daughters aged 8, 5, 2 and under one year old respectively, the first two girls having been baptised at St Peter’s Church in Leeds.
	In 1851 William was aged 39 and was living in the Tadcaster & Appleton Roebuck district which included Barwick-in-Elmet although there appears to be no trace of his wife.
	No further record of the family has been located in either the 1861 or 1871 census records.
	However, by 1881 William, a former agricultural labourer, was a pauper and a widower aged 70 who was living at the Tadcaster Union in West Tadcaster about five miles north-east of Barwick.
	36P11		Maria Collett		Born in 1832
	36P12		Sarah Ann Collett		Born in 1835
	36P13		Emma Collett		Born in 1838 at Barwick-in-Elmet
	36P14		Ellen Collett		Born in June 1840 at Barwick
36O7	John Collett was born at the family home in Potterton Lane in Barwick-in-Elmet on 12.12.1797, and was baptised in the village on 07.01.1798. He was the eldest son of blacksmith William Collett and Frances Pool but it seems likely that he may not have survived beyond childhood as it was his younger brother that is known to have taken over the family blacksmith business.
36O8	William Collett was born at the family home in Potterton Lane in Barwick-in-Elmet on 05.11.1799, and was baptised at Barwick on 01.12.1799. He was the son of blacksmith William Collett and Frances Pool. He married Elizabeth Dalby of Barwick-in-Elmet at the parish church there on 01.01.1821 and their first child was born in November that same year, but tragically did not survive and died in 1823.
	In addition to this child William and Elizabeth are known to have had eight further children and all of them were born and baptised at Barwick-in-Elmet.
	By 1841 the family was complete and comprised parents William and Elizabeth both aged 40 and living at Barwick-in-Elmet with six of their children. These were sons George aged 15, Joseph aged 13, Benjamin aged 5 and Thomas aged 2, and daughters Ann aged 11 and Emma aged 9.
	The couple’s eldest son John Collett was living in Barwick-in-Elmet at that time but with his grandfather William Collett perhaps because of overcrowding in his own home. Also missing from the family was their son William who was born in 1834 and who had died shortly after.
	Although this census, being the first national census, was rather vague in the exact location of dwellings, it is believed that the family at this time were living at 50 Main Street or very close thereto. William’s parents were also believed to be living just a few doors away at No 70.
	Just over two months after the census day in 1841, William’s wife Elizabeth died in the August of that year leaving forty-two years old William with a young family to look after. However, he wasn’t a lone parent for long as just two doors away was thirty-five years Isabella Groves who was working as a servant to the elderly couple of Edward and Jane Wales. And it was she that he married.
	The couple were married at the parish church in Leeds rather than at Barwick, and this may have been out of deference for his late wife and her family. Isabella was the daughter of linen weaver Joshua Groves and had been born in Northumberland.
	It seems more than likely that the marriage may have been made out of necessity and perhaps because of propriety or an attempt to protect the reputation of his new wife, the marriage does not appear to have produced any children for William and Isabella.
	Although William’s father William Collett did not die until 1855, in the census of 1851 William junior was living with his family at 70 Main Street the house previously occupied by his father. Living with William at the age of 51 was his wife Isabella aged 45 and their sons George 24, Joseph 21, Benjamin 15, and Thomas aged eleven.
	Living right next door in the adjoining cottage at 72 Main Street was William’s eldest son John aged 25 who was still a bachelor but who was married shortly thereafter.
	In early April in 1861 the family living at Barwick had reduced in size. William was aged 61 and Isabella 56, and still living with them was William’s youngest son Thomas aged 21. Also back living at the family home was William’s youngest daughter Emma aged 28.
	By the end of the next ten year period William aged 71 was recorded as being a retired blacksmith and was living alone with his wife Isabella, all of his children now having left to make their own way in the world.
	Isabella died in 1876 at the age of 74 leaving William as a widower for the second time in his life.
	The census of 1881 recorded William Collett as being aged 81 and was still living on Main Street in the Up Town part of Barwick-in-Elmet. His place of birth was simply stated as Potterton. The only other person listed with William on 3^rd April 1881 was his housekeeper, 66 years old Ann Dearlove from Huddersfield.
	And it was just two months later, in June 1881 that William died at the age of eighty-one years.
	During his life William was a staunch Methodist and played a very active role in the church. A typical Sunday would be spent at communion in the parish church, with Sunday School at 9.00 am followed by Chapel at 10.00, a further service at 1.30 in the afternoon, following by a second Sunday School session from 2 to 4 p.m.
	Such was William’s standing in the local community that the following obituary was written by the prominent Barwick Methodist minister William Varley and was printed in the Methodist 'Book of Obituaries' and quoted in Arthur Bantoft's 'A Greater Wonder - A History of Methodism in Barwick'.
	‘William Collett of Barwick was a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Society for upwards of 60 years. He filled the office of class leader and Sunday School Superintendent and was regular and efficient in the discharge of his duties until compelled to resign on account of deafness and failing health. During his latter days in great suffering and weakness he gave clear testimony to the sustaining power of divine grace - in fact he lived in anxious expectation of the Master's coming and in constant readiness for it’
	36P15		John Collett		Born in 1821
	36P16		John Collett		Born in 1823
	36P17		George Dalby Collett		Born in 1825
	36P18		Joseph Collett		Born in 1828
	36P19		Ann Collett		Born in 1830
	36P20		Emma Collett		Born in 1832
	36P21		William Collett		Born in 1834
	36P22		Benjamin Collett		Born in 1836
	36P23		Thomas Collett		Born in 1838
36P1	Elizabeth Collett was born at Liverpool in 1830 and was baptised there at St Peter’s Church on 28^th April 1830, where her parents were confirmed as Thomas and Mary Collett. Sometime during the year after she was born her father’s work took the family to the Hunslet area of Leeds where Elizabeth was 11 years old in 1841. She was still living with her parents at Branston Street in Hunslet in 1851, by which time in her life she was working as a flax spinner with her sister Harriet (below). Elizabeth Collett was 20 and her place of birth was confirmed as Liverpool.
36P2	Harriet Collett was born at Hunslet, near Leeds in 1832, and was nine years old in the Hunslet census of 1841. Harriet was baptised at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 30^th December 1832, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Collett. Ten years later, when Harriet was 18, she was living with her family at Branston Street in Hunslet, from where she was employed as a flax spinner, alongside her older sister Elizabeth (above).
36P3	William Collett was born at Hunslet in 1835, and was named after his grandfather. It was at St Peter’s Church in Leeds that he was baptised on 18^th October 1835, the eldest son of Thomas and Mary Collett. In the Hunslet census returns for 1841 and 1851 William was recorded as being six years old and 16 years of age. By the time of the latter he was working with his father and younger brother Joseph (below) as a crown glass maker, while he was still living with his family at Branston Street in Hunslet.
	What happened to William after that time is still a mystery, even though it is established that his father died during the 1850s, and that his two younger brothers were still living at Hunslet with their widowed mother in 1861. All three brothers would appear not to be living in England by 1881.
36P4	Joseph Collett was born at Hunslet in 1837, and was baptised on 4^th December 1837 at St Peter’s Church in Leeds, the son of Thomas and Mary Collett. Joseph was three years old in the Hunslet census of 1841, and was 14 years of age in 1851 when he was living with his family at Branston Street in Hunslet. On leaving school he had joined his father and his brother William (above) who were both working as crown glass makers.
	Ten years after that, Joseph was only one of two children living with his widowed mother at Hunslet in 1861 when he was 23, but by 1871 he had left the family home in Hunslet to make his own way in the world. So far no record of him or his younger brother John has been found after that time, which may be an indication that they travelled to one of the colonies like other members of their extended family.
36P5	Ann Collett was born at Hunslet in 1839, the youngest daughter of Thomas and Mary Collett. Ann was one year old in the Hunslet census of 1841, but never reappeared in any later census, so it has been assumed that she suffered an infant death. Furthermore, unlike her older siblings no record of her baptism has been found to date.
36P6	John Collett was born at Hunslet in 1845, although no record of his baptism as the youngest child of Thomas and Mary Collett has been found. John was six years old in 1851 and was attending school in Hunslet, while he was living with his family at Branston Street in the town. Following the death of his father during the next decade, John Collett, age 15, was living at Hunslet with his widowed mother and older brother Joseph in 1861.
	According to the next census in 1871 John Collett was 23 when he was the only child still living with his mother in Hunslet. No record of John or his older brother Joseph (above) has been found thereafter.
36P7	George Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1827 and was baptised there on 04.11.1827, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett.
36P8	Thomas Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1830 where he was baptised on 09.09.1830, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Collett. Sometime around 1850 he married Hannah who was born at Armley in Leeds in 1831. Between 1851 and 1876 the marriage produced seven children for the couple, all of whom were born at Wortley in Leeds except for the youngest who was born at Batley south of Leeds.
	However, it would appear that sometime after 1876 Thomas died or was killed perhaps while working as a coal miner like his brothers, because by April 1881 Hannah was married to George Funess of Gomersal and was living with all of her children at his home in Hill End Road at Armley in Leeds.
	Although the whereabouts of Thomas and Hannah has not been identified in 1891, their daughter Rachel A Collett was 14 and was living in Wortley-in-Bramley area of Leeds.
	36Q1		Robert Collett		Born in 1851
	36Q2		Kezia Collett		Born in 1855
	36Q3		Lavina Collett		Born in 1858
	36Q4		Albert Collett		Born in 1860
	36Q5		Ann Collett		Born in 1863
	36Q6		Flora Collett		Born in 1866
	36Q7		Rachel A Collett		Born in 1876
36P12	Maria Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1832 and was baptised at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 12.08.1832, the daughter of William and Sarah Collett. She was listed as being eight years old and living with her family at Barwick-in-Elmet in June 1841. No further census record for Maria has been found in either 1861 or 1871.
	It is possible that she married general labourer John Newton who was eleven years younger than Maria and was born at nearby Appleton Roebuck, although in the census of 1881 she gave Tadcaster as her place of birth. Maria and her family were living in Rockcliff Yard in West Tadcaster at that time close to where her uncle William Collett was recorded as living.
36P13	Sarah Ann Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1835 and was baptised at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 28.02.1836, the daughter of William and Sarah Collett. As Sarah Collett, she was five years old at the time of the Barwick census in 1841. No further census record for Maria has been found in either 1861 or 1871.
	It is thought that she married either railway platelayer William Brown from Suffolk or agricultural labourer John Robinson of Askham Bryan near York, both men being the same age as Sarah.
	In 1881 Sarah and William Brown were living at 56 Grange Street at Wortley-in-Bramley, while Sarah and John Robinson were living at a farm house in Bilbrough near Askham Richard.
36P15	John Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1821, where he was baptised on 12.11.182, the eldest son of William and Elizabeth Collett. It was appear from the name given to the couple’s next child, that John died within the same year.
36P16	John Collett was born at Barwick-in-Elmet and this most likely took place at the end of 1823 or very early in 1824, as it was there that he was baptised on 21.01.1824.
	At the time of the June census of 1841 John was 15 and was living with his grandparents William and Frances Collett at their home in Potterton Lane in Barwick-in-Elmet. It was probably while he was there that he was trained to be a blacksmith like his father and his grandfather.
	Ten years later John was aged 25 and was the sole occupant of 72 Main Street when living in the adjoining cottage to his father who lived at 70 Main Street at that time. However, within a year or so of the 1851 Census day he was no longer living alone.
	He married Elizabeth who was nine years younger than John, she having been born at Leeds in 1832. It would appear that the marriage took place when Elizabeth had just reached the legal age to do so, as their first child was born around 1853.
	The census of 1861 confirmed that John was married to Elizabeth and they were living at Potterton Lane in Barwick-in-Elmet. Blacksmith John was aged 36, his wife was 26, and living with them were their three children, William aged 4, Emma aged 2, and Ann who was not yet one year old.
	All of the couple’s eleven children listed below were born at Barwick-in-Elmet and by April 1871 the whole family was still living there in Potterton Lane. This comprised blacksmith John aged 45, his wife Elizabeth 35, with William 14, Emma 12, Ann 10, Albert 7, John 5, Benjamin 3, and one year old Charles.
	By 1881 the family had made the short move to Potterton, just one mile north of Barwick. This may have happened during the few months prior to the census day that year as all of John’s and Elizabeth’s children were confirmed as having been born at Barwick.
	John was aged 58 and his occupation was confirmed as being that of a blacksmith like his father William and also his brothers George and Thomas. And at least three of John’s sons also continued in that profession.
	The 1881 census also confirmed that John was born at Barwick-in-Elmet and that his wife Elizabeth aged 49 was born at Leeds. Since the previous census a further four children had been added to the family. The full list on that occasion was William aged 24 and a blacksmith, John 15, Benjamin 13, Charles 11, George 9, Fred 6, Mary 3, and one year old Ernest.