PART FORTY-TWO

The Tetbury Gloucestershire Line

This line commences with Thomas Collett (Ref. 2M10) of Bibury

Updated December 2009

This is the family line of Jeannie Evans (Ref. 42S3) and Laura Salman (Ref. 42S9)

of Berkeley in Gloucestershire and has been compiled with assistance from Jamie Moore.

It commences with Thomas Collett who also features in Part 2 – The Secondary Line

42M1	Thomas Collett (Ref. 2M6) was born at Bibury in 1788 where he was baptised on 21.09.1788, the son of Job and Susannah Collett. It was also at Bibury that Thomas Collett married Mary Coates on 16.09.1811
	In the 1841 Census Thomas was aged 55, although it was common practice in this first national UK census for the age of adults to be rounded to the nearest five years.
	Thomas’ wife Mary was also stated as being aged 55 years of age and Thomas was listed as working as an agricultural labourer. Thomas was also the founder member of the Arlington Baptist Church, the couple having originally been members of the Baptist Church at Fairford.
	All of their children were baptised at Arlington Baptist Church but only daughters Mary aged 12 and Martha aged 10 were listed as living with their parents in 1841.
	Only two other members of the family of Thomas and Mary was also still living in Arlington at that time, and they were their married sons Richard and John.
	Unlike the later census records the 1841 Census did not include address details. However, it has subsequently been determined that Thomas Collett and his family actually lived at Arlington Row in Bibury.
	Also listed as living at Arlington in 1841 was a lady by the name of Ann Collett aged 85 years. This would place the year she was born around 1755. Thomas’ father Job Collett (Ref. 2L10) had a twin brother John Collett (Ref. 2L9) and it is possible that Ann was his wife, since Job’s wife Susannah had died in 1837.
	By the time of the census of 1851 Thomas and his wife Mary were both aged 65 and were still living in Bibury. Still living with them was their daughter Martha Collett then aged 19 together with their son Job Collett who was aged 28 and listed as ‘miller of Faringdon’.
	42N1	Richard Collett	Baptised on 12.04.1812
	42N2	Mary Ann Collett	Baptised on 12.12.1813
	42N3	Richard Collett	Born in August 1814
	42N4	John Collett	Baptised on 07.05.1815
	42N5	Ann Collett	Baptised on 24.05.1818
	42N6	Job Collett	Baptised on 04.03.1821
	42N7	Hannah Collett	Baptised on 11.07.1824
	42N8	Elizabeth Collett	Baptised on 06.08.1826
	42N9	Mary Collett	Baptised on 04.01.1829
	42N10	Martha Collett	Baptised on 01.05.1831
42N1	Richard Collett was baptised on 12.04.1812 at Arlington Baptist Church but suffered an infant death and was buried at Bibury on 13.10.1812.
42N2	Mary Ann Collett was baptised on 12.12.1813 at Arlington Baptist Church. She never married and was buried at Bibury on 12.07.1839 aged 25 years.
42N3	Richard Collett was born at Arlington in August 1814 but so far no baptism record has been found at the church where all his brothers and sisters were baptised. It is possible his parent’s decided against it following what happened to their first born son after whom Richard was named.
	Sometime around 1833/34 Richard married Mary who was born at Duntisbourne in 1810 and in 1841 they were living at Arlington where Richard was aged 27 and Mary was aged 30. Living with them at that time were their sons John aged 6 and William aged seven months, and their daughter Elizabeth aged 2. Richard was referred to by his shortened name of ‘Rich’.
	No record of their son John has been found in the 1851 Census but, by then, Richard and Mary had followed in the footsteps of his younger sister Hannah (below) and had left Bibury and had moved to Tetbury where they were living at Harper Street on 30^th March 1851. Richard was aged 36, while Mary was aged 40.
	Despite possibly suffering the tragic loss of one of their children sometime during the years between 1841 and 1851, the family had been extended by a further three children. Surviving children Jane was aged 15 and William was aged 10. The new arrivals were John aged 5, Job 3 and Sarah aged 1, all three of them having been born at Tetbury.
	There are unresolved issues surrounding Richard’s eldest daughter Jane who was born at Cheltenham. She was aged 5 in the 1841 Census but was not listed with the family living at Arlington, but was with them at Harper Street in Tetbury by 1851.
	In addition to this there is a question surrounding Richard’s daughter Elizabeth who, in 1851, was living in Cheltenham where she was working as a servant and laundress aged 11.
	Ten years later in 1861 Richard, then 46, and Mary 40 were still living at Tetbury and there had been a further addition to the family with the arrival of son Thomas aged 8. The couple’s other children at that time were William 20, John 15, Job 12, and Sarah 11.
	At sometime during the next decade Mary died at Tetbury leaving Richard a widower to look after their remaining children. This event may also have been the reason that the family left Harper Street and moved to Church Street.
	According to the 1871 Census widower Richard was aged 56 and was living at Church Street in Tetbury. The only members of his family still living with him in 1871 were daughter Sarah aged 22 and son Thomas aged 19.
	In April 1881 Richard was aged 67 and was a general labourer living as a boarder at the first cottage in Saul Road in Fretherne eight miles south-west of Gloucester. This was the home of Isabella Rudge, a mariner’s wife from South Shields in Durham.
	At this same time Richard’s son John was living with his own family in the neighbouring village of Saul which was less than one mile from Richard’s home in Fretherne.
	There was no record of Richard in either 1891 or 1901 so it must be assumed that he died sometime after April 1881. During his life he was referred to as ‘Frenchy Collett’ by his family and friends.
	42O1	John Collett	Born in 1834
	42O2	Jane Collett	Born in 1836
	42O3	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1838
	42O4	William H Collett	Born in December 1840
	42O5	David Walter Collett	Born in 1842
	42O6	John Collett	Born in 1845
	42O7	Job Collett	Born in 1847
	42O8	Sarah Collett	Born in 1849
	42O9	Thomas Collett	Born after March 1851
42N4	John Collett was baptised on 07.05.1815 at Arlington Baptist Church. He married Mary who was born in 1817 at Down Ampney on the Gloucestershire border with Wiltshire.
	In the 1841 Census for Arlington John aged 25 and Mary aged 24 were listed as living with or next door to John’s father Thomas Collett and his wife Mary at Arlington Row.
	John and Mary appeared again in the 1851 Census, both aged 35, with their son William Collett aged 8 who was baptised at Arlington Baptist Church.
	42O10	William Collett	Born in 1842
42N5	Ann Collett was baptised on 24.05.1818 at Arlington Baptist Church. She was not recorded as living at the family home in Bibury in the 1841 Census so she may have moved away or have been marriage as she would have been aged 23.
42N6	Job Collett was baptised on 04.03.1821 at Arlington Baptist Church although, according to the Mormon IGI Listing, he was baptised on 18^th March that year. Curiously in the 1841 Census Job was listed as being aged 15 rather than 18 and was living and working at Highworth.
	By the time of the Census of 1851 Job was staying at the house of his father Thomas Collett in Bibury and was listed as a 'miller of Faringdon' aged 28.
42N7	Hannah Collett was baptised on 11.07.1824 at Arlington Baptist Church. She was not recorded as living at the family home in Bibury in either of the censuses of 1841 or 1851. In 1841 she would have been 17 years old and too young perhaps to be married. She may therefore have been working away from Bibury.
	In fact a Hannah Collett was recorded as being aged 20, the ages being rounded in 1841, and she was living at Tetbury, having been born in the Cirencester registration area which included Bibury. It would therefore appear that it was Hannah who was the first member of the family to move to Tetbury, with others following later.
42N8	Elizabeth Collett was baptised on 06.08.1826 at Arlington Baptist Church. Like her sister Hannah, she too was not recorded as living at home in either 1841 or 1851.
42N9	Mary Collett was born at the end of 1828 and was baptised on 04.01.1829 at Arlington Baptist Church. She was recorded as being aged 12 years of age in the Census of 1841 for Arlington and was living with her parents and younger sister Martha (above).
	She does not appear in the 1851 Census for Bibury although it is known that up to around that time she had lived at Arlington Row with her parents. What is known is that she married Jacob Chambers at West Cowes on the Isle of Wight on 20.10.1852.
	This is the family line of Jill Chambers of Clifton near Shefford in Bedfordshire and her sister Barbara Chambers formerly of Letchworth in Hertfordshire now living in Scotland
42N10	Martha Collett was baptised on 01.05.1831 at Arlington Baptist Church. She was recorded as being aged 10 and 19 respectively in the 1841 and 1851 Arlington and Bibury Censuses and was still living at home with her parents on both occasions.
42O1	John Collett was born at Arlington in 1834. Although he was still living at Arlington with his parents at the time of the 1841 Census when he was listed as being aged 6, it seems very likely that John died during the next couple of years.
	The reasoning behind this assumption is twofold. First, he never appeared in any subsequent census records and secondly, his parents named their next son John in 1845. So it is possible that he died in 1844 when his younger brother David also passed away aged 2 years.
42O2	Jane Collett was born at Cheltenham in 1836 and was not living with the family at Arlington in 1841. She was however living with them at Harper Street in Tetbury by the time of the 1851 Census when she was aged 15.
	It must be assumed that she was married sometime before 1861 as in that year’s census she was not listed as Jane Collett.
42O3	Elizabeth Collett was born at Arlington in late 1838 or early 1839 and was aged 2 in the 1841 Census for Arlington. However, it would appear that she was baptised at nearby North Cerney on 21.07.1839.
	For some reason, at the time of the 1851 Census, Elizabeth was living in Cheltenham aged 11 where she was working as a servant and laundress. The Cheltenham connection is interesting for this was where it is believed that her sister Jane (above) was born.
	No trace of Elizabeth has been found at any later date, so she may have been married by 1861.
42O4	William H Collett was born at Arlington in December 1840 and was baptised at Bibury on 21.01.1841. He was listed as being aged seven months old on 6^th June 1841. Ten years later William, then aged 10, and his family had left the Bibury area and were living at Tetbury as they were a further ten years after that when William was 20.
	Sometime during the next ten years William left Tetbury and by the time of the 1871 Census he was aged 30 and living at Hanley Castle near Upton-upon-Severn in Worcestershire.
	It is possible, although not yet proved, that William married Elizabeth around 1872. If so their daughter was born the following year at Tredegar in South Wales but by 1881 the three of them had moved north to Middlesbrough.
	That year’s census revealed that peddler William H Collett aged 40 and of Gloucestershire was living at 15 Eldon Street in Thornaby with his wife Elizabeth also aged 40, but born at North Pathington in Somerset, and their daughter Emily Jane aged 7.
	There were no suitable matches to William, Elizabeth or Emily in the 1891 Census so it seems more than likely that the family had left England to live abroad somewhere.
	42P1	Emily Jane Collett	Born in 1873
42O5	David Walter Collett was born at Arlington in 1842 and baptised at Bibury on 25.12.1842. Like his older brother John, David also died while still very young and was buried in 1844.
42O6	John Collett was born at Tetbury in 1845 following a move there from Bibury by his parents Richard and Mary Collett shortly after the 1841 Census. By 1851 John was aged 5 and confirmed as having been born at Tetbury where he was also living in 1861 aged 15
	On 22.05.1869 John married Louisa Sparrow, who was born in 1845 at Hankerton just over the county boundary in Wiltshire. The wedding took place at Whiteshill-by-Stroud and it was there that the couple were living at the time of the 1871 Census. Both were aged 25 and by that time their marriage had produced their first child, Emma aged one year.
	Ten years later in 1881 the family was living at Church Lane in Saul eight miles south-west of Gloucester and very near Frampton on Severn. John was listed in the census as an agricultural labourer aged 35 years, the same age as his wife.
	The census record confirmed that the couple’s first two children (of their three listed below) were born at Whiteshill and at nearby Stonehouse and in 1881 were aged 10 and 8. At the time of the census Louisa was pregnant with their third child who was born at Saul later that same year.
	At this time John’s widowed father Richard Collett lived just one mile from his home in Saul in the neighbouring village of Fretherne.
	According to the later census of 1891 John aged 46 and Louisa 45 were living at Berkeley near Thornbury in South Gloucestershire and living with them were their sons Albert 18 and Frederick 9.
	By 1901 the family had moved to Purton near Sharpness and it looks as though it may have be work that force the moved as John aged 55 was now a labourer at the docks. Living with him were his wife Louisa aged 55 and son Frederick aged 19 who was also a dock labourer.
	John and son Frederick worked at the docks in Sharpness where they unloaded the ships and transferred the cargo onto barges. The barges then made the ‘safer’ journey along the Sharpness to Gloucester canal, so avoiding the need to use the more treacherous waters of the River Severn.
	John and Louisa were again recorded as living at Purton in the census of 1911 when both of them were listed as being 65 years of age. Sometime during the next decade Louisa must have passed away at which time John moved in with his son Frederick and his family at Purton.
	Evelyn Collett, who was born in 1914 and was the daughter of John’s son Frederick, remembers her grandfather John Collett living with the family at their home in Purton. This would have been towards the end of the Great War or shortly thereafter when John would have been over seventy years of age.
	42P2	Emma B Collett	Born in 1870
	42P3	Albert E Collett	Born in 1872
	42P4	Frederick James Collett	Born in 1881
42O7	Job Collett was born at Tetbury around 1847 although his age in subsequent census records varied from one to another. For example in 1851 he was aged 3, in 1861 he was 12 and in 1871 he was 24.
	In the latter he had left the family home in Tetbury and was living in South Worcester. It is not clear what happened to him after 1871 as there was no corresponding Job Collett anywhere in the United Kingdom at that time or at anytime thereafter.
42O8	Sarah Collett was born at Tetbury in 1849 and was one year of age at the time of the 1851 Census for Tetbury where she was living with her family. She was still recorded as living at Tetbury for the next two national censuses it which she was listed as being aged 11 and 22.
	For the latter in 1871 she was living with her widowed father Richard and younger brother Thomas (below)
	It seems likely that she married William Jones and both she and William were living in Gloucester in 1901. Sarah was aged 52 and born at Tetbury, while William was also aged 52 but born at Berkeley. Sarah’s occupation was given as a dressmaker while William was working as a gardener.
42O9	Thomas Collett was born at Tetbury in 1851 or 1852 but certainly after the census that took place at the end of March in 1851 in which he did not appear.
	In 1861 and 1871 he was recorded as living in the family home at Tetbury and was aged 8 and 19 respectively. In 1871 he and his sister Sarah (above) where the only children still living with their widowed father Richard at Saul Road in Fretherne.
	As with his brother Job (above), there was no obvious record of Thomas listed in any of the census records of 1881, 1891 or 1901.
42O10	William Collett was born in 1842 at Arlington and was aged 8 in 1851. He continued to live at Bibury where in 1861 he was eighteen years old. He left the family home in Bibury during the next few years and around the middle of the 1860s he married Hester (probably) at nearby Poulton where she was born in 1846.
	By 1871 the marriage had produced two children for the couple who were then living within the Cirencester area which included Poulton where their first child was born, and Arlington where the second child had been born. The census return that year listed the family as William 28, his wife as Esther 24, and their daughters Ann aged six and Martha Ellen who was three years old.
	Three more children were added to the family during the next decade and these were born at Shorncote and Kemble, both just south of Cirencester, and at Rodborough near Stroud where the family was living in April 1881.
	William’s occupation as a carter seems to have resulted in the family moving many times, judging by the different places that his children were born. According to the census of 1881, William was a 38 years old carter working with horses while living at Dark Mill in Stroud.
	Curiously though, William’s place of birth was not stated as being Arlington but was Arlingham which lies on the east side of the River Severn south of Gloucester. The same census also gave Arlingham as the place that his daughter Martha was born. It is therefore very likely that these were simply errors made by the census enumerator in translation or transcription.
	It would appear shortly after the day of the census in 1881 that the family left Stroud and moved to Gloucester where the couple’s next child was born within the following nine months. Sometime within the next couple of years the family moved again, this time to Brimscombe near Minchinhampton where their last child was born.
	And it was at Brimscombe that the family was living in 1891. William was 48 and Hester was 44, and by that time the two new members of the family were confirmed as Kate aged 10 of Gloucester and Arthur aged 5 of Brimscombe.
	Ten years later, just after the start of the next century, the family was still living at Brimscombe and the unmarried children still living with William and Hester were James 29, Sarah 26, Rose 23, Kate 21 and Arthur 15.
	At that time William was 58 and was confirmed as having been born at Bibury, while his wife was referred to as Esther aged 55 who had been born at Poulton. William’s occupation was given as factory yard horse keeper.
	No record of William and Hester (or Esther) has so far been found in the census of 1911 so it is possible that both of them had passed away by that time.
	42P5	Ann M E Collett	Born in 1865
	42P6	Martha Ellen Collett	Born in 1868
	42P7	James Collett	Born in 1872
	42P8	Sarah Collett	Born in 1875
	42P9	Rose Anna Collett	Born in 1878
	42P10	Kate M Collett	Born in 1881
	42P11	Arthur Collett	Born in 1885
42P2	Emma B Collett was born at Whiteshill in 1870. At the time of the 1881 Census Emma was aged 10 and was living with her parents and brother Albert (below) at Church Lane in Saul.
	Sadly, it is believed within the family that Emma died in 1889 aged just 19.
42P3	Albert E Collett was born at Stonehouse in 1872 and was aged 8 in 1881 and was living with his parents and sister Emma (above) at Church Lane in Saul.
	According to the later census of 1891 Albert was aged 18 and was living with his family at Purton within the Berkeley registration district. A few years later in the middle to late 1890s Albert married Alice Gray who was born at Pyrton near Watlington in Oxfordshire in 1872.
	Both of Albert’s and Alice’s children were born while they were living at Purton where the family was living just after the end of the century.
	In the census of 1901 Albert aged 28 was a grain weigher and he and his family were confirmed as living at Purton near Sharpness, where Albert’s parents and younger brother Frederick (below) were also living at that time.
	The census recorded Albert’s wife Alice as being aged 29 and their two children as aged 3 and one month old respectively. One other child was added to the family five years later but this happy event must have been tinged with sadness since it seems very likely that Alice died during the birth or shortly after
	By April 1911 Albert was 39 and a widower who was then living at 17 Dinmore Road in Sharpness with his three children. His occupation at that time was still associated with the grain trade and his place of birth was confirmed as Stonehouse.
	The details of Albert’s children were as follows. Violet who was 13 had left school and was playing the role of housekeeper to the rest of the family, Lionel was ten and was still attending school, and Arthur who was 5 and who had not started his education.
	On this occasion the place of birth for all three children was given as Sharpness in the sub-district of Berkeley within the Thornbury registration district.
	42Q1	Violet I Collett	Born in 1897 at Purton
	42Q2	Lionel A Collett	Born in February 1901 at Purton
	42Q3	Arthur Collett	Born in 1906 at Purton
42P4	Frederick James Collett was born at Saul near Frampton on Severn on 07.06.1881 and was aged 9 at the time of the 1891 Census and was living with his parents at Berkeley. Ten years later according to the 1901 Census he was aged 19 and was living with his parents at Purton, from where he was working as a labourer with his father John at the nearby Sharpness docks. Frederick later worked as warden on the Gloucester & Sharpness canal, and at some stage worked as a police office – see photograph. At sometime later in his life he returned to working at the docks.
	Frederick married Mabel Mary Mears shortly after the turn of the century and most likely when Mabel was nearing twenty years of age, as she was born at Purton on 22.11.1884.
	It would appear that from the date of their marriage Frederick and Mabel lived in the village of Purton for a large part of their lives, as it was there that all of their children were born.
	According to the 1911 Census for the Thornbury registration district, Frederick James Collett was 29 and was living at Purton with his family. His wife Mabel Mary was 26, and his children were Frederick Charles John aged 6, Victor Sidney Eugen 5, and two years old Herewood Edwin.
	All three children were confirmed as having been born at Purton, as was their mother. Missing from the family was the couple’s only daughter at that time, Marian Emily who had sadly died in the Spring of 1908 at the age of six months.
	Sometime after 1911, and either during or after the First World War, Frederick’s mother died, following which his widowed father John Collett was invited to live with Frederick and his family at Purton. Frederick’s eldest surviving daughter Evelyn recalled many years later that her grandfather had lived with the family when she was a just young girl.
	42Q4	Frederick Charles John Collett	Born on 07.01.1905
	42Q5	Victor Sydney Eugen Collett	Born on 03.06.1906
	42Q6	Marian Emily Collett	Born on 08.09.1907
	42Q7	Herewood Edwin Collett	Born on 05.02.1909
	42Q8	Evelyn Mabel Collett	Born on 22.03.1914
	42Q9	John Junior Collett	Born on 04.09.1916
	42Q10	Ruby Gertrude Collett	Born on 31.10.1924
42P5	Ann M E Collett was born at Poulton in 1865 and was six years old in the Cirencester area census of 1871 when she was living with her parents and younger sister Martha (below).
	By 1881 the family was living in Stroud where Ann was 15, and ten years later as Ann M E Collett she was 25 and still living within the Stroud census registration district in 1891.
	In 1901 she was a seamstress and was still not married at the age of 35 and was living at Brimscombe to where her family had moved.
	Ten years later in the census of 1911, Ann was still a spinster living at Brimscombe where she was recorded as Annie Collett aged 45. The description of where she was living was ‘institution’ rather than ‘household’.
42P6	Martha Ellen Collett was born at Arlington in 1868 and in 1871 she was three years old and was living with her parents and older sister Ann (above) within the Cirencester registration district.
	By 1881 she was living with her family at Dark Mill in Stroud where she was aged 13 although her place of birth and that of her father were stated as Arlingham, which is on the east back of the River Severn south of Gloucester.
	It is possible that she married before the 1891 Census as there was no record of a Martha Collett of the appropriate age. However, there was a Martha Headlef aged 25 who was living at St Clement Danes in Hackney who was born at Arlingham. There were no other people with the Headlef name in 1891 and by 1901 even Martha was missing from the census, as she was in 1911.
42P7	James Collett was born at Shorncote in 1872. Sometime over the next few years his family moved to Stroud where James was 9 in 1881, and 19 in 1891.
	By 1901 he was living at Brimscombe where he was a 29 year old stick worker, working with his sister Sarah (below). The Dark Mill at Stroud, where the family was living in 1881 was known for making umbrellas from 1885 and the stick workers were an integral part of the process.
	During the next ten years it would appear that James married Elizabeth and by April 1911 they were living at Stroud. James of Shorncote was 39 and Elizabeth was 38, and living with them was James’ sister Sarah (below).
42P8	Sarah Collett was born at Kemble near Cirencester in 1875. During the next couple of years her family moved to Stroud where Sarah was 6 in 1881, and 16 in 1891.
	In 1901 she was living with her family in Brimscombe aged 26 and was a stick worker, like her brother James (above), employed in the manufacturing and production of umbrellas.
	At the age of 36 Sarah Collett of Kemble was still a spinster and in 1911 she was living with her brother James and his wife at Stroud.
42P9	Rose Anna Collett was born at Rodborough near Stroud in 1877. She was listed as aged 3 in the 1881 Census and was living at the family home in Dark Mill in Stroud. By 1901 she was aged 23 unmarried and referred to as Rosanna and was living at the family home in Brimscombe.
42P10	Kate Collett was born at Gloucester in 1881 but after the census date. In 1901 she was aged 21 and was employed as a domestic housemaid while still living with her family at Brimscombe.
42P11	Arthur Collett was born at Brimscombe in 1886. In 1901 at the age of 15 Arthur was working as a pin worker while still living at the family home at Brimscombe.
	By 1911 Arthur was 25 and was living and working at Stroud.
42Q4	Frederick Charles John Collett was born at Purton on 07.01.1905 and was 6 at the time of the 1911 Census when he was living with his family at Purton. Like his father, Frederick also worked at the Sharpness Docks. He married school teacher Edna Phelps, possibly around 1930 or shortly thereafter.
	In later life the family lived in Wanswell which lies midway between Purton and Berkeley. And it was at the new Berkeley Power Station that Frederick was working during the 1960s.
	42R1	Roy Collett	Born circa 1935
42Q5	Victor Sydney Eugen Collett was born at Purton on 03.06.1906 and was 5 at the time of the 1911 Census when he was living with his family at Purton. Victor was employed as a farm labourer and he later worked on the tankers that used the canal to gain access to and from the city of Gloucester.
	He later married Phyllis Tinbrell and the couple lived in Purton opposite the village green.
42Q6	Marian Emily Collett was born at Purton on 08.09.1907 and tragically died at six months of age in the spring of the following year.
42Q7	Herewood Edwin Collett was born at Purton on 05.02.1909 and was 2 in the 1991 Census for Purton. He married Nancy Gainey and later in their life together they lived in Riddle Street on the outskirts of Purton. During his life Herewood worked as an agricultural labourer and also spent some time working on the canal.
	42R2	Philip Collett	Date of birth unknown
42Q8	Evelyn Mabel Collett was born at Purton on 22.03.1914. When she was very young she remembers that he widowed grandfather came to live with her family at Purton. She left school at fourteen, at which time she entered domestic service in Bristol. In her early twenties Evelyn married Deric Albert Eastmead Nelmes who was born at Mobley near Berkeley on 16.12.1914. It was at Mobley that the couple lived most of their adult lives, following their move from Bristol where their daughter was born.
	42R3	Jean Maureen Nelmes	Born on 19.08.1937
42Q9	John Junior Collett was born at Purton on 04.09.1916 and was named after his grandfather who was living with the family around the time of his birth. He married Lily Lena probably just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. After the war John worked at the Berkeley Nuclear Power Station constructing the gas circulators ready for the opening in 1962. John and Lily lived in the Berkeley area during their lives together.
	42R4	Michael Collett	Date of birth unknown; infant death
	42R5	Douglas Collett	Date of birth unknown
	42R6	Margaret Collett	Born circa 1945
	42R7	Christine Collett	Born circa 1948
42Q10	Ruby Gertrude Collett was born at Purton on 31.10.1924. She married Ivor Smart. As the youngest child of Frederick and Mabel Collett, Ruby lived all her life at the home of her parents in Purton. And it was at Purton that the couple’s two sons were born.
	42R8	Barry Smart	Born circa 1950
	42R9	Neil Smart	Born circa 1952
42R2	Philip Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Pamela with whom he had two children.
	42S1	Victoria Collett	Born circa 1972; died at 6 months
	42S2	Sharon Collett	Born circa 1972
42R3	Jean Maureen Nelmes was born at Bristol on 19.08.1937. While very young she moved with her parents from Bristol to the Mobley district of Berkeley where she grew up. As a young lady she worked in the local grocer’s store as a clerk, before becoming a telephonist at Dursley telephone exchange. Around 1974 Jean married Alan Cedric Evans who was born in London on 19.05.1934. It was around 1980 that the couple moved to Purton where Jean still lives today.
	42S3	Jeannie Clare Evans	Born on 27.01.1977
42R8	Barry Smart was born at Purton around 1950. He married Valerie Hopkins and they lived at Cam in Dursley.
	42S4	Melanie Smart	Born circa 1974
	42S5	Steven Smart	Born circa 1976
	42S6	Rachel Smart	Born in 1978
42R9	Neil Smart was born at Purton around 1952. He married Elizabeth Schlitching and they live at Purton, where Neil continues to follow the family tradition by working at the Sharpness Docks.
	All four of their children were born at Purton.
	42S7	Jason Smart	Born in 1970
	42S8	Richard Smart	Born in 1971
	42S9	Laura Jane Smart	Born in 1978
	42S10	Leanne Francesca Smart	Born in 1988
42S3	Jeannie Clare Evans was born at Gloucester on 27.01.1977 and in 2008 she is working near Berkeley as a piano teacher.
42S7	Jason Smart was born at Berkeley in 1970 and still lives in that area wife his wife and child.
42S8	Richard Smart was born at Berkeley in 1971. After he married he moved to live in Cyprus.
42S9	Laura Jane Smart was born at Berkeley in 1978. She married Paul Salman in 2001, and the couple currently lives in Dursley with their two sons.