PART FORTY-TWO

The Tetbury Gloucestershire Line

Updated October 2010

The Gloucestershire town of Tetbury lies approximately nine miles south-west of Cirencester and close to the county boundary with Wiltshire. The origin of this family line appears to lie within the Cirencester area, including Arlington in Bibury.
This is the family line of Jeannie Clare Evans (Ref. 42S3) and Laura Jane Salman (Ref. 42S9) of Berkeley in Gloucestershire and has been compiled with assistance from Jamie Moore
The opportunity has been taken during the October 2010 upgrade to include in the appendix, those members of the Collett/Collet families from the villages around Tetbury
42M1	Collett parents of Richard and Hannah Collett, about whom nothing is currently known.
	42N1	Richard Collett	Born in 1814
	42N2	Hannah Collett	Born in 1820
42N1	Richard Collett was born during August in 1814, but so far no baptism record has been found for him. It is also believed that he had a sister Hannah, and that both of them were very likely born within the Cirencester area of Gloucestershire. In 1881 Richard gave his place of birth as Tetbury.
	Richard Collett married Mary Scriven at Baunton, just to the north of Cirencester on 25.12.1838. Richard was described as a bachelor of full age and a labourer of Baunton and, curiously, father not known, while Mary was a spinster of full age of Baunton, the daughter of labourer William Scriven.
	Mary Scriven was born at Duntisbourne, where she was baptised on 26.03.1809, the daughter of William and Sarah Scriven. However, two years prior to her marriage to Richard Collett, Mary Scriven had given birth to a base-born daughter, Jane Scriven who was baptised at Baunton in 1836.
	By 1841 Richard and Mary were living at Arlington where ‘Rich Collett’ was 27 and his wife Mary was 30. Living with them at that time were their three children, Jane aged 6, Elizabeth who was two, and William who was only seven months old. The census return contained an error insofar as the eldest child was recorded as John, and this is borne out by no future record of a child by that name being listed with the family in subsequent census returns.
	The census in 1851 indicated that Richard and his family had returned to the town of his birth, that being Tetbury. And it was at Harper Street on 30^th March 1851 that Richard, age 36, was living with Mary who was 40.
	During the years between 1841 and 1851, the family was extended by the births of a further four children, although only three survived. Eldest daughter Jane Collett was 15, while son William was 10. The couple’s second daughter Elizabeth was 11 years old and was already working in Cheltenham. The family’s new arrivals were John who was five, Job who was three, and Sarah who was one year old, all three of them having been born at Tetbury.
	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 who was 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 his daughter Sarah aged 22 and his 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	Jane Collett (formerly Jane Scriven)	Born in 1837
	42O2	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1839
	42O3	William H Collett	Born in 1840
	42O4	David Walter Collett	Born in 1842
	42O5	John Collett	Born in 1845
	42O6	Job Collett	Born in 1847
	42O7	Sarah Collett	Born in 1849
	42O8	Thomas Collett	Born after March 1851
42N2	Hannah Collett was born around 1820 according to the census of 1841, although unfortunately no baptism record or birth record for her has been found. It is possible that she was born within the area around the town of Cirencester, where it is established that her brother Richard was married in 1838.
	In the census conducted in June 1841, Hannah Collett was recorded as being 20 years old, this likely to be a rounded age, rather than her actual age. On that occasion she was living within the Tetbury registration district.
42O1	Jane Collett was born as Jane Scriven, the base-born daughter of Mary Scriven. According to a later census return, Jane was born at Cheltenham in 1835 and was baptised at St Mary Magdalene Church in Baunton, near Cirencester on 15.05.1836.
	Following the marriage of her mother to Richard Collett at Baunton in 1838, Jane took the Collett name and by 1841 she was six years old and was living with her family at Arlington, in Bibury. During the next ten years Jane and her family moved to Tetbury where her father had been born.
	The census in 1851 placed Jane Collett, who was born at Cheltenham, living at Harper Street in Tetbury with her family when she was 15 years old. It must be assumed that she was married sometime before 1861 since, in that year’s census, no record of her as Jane Collett has been found.
42O2	Elizabeth Collett was born at Arlington in 1839 and was aged 2 years in the 1841 Census for Arlington. However, it would appear that she was baptised at nearby North Cerney on 21.07.1839, the daughter of Richard and Mary Collett.
	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 positive record of Elizabeth Collett has been found after that time, either in the census returns for 1861 or 1871, but by 1881 Elizabeth was still a spinster living and working at Berkeley Castle in Berkeley to the south-west of Gloucester.
	Elizabeth Collett was 43, was housekeeper and domestic servant to Peer of the Realm, Lord Fitz Hardinge, and his wife Lady Fitz Hardinge. Elizabeth’s place of birth was given at Poole Keynes which lies to the south of Cirencester, compared to North Cerney, which lies to the north of the town.
42O3	William H Collett was born at Arlington in the Parish of Bibury on 04.11.1840. He was baptised at Bibury on 21.01.1841, the fourth child of Richard Collett and Mary Scriven. He was listed as being seven months old in the first national census 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 was 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 from 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 by then.
	42P1	Emily Jane Collett	Born in 1873
42O4	David Walter Collett was born at Arlington in 1842 and baptised at Bibury on 25.12.1842. Sadly, David died while still very young and was buried in 1844.
42O5	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
42O6	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.
42O7	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.
42O8	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.
42P1	Emily Jane Collett was born at Tredegar in Wales during 1873, and was the only known child of William H Collett from Gloucestershire and his wife Elizabeth from Pathington in Somerset. Emily Jane was seven years old at the time of the census in 1881, when she was living at 15 Eldon Street in Thornaby, Middlesbrough with her parents.
	No other record of Emily or her parents has been found after that time.
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
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.
	Appendix – Other Colletts from Tetbury and the surrounding area
	(the following includes Collett and Collet variations)
42m1	William Collett married Sarah Phelps on 29.11.1807 at Westonbirt, three miles south-west of Tetbury. The first six of their known seven children were baptised at Sherston Magna two miles south of Westonbirt, with the seventh child baptised at Westonbirt.
	By the time of the first national census in 1841 William Collet was 60 and his wife Sarah was 50, both rounded ages. Still living with them were four of their of their seven known children, and they were Charles Collet 20, Susan Collet 15, Thomas Collet 12, and William Collet who was eight years old. This last entry on the census may indicate that the couple’s older son William, who would have been 17, had died before 1832.
	During the next decade William Collet died, leaving his widow Sarah Collet, who was 64 and receiving parish relief, still living within the Tetbury area in 1851. Living with her at Westonbirt was her youngest son William 19, together with her married son Thomas, his wife Hannah, and their son George.
	Ten years later in the census of 1861, Sarah Collett from Sherston was 73 and was living with widow and head of the household, Sarah Clements who was 72, at North Lodge in Westonbirt.
	Sarah Collett was the daughter of William and Mary Phelps and was baptised at Sherston Magna on 29.04.1787 and had reached the grand age of 83 by the time of the Westonbirt census of 1871 where, it is assumed that, she died shortly thereafter.
	42n1	Henry Collett	Born circa 1815
	42n2	Charles Collett	Born circa 1818
	42n3	George Collett	Born circa 1821
	42n4	William Collett	Born circa 1823
	42n5	Susanna Collett	Born circa 1826
	42n6	Thomas Collett	Born circa 1828
	42n7	William Collett	Born circa 1832
42n1	Henry Collett was born around 1815 and was baptised at Sherston Magna in Wiltshire on 30.04.1815, the eldest son of William and Sarah Collett.
	In 1841 just one Collett family was recorded living within the Tetbury registration area, and that was the family of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. Both were 25 years old, and living with them were their two children George Collett who was one year old, and Emma Collet who was not yet twelve months old.
	Henry Collet was 35 and his wife Elizabeth was 36 by 1851. They were still living within the Tetbury registration district when their family comprised George Collet 11, Emma 9, Robert 8, Anne 7, Sarah 5, and Aaron who was not yet one year old.
	Ten years after that, the Tetbury census of 1861 listed, Henry Collett as 46, Elizabeth as 47, and their five children as George Henry Collett 21, Annie Eliza Collett 16, Aaron Collett 11, Mary Collett who was eight, and Ellen Collett who was six years old. Daughters Emma and Sarah would have been 20 and 14 years old, while son Robert would have been 18, had they still been living with their family.
	In 1871 only their youngest daughter Ellen Collett was still living with Henry and Elizabeth. Henry was 56, Elizabeth was 57, and Ellen Collett was 16. During the 1870s Ellen left her parents’ home, but by 1881 the couple had seen the return of their unmarried son Robert.
	On that occasion Henry Collett was a farm servant of 65 years from Sherston in Wiltshire, who was living in a farm cottage in Westonbirt with his wife Elizabeth who was 67 and from Westonbirt, and their son Robert Collett who was another farm servant. His place of birth was confirmed as Westonbirt and he was 38 years old.
	Henry Collett died during the next decade, and so by 1891 Elizabeth at the age of 77 was widow. Still living with her at Westonbirt was her son Robert who was 48 by then and still a bachelor. Neither Elizabeth, nor her son, featured in the next census in March 1901.
	42o1	George Henry Collett	Born circa 1838
	42o2	Emma Collett	Born circa 1840
	42o3	Robert Collett	Born circa 1842
	42o4	Anne Elizabeth Collett	Born circa 1844
	42o5	Sarah Collett	Born circa 1846
	42o6	Aaron Collett	Born circa 1849
	42o7	Mary Collett	Born circa 1852
	42o8	Ellen Collett	Born circa 1854
42n2	Charles Collett was born around 1818 and was baptised at Sherston Magna on 19.03.1820, the son of William and Sarah Collett. In the census for the Tetbury registration district in 1841, Charles Collett was 20 (rounded age), when he was still living with his family.
	Within the next couple of years Charles married Elizabeth and by the end of March in 1851 the couple had three children. The Tetbury area census that year recorded Charles and his wife as both being 32, and their children as George Collett 6, Eliza Collett 5, and William who was two years old.
	By 1861 a further five children had been added to the family, which comprised Charles who was 42, his wife Elizabeth who was 43, and their seven surviving children. They were George Collett 16, William Collett 12, Elizabeth Collett 9, Mary Collett 7, Sarah Collett 5, Henry Collett who was three, and Thomas Collett who was under one year old. It would appear that Eliza had died shortly after 1851 Census, since the next child born into the family was given her name.
	The family of Charles and Elizabeth Collett had reduced in size by 1871, with their older children having left the family home. On that occasion Charles and his wife were both 52, while only three of their children were still with them, and they were Elizabeth Collett 19, Henry Collett 13, and Thomas Collett who was ten.
	By 1881 Charles Collett from Sherston was 61 and was working as a carpenter, while he was living at Vales Cottages in Minchinhampton with his wife Elizabeth who was 62 and from Tetbury. Charles Collett died during the 1880s, as confirmed by the Minchinhampton census of 1891 when his widow Elizabeth was still living there at the age of 72.
	Charles Collett was 82 in March 1901, although on that occasion he gave his place of birth as Knockdown, Sherston. His wife Elizabeth Collett from Tetbury was 83, and the couple was still living in Minchinhampton at that time. And it was there, not long after, that they both died.
	42o9	George Collett	Born circa 1844
	42o10	Eliza Collett	Born circa 1846
	42o11	William Collett	Born circa 1848
	42o12	Elizabeth Collett	Born circa 1851
	42o13	Mary Collett	Born circa 1853
	42o14	Sarah Collett	Born circa 1855
	42o15	Henry Collett	Born circa 1857
	42o16	Thomas Charles Collett	Born circa 1860
42n3	George Collett was born around 1821 and was baptised at Sherston Magna on 28.04.1822, the son of William and Sarah Collett. No obvious record of George has been found in any census return, and he certainly was not living with his family in the Tetbury area in 1841 when he would have been 18.
42n4	William Collett was born around 1823 and was baptised at Sherston Magna on 28.11.1824, the son of William and Sarah Collett. He would have been seven by the time of the census 1841, but was not listed with his family. Ten years later the family had a new William which very likely means that the couple’s first William had been the victim of an infant death.
42n5	Susanna Collett was born around 1826 and was baptised at Sherston Magna on 11.03.1827, the eldest daughter of William and Sarah Collett. It was as Susan Collett that she was living with her family in 1841.
42n6	Thomas Collett was born around 1828 and was baptised at Sherston Magna 03.01.1830, the son of William and Sarah Collett. Thomas was 12 in 1841, and around the time he was twenty years old he married Hannah.
	By 1851 their marriage had produced the couple’s first child, and in the census that year Thomas Collett was 22 and a labourer, his wife Hannah from Wilsley (?) was 29, and their son George was only one year old. The family was living at Westonbirt, at the home of Thomas’ mother Sarah Collett, and living with her was Thomas’ youngest brother William (below).
	No further record of Thomas or his family has been found after that time.
	42o17	George Collett	Born circa 1850 at Westonbirt
42n7	William Collett was born around 1832 and was baptised at Westonbirt on 09.12.1832, the youngest child of William and Sarah Collett. He was eight years old in 1841 and 19 in 1851 when he was living with his widowed mother Sarah at Westonbirt. Also living with William and his mother was his brother Thomas (above) and his wife and their son George.
	At some time during the 1850s William married Ann who was eight years older than William and already had a daughter Eliza. By the time of the census in 1861, the two of them were living in the Tetbury area where William was 28 and Ann was 36. Also by that time Ann’s daughter was named as Eliza Collett age 15.
	A few years later Ann presented William with a daughter of his own, when the family was living in the village of Leighterton three miles west of Tetbury. This was confirmed by the Leighterton census in 1871 when William Collet was 38, his wife Ann was 45, and their daughter Clara was 5 years old.
	On leaving school Clara Collett entered domestic service and by 1881, at the age of 15, she was employed by groom William Golding and his wife Louisa at nearby Oldbury-on-the-Hill, while her parents were still living at Boxwell-with-Leighterton (just Leighterton today).
	William Collett from Westonbirt was an agricultural labourer at 46, while his wife Ann was 54 and from Pinkney near Sherston.
	During the next ten years William and Ann, left Leighterton and settled in the West Malmesbury area where they were recorded as living in 1891. By that time William was 58 and Ann was 64. No further record of the couple has been located after 1891.
	42o18	Eliza Collett (adopted)	Born circa 1845
	42o19	Clara Collett	Born circa 1865 at Leighterton
42o1	George Henry Collett was born at Westonbirt in 1838 where he was baptised on 20.03.1838, the eldest child of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. It was as George Collett aged one year, and George Collet aged 11 that he appeared in the census returns for the Westonbirt in 1841 and 1851, where he was living with his family.
	At the time of the census in 1861 he was recorded as being 21 and was listed under his full name of George Henry Collett, while still living at Westonbirt with his family. Around four or five years later, George married Jane, and by 1871 their marriage had been blessed with their first two children.
	The two children had been born at Sherston to the west of Malmesbury, and it was there that the family was living in 1871, and where their next child was born a couple of years later. According to the census in 1871 George Henry Collett was 30, his wife Jane 28, their daughter Sarah was 3, and their son Walter was one year old.
	Over the next ten years a further three children were added to the family, the last two after the family had moved from Sherston to Westonbirt. So by 1881 the family living in a farm cottage at Westonbirt was made up as follows. George H Collett was 41 and a farm servant from Westonbirt and his wife Jane was 38 and from Crudwell, to the east of Tetbury.
	Their five children were listed as Sarah J Collett 13, Walter G Collett 11, Annie L Collett 8, Fanny E Collett 6, plus two years old Albert A Collett. After a further four year Jane presented George with their last child while the family was still at Westonbirt.
	The Tetbury area census of 1891 indicated that the couple’s two eldest daughter Sarah and Anne had left home, perhaps to be married. The remaining family on that occasion comprised George 51, Jane 48, Walter 21, Fanny 16, Albert 12, and Edith who was five years old.
	From the next census in 1901, it is clear that George Henry Collett died during the 1890s. At that time his widow Jane Collett from Crudwell was 58 and was living at Lasborough near Tetbury with her son Albert who was 22, and her daughter Edith who was 15. The place of birth for both children was confirmed as Westonbirt.
	Jane’s son was married during the first decade of the new century, so by April 1911 when Jane was 68, it was just her youngest daughter Edith who was still living with her at Lasborough.
	42p1	Sarah Jane Collett	Born circa 1867
	42p2	Walter George Henry Collett	Born circa 1869
	42p3	Anne L Collett	Born circa 1872 at Sherston
	42p4	Fanny E Collett	Born circa 1874
	42p5	Albert A Collett	Born circa 1878
	42p6	Edith Collett	Born circa 1885
42o2	Emma Collett was born at Westonbirt during the first five months of 1841, the eldest daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. She was listed as being under one year old in the June census of 1841 when she was one of two children living with her parents at Westonbirt. Ten years later she was nine years old, and ten years after that she was no longer living with her family by 1861.
	It was at Forthampton near Tewkesbury that Emma married Edward Clarke five years later in 1866. Edward was baptised there on 02.08.1846, the son of Edward Clarke and Dinah Dance. Over the following years Emma and Edward had six children, the first born at Westonbirt, the next three at Forthampton, and the last two at Chaceley, one mile south of Forthampton.
	The children were: Walter Clarke (born 1867); Arthur Clarke (baptised 04.04.1869); Annie Elizabeth Clarke (baptised 31.12.1871); Dinah Sarah Ellen Clarke (baptised 09.11.1873); Richard Clarke (baptised 13.08.1877); and Hubert Clarke (baptised 24.10.1880).
	By 1881 the Clarke family was living at Brockeridge Common in Twyning, to the north of Tewkesbury. Edward from Forthampton was 35 and a bricklayer, his wife Emma was 39 and from Westonbirt, and living with them were five of their six children.
	Walter was 14 and had left school and was working as a labourer, Anne Elizabeth was 9, Dinah Sarah Ellen was 7, Richard was three years old, while baby Hubert was just eight months old. The missing children Arthur, who would have been 11, may have died during the 1870s.
42o3	Robert Collett was born at Westonbirt during 1842 where he was baptised on 25.12.1842, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. In 1851 he was eight years old and with his family at Westonbirt but then, on living school, Robert may have become a soldier as he only reappeared again in 1881.
	On that occasion he was unmarried and 38, when living with his elderly parents in a tied farm cottage in Westonbirt from where he was working as a farm servant with his father. With the death of his father in the following years, bachelor Robert, age 48, was still living with his mother in 1891.
	And that was the last record of Robert and his mother, who both must have died before the end of the century.
42o4	Anne Elizabeth Collett was born at Westonbirt around 1844, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett, and was Anne Collett age seven in the Westonbirt census of 1851. It was in the census of 1861 that she was recorded as Annie Eliza Collett who was still living at the family’s home at 16.
42o5	Sarah Collett was born at Westonbirt around 1846, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett, and was five years old in the Westonbirt census on 1851. Sarah would have been 15 in 1861, but by then she was not living with her parents.
42o6	Aaron Collett was born at Westonbirt around 1850, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Collett, and was under one year old in the census of 1851. Ten years later Aaron was 11 and was still living with his family in Westonbirt.
42o7	Mary Collett was born at Westonbirt around 1852 and was the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett, and she was eight years old in 1861.
42o8	Ellen Collett was born at Westonbirt around 1854, the youngest child of Henry and Elizabeth Collett, and was six in 1861. By 1871 Ellen was 16 and was the only child still living with her parents.
42o9	George Collett was born at Tetbury around 1844, the eldest child of Charles and Elizabeth Collett. He was six years old and 16 years of age in the two census returns for the Tetbury area in 1851 and 1861, when he was living with his parents.
	It was during the following decade that George married (1) Mary who was eight years older than George, and by 1871 the childless couple had settled in the village of Bisley within the Stroud & Rodborough registration district. George Collett was 26 and his wife Mary was 34.
	By 1881 George Collett from Tetbury was a carpenter and a joiner at the age of 36, when he was living at Bellevue Terrace in the village of Bisley, at the southern end of the Cotswolds. Living with him, was his wife Mary who was 44 and a seamstress from Woodchester, near Stonehouse.
	The couple was still there ten years later, when the census in 1891 confirmed that George Collett from Tetbury was 46, and Mary W Collett was 54. Sadly, it was during the next few years that Mary died at Bisley, following which George later married (2) Lucy of Bisley.
	Once married, the couple left Bisley and moved the two miles south to settle in Chalford, where they were living in 1901. George Collett from Tetbury was 56 and his occupation was that of a carpenter. His wife Lucy Collett was 52.
	Ten years after that the couple was still living in Chalford, where George was 66 and Lucy was 62.
42o10	Eliza Collett was born at Tetbury around 1846, and was the eldest daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Collett. In the Tetbury area census of 1851, Eliza was five years old when living there with her family.
42o11	William Collett was born at Tetbury around 1848, the son of Charles and Elizabeth Collett. In the census of 1851 William of Tetbury was living there with his family at the age of two years, and ten years later he was 12 years old in 1861. Towards the end of the 1860s William married Ann from Brokenborough, just across the county boundary into Wiltshire, and north of Malmesbury.
	By the time of the census in 1871 William and Ann already had their first child who had been born at Brokenborough, like his mother. William Collett from nearby Tetbury was 21, his wife Ann Collett was 24, and their son George Collett was just one year old.
	One mile to the east of Tetbury is the village of Long Newnton, and it was to there that the family moved just after 1871, and where they were living when their seven subsequent children were born. Long Newnton was also just one mile north of Brokenborough, and three miles from Malmesbury
	According to the census conducted in 1881, William and his family were living at Pond Lodge in Long Newnton. William Collett (from Tetbury) was 32 and a carter and an agricultural labourer, and his wife Ann was 37. Their five children at that time were George Collett 11, Francis Collett 8, Fanny Collett 5, Mary Collett 3, and Kate Collett who was only two months old.
	Three final children were added to the family during the 1880s, but by the time of the Long Newnton census in 1891 the three eldest children had left the family home to make their own way in the world. The remaining family was listed as William 41, Ann 47, Mary 13, Kate 10, Alice 8, Frederick 6, and Sarah who was three. The couple’s daughter Fanny was 15 and was living and working nearby.
	By March 1901 William Collett (from Westonbirt) was still living at Long Newnton with his wife and their two youngest children. William was 51 and was working as a carter on a farm, while his wife Ann (from Brokenborough) was 57.
	Their children were recorded as Frederick Collett, who was 16 and a plough boy who was also working on the farm with his father, and Sarah Collett who was 13. Both children had been born while William and Ann had been living at Long Newnton.
	Within the next ten years the couple’s son Frederick left the family home to be married, and by April 1911 the family was still living at Long Newnton where William (from Tetbury) was 62, Ann was 67, and unmarried Sarah Collett was 23. No trace at all has been found of their son in the census of 1911.
	42p7	George Collett	Born in 1869
	42p8	Francis William Collett	Born in 1872
	42p9	Fanny Collett	Born in 1875 at Long Newnton
	42p10	Mary Collett	Born in 1877
	42p11	Kate Collett	Born in Jan. 1881 at Long Newnton
	42p12	Alice Collett	Born in 1882
	42p13	Frederick Collett	Born in 1884 at Long Newnton
	42p14	Sarah Collett	Born in 1887
42o12	Elizabeth Collett was born at Tetbury in 1851 and there also that she was baptised on 02.11.1851, the daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Collett.
42o13	Mary Collett was born at Tetbury during 1853 where she was baptised on 26.12.1853, the daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Collett.
42o14	Sarah Collett was born at Tetbury in 1855 and it was there that she was baptised on 05.12.1855, the daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Collett.
42o15	Henry Collett was born at Tetbury in 1857 and was baptised there on 03.01.1858, the son of Charles and Elizabeth Collett.
42o16	Thomas Charles Collett was born at Tetbury during 1860 where he was baptised on 02.09.1860, the youngest son of Charles and Elizabeth Collett.
42p1	Sarah Jane Collett was born at Sherston in 1867 the eldest child of George Henry Collett and his wife Jane. Ten years later Sarah J Collett, age 13, was living in Westonbirt with her family. At some time in her Sarah moved to London for work, and it was there at Paddington that she was living in 1891 at the age of 23. It seems likely that she married sometime after that.
42p2	Walter George Henry Collett was born at Sherston around 1869, the eldest son of George Henry and Jane Collett, who was one year old in 1871 when he was listed as Walter G Hy Collett. He was described as Walter G Collett, age 11, in the census of 1881 when he was living with his family at Westonbirt.
	In 1891 Walter Collett was 21 and was still living with his family at Westonbirt. In the mid-1890s Walter married Elizabeth from Worcester, and by 1901 their marriage had produced two children for the couple.
	Once married the couple settled at Bowldown Farm on Bowldown Road which runs between Westonbirt and Lasborough, where the two children were born. However by March in 1901, the family of four was recorded as living at Beverston, one mile west of Tetbury, which could include Bowldown Farm.
	Walter Collett from Westonbirt was 31 and was described as superintending work on the farm. His wife Elizabeth was 36, and their two children were Elsie Collett who was four, and Mark Collett who was one year old. Elizabeth was very likely expecting the couple’s third child on the day of the census, since their second daughter was born later that year.
	Ten years later Walter was 41, and his wife was recorded under the name Ellen, who was 45. By that time in 1911, Walter’s eldest daughter was listed in the town of Malmesbury where she was 14. So the children living in Tetbury with Walter and Ellen were Frank Collett who was 11, and his sister Doris who was nine.
	42q1	Elsie Edith Halin Collett	Born in 1896 at Bowldown, Beverston
	42q2	Frank (Mark) Collett	Born in 1899 at Bowldown, Beverston
	42q3	Doris Collett	Born in 1901 at Bowldown, Beverston
42p4	Fanny E Collett was born in 1874 at Westonbirt after her parents had moved there from nearby Sherston, and it was there that she was still living with her family at the age six years in 1881.
	Ten year later, and after she had finished her schooling, Fanny Collett was 16 and was continuing to live with her family in Westonbirt.
42p5	Albert A Collett was born at Westonbirt in 1878, the son of George Henry and Jane Collett. It was as Albert A Collett age 2, that he was recorded living with his family at Westonbirt in 1881. He was still there ten years later in 1891 when he was 12.
	Sometime during the 1890s Albert’s father died, so by march 1901 Albert was 22 and was one of only two children living with his widowed mother Jane at Lasborough near Tetbury, the other being his younger sister Edith (below).
	It was towards the end of that decade when Albert married Florence, and their first child was born during August in 1910. By the time of the census in 1911 Albert, age 32, and Florence, age 29, were living at Lasborough near Tetbury with their son George who was eight months old. Other children may well have followed in the years after 1911.
	42q4	George Collett	Born during August 1910
42p6	Edith Collett was born at Westonbirt in 1885, the youngest child of George Henry and Jane Collett. She was five years old in 1891 when she was living with her family at Westonbirt, but with the death of her father during the next decade, Edith and her brother Albert (above) were the only children still living with their mother in 1901.
	The three of them were living at Lasborough near Tetbury by then, when Edith was 15 years old. With her brother leaving home to be married during the following years, Edith Collett from Westonbirt and still unmarried at the age of 25 in 1911, was the only member of the family still living with her elderly mother Jane.
42p7	George Collett was born at Brokenborough in 1869, the eldest son of child of William Collett of Tetbury and his wife Ann from Brokenborough. He was one year old in 1871, but shortly after that his family moved one mile north to Long Newnton, where they settled and where all of George’s siblings were born.
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