PART THIRTY-NINE

The Clanfield Oxfordshire Line

There was a possibility that this line commenced with William Collett (Ref. 28L3)

from The Faringdon Line. However, it has been determined that he married Rachel

and their children were all born at Buscot near Lechlade

Updated February 2009

This is the family line of Hugh Hudson (see Ref. 39O59)

who kindly provided the majority of the information.

It is also the family line of Mary-Jane Hooker (see Ref. 39O20)

of Queensland in Australia

The October 2008 update was thanks to Martin Collett (Ref. 3R3) who brought to my attention

an article in the Witney Gazette regarding Onesiphorus Oliver Collett (Ref. 39O41)

This revision follows on from the October 2008 update with additional information

being provided by Mr Moody of Brampton regarding Onesiphorus Collett

39L1	William Collett was born around 1749 and this may have taken place at Clanfield, a village in Oxfordshire just north of Faringdon. It is known that he married Elizabeth Walker and that the marriage took place at Faringdon on 29.04.1771. Within the marriage register William was described as being ‘of Clanfield’ which was most likely a reference to where he was living at that time, rather than where he was born.
	All of William’s and Elizabeth’s children were born at Clanfield and baptised at the village church of St Stephen’s. The only other mention of the name Collett in the Clanfield Parish Records around this time related to Thomas Collett who was buried there in 1773 for whom no age was given so he may have been the first born child of William and Elizabeth.
	Elizabeth Walker was baptised at Faringdon on 24.02.1754. She and died in March 1802 and was buried at Clanfield on 23.03.1802. Almost thirty-one years after the death of his wife, William died in January 1833 at Clanfield where he was buried on 17.01.1833. He was aged 84.
	The first daughter born into the family and included in the list below may be an error as the child’s parents in this case were recorded in the Clanfield parish register as William and Mary Collett, unless Elizabeth Walker was Elizabeth Mary Walker.
	William and his wife Elizabeth were buried in the same grave (plot A57) in the churchyard of St Stephen’s Church, the plot being immediately adjacent to plot A58 where a number of their children were already buried, including Thomas in 1773.
	39M1		Thomas Collett						Born in 1771; died in 1773
	39M2		Mary Collett						Baptised on 13.02.1774
	39M3		Jemima Collett						Baptised on 17.09.1775
	39M4		Henry Collett						Baptised on 03.01.1779
	39M5		WILLIAM COLLETT						Baptised on 02.10.1781
	39M6		Elizabeth Collett						Baptised on 24.10.1784
	39M7		Elizabeth Collett						Baptised on 24.09.1786
	39M8		Mary Collett						Baptised on 13.11.1788
	39M9		Thomas Collett						Baptised on 20.03.1791
	39M10		Jemima Collett						Baptised on 26.05.1793
	39M11		James Collett						Baptised on 25.12.1795
	39M12		Rachel Collett						Baptised on 13.05.1798
39M2	Mary Collett was baptised at St Stephen’s Church in Clanfield on 13.02.1774 and was buried there fourteen years later in 1788. Mary was buried in plot A58, the same grave that had been already used for her sisters Jemima in 1785 and Elizabeth in 1786, and was later used for two of her brothers Henry and James.
39M3	Jemima Collett was born at Clanfield in 1775 and it was there that she was baptised on 17.09.1775. Tragically she died six months before her tenth birthday and was buried at Clanfield on 30.03.1785. She was buried in plot A58 in St Stephen’s churchyard where she was joined by her sisters Elizabeth and Mary over the following three years and by her brother James six years later.
39M4	Henry Collett was born at Clanfield in 1778 and baptised there on 03.01.1779. He was a Yeoman of Clanfield and died there in 1858 aged 80. He was buried in plot A58 at St Stephen’s Church on 10.08.1858. The same plot had already been used in the previous century for Henry’s sisters Mary, Jemima and Elizabeth, and his brother James, all of whom died during their infancy or childhood.
39M5	WILLIAM COLLETT was born at Clanfield in 1781 where he was baptised on 02.10.1781. He became a farmer in Clanfield and he married Rachel who was born in 1780. It would appear that William and Rachel lived all of their life at Clanfield where their children were born and baptised.
	At the time of the census in June 1841 Rachel was aged 67 and at that time she was living at Glympton with three of her sons, Thomas, George and James. Just over five years later Rachel died and was buried on 13.08.1846.
	William lived the life of a widower for a further twenty years following the death of Rachel and was aged 79 in the census of 1861. He died five years later and was buried at Clanfield on 23.08.1866.
	39N1		Henry Collett						Baptised on 18.11.1805 at Clanfield
	39N2		William Collett						Baptised on 19.02.1807 at Clanfield
	39N3		Elizabeth Collett						Baptised on 20.04.1809 at Clanfield
	39N4		Thomas Collett						Baptised on 19.10.1810
	39N5		Rachel Collett						Baptised on 05.11.1812 at Clanfield
	39N6		Mary Ann Collett						Baptised on 15.08.1814 at Clanfield
	39N7		George Collett						Born in 1816
	39N8		JAMES COLLETT						Baptised on 12.06.1818
39M6	Elizabeth Collett was born at Clanfield in 1784 and was baptised there on 24.10.1784. However, she died before her second birthday and was buried at Clanfield on 24.06.1786. Her grave in St Stephen’s churchyard was plot A58 which was also used by four of Elizabeth’s siblings.
39M7	Elizabeth Collett was born at Clanfield in 1786 where she was baptised on 24.09.1786. Elizabeth married William Weller at Clanfield on 30.04.1805 and it was there, later that same year, that their daughter was born.
	Elizabeth was an inn keeper at Clanfield during her life which she may have taken on following the death of her husband. It was at Clanfield that she died and was buried on 16.12.1868 aged 82. The grave in the churchyard of St Stephen’s Church was plot A55.
	39N9		Mary Ann Weller						Born in 1805
39M8	Mary Collett was born at Clanfield in 1788 and it was there that she was baptised on 13.11.1788. It was also at Clanfield that she married James Beechey on 10.02.1808. James was the son of Kezia Sly and farmer Samuel Beechey who was also born at Clanfield and baptised there on 08.12.1785.
	Rather strangely all bar two of Mary’s and James’ children were born and baptised at Clanfield, the other two having been born at Black Bourton, but all of them appear to have died at Wokingham in Berkshire.
	It is also interesting that James’ younger brother William Beechey, who was born two years after James, also died at Wokingham. So perhaps it was the children’s uncle William Beechey who was the reason for James’ children to move there.
	Mary and James however continued to live at Black Bourton where Mary died in 1822 age 34, followed by James in 1840.
	39N10		Rachel Beechey						Baptised on 20.04.1809
	39N11		William Collett Beechey						Born in 1810
	39N12		Kezia Beechey						Baptised on 02.10.1812
	39N13		Elizabeth Beechey						Baptised on 05.03.1815
	39N14		Samuel James Beechey						Baptised on 23.11.1817
	39N15		Henry Beechey						Born in 1821
39M9	Thomas Collett was born at Clanfield in 1791 and was also baptised there on 20.03.1791. There is a family grave at St Stephen’s Church (plot A58) which indicates that an earlier Thomas Collett died and was buried there in 1773.
	However, there is also a record in the Clanfield parish register that Thomas Collett died at Clanfield and was buried there on 11.01.1864. It therefore seems likely that this was the second of two Thomas Colletts born to William Collett and Elizabeth Walker.
	The surviving Thomas Collett married Sarah Pawling who was born in 1790 at Grafton just south-west of Clanfield. Sarah was baptised on 16.02.1791 at Langford near Clanfield and was the daughter of John and Mary Pawling of Clanfield. The wedding took place at Stephen’s Church in Clanfield on 21.12.1815 and it was at Clanfield that their son was born and baptised.
	Thomas and Sarah were both recorded as being aged 50 in the Clanfield census of 1841 and living with them was their twenty-five years old son William. At this time the census recorded Thomas as a farmer.
	By 1851 the family was still together with Thomas and Sarah both then aged 60 and son William 32 (sic). On this occasion Thomas was a farmer of eight acres employing one man, who may have been his son. Just two years later Sarah died living Thomas to appear alone in the Clanfield census of 1861 in which he was described as a 70 years old widower and a farmer.
	Three years later in 1864 and at the age of 73 Thomas passed away. Sarah had died eleven years before her husband and was buried at Clanfield in 1853 aged 63. Both Thomas and his wife were buried in the same grave in St Stephen’s churchyard, this being plot A2.
	39N16		William Collett						Baptised on 21.12.1816
39M10	Jemima Collett was born at Clanfield in 1792 where she was baptised on 26.05.1793. She married John Knapp at Clanfield on 03.08.1811. John, who was baptised on 08.04.1787 and was a baker, possibly came from a fairly wealthy background judging by the stone chest burial tomb in the graveyard of St Stephen’s Church in Clanfield in which he and his wife were interred.
	Jemima died first in 1834 aged 41 and was buried on 01.01.1835 while John died nine years later at the age of 55 and was buried on 06.04.1843. The tomb at Clanfield has the grave reference A35.
	All of their children were born and baptised at Clanfield except the last two, who were baptised at nearby Bampton.
	39N17		George Knapp						Baptised on 01.03.1812
	39N18		Ann Knapp						Baptised on 15.08.1814
	39N19		Elizabeth Knapp						Baptised on 13.01.1817
	39N20		William Knapp						Baptised on 01.03.1819
	39N21		John Thomas Knapp						Baptised on 14.09.1821
	39N22		Mary Miriam Kinch Knapp						Baptised on 31.10.1826
39M11	James Collett was born at Clanfield in 1795 where he was baptised on 25.12.1795. It is possible that there were two sons of William and Elizabeth Collett named James who were born in quick succession. This idea results from the belief that a James who was born at Clanfield in early 1795 also died there shortly after he was born.
	What is known is that the surviving James Collett later married Anne Tarrant at Stanford-in-the-Vale in Berkshire on 24.03.1824, where Anne was born and was baptised on 19.05.1804. The couple spent all of their married life living at Clanfield and it was there that all of their children were born and baptised.
	And it was at Clanfield that James died and was buried in the graveyard of St Stephen’s Church on 26.05.1845. Fifteen years later in 1861 Anne was 56 and still had three of her children living with her. These were Henry aged 21, Pamela aged 20 and Jemima aged 18.
	Anne lived the life of a widow for twenty-five years and died in 1870 and was buried with her husband in grave plot A67 on 10.06.1870.
	39N23		William Collett						Baptised on 13.08.1826
	39N24		Ann Collett						Baptised on 09.08.1829
	39N25		Mary Collett						Baptised on 14.08.1831
	39N26		Thomas Collett						Baptised on 04.11.1832
	39N27		Rachel Collett						Baptised on 14.09.1834
	39N28		Mary Collett						Baptised on 27.11.1836
	39N29		Henry Collett						Baptised on 09.06.1839
	39N30		Pamela Collett						Baptised on 12.12.1840
	39N31		Jemima Collett						Baptised on 27.11.1842
39M12	Rachel Collett was born at Clanfield in 1797 and was baptised there on 13.05.1798. And it was there that she married William Horn on 09.11.1816. William had been born at Thrupp in Berkshire in 1794.
	In the earlier records relating to William’s family the spelling of their surname was as above, that is without the ‘e’. It was only in later generations, around the end of the nineteenth century, that it was changed to the more familiar spelling of Horne.
	It would appear that all of their children were born at Clanfield, where Rachel died and was buried on 25.05.1872. Her husband had died nearly nine years earlier and was buried at Clanfield on 04.12.1863. According to the census of 1861 Rachel was aged 64 and William was aged 68.
	39N32		Henry Horn						Baptised on 17.08.1817
	39N33		Eliza Horn						Baptised on 24.12.1820
	39N34		Louisa Horn						Baptised on 21.09.1823
	39N35		Charles Horn						Baptised on 21.05.1826
	39N36		William Horn						Baptised on 04.01.1829
	39N37		Jesse Horn						Baptised on 21.10.1832
	39N38		George Horn						Baptised on 17.10.1839
39N4	Thomas Collett was born at Clanfield and was baptised there on 19.10.1810. It seems likely that he was married fairly late in his life, perhaps even as he approached his fortieth birthday. Certainly he was not married in 1841 when aged 28, as he was still living at Glympton with his mother Rachel and his younger brothers George and James (below). What is known is that he later married Mary Ann who was younger than Thomas by eleven years.
	By 1861 Thomas and Mary Ann were living at Clanfield with their two children. The family was made up of Thomas 48, Mary Ann 37, their son Lancelot aged 8 and daughter Emily aged 7. It has not been discovered where Thomas was ten years later, but wife was still at Clanfield aged 47 and with her at this time was only her son Lancelot aged 18.
	It would appear that daughter Emily had already left the family home as she was listed as being E T Collett of Clanfield aged 18 but was living and working in the Thame & Brill registration of Oxfordshire. So perhaps her father was also somewhere close by.
	It is understood that Thomas and Mary spent most of their life at Clanfield where their two known children were born and where Thomas died on 01.10.1890. Nothing has so far been found that might provide a clue as to what happened to his wife and their two children after this time.
	39O1		Lancelot Collett						Born in 1852 at Clanfield
	39O2		Emily T Collett						Born in 1853 at Clanfield
39N7	George William Collett was in 1816 and most likely at Clanfield. By June 1841 as George he was aged 25 and was living with his mother Rachel Collett at Glympton with his two brothers Thomas (above) and James (below).
39N8	JAMES COLLETT was born at Eynsham where he was baptised on 12.06.1818. The census of 1841 listed James as being aged 21 and living at Glympton with his mother Rachel and his older brothers Thomas and George (above).
	Four years after James married Mary Hartley at Woodstock in 1846. Mary was believed to have born at Wootton near Woodstock in 1817 although the census details below places her date of birth around 1819 or 1820.
	Following the wedding the couple initially set up home at Glympton just north of Woodstock where some or all of their children were born.
	However, almost twenty years after they were married James and Mary had moved south and were living in the Bampton & Witney registration district of Oxfordshire which includes Clanfield. According to the 1861 Census the family at that time comprised James 41 and Mary 40, with their daughter Rachel 12, Mary Ann 5 and Elizabeth aged 3, and their sons Frederick 10 and Francis aged 8.
	Ten years later the couple were still living in the Clanfield area where both James and Mary were listed as being aged 51 in the Witney & Bampton census of 1871. The only one of their children listed as living with them at that time was their son George aged 23 who was confirmed as having been born at Glympton.
	The married lasted for 32 years before James died in 1878 aged 58. He was buried on 29.01.1878 in the churchyard of St Stephen’s Church at Clanfield in grave plot B7. So by 1881 Mary, aged 61 and an annuitant, was a widow living with her eldest son Henry George Collett at his family’s home in Clanfield.
	Henry’s wife died in 1882 and she may have been followed by Henry sometime later and this may have been the reason why Mary left Clanfield and moved in with her son Frederick at his home in Lower Mitton near Stourport in Worcestershire where in 1891 she was aged 71. No further record of Mary has been found so it may be assumed that she passed away before the end of the century.
	39O3		James Collett						Born in 1844
	39O4		Henry George Collett						Born in 1847
	39O5		Rachel Ann Collett						Born in 1849
	39O6		Frederick William Collett						Born in 1851
	39O7		Francis Charles Collett						Born in 1853
	39O8		Mary Ann Collett						Born in 1855
	39O9		Elizabeth Emma Collett						Born in 1858
39N9	Mary Ann Weller was born at Clanfield in 1805. She married Benjamin Ward at Burford on 14.06.1830. Benjamin was born at Alveston near Stratford-on-Avon in 1793 and was a printer and later, was Master of the Witney Workhouse.
	The couple’s first three children were born at Burford. Shortly after, Mary and Benjamin moved to the village of Curbridge just south-east of Witney where all of their remaining children were born. Mary died at Witney in 1853.
	39O10		Thomas Ward						Baptised on 12.08.1831
	39O11		Henry Collett Ward						Baptised on 21.02.1833
	39O12		Jane Ward						Baptised on 01.10.1834
	39O13		Elizabeth Ward						Baptised on 27.01.1836
	39O14		Benjamin Ward						Born in 1837
	39O15		William Ward						Born in 1839
	39O16		Lydia Ward						Born in 1841
	39O17		Samuel Ward						Born in 1846
	39O18		Walter Alfred Ward						Born in 1848
39N10	Rachel Beechey was born at Clanfield where she was baptised on 20.04.1809. She never married and followed her brother William to Wokingham with whom she was recorded as living in 1871 Census as aged 62.
	It would appear that she lived the rest of her life with her brother as confirmed by the Wokingham Census of 1881 when she was aged 72. And it was there that Rachel died in 1888.
39N11	William Collett Beechey was born at Clanfield and was baptised on 12.08.1810. He married Elizabeth Evans at Wokingham where they settled during the 1830s and where all of their children were born. Elizabeth was the daughter of Thomas and Sally Evans and was born in 1809.
	By the time of the 1851 Census William aged 40 and Elizabeth aged 42 and their children were confirmed as living at Wokingham. Ten years later Elizabeth was still there aged 52, but on the day of the census William was working in Staines.
	The children living with Elizabeth in 1861 were William 23, Frederick 18, Charlotte 17, Alfred 13, Maria 11, Minnie 9 and Maud aged 7.
	In the 1871 Census for Wokingham William was aged 60 and Elizabeth 62 and living with them was William’s older sister Rachel Beechey aged 62.
	The 1881 Census confirmed William C Beechey as being aged 70 and a school master born at Clanfield, and that he was living at Rose Street in Wokingham with his wife Elizabeth aged 72 who had been born at Wokingham.
	Living with them was William’s unmarried older sister Rachel aged 72 and five of the children, all not married. These were Sarah E M Beechey 45, Margaret E Beechey 35, Alfred B C Beechey a clergyman without care of souls a Bachelor of Arts of T C D aged 33, Rachel E M Beechey 30 and Minnie K A Beechey 28 both listed as school governesses and teachers, and all born at Wokingham.
	It was at Rose Street that William died four years later in 1885, followed five years after by Elizabeth in 1890 while she was still living at the same address.
	39O19	Sarah Elizabeth Mary Beechey					Born in 1835; died 1920
	39O20	Prince William Thomas Beechey					Born in 1836
	39O21	William Jones Henry Beechey					Born in 1837; died 1909 at Wokingham
	39O22	George Evans Beechey					Born in 1838; died 1930 Black Bourton
	39O23	James Samuel Robert Beechey					Born in 1840
	39O24	Frederick Mainzer Charles Beechey					Born in 1842; died 1874
	39O25	Margaret Eleanor Charlotte Beechey					Born in 1844
	39O26	Jane Kezia Priscilla Beechey					Born in 1846; infant death pre 1851
	39O27	Alfred Barnard Collett Beechey					Born in 1847; died 1930
	39O28	Francis Edward Richard Beechey					Born in 1849; died 1850 at Wokingham
	39O29	Rachel Eliza Marian Beechey					Born in 1850; died 1919
	39O30	Minnie Katharine Annie Beechey					Born in 1852
	39O31	Maud Alice Louisa Beechey					Born in 1854; died 1868
39N12	Kezia Beechey was born at Clanfield and it was there that she baptised on 02.10.1812. At sometime in her life, and possibly following the early death of her mother, Kezia moved to live at Wokingham near her older siblings William and Rachel (above), where she later died in 1885.
39N13	Elizabeth Beechey was born at Clanfield where she was baptised on 05.03.1815. It seems very likely that she married Mr Hemming or Mr Kennedy and was living in the Faringdon & Witney registration district in 1841. However, the couple eventually moved to live in Aylesbury where Elizabeth died before 30^th March 1851.
39N14	Samuel James Beechey was born at Black Bourton and was baptised there on 23.11.1817. It would appear that while still living at Black Bourton Samuel married (1) Ellen there, possibly around 1840.
	Sometime after 1861 Ellen died following which Samuel moved to Wokingham as did all of his siblings. What is known is that during the twenty years following their marriage Ellen died.
	And so it was that in 1862 Samuel met and married (2) Sarah Over. Sarah was born at Farnham in Surrey in 1824 as confirmed by the 1871 Census at which time Samuel aged 53 and Sarah aged 46 were living at Wokingham.
	According to the 1881 Census Samuel J Beechey, aged 60 and of Black Bourton, was the inn keeper and licenced victualler of The Greyhound Inn at Finchampstead just south of Wokingham in Berkshire. He was also a baker by trade and at that time the couple had living with them Sarah’s brother Herbert John Over of Finchampstead, a baker and general assistant aged 29.
	On this occasion Sarah’s aged was given as being 55 and her place of birth confirmed as being Farnham in Surrey.
39N15	Henry Beechey was born at Black Bourton around 1820. It would appear that he was born shortly before his mother died and he may have stayed with his father at Black Bourton when the rest of his family appear to have moved to live at Wokingham. What is known is that he married Jane Harris at Witney in 1848.
	39O32		Phoebe Mary Beechey						Date of birth unknown
39N16	William Collett was born at Clanfield but was baptised at nearby Grafton on 21.12.1816. He married (1) Harriet Monk at Witney after 6^th June 1841 and it would appear that Harriet, who was born at Clanfield in 1819, conceived William’s first child before the couple were married as the child also was baptised with Harriet’s maiden name.
	William and Harriet both featured in the 1851 Census with their five children and one year after the census day Harriet presented William with their sixth. The census also revealed that William was a farmer employing three men.
	All six children from William’s first marriage were born at Bampton the next village north-west of Clanfield. It is likely that Harriet died while the family was at Bampton, although she was buried at St Stephen’s Church in Clanfield on 25.03.1854.
	The census seven years later recorded the family as living at the Red Lion Inn at Clanfield where farmer William aged 44, his eldest daughter Sarah Collett aged 20, Thomas 18, Appolonia 17, Sarah S Collett as 16, Harriet E Collett 14, and William H Collett aged 9 years old.
	Fourteen years after the death of his first wife William married (2) Sarah Kench at Witney in 1868. Sarah was the daughter of Mary Ann Kench and was born at Faringdon in 1833 where she was living and working in 1861.
	However, it seems likely that unless there is an error in the date of their marriage, two of their children were born prior to the wedding ceremony. This partnership produced a further four children for William, with the first three children having been born at Clanfield and the last one after the family had moved back at Bampton.
	Three of the four children from William’s second married were listed with the couple at Mill Street in Bampton in 1871, just prior to the birth of their last child who was born a year later. William was 54, Sarah was 37, and their three children were Jonathon 5, Julia 3, and Onesiphorus aged one year. William was then a miller and a farmer of 200 acres employing five men and two boys.
	Also still living with his father was William’s youngest son from his first marriage, nineteen years old William H Collett. Over the following decade William’s farm holding reduced from 200 acres to just 4 acres as confirmed in the 1881 Census. Whether this was by choice or for health reasons is not known, but it is known that none of his sons continued in farming so it was not passed onto any of them.
	By the time of the 1881 Census the family was still living at Mill Street in Bampton where, at the age of 64, William’s occupation was then recorded as being that of a miller with the four acres of land. His place of birth was given as Grafton and his wife Sarah of Faringdon was 47 years of age.
	The only children living with them on 3^rd April 1881 were sons Jonathan 15 and Onesiphorus 11 and daughters Julia 13 and Susannah aged 8. The census record confirmed that Jonathan, Julia and Onesiphorus were born at Clanfield, while Susannah was born at Bampton.
	It is believed that William and Sarah both died sometime after April 1881 and sometime before 1891 since neither has been found in the census for 1891 or 1901.
	39O33		Sarah Catherine Collett Monk						Baptised on 10.03.1841
	39O34		Thomas Cornelius Collett						Baptised on 26.08.1842
	39O35		Appolonia Hannah Collett						Baptised on 08.10.1843
	39O36		Sarah Selina Collett						Baptised on 27.08.1845
	39O37		Harriet Eliza Collett						Baptised on 27.08.1847
	39O38		William Henry Collett						Baptised on 30.02.1852
	39O39		Jonathan Nathaniel Collett						Born in 1866
	39O40		Julia Isabella Collett						Born in 1867
	39O41		Onesiphorus Oliver Collett						Born in 1869
	39O42		Susannah Ada Collett						Born in 1872
39N18	Ann Knapp was born at Clanfield and was baptised there on 15.08.1814. She never married and died in 1841 aged 27. Ann was buried on 03.04.1841 in plot A35 in the grounds of St Stephen’s Church with her sister Elizabeth (below).
39N19	Elizabeth Knapp was born at Clanfield where she was baptised on 13.01.1817. Like her sister Ann, Elizabeth also died while still a spinster, in 1838 at the age of 22. Elizabeth was buried on 22.07.1838 in plot A35 in the grounds of St Stephen’s Church with her sister Ann (above).
39N21	John Thomas Knapp was born at Bampton and was baptised there on 14.09.1821. He was a builder and married (1) Jane Richardson Lay at Oxford in 1846 with whom he had eight children before she died. Jane was born in 1823 and was buried at Clanfield on 04.02.1860. All of their children were born and baptised at Clanfield.
	A couple of years after her death John married (2) Ann Clare at Headington in 1862 with whom he had a further three children, all born at Clanfield. Ann was born at Black Bourton in 1827.
	39O43		Leonard Randolph Knapp						Baptised 21.07.1847; died 04.08.1926
	39O44		Elizabeth Ann Knapp						Baptised 04.10.1848; bur. 20.02.1863
	39O45		George Knapp						Baptised 09.05.1850; died in 1889
	39O46		Sarah Jane Knapp						Baptised on 15.10.1851
	39O47		Caroline Knapp						Baptised on 23.07.1854
	39O48		Alice Knapp						Baptised 08.09.1856; bur. 10.09.1856
	39O49		William Knapp						Baptised 15.10.1859; bur. 01.11.1859
	39O50		Richard J Knapp						Born in 1851
	39O51		Bessy Knapp						Baptised on 06.11.1863
	39O52		Miriam Martha Knapp						Baptised 24.12.1865; bur. 30.04.1883
	39O53		Thomas Knapp						Baptised 22.01.1868; bur. 24.10.1889
39N23	William Collett was born at Clanfield and it was there that he was baptised on 13.08.1826. He had hardly reached adulthood before he died and was buried at Clanfield on 13.07.1842.
39N24	Ann Collett was born at Clanfield where she was baptised on 09.08.1829. She married Richard Griffin at Clanfield on 03.07.1852. However, the couple’s only child was born at nearby Black Bourton, but died shortly afterwards and was buried at Clanfield. Just over a year later Ann died and was also buried at Clanfield on 06.02.1855.
	39O54		Mary Miriam Griffin						Born in 1853; buried on 07.01.1854
39N25	Mary Collett was born at Clanfield and was baptised there on 14.08.1831. Tragically she died before reaching her fifth birthday and was buried at Clanfield on 24.04.1836.
39N26	Thomas Collett was born at Clanfield and was baptised there on 04.11.1832. He married Mary Ann Kerly at Wallingford in 1852 but died after only eight years of marriage and was buried at Clanfield on 16.06.1860. Mary was born at Faringdon in 1823. Their three children were all born and baptised at Clanfield, and it was also there that the second child died and was buried.
	By April 1881 Mary Ann was a widow aged 57 living at Clanfield with he son Lancelot who was aged 21. Mary Ann’s husband must have been a farmer since, under ‘occupation’ the census detail revealed that she was the ‘owner of land’.
	39O55		Emily Louise Collett						Born in 1854
	39O56		Miriam Anne Collett						Baptised on 05.06.1858
	39O57		Lancelot Collett						Born in 1860
39N27	Rachel Collett was born at Clanfield where she was baptised on 14.09.1834. Just like other members of her family she died while still very young and was buried at Clanfield on 10.10.1846.
39N28	Mary Collett was born at Clanfield and was baptised there on 27.11.1836. Sadly she was yet another member of the family to die before reaching adulthood and was buried at Clanfield on 25.10.1853.
39N29	Henry Collett was born at Clanfield in 1839 and was baptised on 09.06.1839. His father died when he was only six years old. In 1861 Henry was aged 21 and was living at Clanfield with his mother and his two younger sisters Pamela and Jemima (below).
	Ten years later he was still not married and was still living with his spinster sisters Pamela and Jemima. What happened to Henry after 1871 still needs to be determined, but so far no further record of him has been found in any census.
39N30	Pamela Collett was born at Clanfield and it was there that she was baptised on 12.12.1840. Four and a half years after she was born her father died and she then lived with her mother until she also passed away in the summer of 1870.
	The census of 1861 recorded that she was twenty years of age and was living with her mother, together with her brother Henry (above) and sister Jemima (below). A year after the death of her mother Pamela then aged 30 was still living with her two unmarried siblings.
	She never married and in 1881 was still living at Clanfield aged 40 and was an out of work housekeeper. By 1891 Pamela had left Clanfield and was living in the Hendred & Wantage registration district aged 50. The census record confirmed that she had been born at Clanfield.
	Just after the turn of the century Pamela was sixty years of age and was living at Chilton Entire where she was employed as a domestic housekeeper. She was recorded as Pammie Collett of Clanfield.
39N31	Jemima Collett was born at Clanfield where she was baptised on 27.11.1842. She was just thirty months old when her father died following which she continued to live with her mother at Clanfield. In 1861 she was aged 18 and was 28 in 1871. It would appear that she never married and died at Headington in Oxford in 1888. To date no record of Jemima has been found in the census of 1881.
39N32	Henry Horn was born at Clanfield and was baptised there on 17.08.1817. He was a plumber and a glazier and he married Elizabeth Wheeler at Lechlade on 22.12.1839. Elizabeth was born at Lechlade on 14.11.1820.
	All of their children were born at Abingdon-on-Thames where Henry died in 1875, followed by his wife in 1884. Tragically the death of their eldest son at Abingdon preceded their own deaths.
	It is believed that there were more children born into the family than just the three indicated below, and that some of these were also victims of infant death. In Abingdon around this time it is known that there were other Horn families, but to date it has not been exactly determined which children came from one family or the other. What is known is that the Horn children of this family were not baptised at any parish church in Abingdon.
	39O58		Charles Henry Horn						Born in 1843; died 1864
	39O59		Rachel Ann Horn						Born in 1848
	39O60		Eliza Jane Horn						Born in 1851
39N33	Eliza Horn was born at Clanfield where she was baptised on 24.12.1820. She married carpenter Henry Kerly at Clanfield on 16.08.1841. Henry was born at Faringdon in 1824 and was very likely the brother to Mary Ann Kerly who married Thomas Collett (above).
	Within a year of the date of their marriage Eliza and Henry were living at Poplar in London where all of their children were born and where Eliza died in 1857. Henry died in 1872 at West Ham.
	39O61		Elizabeth Kerly						Born on 12.09.1842
	39O62		William Collett Kerly						Born on 10.11.1844
	39O63		Louisa Susan Kerly						Born on 03.12.1846
	39O64		Henry John Kerly						Born in 1849; died 1856 at Poplar
	39O65		John Charles Kerly						Born in 1851; died 1893 at Stepney
	39O66		Rachel Pamela Kerly						Born in 1853
39N34	Louisa Horn was born at Clanfield where she was baptised on 21.09.1823. Around the time of 1851 she was working as a domestic servant and she later married William Martin at Headington in 1852. William had been born in 1828 at Bicester.
39N35	Charles Horn was born at Clanfield and was baptised there on 21.05.1826. He married (1) Ann Brooks at Clanfield on 18.11.1848 who had been born there in 1828. All of their children were born and baptised at Clanfield.
	The family lived their whole life at Clanfield where, in 1881, Charles was working as a sawyer aged 54. With him was Ann aged 52 who was employed as a laundress, together with three of their children, Eliza aged 17 and an assistant laundress, Walter 14 and Annie 11. Charles’ wife Ann died at Clanfield seventeen years later and was buried there on 15.07.1898.
	Fifteen years after her death Charles married the widow Mrs Amelia (?) on 25.10.1913 at Clanfield. However, after just over two years with Amelia, who was born in 1825, Charles died on 30.12.1915 and was followed by Amelia only five days later on 04.01.1916.
	39O67		Henry Charles Horn					Baptised on 19.08.1849; died 1877
	39O68		Rachel Horn					Baptised and buried on 05.10.1850
	39O69		Troilus Horn					Baptised on 04.01.1852; died 1903
	39O70		Elizabeth Horn					Born in 1855
	39O71		George Horn					Born in 1858
	39O72		Emily Horn					Born in 1859
	39O73		Eliza Horn					Born in 1864
	39O74		Walter Horn					Born in 1865; died 18.12.1916
	39O75		Edward Horn					Born in 1867
	39O76		Ann Horn					Born in 1870
39N36	William Horn was born at Clanfield where he was baptised on 04.01.1829 and where he married Rebecca Charlotte Ham on 07.04.1851. Rebecca was born at Knightsbridge in London in 1828. All of their children were born and baptised at Clanfield and it was there that William died and was buried on 07.03.1879.
	In 1881 the family living at Clanfield was made up of William’s widow Rebecca aged 52 from Knightsbridge, sons Willoughby aged 18 and Henry aged 11 - both working as agricultural labourers, and daughter Jane aged 23, a general servant.
	Rebecca Horn died before the turn of the century and was buried at Clanfield on 10.06.1896.
	39O77		Charles William Horn						Baptised on 04.01.1852
	39O78		Georgina Horn						Baptised on 05.02.1854
	39O79		Frederick Horn						Baptised on 17.02.1856; died 1878
	39O80		Jane King Horn						Baptised on 16.05.1858
	39O81		Agnes Horn						Baptised on 27.05.1860
	39O82		Willoughby George Horn						Baptised on 09.11.1862
	39O83		Edith Horn						Baptised on 29.04.1866
	39O84		Elizabeth Adelaide Horn						Baptised on 26.04.1868
	39O85		Henry Thomas Horn						Baptised on 29.05.1870
39N37	Jesse Horn was born at Clanfield and it was there that he was baptised on 21.10.1832. He married Caroline Clack at Clanfield on 21.05.1853 and all of their children were born at Clanfield.
	Caroline was born at Clanfield in 1837 and it was there that she also died on 27.12.1918. Jesse, who was a labourer, had died over fifty years earlier and was buried there on 19.06.1867 exactly a year after the birth of his last child.
	According to the 1881 Census widow Caroline, aged 43 and an agricultural labourer, was living at Clanfield with three of her sons who were all agricultural labourers, even the youngest, ten years old John. The other boys were Albert aged 21 and Jessie aged 14.
	39O86		William Horn						Baptised on 11.02.1855
	39O87		Edwin James Horn						Baptised on 28.09.1856
	39O88		Catherine Horn						Baptised on 10.03.1858; died 1858
	39O89		Albert Horn						Baptised on 11.09.1859
	39O90		Louisa Horn						Baptised on 23.02.1862; died 1862
	39O91		Alice Horn						Baptised on 24.05.1863
	39O92		Sarah Jane Horn						Baptised on 26.02.1865
	39O93		Jesse Horn						Baptised on 24.06.1866
	39O94		John Horn						Born in 1870
39N38	George Horn was born at Clanfield where he was baptised on 17.10.1839. He married Harriet Shayler on 18.08.1860 at Leafield between Witney and Shipton-under-Wychwood. The couple’s first five children were all born at Leafield, while the last was born at Ramsden north of Witney.
	Harriet was born at Leafield and was baptised there on 15.10.1837. In 1881 the family was living at an address referred to as ‘By the Pool’ in Leafield. The census confirmed that George was a carpenter and joiner aged 41 of Clanfield and that his wife Harriet was aged 43 and of Leafield.
	Their children at that time were Randolph aged 16, Frederick aged 14, Jane 11 and Annie 4. Eldest son Randolph was listed as having no occupation.
	George and Harriet returned to live at Clanfield late in their life, since it was there that they both died and were buried, George on 08.07.1914 followed by Harriet on 04.04.1918.
	39O95		Walter Horn						Baptised on 15.03.1861; died 1861
	39O96		Randolph Horn						Baptised on 01.06.1862; died 1862
	39O97		Randolph Leonard Horn						Born in 1864
	39O98		Frederick Walter Horn						Born in 1866
	39O99		Jane Elizabeth Horn						Born on 07.12.1869
	39O100		Annie L Horn						Born in 1876
39O3	James Collett was born at Glympton in 1844 and was aged seven years at the time of the Glympton census of 1851. Ten years later when he would have been aged 17 he was not listed with his family who had moved to Clanfield and so far not further record of James has been found in the UK.
39O4	Henry George Collett was born in 1847 at Glympton where he was living with his parents in 1851 aged 3 but was listed in the census as George. Curiously in 1861 George aged 15 was listed as living in Workingham (?) while his family had left Glympton and had moved south to settle in Clanfield and the area where his father had been born.
	And it was also to Clanfield that Henry eventually moved to be reunited with his family and where he married Emily Louise Collett (Ref. 39O55) on 29.04.1873.
	Emily was born at Clanfield in 1854 but was not baptised until 13.06.1858. She was the daughter of Thomas Collett and Mary Kerly, Thomas being the cousin of Henry George’s father. Henry George and Emily Louise were therefore cousins once removed.
	Henry was a baker and all of his children were born in the village of Clanfield where they were baptised. In April 1881 the family living at Clanfield comprised Henry aged 33 and born at Glympton, his wife Emily 27 of Clanfield, and their children Miriam 7, Mary 5 and James aged one.
	Living with them was Henry’s widowed mother 61 years old annuitant Mary Collett. Within eighteen months of the census date, Henry’s wife Emily died in the village and was buried at St Stephen’s Church on 25.09.1882.
	39P1		Miriam Eleanor Collett						Baptised on 02.11.1873
	39P2		Mary Charlotte Collett						Baptised on 04.06.1876
	39P3		James George Collett						Born in 1878
39O5	Rachel Ann Collett was born at Glympton in 1849. Just prior to 1861 Rachel’s parents left Glympton and moved back into the Bampton & Witney area where her father was born. And it was at Clanfield that she was listed in the 1861 at the age of 12 living with her family.
	Like her brother Henry (above), Rachel also retained the longstanding family links to Clanfield, as it was there that she married Thomas Cornelius Collett (Ref. 39O34) on 12.06.1866. Thomas was the son of William Collett and Harriet Monk, which again resulted in the fact that the couple were cousins once removed.
	Thomas was born at Bampton in 1830 where he was baptised on 26.08.1842 at twelve years of age. All of the children of Rachel and Thomas were born and baptised at Clanfield.
	According to the census of 1871 the family living at Clanfield comprised Thomas C Collett, Rachel A Collett aged 22, together with their first three of their eight children Alfred 4, Edith 2 and baby Albert who was not yet one year old.
	Thomas gave his age in 1871 as 28 when in fact he was 41, perhaps out of embarrassment regarding the big age difference between himself and his younger wife. It was only after her death that Thomas reverted to using his correct age in the later census records.
	Tragically Rachel died eight years later in 1879 within days of the birth of her last child and, just two days before it was baptised, Rachel was buried at Clanfield on 25.04.1879. Thomas survived for a further seventeen years to bring up his young family and upon his death he was also buried in the graveyard at St Stephen’s Church on 13.09.1896.
	The 1881 Census recorded that widower Thomas was a carpenter aged 51 and confirmed his place of birth as Bampton. Living with him in Clanfield at that time were daughters Edith aged 12 and Mary aged 4, and sons Albert aged 10, William aged 9, Thomas aged 7 and Frederick aged 5.
	39P4		Alfred Ernest Collett						Baptised on 24.02.1867
	39P5		Edith Kate Collett						Baptised on 11.11.1868
	39P6		Albert Edward Collett						Baptised on 13.11.1870
	39P7		William James Collett						Baptised on 25.01.1872
	39P8		Thomas Cornelius Collett						Baptised on 20.04.1873
	39P9		Frederick Charles Collett						Baptised on 18.01.1876
	39P10		Mary Elizabeth Collett						Baptised on 04.04.1877
	39P11		Ernest Leopold Collett						Baptised on 27.04.1879
39O6	Frederick William Collett was born at Glympton in 1851. Around eight or nine years after he was born his family moved to Clanfield where they were living in 1861 and where Frederick was ten years old.
	He married Lydia Wall at Bridgnorth in Shropshire in 1874, Lydia having been born at Morville in Shropshire in 1850, the daughter of Francis and Sarah Wall. The couple’s first six children were born at Birmingham, with the last two born at Stourport in Worcestershire.
	In 1881 the family was living at 405 Monument Road in Birmingham where Frederick aged 30 was a grocer from Glympton. His wife was Lydia from Morville aged 30 and their children were: Nellie aged 4, Frederick aged 3 and Frank aged 1, all confirmed as being born at Birmingham.
	The couple’s ‘missing’ eldest daughter Edith aged 6 was a visitor at the home of her grandfather Francis Wall who was a boot maker living at The Post Office in Morville.
	Living with the Collett family at Monument Road in 1881 was Frederick’s nephew Alfred E Collett aged 14 who was working with him as a grocer’s assistant. Alfred was born at Clanfield and was the son of Frederick’s sister Rachel Ann Collett (above). The family was also supported by Phoebe H Steadman aged 26, a general servant from Tipton in Staffordshire.
	During the next decade Frederick and his family left Birmingham and travelled south to Worcestershire where they settled at Lower Mitton in Stourport. By April 1891 the family was almost complete, with the birth of Frederick’s and Lydia’s last child due to be born shortly after the census day that year.
	The 1891 Census listed family as Frederick and Lydia both aged 40, and their children Edith 16, Nellie 14, Frederick 13, Frank 11, Lillian 8, Harold 4, and Mary aged 2 years. Also living with the family at that time was Frederick’s 71 years old mother Mary Collett.
	Frederick died at Kidderminster just two years later in 1893, so by 1901 Lydia was working as a licenced victualler to support her family and was still living at Lower Mitton aged 50. With her on that occasion were daughters Nellie 24 and Mary 12, and sons Frederick 22, Harold 14, and Ernest aged 9 whose place of birth was given as Stourport rather than Lower Mitton, the same as for daughter Mary.
	39P12		Edith Collett						Born in 1875
	39P13		Nellie Mabel Collett						Born in 1876
	39P14		Frederick James Collett						Born in 1878
	39P15		Frank Howard Collett						Born in 1880 at Birmingham
	39P16		Lillian Sarah Collett						Born in 1883 at Birmingham
	39P17		Harold Percy Collett						Born in 1886 at Birmingham
	39P18		Mary Collett						Born in 1889 at Stourport
	39P19		Ernest Harry Collett						Born in 1891 at Lower Mitton
39O7	Francis Charles Collett was born at Glympton in 1853. Around six or seven years after he was born his family moved to Clanfield where they were living in 1861 and where Francis was aged 8.
	He married Emma Selina Barnett on 04.08.1874 at Clanfield. Emma was baptised at Alvescot on 01.08.1852. The couple’s first child was born at Wantage, but baptised at Clanfield, while the second child was born at Walsall and again baptised at Clanfield. The third child was also born at Walsall and the couple’s next four children were all born at Birmingham.
	It was at 2 Brighton Place, off the Winson Green Road, in Birmingham that the family was living in 1881. Francis was a baker aged 27 and born at Clanfield, where his wife aged 28 stated that she had also been born. Living with the family as a boarder was 21 years old Louisa Barnett, a dressmaker from Clanfield who was very likely Emma’s younger sister.
	Towards the turn of the century Francis and Emma were still living in Birmingham where Francis died in 1896. In 1901 Emma, aged 47 and a widow from Alvescot, was still living in Birmingham with four of her children, Kate, Francis, Louisa and Albert.
	39P20		Anne Selina Collett						Born in 1874
	39P21		Mary Elizabeth Collett						Born in 1875
	39P22		Kate Collett						Born in 1877
	39P23		Emma Gertrude Collett						Born in 1878
	39P24		Francis Walter Collett						Born in 1880
	39P25		Louisa Collett						Born in 1882
	39P26		Albert Collett						Born in 1885
39O8	Mary Ann Collett was born in 1855 and it is believed that this took place at Glympton although by the time of the 1861 Census Mary Ann and her family had moved to Clanfield where she was listed as being five years old. No later records for Mary have so far been found and she was not living with her parents at Clanfield in 1871.
39O9	Elizabeth Emma Collett was born in 1858 and it is believed that this took place at Glympton and was shortly followed by her family moving south to Clanfield where in 1861 she was aged 3 years. No later records for Elizabeth have so far been found and she was not living with her parents at Clanfield in 1871.
39O10	Thomas Ward was born at Burford where he was baptised on 12.08.1831. He married Ellen Ward in 1859 at Headington. Ellen was born at Alveston near Stratford-on-Avon in 1832. During his life Thomas was employed as a piano tuner and a piano maker.
39O11	Henry Collett Ward was born in 1833 and was baptised at Burford on 21.02.1833. He worked as an asylum clerk and steward and married Ann Feaster at Scarborough in 1875, Ann also having been born in 1833.
39O20	Prince William Thomas Beechey, who was referred to as Tom, was born at Wokingham in 1836 and baptised there on 10.04.1836. The order in which his names were given varied from time to time. As Thomas P W Beechey he was listed in the 1861 Census for the Guildford as being aged 24 and born at Wokingham.
	Whereas ten years later he was referred to as Prince W T Beechey aged 34 and of Wokingham to where he had returned in 1871. Five years later he married Amy Reeve in 1876. Amy was nineteen years younger than Tom having been born at Leighton Buzzard in May 1855, the daughter of Charles Reeve and Frances Mary Deverell.
	Whilst it is established that Tom’s and Amy’s first four of their fourteen children were born at Pinchbeck just north of Spalding in Lincolnshire, no trace of the family has so far been found in the 1881 Census.
	All of the sons of Tom and Amy had the additional christian name of Reeve and the first four children were Barnard (1877-1915), Charles (1878-1915), Maud (1879-1885) and Leonard (1881-1917).
	It is known that their fifth child, Christopher William Reeve Beechey who was born in 1883, emigrated to Australia in 1910 where he died in 1969. He was an Anzac and fought at Gallipoli during WW1 and was shot by a Turkish sniper but survived to live to the age of 85 years – see below.
	Of the couple’s other children after son Christopher, there was Frances Mary Deverell Beechey (1885-1977), Frank Collett Reeve Beechey (1886-1916), Eric Reeve Beechey (1889-1954), Harold Reeve Beechey (1891-1917), Katherine Agnes Beechey (1893-1971), Margaret Eleanor Beechey (1894-1963), Winifred Lucy Beechey (1895-1976), Edith Emily Beechey (1897-1992) and Samuel St Vincent Reeve Beechey (1899-1977).
	In 1901 the census entry for Tom referred to him as Prince W T Beechey aged 64 and confirmed his place of birth as Wokingham. At that time he was living at The Rectory in Friesthorpe with his family, where he had been the Church of England clergyman since 1890. His wife was listed as Amy aged 45 of Leighton Buzzard.
	All six of the couple’s children living with them on 31^st March 1901 were born at The Rectory in Friesthorpe. These were Harold 10, Katherine 8, Margaret 7, Winifred 5, Edith 3, and Samuel aged one year.
	Five of Tom’s and Amy’s older children, who had left the family home by the turn of the century, were also listed in the 1901 Census.
	The first of these was their oldest son Barnard aged 23 and confirmed as having been born at Pinchbeck in 1877. He was living in the City of Lincoln in 1901 where he was working as an assistant (school) master. He was referred to as Bar by members of the family.
	Their two sons Leonard aged 19 and Christopher aged 17 were living together in Kensington where they were working as clerks, and both were confirmed as having being born at Pinchbeck.
	The fourth was daughter Frances aged 16 and also confirmed as born at Pinchbeck in 1884. She was living in Bristol in 1901 where she may have been receiving her education.
	The last and youngest of the five was Frank Collett Reeve Beechey aged 14 who was confirmed as having been born at Friesthorpe in 1886 and who was being educated in Surrey in 1901.
	With their father being the Reverend P W Thomas Beechey the family enjoyed the benefit of living in the very grand accommodation that was the eight bedroom rectory built in 1860, which was provided by the church while he was the vicar at Friesthorpe. This would therefore have been the reason for his widow to vacate the property upon his death.
	And so it was on 05.05.1912 that Tom died at Friesthorpe and was buried in the churchyard of St Peter’s Church. Following the death of her husband, Amy left Friesthorpe five months later and moved to her new home at 14 Avondale Street in Lincoln in September that same year.
	This was confirmed in a letter written by Amy’s sister Agnes and dated 5^th September 1912. The letter also made reference to the twenty pounds a year ‘church’ pension that Amy received, with a comment that ‘those members of her family who were earning and can, must allow her something’.
	This was a particularly sad time for Amy as her mother Frances Mary Reeve died in 1913 and over the next five years she lost five of her sons – see below. At some stage over the following years Amy moved house for a final time and, twenty-four years after Tom’s passing, Amy died on 26.12.1936 while living at 197 Wragby Road. She was buried in Lincoln.
	In 2006 a book entitled ‘Brothers in War’ written by British journalist Michael Walsh was published which tells the tragic story of the eight sons of Tom and Amy who fought in the Great War, of whom only three returned alive. The back cover of the book carries a photograph of Amy Beechey makes very interesting reading about the life and times of a typical English family.
	Inside St Peter’s Church in Friesthorpe there is a plaque commemorating the five sons of the Reverend P W T Beechey who lost their lives between 1914 and 1919 which reads as follows. And it was Mary-Jane Hooker of Australia, whose great aunt was Amy Beechey, who kindly provided the details of the Beechey family line.
39O33	Sarah Catherine Collett Monk was conceived before her parents were married and was baptised at Bampton on 10.03.1841. There is a possibility that she was born at Clanfield where her mother had previously lived, although later census records revealed her place of birth to be Bampton.
	Sarah’s mother died when she was thirteen years old in 1854 and by the time of the census of 1861 she was 20 years of age and was still living within the family home at Bampton with her widowed father.
	Three years later Sarah married Joseph Lapworth at Clanfield on 28.04.1864, Joseph having been born in 1830 at Buckland in Berkshire. Joseph’s occupation was that of a farmer and both of his children were born at Buckland, although his son Joseph was baptised at Clanfield.
	In 1881 the family of four was living at Mount Owen Farm in Bampton where Joseph was listed in the census as an agricultural labourer.
	Twenty years later Joseph had retired and he and Sarah had moved away from Bampton and were living at Worth in Crawley, East Sussex. The 1901 Census confirmed Sarah as being aged 58 of Bampton, while her husband, aged 68, was listed as a domestic gardener.
	Their daughter Fanny, who was a dressmaker in 1881, married Henry Eugene Clayton at Marylebone in 1889, he having been born in 1867 at St James in London. Sadly the marriage only last a few years before Fanny died at St Pancras in 1896.
	Sarah’s and Joseph’s son Joseph married Edith Askew who was born at Oxford in 1869, the wedding taking place at Strood in Kent in 1892.
	39P26		Fanny Lapworth						Born in 1867
	39P27		Joseph Victor Lapworth						Baptised on 15.03.1870
39O34	Thomas Cornelius Collett was born at Bampton and it was there that he was baptised on 26.08.1842. Thomas’ mother died in 1854 so by the time of the census of 1861 he was 18 years of age and was still living within the family home at Bampton with his widowed father.
	Thomas later married Rachel Ann Collett (above) who was his cousin one step removed. See reference 39O3 for more details.
39O35	Appolonia Hannah Collett was born at Bampton where she was baptised on 08.10.1843. She was just over ten years old when her mother died in 1854, and was 17 at the time of 1861 Census when living with her widowed father and the rest of her family.
	Eight years later Appolonia married John Holliday Turner at Clanfield on 15.02.1869. John was from Gloucestershire and was born at Northleach in 1836 and his occupation in 1881 was that of a baker and grocer at Clanfield. All of their children were born at Clanfield, where three of them also were buried.
	Their eldest daughter Edith Bertha married Thomas Henry Martin at Witney in 1891, where Thomas was born in 1867. Daughter Annie Beatrice was also married at Witney in 1901.
	John died at Witney in 1896.
	39P28		Edith Bertha Turner						Born in 1870
	39P29		Clara Rose Turner						Born in 1871; buried on 01 May 1871
	39P30		Emma Jane Turner						Born in 1872
	39P31		Annie Beatrice Turner						Born in 1874
	39P32		Kate Selina Turner						Born in 1875; buried on 14 Jun 1877
	39P33		John William Turner						Born in 1879; buried on 07 Dec 1879
	39P34		Charlotte Mabel Turner						Born in 1883
39O36	Sarah Selina Collett was born at Bampton and was baptised there on 27.08.1845. When she was just around nine years of age her mother died in 1854 and by 1861 at the age of 16 she was living with her father and her siblings.
	Four and a half years later Sarah married Richard Walter Brooks on 25.10.1865 at Clanfield, where Richard was born in 1842. Richard’s occupation was that of a baker.
	Sarah’s first five children were born at Clanfield following which, between 1872 and 1874, the family emigrated to Canada and the remaining three children were born at Ontario. Tragically two of the children died whilst still in infancy.
	39P35		Selina Beatrice Brooks						Baptised on 26.10.1866
	39P36		Richard Walter Brooks						Baptised on 22.01.1868
	39P37		Florence Clementina Brooks						Baptised on 15.02.1869
	39P38		John Thomas Brooks						Born in 1870; buried on 16.04.1871
	39P39		Louise Blanche Brooks						Baptised 28.08.1872; bur. 10.09.1872
	39P40		Cornelius Brooks						Born in 1875
	39P41		Henry Brooks						Born in 1876
	39P42		Raymond Brooks						Born in 1880
39O37	Harriet Eliza Collett was born at Bampton and was baptised there on 27.08.1847 seven years before her mother died. In the 1861 Census for Bampton she was 14 years old and was living there with her father and her brothers and sisters.
	It seems more than likely that she was eventually married before the date of the next census since no record of her as Harriet Collett has been found to date.
39O38	William Henry Collett was born at Bampton where he was baptised on 30.06.1852. Two years and one month after he was baptised his mother died at the age of 35, possibly during the birth of another baby. As it was William was the last child of William and Harriet.
	Six years after the passing of his mother William was listed in the Bampton census of 1861 as being aged 9 and was living with his widowed father and the rest of his family. Ten years later in 1871 William was the only child from his father’s first married to still be living with him and his new wife.
	Nine years later while still under thirty years of aged and not married William died and was buried in the churchyard of St Stephen’s Church in Bampton on 14.02.1880.
39O39	Jonathan Nathaniel Collett was born at Clanfield in 1866. At the age of 15 he was still at school and living with his parents at Mill Street in Bampton as he had been in 1871 at the age of 5 years.
39O40	Julia Isabella Collett was born at Clanfield in 1867. In 1881 she was aged 13 and was living at Mill Street with her family. By the turn of the century she was still unmarried and was working as a draper and China dealer while living at Cheapside in Bampton with her sister Susannah (below) and next door to where her brother (below) lived. The 1901 Census confirmed she was born at Clanfield and was aged 33 at that time.
39O41	Onesiphorus Oliver Collett was born at Clanfield in 1869, as confirmed by the 1871 and 1881 Censuses in which he was aged one and eleven years respectively. On both occasions he was living with his family at Mill Street in Bampton. He was a very clever and astute business man and at the age of only seventeen he opened a watchmakers and jewellery business at Cheapside in Bampton where his sisters Julia (above) and Susannah (below) also lived right next door.
	It was in 1888 that Onesiphorus began renting the shop at Cheapside from William Angel Smith with the adjoining premises being used by blacksmiths Cripps & Sons. Over the following years many improvements and extensive alterations were made to the building as Onesiphorus’ developed his business interests. This pictures show Onesiphorus (middle) in front of Cheapside holding one of his cycles in the 1890s. See Cheapside in 2008 below
	Towards the end of the century he took up with Mary Emma Warner whom he married at Witney in 1899. Mary had been born in 1871 at The Mumbles on the Gower Peninsula in Wales. Following their wedding day the couple settled down to live at Cheapside where their children were born.
	Onesiphorus was obviously burdened by his christian name and therefore used the name Oliver at the time of the 1901 Census, in which he was recorded as being aged 31 and born at Clanfield.
	Living with him at Bampton was his wife Mary who was aged 29, together with their two young daughters Florence aged two and Ethel who was under one year old. Oliver’s occupation at that time was confirmed as that of a watchmaker and jeweller.
	In addition to mending watches Oliver had thoughts about motorised travel and around 1900 he built a motorcycle to which he later added a sidecar which was the first of its kind in that part of Oxfordshire.
	Between 1901 and 1902 he concentrated less on his jewellery business in order to expand his motorcycle business which he did by taking over the adjoining premises known as Cromwell House. It was there that he built his first small motorcar which he named the Bampton Voiturette which is pictured below with Oliver and Mary and daughter Florence.
	The vehicle had the engine positioned in front of the radiator as favoured by Renault in France at that time. It should also be noted that the Bampton Voiturette was completed ten years before William Morris produced the Bullnose Morris car. However, it was not easy to sell the idea of motorised transport in England at that time, which was seen purely as a luxury for the rich. This negative attitude, coupled with a period of recession in 1907, resulted in Oliver abandoning his plans to build motor vehicles by 1908.
	Paradoxically this was the same year that William Morris began production of his very successful Bullnose. And it was also in 1908 that the blacksmith Mr Cripps died and upon his death his sons sold the business to Messrs Townsend & Wheeler. Oliver was then given the chance to take over the tenancy of the whole of the building.
	In the Kelly’s Directory of 1911 he was simply listed as “Mr O. O. Collett, watchmaker”.
	He eventually purchased Cheapside from William Angela Smith in the earlier 1920s. In 1922 with the launch of the radio and the British Broadcasting Corporation, Oliver immediately spotted another business opportunity and added ‘wireless set repairs’ to his many skills.
	It was also around this time that he installed a petrol pump at his Cheapside garage where he also repaired motor cars and motor cycles.
	Oliver Collett died in 1934 when his business and the premises at Cheapside were passed on to his son Christopher who maintained it until after the Second World War when it was sold to Leonard Hughes. More recently Cheapside has been renamed as Exeter House (see below).
	39P43		Florence Collett						Born in 1899
	39P44		Ethel Cecilia Mary Collett						Born in 1900
	39P45		Christopher Collett						Born after 1901
39O42	Susannah Ada Collett was thought to have been born at Clanfield in 1872. However, in the 1881 Census her place of birth was given as Bampton, and it was there at Mill Street that she was living with her family in April that year aged 8. By 1901 and at the age of 28 Susannah was still a spinster living with her sister Julia (above) at Cheapside in Bampton and next door to her brother Onesiphorus. The census record also confirmed her place of birth as being Bampton and that she was working as a housekeeper.
	Cheapside today is known as Exeter House and proudly stands near the centre of Bampton having been beautifully preserved for all to see in 2008. The picture above was taken during a visit to the exhibition at Bampton Library in honour of Susannah’ brother Onesiphorus Oliver Collett who used the premises for his many businesses and was owned by the family until after WW2.
	It is known that one of Onesiphorus’ two sisters eventually was married and left Bampton, and it seems more than likely that it was his younger sister Susannah.
39O55	Emily Louise Collett was born at Clanfield in 1854 but was not baptised there until 13.06.1858. She married Henry George Collett (Ref. 39O4) on 29.04.1873 at Clanfield. Henry George was the son of James Collett and Mary Hartley and was born at Glympton in 1847. See reference 39O2 for more details.
39O56	Miriam Anne Collett was born at Clanfield where she was baptised on 05.06.1858 and was buried almost three weeks later on 24.06.1858.
39O57	Lancelot Collett was born at Clanfield in 1860 and was baptised there on 24.04.1863. He married Annie who was born at Bampton in 1858, but this took place after the 1881 Census.
	According to the census, Lancelot was aged 21 and of Clanfield where he was living with his widowed mother Mary Ann Collett the owner of land.
	His wife Annie would appear to be Annie Poole who, according to the 1881 Census, was aged 22 and of Bampton who was working as a domestic servant at the home of Richard Sheaf, a draper of Market Square in Witney. Working alongside her was Elizabeth Lapworth also aged 22 of Southrop near Lechlade. See Ref. 39O33 for another possible connection to the Lapworth family.
39O59	Rachel Ann Horn was born at Abingdon-on-Thames in 1848. She married (1) George Samuel in Abingdon on 26.12.1872. On the marriage certificate George, who was an engineer, gave his address as being at Greenwich in London. However, it is understood that he was born at Glasgow in 1842 and was the son of carpenter William Samuel.
	During the year following their wedding Rachel presented her husband with a baby son George William Henry Samuel but he tragically died in 1874. It would also appear that around this same time Rachel’ husband also died.
	Rachel then married (2) Henry Josiah Eeles at Abingdon on 02.04.1878, with whom she had a further seven children and all bar one (see below) was born at Abingdon between 1879 and 1890. Henry was born at Bampton in 1852 and died in 1891 shortly after the birth of their last child, while Rachel died many years later in 1936.
	The third child of Rachel and Henry was Margaret Ellen Eeles who was born on 07.05.1883 at Birmingham. On 23.08.1906 she married shopkeeper Rupert Stanley Beak at Abingdon. Rupert was born at Southrop near Lechlade on 22.03.1879 and died at Hatford near Faringdon on 21.01.1949, while Margaret died at Faringdon on 30.04.1970.
	Margaret’s and Rupert’s second son was Percy Beak and he was the grandfather of Hugh Hudson who kindly provided the vast majority of the information in this family line. Percy spent about twenty years of his life compiling a fairly comprehensive family tree which, upon his death, was passed onto Hugh to maintain.
39O60	Eliza Jane Horn was born at Abingdon in 1851 where she married Samuel Keates in 1875.
39P4	Alfred Ernest Collett was born at Clanfield and was baptised there on 24.02.1867. At the age of 14 years he was working as a grocer’s assistant with his grocer uncle Frederick William Collett (Ref. 39O6) at 405 Monument Road in Birmingham.