PART FOUR

The Great Western Line - 1560 to 2006

Updated July 2010

	No history of the Collett family would be complete without the inclusion of the internationally renowned master of steam railway locomotive design, that of Charles Benjamin Collett (Ref. 4N7). He was, and still is, better known simply as C B Collett, the man who brought glamour into the world of railway transportation with his Kings and Castles Classes of steam engines. He was also the man that had the forward vision of the future involving the early diesel trains
	Although a married man, his marriage unfortunately never produced any children. It can therefore be said that, upon his death, it really was the end of the line
	My father William Henry John Collett (Ref. 1Q2) often talked about the great man with affection and with many treasured memories of those days when he was a young boy playing outside the Engineer’s house at the end of Bathampton Street in which he also lived. One of his proudest possessions was the Great Western Railway Apprenticeship Certificate signed by C B Collett himself. Why was this so special? Apparently it was most unusual for the Chief Engineer to sign the certificates, so this particular one was very much a collector’s item
	The early information used in the construction of the initial family tree was kindly supplied by Margaret Chadd. In addition to which, many pleasant hours were spent browsing through library books and visiting the railway museums at Swindon, Didcot and York where, at the time, there was a large photograph of C B C proudly displayed in the main hall
	Further information was subsequently provided by Judith Stichbury (Ref. 4Q1) of New Zealand relating to the Blundell family of Luton and Suffolk. The information for this latest update (Feb 2010) has been gratefully received from Don Norris, who is an acknowledged authority on the history of Hemel Hempstead, and Alan Freer relating to the family of William Rickford Collett the Member of Parliament for Lincoln 1841 to 1847
	The section begins with the link to Part One, this being Henry Collett (Ref. 1F18). The ancestral line to C B Collett is indicated by the names in bold capital type
4F1	HENRY COLLETT (Ref. 1F18) was baptised on 04.11.1558 at Broadwell and was the last of five children presented to John Collett by his wife Marion Jakes. Following the death of his mother shortly after he was born, Henry’s father married Katherine Sanders with whom he had a further five children.
	The recent discovery of the Will of Henry’s father has provided new information which suggests that Henry already had two sons by the time of this death in 1597. From this it must be assumed that Henry was first married prior to this date, as well as marrying for a second time around 1610.
	Henry Collett was married by licence to (1) Elizabeth Insil at Upper Slaughter on 22.05.1593. Accordingly to the parish register for Upper Slaughter, Elizabeth Insil was the daughter of John Insil.
	This marriage produced the two sons named in the 1597 Will of John Collett, and they were Thomas and John. Sometime after the birth of the two boys it would appear that Elizabeth died leaving Henry to take a much younger second wife some years later with whom he had a further five children.
	In order to avoid a major reorganisation of the layout of this family line, and that of Part 1 – The Main Line, Henry Collett’s first marriage to Elizabeth Insil has been retained in Part 1 and it is in there that the family line of their son Thomas is continued.
	Upon the death of his father in 1597, Henry was referred to in his Will as Henry Collett the elder to distinguish him from Henry Collett the younger, his half brother and the eldest son of Katherine Sanders and John Collett. (see Will in Legal Documents)
	Within the terms of the Will, Henry the elder received two strikes of corn, and his two sons Thomas Collett and John Collett were to be given half a guinea between them. The bulk of his father’s estate was to be divided between his two half brothers Henry the younger and Anthony.
	It was after this and following the death of his first wife that Henry married (2) Elizabeth Goodwin of Lower Dorsington in the Parish of Welford-on-Avon. This event possibly took place around 1610 when Henry was already in his fifties.
	Two of the couple’s five children listed below where baptised at Dorsington, while the other three were born in the area around the Stow-on-the-Wold. Henry Collett died in 1647 at Broadwell just north of Stow and his Will was proved in 1648, wherein all of the children listed below were named.
	4G1		Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1613
	4G2		Mary Collett	Born in 1616
	4G3		THOMAS COLLETT	Born in 1619
	4G4		John Collett	Born around 1620
	4G5		Alice Collett	Born in 1622
	For the continuation of the line of Thomas Collett the eldest son of Henry Collett from his first marriage to Elizabeth Insil see Part 1 – The Main Line from Ref. 1G5
4G1	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Naunton on 20.02.1613 and her father was confirmed as Henry Collett. She married T Hyatt of Chipping Norton in whose Will there were references to Warwick and Ascott in Warwickshire. Elizabeth died in 1641 and her Will was proved that same year.
4G2	Mary Collett was baptised at Dorsington on 23.10.1616 when her father was confirmed as Henry Collett. She married John Holtham who was Yeoman of Welford-on-Avon. This union may be significant insofar that Thomas Collett and Mary Holtham, both of Welford-on-Avon, were married there on 15.07.1711 and bearing mind that Thomas was born at Welford around 1686.
	For the continuation of the line of Thomas and Mary Collett see Part 11 – The Welford-on-Avon Line
4G3	THOMAS COLLETT was born at Naunton in 1619. He married Elizabeth Mason on 04.03.1644 at Upper Slaughter and he died fourteen years later in 1658. He was referred to as the eldest son in his father’s Will. Thomas’ and Elizabeth’s only known son was born and baptised at Broadwell.
	4H1		THOMAS COLLETT	Born in 1654
4G4	John Collett was born around 1620 at Broadwell and he later married Sarah.
4G5	Alice Collett was baptised at Dorsington on 12.03.1622 and was the daughter of Henry Collett. Alice died in 1647 at Stow in the Wold. Her sister Elizabeth (above) was sole executor of the Will, which was proved in 1647.
	Something is not quite right here since, according to the entry for Elizabeth Collett (above), she had already died in 1641. This could simply be an error in transcription and perhaps it should be 1647.
	If so, 1647 was a tragic year for the family with no less than three deaths; father Henry Collett (Ref. 4F1) and the two daughters. There may have been a plague or illness or disease that caused this. Certainly it would have been unusual for young ladies aged 25 and 33 to have written a Will. It therefore points towards the fact that perhaps they knew they were going to die and had written Wills to cover this eventuality.
4H1	THOMAS COLLETT was born in 1654 at Broadwell. He married Hannah around 1678. He was entitled Yeoman of Longborough when he died in 1720. Hannah, who was born in 1652, died in 1725 and was buried in a tomb in Longborough Churchyard. Her Will was proved in 1733. This identified the children’s names, all of which may have been born and baptised at Longborough.
	4I1		Thomas Collett	Born in 1680
	4I2		JOSEPH COLLETT	Born in 1684
	4I3		John Collett	Dates unknown
	4I4		Hester Collett	Dates unknown
4I1	Thomas Collett was born in 1680 at Longborough, a village less than two miles from Broadwell. He died in 1711 probably whilst still at Longborough where his father had died nine years later.
4I2	JOSEPH COLLETT was born in 1684 at Longborough. He married (1) Hannah Williams around 1705 at Cote in Oxfordshire which was where their daughter was born during the following year. Tragically just ten days after the birth, Hannah died at Cote on 15.07.1706 at the age of twenty-six.
	A few years after the death of his first wife Joseph married (2) Mary Plater around 1710 with whom he had another eight children and all of them born at Cote and baptised there at the Baptist Chapel. The village of Cote which lies midway between Faringdon and Witney.
	During his life Joseph Collett was referred to as ‘Reverend of Cote’, a title he acquired at the age of eighteen, and later ‘Minister of Cote and Longworth’ a title he held until his death in 1741.
	Joseph’s first marriage to Hannah Williams was the first of four unions between members of the Collett and Williams families included in this family line.
	4J1		Hannah Collett	Born on 05.07.1706
	4J2		Mary Collett	Born on 21.12.1712
	4J3		Esther Collett	Born on 25.01.1714
	4J4		Abiah Collett	Born on 10.11.1716
	4J5		JOSEPH COLLETT	Born on 24.03.1718
	4J6		Anna Collett	Born on 01.05.1723
	4J7		Thomas Collett	Born on 27.01.1724
	4J8		John Collett	Born on 26.02.1729
	4J9		Hannah Collett	Born on 15.01.1731
4J4	Abiah Collett was born at Cote on 10.11.1716. Around the mid to late 1740s she married Ebenezer Williams who was born at of Bampton two miles to the west of Cote on 30.07.1714, Ebenezer being the son of Richard Williams and Deborah Dancer.
	Abiah’s youngest sister Hannah (below) married Ebenezer’s brother John Williams of Cote around five years later. The two brothers were very likely the nephews of Hannah Williams who married Abiah’s father Joseph Collett.
	The marriage of Abiah and Ebenezer produced just one known son for the couple who was born and baptised at Bampton. Abiah Williams nee Collett died in 1790.
	4K1		Richard Williams	Born in 1749
4J5	JOSEPH COLLETT was born at Cote on 24.03.1718. Later in his life he was a draper of Hemel Hempstead and he married Sarah Smith. The marriage produced seven children for Joseph and Sarah, and all of them were born while the couple were living at Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire.
	Joseph Collett died early in 1771 and his Will was proved on 07.05.1771. His widow Sarah died twenty years later in 1791. Prior to his death Joseph Collett the draper of Hemel Hempstead was eligible for service with the Militia between the years 1758 and 1762.
	4K2		Anne Collett	Born in 1743
	4K3		Thomas Collett	Born in 1745
	4K4		William Collett	Born in 1749
	4K5		Samuel Collett	Born in 1751
	4K6		EBENEZER JOHN COLLETT	Born in 1755
	4K7		Benjamin Collett	Born in 1757
	4K8		Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1761
4J6	Anna Collett was born at Cote on 01.05.1723 and she married Mr Tooley of Wantage in Berkshire.
4J7	Thomas Collett was born at Cote on 27.01.1724. At some time in his short life he had moved to High Wycombe, perhaps for work purposes, because at his death in 1746 at the age of twenty-two he was referred to as ‘a Gentleman of High Wycombe’.
4J9	Hannah Collett was born at Cote on 15.01.1731 where she married John Williams also of Cote around 1754. John Williams was born on 14.08.1725 and was the brother of Ebenezer Williams who married Hannah’s older sister Abiah Collett (above) and the son of Richard Williams and Deborah Dancer.
	Hannah Williams nee Collett died in 1775.
4K1	Richard Williams was born in 1749 at Bampton and he married his cousin Anne Collett (below) who was born in 1743 and who died in 1819.
4K2	Anne Collett was born in 1743 at Hemel Hempstead and she married her cousin Richard Williams (above). She died in 1819.
4K3	Thomas Collett was born in 1745 at Hemel Hempstead where he married Susannah Cole. Thomas was a draper like his father Joseph before him, and is was as Thomas Collett draper of Hemel Hempstead that he was eligible for service with the Militia between 1768 and 1786.
	At the time of his death in 1814 he was referred to as a Gentleman of Hemel Hempstead. His Will was proved on 09.12.1814.
	During his life Thomas Collett had been one of five committee members in a project to construct ‘more commodious structures’ on the site of the old Butcher’s Shambles in Hemel Hempstead. First the old buildings were demolished and the reconstruction phase started in 1798.
	The work was to be financed by voluntary subscriptions, but these were not forthcoming and so, by 1800, the committee had to borrow thirty pounds from Thomas Collett in order to pay the contract William Harvey. The loan was for four years and attracted interest of thirty shillings for each of the four years.
	Thomas Collett, together with his brother William (below) and his brother-in-law Joseph Hight (below), was named in the Act of 1806 as one of the twelve Trustees of the Boxmoor Trust which oversaw the construction of the Grand Union Canal across Boxmoor.
4K4	William Collett was born in 1749 at Hemel Hempstead. He was a grocer of Hemel Hempstead and he married Ann Crawley, although one source says that it was Mary Crawley whom he married. During the following years William’s wife presented him with three daughters.
	Records held at Hemel Hempstead confirm that William was another member of his family who was eligible for service with the Militia. In these he is listed as William Collett grocer of Hemel Hempstead who was available for service between 1768 and 1786, the same as his brother Thomas Collett (above).
	It is highly likely that Ann Crawley was a relative of Mary Crawley who married John Hight – see Ref. 4K8, and even possibly her sister.
	William died in 1811 and his Will was proved on 07.11.1811.
	According to the Victorian County History for Hertfordshire, William Collett operated his grocery business from Collett’s Yard on the east side of the High Street in Hemel Hempstead. Upon his death, the grocery business was taken over by the Orchard family when the location was renamed Orchard’s Yard. Even later still it became known as Austin’s Yard.
4K5	Samuel Collett was born at Hemel Hempstead in 1751. According to records held at Hemel Hempstead, farmer Samuel Collett of Hemel Hempstead and Two Waters, just like his father Joseph and his two brothers Thomas and William (above), was eligible for service with the Militia between the years 1772 and 1786.
	Samuel Collett later died in 1803.
	Just two years prior to his death a petition was placed before the authorities which read as follows: “We, whose names are hereunder written, do desire that a dwelling-house and barn adjoining at Two Waters, in the parish of Hemel Hempstead, now in the occupation of Mr. Samuel Collett, may be registered as a place of religious worship for Protestant Dissenters, pursuant, etc., April 29^th 1801” It was signed by John Geard, Thomas Button, and William Button.
4K6	EBENEZER JOHN COLLETT was born at Hemel Hempstead on 22.05.1755. He was initially baptised as simply John Collett but adopted the name Ebenezer by deed poll later in his life when possibly in his twenties. Certainly by the spring of 1789 he was Ebenezer John Collett.
	At sometime in his early life he sailed to America where he was Consul at Charleston. On his return to England he became a hop merchant in Southwark in London and worked in the business with his brother Benjamin in partnership with Samuel Thorpe.
	On 22^nd April 1789 a court case at The Old Bailey sentenced Thomas White to seven years transportation for grand larceny. He was caught ‘red handed’ on 3^rd March that year stealing 84 pounds of clover seed worth twenty shillings from Ebenezer John Collett, his brother Benjamin Collett (below) and their partner Samuel Thorpe.
	This happened at Galley Quay while fifteen bags of seed belonging to Mr E J Collett and his partners were being loaded onto a cart for delivery to ‘Mr Collett in the Borough’ by William Haynes and George Simmonds.
	Six years after this event Ebenezer married Margaret Alsagar on 13.06.1795 and all of their children were born and baptised while the couple were living at Hemel Hempstead. Margaret was the daughter of Thomas Alsagar a cloth merchant of Newington in Surrey.
	Almost ironically, Newington was just across the River Thames from the Houses of Parliament which may have been an influential factor in his future political career or simply a coincidence, although it was only in July 1814 that he became an MP.
	Ebenezer was forty years of age at the time of his marriage to Margaret and, judging by the dates of birth of their children, it would appear that Margaret was considerably younger than her husband, perhaps as much as fifteen to twenty years younger.
	In 1797 Ebenezer personally subscribed £1,000 to the loyalty loan and a further £2,000 from his company business. The loyalty loan was the method by which the Prime Minister William Pitt raised funds during the period of the French Revolution.
	Four years into their marriage Margaret fell pregnant with their third child prompting Ebenezer to purchase a larger house for his family in 1799. This was Lockers House in Hemel Hempstead and it was Ebenezer that converted the 16^th century hunting lodge into a gentlemen’s residence.
	The picture on the right shows Lockers House in 1906. Sometime after the First World War, and possibly in the late 1920s, it was taken over and converted into a school for young ladies where Miss Simmonds was installed as The Principal. It was later used by Cavendish School as a sixth form annex before, more recently, being sold to developers for conversion into flats.
	It would appear that Ebenezer had offered rooms within the large house to his younger brother Benjamin Collett (below) since, upon his death in 1811, he was referred to as ‘Benjamin Collett of Lockers House’
	Ebenezer John Collett was Member of Parliament for Grampound, near Truro in Cornwall, from 1814 to 1818 before the constituency ceased to exist for reasons of corruption, although he continued to work in the field of politics.
	In 1819 he became Member of Parliament for Cashell in Tipperary at a time when Ireland was part of Britain. He later had his own coat of arms drawn up in 1824 which was similar in design to that of Sir Henry Colet (Ref. 18C5) the Lord Mayor of London in 1486.
	It was on 07.03.1826 that Ebenezer’s wife Margaret died at the age of fifty-one. The memorial tablet on the right can be found inside the Church of St Mary’s in Hemel Hempstead and was erected by her child. The inscription reads: “In memory of Margaret, wife of Ebenezer John Collett Esquire of Lockers House, who died March 7^th 1826 aged 51 years” Within the churchyard grounds there used to be a large altar tomb of white marble, enclosed within iron railings, on which was written the two following inscriptions; the first on the west side, and the second on the east side.
	“Sacred to the memory of Margaret, wife of E. J. Collett, Esq, M.P., of Lockers House, who departed this life March 7^th, 1826, in the 51^st year of her age” under which was “Also Thomas Collett, son of E. J. Collett, Esq., and Margaret his wife, who departed this life December 25^th1841 in the 36^th year of his age”
	“In memory of Samuel Sandars, Esq, of Lockers House, who died June 1^st, 1862, aged 73” - the son-in-law of Ebenezer Collett and the husband of his eldest daughter Mary - “In memory of Mary, wife of Samuel Sandars, Esq, of Lockers House, who died December 26^th, 1869, in her 73^rd Year. Also of Richard, son of the Above, who died July 7^th, 1871”
	Following the death of his wife, Ebenezer continued to work as a member of parliament up until 1830. For more details about events in his political life at Parliament see the appendix at the end of this line.
	During his life he was a captain with the Surrey Yeomanry and became lame after a fall from his horse while on an exercise with them. Ebenezer died on 31.10.1833 and was buried ‘at sunrise in his wood’, having previously quarrelled with the local rector over the expense of his wife's funeral.
	His Will was proved on 26.11.1833 in which his total estate was valued at £300,000. Each of his sons inherited £40,000 and each of his children received £10,000 to be given to them on the event of their marriage.
	4L1		Mary Collett	Born in 1797
	4L2		John Collett	Born in 1798
	4L3		Margaret Collett	Born in 1800
	4L4		Sarah Collett	Born in 1803
	4L5		Thomas Collett	Born in 1806
	4L6		Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1807
	4L7		William Rickford Collett	Born in 1810
	4L8		BENJAMIN COLLETT	Born in 1812
4K7	Benjamin Collett was born in 1757 at Hemel Hempstead where he married Miss Clarke. At the time of his death in 1811 he was referred to as ‘of Lockers House in Hemel Hempstead’ and ‘a Gentleman of Hemel Hempstead and Downing Street’.
	It would seem that during his life he was involved in government work, like his older brother Ebenezer John Collett (above), and was possibly employed at one of the Downing Street addresses in either a ministerial capacity or as a supporting civil servant.
	It has been recorded that Ebenezer John Collett bought Lockers House in Hemel Hempstead in 1799, so it would appear that he was given rooms in the large house by his older brother.
	It is believed that he died while at 10 Downing Street, but was later buried at Hemel Hempstead.
4K8	Elizabeth Collett was born in 1761 at Hemel Hempstead. She married Joseph Hight on 05.12.1797 in the State Church at Hemel Hempstead. Joseph was the son of John Hight and Mary Crawley and was born in 1767. The Hight family lived for many years at Westbrook Hay to the west of Hemel Hempstead where they farmed on land that formed part of the Ryder Family Estate.
	The marriage between Elizabeth and Joseph produced four children of which only their first born survived beyond adulthood. All of the children were born at Hemel Hempstead and the first specifically at Westbrook Hay.
	Elizabeth married late in her life, being around 37 years of age at the time of her wedding, and this in some way may have been a contributing factor in the early deaths of her three younger children and even her own early death. It was certainly recorded that both daughter Eliza and son Joseph were subject to a blessing on 11.11.1808 at Hemel Hempstead when they were aged 10 and 8 years respectively.
	However, it was nineteen years later on 06.07.1827 that their son Joseph died and was buried at Hemel Hempstead on 09.07.1827. No details are known of the exact dates that the two youngest daughters passed away, but it is known the Joseph’s wife Elizabeth died on 24.10.1814 and was buried two days after at the Baptist Cemetery in Hemel Hempstead.
	After the death of his first wife, Joseph married (2) Ann who was born in 1775. Some records for Joseph gave his surname as Hight-Bonnington. It may therefore be the case that his second wife was Ann Bonnington.
	The event of his second marriage resulted in a move into London where the couple spent many years at Long Lane, south of Tower Bridge, in Southwark. Upon the death of his second wife Joseph returned to Hemel Hempstead and to Crouchfield where he died on 12.04.1844. His body was laid to rest in the Baptist Cemetery where his first wife had been buried thirty years earlier.
	4M1		Eliza Hight	Born on 05.10.1798
	4M2		Joseph Hight	Born on 23.09.1800
	4M3		Mary Hight	Born on 09.07.1802
	4M4		Sarah Hight	Born on 08.08.1804
4L1	Mary Collett was born in 1797 at Hemel Hempstead. She married Samuel Sandars of Boston in Lincolnshire. Later he was referred to as ‘of Hemel Hempstead’.
	As a child Mary lived at her father’s home at Lockers House in Hemel Hempstead and this may have extended into her adult years as well. What is know is that her son Thomas also lived there for some part of his life but it is not clear if this was when he was single or married.
	Samuel Sandars died on 01.06.1862 at the age of 73. Just over three years later his wife Mary died on 26.12.1869, also aged 73. The couple were buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s Church in Hemel Hempstead where a large white marble tomb used to mark the joint grave, which also contained the body of their son Richard Sandars who died on 07.07.1871.
	4M5		Thomas Sandars	Born in 1825
4L2	John Collett was born in 1798 at Hemel Hempstead. He married Emma Gage, the daughter of Sir Thomas Gage of Hengrave Hall in Suffolk. John was Member of Parliament for Athlone and the couple lived at Belgrave Square in London and had a country retreat on the south coast at Lymington in Hampshire.
	4M6		Charlotte Eustacia Collett	Born circa mid 1820s
4L3	Margaret Collett was born in 1800 at Lockers House in Hemel Hempstead. She married John Hayhill of Gressenhall Hall in Norfolk and died in 1880.
4L4	Sarah Collett was born in 1803 at Lockers House in Hemel Hempstead. She married Charles Omerod of the India Board and died in 1883.
4L5	Thomas Collett was born in 1806 at Lockers House in Hemel Hempstead. He attended Trinity College at Oxford where he matriculated on 27^th November 1823 aged 16. The university records confirm that he was the son of Ebenezer John Collett of Southwark in Surrey.
	Thomas went on to obtain a Bachelor of Art degree at Oxford on 23^rd November 1826 following which, four years later, he received his Master of Arts on 4^th November 1830.
	He became a barrister-at-law at Lincoln’s Inn in 1832 and became a member of the Inner Temple in London on 8^th January 1836. At sometime during his life he was also a barrister of Lincolnshire.
	Thomas Collett died on 25.12.1841 and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s Church in Hemel Hempstead. The grave he shared with his mother Margaret Collett, and his sister Mary Sandars nee Collett and her husband Samuel Sandars, used to be covered with a large altar tombstone in white marble. See under Thomas’ father, Ebenezer John Collett, for more details
4L6	Elizabeth Collett was born at Lockers House in Hemel Hempstead on 23.11.1807. She was baptised at Hemel Hempstead on 14.01.1808, the daughter of Ebenezer John Collett and his wife Margaret Alsagar.
	Elizabeth Collett married Richard Coles a solicitor and died in 1887 at the age of eighty.
4L7	William Rickford Collett was born on 22.04.1810 at Hemel Hempstead where he was baptised on 07.06.1810. He was Member of Parliament for Lincoln from 1841 to 1847, and was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
	On 27.09.1849 when he was thirty-eight, William Rickford Collett of Lockers in Hemel Hempstead married sixteen years old Hannah Maria Hartigan who was born on 28.05.1833. Hannah was the daughter and eighth child of the Reverend Edward Hartigan, Vicar of Kiltormen in County Galway, and his wife Elizabeth Florence Eyre. Despite their twenty-two years age difference, the marriage produced eleven children for the couple.
	It is not known for sure where all of their children were actually born, but it seems likely that the first two may have been born while William and Hannah were still in England. Shortly after the family sailed to Australia where the next five children were definitely born in New South Wales.
	It would then appear that the family return to Britain since it is known their ninth child was born in Caernavon in Wales and their last child was born in St John’s Wood in London.
	On his return, William attempted to enter the field of political and in September 1868 he contested the seat for County Tipperary on behalf of the Conservative Party. His nationalist opponent was the notorious Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa and, as a result, he failed to win the election. Rossa was returned, but was declared incapable of sitting in the House of Commons since he was an imprisoned felon at that time, so the third candidate, a Liberal, was returned for the constituency.
	William Rickford Collett died fourteen years later in 1882, and at the time of his death he was one of the oldest members of the Carlton Club. His much younger wife Hannah died thirteen years later on 28.02.1895.
	4M7		Hannah Maria Collett	Born on 30.06.1850
	4M8		William Rickford Collett	Born in 1852
	4M9		unnamed Collett child	Born circa 1853; infant death
	4M10		Robert Arthur Singleton Collett	Born on 15.05.1855
	4M11		Charlotte Elizabeth Collett	Born on 09.12.1859
	4M12		William Rickford Secundus Collett	Born on 23.03.1862
	4M13		Ellen Susan Collett	Born on 22.06.1866
	4M14		Florence Susan Collett	Born on 13.09.1868
	4M15		Edward Caernarvon Collett	Born on 29.01.1870
	4M16		Decima Collett	Born circa 1873; infant death
	4M17		Stratford John Waverley Collett	Born on 23.09.1876
4L8	BENJAMIN COLLETT was born in 1812 at Lockers House in Hemel Hempstead. He married Charlotte Sampson of Grafton Manor in Worcestershire where all of their children were born. He died in 1871.
	4M18		Harriett Anna Collett	Born in 1835
	4M19		Margaret Collett	Born in 1837
	4M20		Charlotte Collett	Born in 1838
	4M21		Charles Benjamin Collett	Born in 1840
	4M22		John Collett	Born in 1841
	4M23		WILLIAM COLLETT	Born in 1843
	4M24		Thomas Clay Collett	Born in 1847
4M1	Eliza Hight was born on 05.10.1798 at Westbrook Hay in the parish of Bovingdon near Hemel Hempstead. She was educated in London at a Greenwich boarding school and was only 16 years of age when her mother died.
	She married Joseph King Blundell of Luton at the Church of St Mary Magdalen in Bermondsey on 07.03.1822. Joseph was the son of the Reverend Thomas Blundell and Elizabeth King and was born on 23.03.1790. The marriage produced many children although only two are listed here.
	There is however a later reference to a Mary Ann Blundell, the niece of Henry Blundell (below). She was aged 26 in 1881 and was born at Luton around 1855. This would place her as the child of Henry’s older brother possibly born around 1830.
	According to the 1851 Census for Luton, Eliza was described as being a straw plat merchant and it is known that members of her mother’s Collett family were involved in this industry in her home town of Hemel Hempstead.
	Joseph died on 10.01.1857 and was buried at Luton, but not before he purchased several farms around Luton and established himself as a supporter of the Wesleyan Church. Eliza continued to develop the family business following his death and later went into production of straw hats, one of the main industries in Luton, which she sold from Blundell’s departmental store in the town. In addition to owning the shop, Eliza also inherited the Luton area farms and other farms in Suffolk, and the family business was successfully carried on by later generations of her family.
	By the time of the 1881 Census Eliza Blundell, a gentlewoman, was living at 1 Church Street in Luton, a widow aged 82 and born at Westbrook Hay. Living with her was her niece and companion Sarah Frear unmarried and aged 27 years of Woodstock in Oxfordshire, and these two ladies were supported by two domestic servants.
	Eliza lived a busy widow’s life for the last thirty-seven years of her long life until her death on 17.04.1894, following which she was buried at Luton.
	4N1		Henry Blundell	Born on 31.01.1834
	4N2		Arthur Blundell	Born on 12.01.1840
4M5	Thomas Sandars was born in 1825 at Hemel Hempstead. He married Margaret Hammell and was a Barrister of Law, having gained a degree at Balliol College in Oxford.
	The couple are known to have lived at Lockers House in Hemel Hempstead at sometime in their lives, the property having been purchased by Ebenezer John Collett in 1799 for himself and his family.
	The family connection that brought them to Lockers House was through Thomas Sanders’ mother Mary Collett, who was the eldest child of Ebenezer John Collett.
4M6	Charlotte Eustacia Collett was born sometime in the eighteen-twenties and died in 1869. She married Adam Atkinson a Justice of the Peace of Lorbottle Hall in Northumberland, about twelve miles west of Alnwick. Adam died in 1875.
4M7	Hannah Maria Collett, who was known as Nannie, was born on 30.06.1850, the eldest child of William Rickard Collett of Hemel Hempstead and Hannah Maria Hartigan of County Galway. It seems highly likely that she was born in the British Isles before her parents sailed to Australia.
	In 1868 when Hannah was eighteen her family returned to Britain and initially settled in Caernarvon in North Wales before moving to London a few years later. What is known is that Hannah later emigrated to New Zealand, but the actual date she sailed from England is not known at this time.
	On 31.08.1875 Hannah Maria Collett married William Corbett at the Church of St. Mary’s in Parnell, Auckland. William was the son of William Corbett, Postmaster-General of New Zealand. Hannah presented her husband with six children before she died on 22.03.1896.
	4N3		Mary Evangeline Corbett	Born on 09.06.1882
	4N4		Florence Alsager Corbett	Born on 28.01.1884
	4N5		Hilda Corbett	Born on 13.06.1887
	4N6		Beatrix Ormerod Corbett	Date of birth unknown
	4N7		Isabel Corbett	Born on 11.12.1890
	4N8		Agatha Corbett	Born on 30.09.1894
4M8	William Rickford Collett was born in 1852 and this may have been in England or Australia, but it is known that it was at Singleton in New South Wales that he died as the result of an accident with a lamp.
4M10	Robert Arthur Singleton Collett was born at Singleton in New South Wales on 15.05.1855. Robert A S Collett died on 10.05.1897.
	Robert married Elizabeth Jane Maunsell on 06.07.1880 at Monkstown Church in County Dublin, the ceremony being conducted by the Reverend Canon Peacocke who later became Archbishop of Dublin. Elizabeth, who was known as Lily, was the daughter of Edward William Maunsell, the Secretary of the D. W. and Wex Railway, and his wife Bessie Callanan.
	In 1897 Robert’s brother William (below) married Catherine Maunsell who the younger sister of his wife Elizabeth Jane Maunsell.
	Robert A S Collett was a clerk in the Court of Queen’s Bench in Ireland, and he died on 10.05.1897 and was buried at Mount Jerome. He left his wife with three young children.
	4N9		William Edward Hartigan Collett	Born on 27.06.1881
	4N10		Robert Arthur Stewart Collett	Born on 26.07.1885
	4N11		Dorothy Esther Collett	Born on 22.04.1889
4M11	Charlotte Elizabeth Collett was born in New South Wales on 09.12.1859. Charlotte later returned to England with her family and it was there that she married Edward Treffry-Goatley on 14.07.1881. Edward was the son of Goatley, from Goatley Lees in the Isle of Thanet, by his wife the former Miss Treffry of Place House at Fowey in Cornwall.
	At some time in his life Edward Treffry-Goatley worked for Her Majesty’s Custom in Durban in Natal, South Africa. The marriage produced four children for the couple.
	4N12	Edward Stratford Treffry-Goatley		Born on 23.06.1883; died 05.08.1884
	4N13	Edwin Rickford Fitzroy Treffry-Goatley		Born on 05.10.1884
	4N14	Gladys Winifred Charlotte Treffry-Goatley		Born on 14.02.1887
	4N15	Edith Claire Treffry-Goatley		Born on 03.06.1890
4M12	William Rickford Secundus Collett was born at Singleton in New South Wales on 23.03.1862. He married his sister-in-law Catherine Maunsell on 12.06.1897 at St George’s Church in Tufnell Park in London. Catherine was the sister of Elizabeth Maunsell who married William’s brother Robert (above), and the daughter of Edward William Maunsell and Bessie Callanan.
	After they were married William and Catherine emigrated to New Zealand where their son was born. In addition to this couple also had four other children, although no details are available at this time. And it was at Waihi in New Zealand that William R S Collett died on 23.02.1919.
	William’s wife Catherine was born in Dublin in 1863 and died on 19.01.1945 at Palmerstone North in New Zealand, eleven years before her son Rickford Collett died there in 1956.
	4N16	Rickford Edward Francis Collett		Born on 06.01.1900
4M13	Ellen Susan Collett was born in New South Wales on 22.06.1866. Ellen, who was known as Ella, was just twenty years old when she married William Russell of Lemonfield in County Limerick on 14.07.1886 at Kilpeacon Church in County Limerick. The marriage produced five children for the couple.
	4N17	Ella May Russell		Born on 10.05.1887
	4N18	Violet Florence Russell		Born on 16.12.1890; died 18.02.1901
	4N19	Charles William Norris Russell		Born on 22.03.1893
	4N20	Oliver Edith Russell		Born on 28.08.1894
	4N21	Victor Eyre Russell		Born on 25.07.1897; died 09.04.1898
4M14	Florence Susan Collett was born on 13.09.1868 in England after her parents returned for Australia. It was at the Holy Trinity Church in Rathmines in County Dublin that she married William Walker on 21.10.1891. He was referred to as William Walker from Kilkee in County Clare.
4M15	Edward Caernarvon Collett was born at Caernarvon in South Wales on 29.01.1870 and was baptised on 14.02.1870 at Llanbeblig one mile from Caernarvon. The baptism conformed that he was the son of William Rickford Collett and his wife Hannah Maria.
	Up to two years prior to his birth Edward’s family had lived in Singleton in New South Wales for over ten years. It was back to Australia that Edward must have travelled, since it was in New South Wales that he married Mary Dunphy on 30.04.1900. Mary was the daughter of W Dunphy.
4M17	Stratford John Waverley Collett was born at Waverley Place in St John’s Wood, London on 23.09.1876. After a little while living in London, Stratford and his family moved to Ireland. He was twenty-two when he married Marion Gore on 01.03.1899.
	Marion was the youngest daughter of the late William Gore of Fedney, in County Down, and Innismore Hall at Enniskillen, formerly of the 13^th Hussars. Marion was also the great granddaughter of Sir Philip Crampton the eminent surgeon.
	Once married, Stratford and Marion emigrated to New Zealand where three of their four children were born. Stratford was later referred to as Stratford John Collett of Khandallah, Wellington.
	4N22	John Philip Crampton Collett		Born on 1899
	4N23	Dorothea Crampton Collett		Born on 17.02.1901 at Invercargill, NZ
	4N24	Patricia Mary Crampton Collett		Born on 1903
	4N25	Joyce Crampton Collett		Born on 1905
4M18	Harriett Anna Collett was born in 1835 at Grafton Manor. She married Richard a Captain in the Royal Navy and died in 1904.
4M19	Margaret Collett was born in 1837 at Grafton Manor and died in 1908 whilst at Florence in Italy. She never married.
4M20	Charlotte Collett was born in 1838 at Grafton Manor. She married William Vian and died in 1879.
4M21	Charles Benjamin Collett was born in 1840 at Grafton Manor in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. He married (2) Emily Singleton at New South Wales in Australia. This C B Collett, not to be confused with the railway engineer, was Justice of the Peace and Clerk to the Gold Commission of New South Wales.
	It is also known that Charles Benjamin Collett had previously been married to (1) Emily Maria McDougall at Patricks Plain in New South Wales in 1861, and that this married had resulted in the birth of a son for Charles.
	4N26		Albert Collett	Born in 1868
4M22	John Collett was born in 1841 at Grafton Manor. He married Marie Watson and was a Director of Naval Contracts at the Admiralty. Marie was born in London in 1847. John died in 1895. According to the census of 1881 the family was living at 12 Fopstone Road in Kensington where the children were born. The staff at the house comprised one manservant from Ascot, two cooks/domestics from Clovelly and Hereford, and a lady’s maid from France.
	4N27		Muriel Marie Collett	Born in 1872
	4N28		Violet Julie Collett	Born in 1875
	4N29		John Alsagar Collett	Born in 1882
4M23	WILLIAM COLLETT was born in 1843 at Grafton Manor. He was a journalist and married Mary Helen Cooke from Ramsgate. In 1881 the family was living at 33 Tavistock Crescent in Westbourne Park near Paddington Station in London, where the couple’s two sons were born.
	During the previous decade William had worked as a journalist for Bell’s Life when he became involved in the world of horse-racing. This was following by work carried out for Sporting Life magazine, and it was his close association with horse-racing that prompted the family to leave London shortly after 1881.
	The family’s new home was in Exeter Road in New Market in Suffolk, and it was there three years later that William died on 17.04.1884.
	4N30		William Collett	Born in 1869
	4N31		CHARLES BENJAMIN COLLETT	Born in 1871
4M24	Thomas Clay Collett was born in 1847 at Grafton Manor. He married Sarah C G Butler of Barnwood in Gloucester who was born at Cheltenham in 1854.
	In 1881 Thomas aged 36 and of Worcester a clerk at the Legacy Duty Office and his wife Sarah aged 26 of Cheltenham were living in London at 52 Eardly Crescent in Kensington. With them were Harry H Collett aged 7, Madelaine G Collett aged 6 and son Vivien Collett aged 5, all born at Kensington.
	The house at Eardly Crescent must have been sizable to accommodate the following visitors. Frederick White an admiralty clerk, Walter Fletcher a clerk at the Bank of England, Joseph Junfon a clerk at the Legacy Duty Office, and servants Alice Watson and Emily Townley.
	Thomas died in 1916 whilst at Nice in France.
	4N32		Henry Haines Collett	Born in 1873
	4N33		Madelaine Grace Collett	Born in 1874
	4N34		Vivian Collett	Born in 1876
4N1	Henry Blundell was born at Luton on 31.01.1834. He married Sarah Whiting Staples on 26.09.1860. Sarah was born at Gazeley in Suffolk, midway between Newmarket and Bury St Edmunds on 30.10.1836 and was the daughter of William Staples and Alice Whiting. This union may have stemmed from the fact that Henry’s father owned farms in Suffolk.
	In 1881 Henry, aged 47 and of Luton, was living with his wife and six of his eight children at Moulton Lodge in Crescent Rise in Luton. Judging by the description of his occupational status, he was a wealthy businessman. The census record stated that he was a Master Draper employing 22 men and 27 women and that he was a local Methodist minister. His wife Sarah W Blundell was aged 44 years and of Moulton in Suffolk, this being the next village to Gazeley.
	Their children were all born at Luton and were listed as: Ernest aged 19 a draper’s assistant, Annie aged 17, Alice M aged 10, Hilda aged 8, Hubert aged 6, and Walter aged 5. Also living with them was Mary Ann Blundell a niece aged 26 and of Luton, a straw hat merchant’s daughter. Other members of the household included a governess, 28 years old Emma Munn of Bury St Edmunds, and three domestic servants.
	Henry and Sarah had two other sons Percy and Stanley who, at the time of the 1881 Census, were boarders at a select private school in Bedford at 80 Adelaide Square in the St Paul’s region of the town. Percy was listed as being aged 16 while Stanley was 13, both having been born at Luton.
	From all eight children of the marriage the only known detail relates to Percy Blundell who was born in 1864 and who later married Annie Boutwood.
	4O1		Ernest Blundell	Born in 1861
	4O2		Annie Blundell	Born in 1863
	4O3		Percy Blundell	Born in 1864
	4O4		Stanley Blundell	Born in 1867
	4O5		Alice M Blundell	Born in 1870
	4O6		Hilda Blundell	Born in 1873
	4O7		Hubert Blundell	Born in 1875
	4O8		Walter Blundell	Born in 1876
4N2	Arthur Blundell was born at Luton on 12.01.1840. His occupation was that of a flour miller and it seems more than likely that he moved from Luton to manage one of the family farms in Suffolk as it was there that he met and married his wife.
	At the age of thirty years he married Sarah Andrews on 27.10.1870 in the Congregational Church in Newmarket. Sarah was the daughter of Henry Andrews and Mary Staples and was born at Burwell just north of Newmarket on 03.02.1850.
	Four of the five children listed below were born at Wissett near Halesworth in Suffolk, while the couple’s first born child was born at Chediston the next village south of Wissett.
	According to the 1881 Census, the family was living on a seventy acre farm at Chediston where Arthur employed seven men. The level of prosperity the family enjoyed can be gauged from the fact the Arthur employed a young governess for his children and also a domestic servant.
	Six years later in 1887 the family emigrated to New Zealand. At the time of Arthur’s death on 26.12.1923 the family home was stated as being 1 Dunholme Road in Remuera, Auckland. Arthur was described as a retired farmer aged 83 and the cause of death was given as asthma by the medical attendant Doctor Coldicutt. It would appear that his body was cremated at Waikumete but that the ashes were returned to England for burial.
	The record of his death noted that he left a wife Sarah aged 73 and three sons and four daughters.
	Arthur’s widow Sarah lived for another eleven years before she died on 20.12.1934 and was buried at Hillsborough in Auckland.
	4O9		Mary Blundell	Born on 26.11.1871
	4O10		Arthur Oscar Blundell	Born on 20.01.1873
	4O11		Adiah Eliza Blundell	Born on 28.12.1875
	4O12		Ethel Annie Blundell	Born on 02.08.1877
	4O13		Wilfred Andrews Blundell	Born on 20.08.1879
	4O14		Sarah Zillah Blundell	Born in February 1882
	4O15		Hugh King Blundell	Born on 21.10.1884
4N16	Rickford Edward Francis Collett was born at Sydenham in Christchurch, New Zealand on 06.01.1900. He was twenty-one years old when he married Wilmot Kathleen Palmer at Nelson on 20.06.1921. Kathleen was born at Wakefield in Nelson on 11.04.1901 and was the daughter of Thomas Palmer and Bessie Maria Caldwell Gibbs.
	Rickford E F Collett died 03.08.1956 at Palmerston North in New Zealand and was followed eight years after by his wife who also died there on 03.06.1964.
4N26	Albert Collett was born in 1868 and he married Julia Mary Anne Cobcroft who was fourteen years older than Albert, having been born in 1852 in New South Wales. She was the daughter of Enoch Cobcroft and Isabella Jane Ridge.
	The wedding of Albert and Julia took place at Kogarah in New South Wales during 1894. Probably because of her age Julia at that time, never presented Albert with any children. And the only other details known about the couple is that Julia Mary Anne Collett nee Cobcroft died in 1934.
4N27	Muriel Marie Collett was born in 1872 at Kensington in London and she married Lieutenant Colonel Sir Kenyon Pascoe Vaughan Morgan during the late 1890s.
	The first of the couple’s two children was born right at the end of the century, with the second being born ten years later. Upon marrying Kenyon, Muriel took the surname Vaughan Morgan as confirmed by the census in 1911.
	In this the family was recorded as living in Kensington and comprised Kenyon Pasco Vaughan Morgan and his wife Muriel Marie Vaughan Morgan, both aged thirty-seven, and their two children Phyllis Vaughan Morgan who was eleven, and John Kenyon Vaughan Morgan who was just one year old.
4N29	John Alsagar Collett was born in 1882 at Kensington and was twenty-eight in April 1911 when he was living alone at Godstone in Surrey. A little while later he married Evelyn. John was a Lieutenant Commander OBE in the Royal Navy and died in 1925.
4N30	William Collett was born at Westbourne Park in London in 1869 and died there ten years later in 1879.
4N31	CHARLES BENJAMIN COLLETT was born on 10.09.1871 at Westbourne Park in London. A double tragedy hit his family when Charles was still a child. First, when he was eight years old his brother William (above) died, and then five years after that, Charles’ father died while the family was living at New Market in Suffolk. Charles’ father was a race-horse journalist working for the Sporting Life magazine. Charles married Ethelwyn May Simon in 1896 and she died in 1923 never having produced the baby that Charles so dearly wanted to complete his family.
	The census in 1911 confirmed that Charles Benjamin Collett, who was thirty-nine, was living at Swindon with his thirty-five years old wife Ethelwyn May Collett.
	Rumour has it that she was a very religious lady and devoted her life to her religious beliefs and would never have found time, nor the patience for any children. This in turn made her husband a very unhappy man for much of their married life and was possibly the main reason behind his devotion to the railways. Even his spare time was spent in the pursuit of Great Western Railway activities.
	Charles Benjamin Collett was the Chief Mechanical Engineer with the Great Western Railway at Swindon from January 1922 until his retirement in July 1941. He first joined the GWR in May 1893 as a junior draughtsman and by 1898 he had secured the post of Chief Draughtsman. In 1900 he became Technical Inspector at the Swindon Locomotive Works and in the same year became Assistant Manager. He was appointed to the post of Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer in May 1919. This enabled him to take over from the designer G J Churchward on his retirement at the end of 1921.
	Charles designed and built the Castle Class of steam locomotives in 1923, but his best was yet to come, in the form of the Kings Class which he designed and built in 1927. In 1930 he began the development of the first diesel railway engines, although it was many years thereafter that they were eventually introduced.
	He received his early education at the Merchant Taylors School at Charterhouse Square in London, before studying at The London University City & Guilds College. Between 1921 and 1928 he was a magistrate and received the OBE for his efforts producing munitions during the First World War. He was a Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers and a member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.
	Following his retirement in the summer of 1941, he returned to London and lived in the house he owned at 32 The Downs in Wimbledon, where he died on 23.08.1952. The funeral was a very quiet affair with no family in attendance, although present were other great railway engineer designers of that time excluding Hawksworth, Stanier and Pole.
	In 1930 he signed the Certificate of Apprenticeship of William Henry John Collett (Ref. 1Q4) who, at that time was living at 7 Bathampton Street in Swindon the same street as Charles Benjamin himself.
4N32	Henry Haines Collett, who was known as Harry, was born at Kensington in London in 1873 and in 1881 he was living with his family at 52 Eardly Crescent in Kensington. He was an author, playwright and genealogist and he married Gwendoline Fletcher.
	In April 1911 Harry Haines was thirty-eight and was living in the Fulham area of London with his wife Gwendoline Blanche Collett who was ten years old at twenty-eight years of age. Their daughter Marjorie would have been three or four years old but was not listed with the couple on this occasion.
	Instead, living with the couple was Harry’s younger brother Vivian Collett (below) who was thirty-six. Both of the brothers were confirmed as having been born at Kensington.
	During the early 1930s Henry was contacted by women’s right campaigner Clara Elizabeth Collett who expressed an interest in writing a book about the Collett family. Over the next few years they worked together on this project in Clara’s house at 61 Swains Lane overlooking Highgate Cemetery in London.
	This culminated in the publication of ‘The History of the Collett Family’ in 1935 which was based on the earlier work of Bernard Collett (Ref. 14O53) who had produced the Family Tree for the Colletts of Upper Slaughter which had been lodged with the British Library. Henry died in 1952 at the age of 79.
	4O14		Marjorie Collett	Born in 1907
	4O15		Anthony Alsagar Collett	Born in 1912
	The details of the life of Clara Elizabeth Collett can be found in Part Seventeen – The Maldon Essex Line (Ref. 17O4)
4N33	Madelaine Grace Collett was born at Kensington in 1874 and in 1881 was living with her family at 52 Eardly Crescent in Kensington. She married Richard Lester and at some point in her life emigrated to South Africa where, in 1916, she died at Durban.
4N34	Vivian Collett was born at Kensington in 1876 and in 1881 was living with his family at 52 Eardly Crescent in Kensington. By 1911 he was listed as Vivian Collett of Kensington who was thirty-six, when he was living in the Fulham area of London with his brother Henry Collett (above). Shortly after this Vivian married Florence Gleadon with whom he had three children.
	4O16		Richard Collett	Born in 1913
	4O17		John Collett	Born in 1915
	4O18		Dorothy Collett	Born in 1919
4O9	Mary Blundell, was referred to as Mamie, and was born at Chediston in Suffolk on 26.11.1871. She sailed to New Zealand with her parents in 1887 where she married Robert Joseph Allely on 18.10.1892 at Auckland. Joseph was born on 25.12.1867 and died at Auckland on 17.02.1968 where Mary also died twenty years earlier on 11.07.1948.
	The marriage produced just five children: Joseph Calvert Allely (1895-); Brian Andrews Allely (1897-); Ethel Sarah Allely (1900-); Elspeth Mary Allely (1904-1937); and Margaret Josephine Allely (1910-).
4O10	Arthur Oscar Blundell was born at Wissett in Suffolk on 20.01.1873. He sailed to New Zealand with his parents in 1887 and it was there that he became a minister and where he married Janet Dryden on 17.03.1899. Janet was born on 24.02.1871 and died on 15.04.1960. Arthur died thirty-five years before on 11.11.1925 at Mount Egmont in Taranaki.
	4P1		John Dryden Blundell	Born in 1900
	4P2		Arthur Hope Blundell	Born in 1901
	4P3		Estelle Mary Blundell	Born in 1912; died in 1921
4O11	Adiah Eliza Blundell was born at Wissett on 28.12.1875. She sailed to New Zealand with her parents in 1887 where, just prior to her twentieth birthday, she married Thomas Calvert Allely on 31.10.1895. It seems very likely that Thomas was the brother of Robert Allely who married Adiah’s sister Mary Blundell.
	The couple both died at Auckland, Thomas on 24.01.1950 and Adiah thirteen years later on 03.10.1963.
4O12	Ethel Annie Blundell was born at Wissett on 02.08.1877. She sailed to New Zealand with her parents in 1887 where there is no record that she ever married. She died on 22.06.1962 at Auckland and was buried at Hillsborough Cemetery where her mother was also buried.
4O13	Wilfred Andrews Blundell was born at Wissett on 20.08.1879. He sailed to New Zealand with his parents in 1887 and attended the Wellesley St School in Auckland. On leaving school he took up the job of drover and later worked on Woodlands farm in North Road at Clevedon where he met Sarah Elizabeth Whitford. Sarah was born on 30.09.1884 at Turanga Creek in Whitford and was employed as a nurse maid at Woodlands.
	Without the approval of his parents Wilfred married Sarah at Howick on 30.10.1906 but any family rift was overcome at a later date when his parents paid an extended return visit to England leaving Wilfred in sole charge of their farm at Oropi.
	It was while at Oropi that Wilfred and Sarah’s first five children were born. On his parents return, Wilfred and his family moved to Whitford where Sarah’s mother lived, before moving yet again to Pakuranga before finally purchasing the Woodlands farms where the couple had first met. The money to purchase Woodlands came from an inheritance from an uncle in England.
	At sometime in his later life Wilfred suffered from a serious accident when he fell from a horse. This happened in Brookby and he was unconscious for several weeks and was unable to resume work for four years. Thereafter he never really enjoyed a healthy life and eventually died of a heart condition on 23.03.1946 when living at Uxbridge Road in Howich.
	Two days later on 25.05.1946 he was buried at the Hillsborough Cemetery in Auckland. He was a kind and gentle man and always wore a neck tie to sit at the dinner table. He was a music lover which he inherited from his mother and had a good signing voice.
	4P4		Whitford Henry Andrews Blundell	Born in 1907
	4P5		Stanley Hugh Blundell	Born in 1908
	4P6		Ethel Marion Blundell	Born in 1910
	4P7		Vera Hight Blundell	Born in 1913
	4P8		Alfred Edward Martin Blundell	Born in 1915
	4P9		John Carruthers Blundell	Born in 1917
	4P10		Joan Andrews Blundell	Born in 1919
	4P11		Wilma Elizabeth Blundell	Born in 1930
4O14	Sarah Zillah Blundell was born in England during February 1882 prior to the family leaving the family home in Suffolk and sailing for New Zealand in 1887. She married Gerard Lane on 17.03.1904. Gerald was born in 1878 and died in 1958 at Auckland. Sarah died three years later at Weymouth in New Zealand on 17.06.1961.
	Sarah and Gerard had just three children: Gerard Blundell Lane (1908-) who married Violet; Zillah Dorothy Tennant Lane (1912-1992) who married Nicholas Gibbons; and Shirley Taplin Lane (1917-) who married Bevan Collins.
4015	Hugh King Blundell was born on 21.10.1884 in England, three years before the family sailed to New Zealand. Little else is known about Hugh except that he died in Auckland.
4P4	Whitford Henry Andrews Blundell was born in New Zealand in 1907. He married Marjorie Stephens who was born in 1906 and who died in 1966, while Whitford lived on for a further fifteen years.
	4Q1		Judith Anne Blundell	Born in 1936
4P5	Stanley Hugh Blundell was born in New Zealand in 1908 and he married Phyllis Holmes who was born in 1912 and with whom he had four children. John Holmes Blundell (1935-); Diana Mary Blundell (1938-); David Lawrence Blundell (1944-); and Linda Jean Blundell (1946-).
4P6	Ethel Marion Blundell was born in New Zealand in 1910 where she married Norman Ronald Gibbs who was also born in 1910. The married produced five children: Joan Elizabeth Gibbs born in 1937; Marilyn Rose Gibbs born in 1939; Alan Whitford Gibbs born in 1941; Graham Rodier Gibbs born in 1944; and Robert Norman Gibbs born in 1946.
4P7	Vera Hight Blundell was born in New Zealand in 1913 where she married Augustus George Andrews. Augustus, who was also born in 1913, seems likely to be a descendant of the Andrews family of Burwell in Suffolk (see Ref. 4N2), and they too may have emigrated to New Zealand around the time that Arthur Blundell and Sarah Andrews did in 1887.
	Vera and Augustus had four children: Glenise Elizabeth Andrews born in 1942; Geoffrey Blundell Andrews born in 1945; Janet Margaret Andrews born in 1946; and Richard Grosvenor Andrews born in 1947.
4P8	Alfred Edward Martin Blundell was born in New Zealand in 1915 and it was there that he died in 2004. He married Mary Jeanette Duder who was born in 1917 and who died in 2006.
	Alfred and Mary had four children: Mary Jeanette Blundell born in 1940; Marie Kathleen Blundell born in 1941; Pamela Elizabeth Blundell born in 1943; and Wilfred Ronald Blundell born in 1946.
4P9	John Carruthers Blundell was born in New Zealand in 1917 where he married Jessie Helen McKenzie and together they had six children: John McKenzie Blundell born in 1944; Peter Andrews Blundell born in 1946; Susan Mary Blundell born in 1947; Anthony Whitford Blundell born in 1949; Guy Carruthers Blundell born in 1952; and Rowan Hugh Blundell born in 1959.
4P10	Joan Andrews Blundell was born in New Zealand in 1919 and she married Murray Ewen with whom she had a daughter Rosemary Ewen born in 1952.
4P11	Wilma Elizabeth Blundell was born in New Zealand in 1930 and she married David Bone with whom she had a son Christopher Bone born in 1958 and a daughter Helen Bone born in 1960.
4Q1	Judith Anne Blundell was born in 1936 and she married John Leighton Stichbury who was born in 1928 but who died in 1995. Judith and John had four sons: Warwick Stephen Stichbury born in 1960 who married Mrs Jill Kelly nee Andrews; Neil Gordon Stichbury born in 1962 who married Penelope Sarah Warwick; Philip Leighton Stichbury born in 1966 who married Mary Ellen Clark; and Paul Jeremy Stichbury born in 1968.
	APPENDIX
	THE POLITICAL LIFE OF EBENEZER JOHN COLLETT [1755-1833] (Ref. 4K6)
	of Lockers House, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
	He was the Member of Parliament for Grampound in Cornwall from 13^th July 1814 until its abolition in 1818 for reasons of corruption. Thereafter he was the MP for Cashel in Ireland from 4^th March 1819 until-1830. He claimed descent from Dean Colet the humanist and founder of St Paul’s School for Boys and his grandfather the Reverend Joseph Collett was in fact heir to the Colletts of Broadwell in Gloucestershire. His father Joseph Collett settled at Hemel Hempstead, where the family remained until 1871. He contested the parliamentary seat at Grimsby unsuccessfully in 1812, but was returned on a vacancy for Grampound two years later on the interest of Sir Christopher Hawkins. He supported administration without speaking and apart from votes on 31^st May in 1815 and 24^th May in 1816, he did not appear as a regular ministerialist until 1818, though he was also in the majorities of 7^th February and 23^rd June in 1817. He voted against Catholic relief on 21^st May in 1816 and 9^th May in 1817, and also against Lord Brougham's motion to promote the education of the poor on 3^rd June 1818. Defeated at Grampound in 1818, he was found a seat by the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel for Cashel, as he had given ‘a never failing support’ and was ‘a Protestant’. He duly voted against Catholic relief again on 3^rd May in 1819. He was in the minority on the Marriage Act amendment bill on 26^th April 1819, but voted with ministers that same year on 18^th May, 10^th June and 23^rd December. Though he never went to Ireland in his life, he held his seat until 1830. He paid £500 at each election and refused a baronetcy, according to a family account.