PART FORTY-SIX

The Charlton-on-Otmoor (Oxon) Area Line

Updated June 2009

This is the family line of Stephen Collett (Ref.46Q13) who kindly provided

the latest information and whose family line is depicted by the names in capitals

It is also the line of Steve Busby (Ref. 46P55) who kindly provided the initial information

whose family line is depicted by the names that are underlined

It is hoped that in time this line will be connected to other Oxfordshire lines

Fencott, Murcott and Oddington all lie within one mile of Charlton-on-Otmoor

It is acknowledged that some of the data has not been verified by secondary sources,

particularly where it relates to Richard and Ann Collett as there were two such

couples around the same time and same place that were bearing children

46K1	WILLIAM COLLETT was born around 1723. He married Mary Freeman at Charlton-on-Otmoor in 1746. It is established from the parish records that the marriage produced at least four of the five children below for William and Mary and all of them having been born at Fencott.
	The settlements of Fencott and neighbouring Murcott had no church of their own so all baptisms, marriages and burials for the area were conducted at the Parish Church of St Mary in Charlton-on-Otmoor.
	William’s wife Mary died at Fencott in 1795 and was buried at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 12.12.1795 and the parish register recorded that she was the wife of William Collett. William lived the life of a widower for almost another ten years after Mary’s passing, before he too died at Fencott in 1805 and was likewise buried at Charlton on 17.02.1805.
	46L1	William Collett	Born in 1748
	46L2	Richard Collett	Born in 1752
	46L3	Mary Collett	Born in 1755
	46L4	Joseph Collett	Born in 1758
	46L5	John Collett	Born in 1761
46L1	William Collett was born at Fencott in 1748 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 20.02.1748. It would appear that he died at Bletchington in 1779, following which he was buried at Charlton on 29.12.1779. Bletchington later became Bletchingdon which it still is today.
	There is a record that a William Collett married Avis Smallbroke at Bletchingdon on 24.05.1779 and it seems likely, although not proved, that this was William Collett of Fencott. If so, then his marriage to Avis only last for seven months and it is not known whether during this time that Avis became with child.
46L2	RICHARD COLLETT was born at Fencott in 1752 and, although not yet proved, it seems very likely that he was the son of William Collett and Mary Freeman.
	Richard married Mary Ivins in St Mary’s Church at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 25.10.1790. It would appear that the couple settled within the parish of Charlton, since it was at St Mary’s Church that all of their children were baptised.
	However, it is very likely that the family lived all their life at Fencott where all of the children were born and where Richard and Mary were living when Richard passed away.
	And so it was that Richard died at Fencott in September 1826 at the age of 74 and was buried in the graveyard of St Mary’s Church on 13^th September 1826.
	On the 20.08.1841 a Mary Collett aged 74 was buried at Charlton-on-Otmoor and this may well have been Richard’s widow. The place of residence for Mary at the time of her death was given as Oakley just across the county boundary into Buckinghamshire.
	46M1	William Collett	Born in 1792
	46M2	Mary Collett	Born in 1795
	46M3	Richard Collett	Born in 1797
	46M4	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1800
	46M5	John Collett	Born in 1803
	46M6	Hannah Collett	Born in 1805
46L3	Mary Collett was born at Fencott in 1755 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 26.10.1755. Her life was cut short at the age of 24 when she died at Fencott in 1779 and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary in Charlton-on-Otmoor on 04.04.1779.
	The church’s burial record stated that Mary Collett was the daughter of William and Mary Collett, indicating that she had never married.
46L4	Joseph Collett was born in 1758 at Fencott and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 06.08.1858. He married Maria with whom he had nine children. All of their children were born at Fencott and baptised at St Mary’s Church in Charlton-on-Otmoor.
	Joseph’s wife Maria died at Fencott in 1837 at the age of 75 and was buried at Charlton on 30.03.1837.
	46M7	Mary Collett	Born in 1784
	46M8	William Collett	Born in 1786
	46M9	Mary Collett	Born in 1788
	46M10	John Collett	Born in 1790
	46M11	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1792
	46M12	Thomas Collett	Born in 1794
	46M13	Thomas Collett	Born in 1795
	46M14	Richard Collett	Born in 1798
	46M15	George Collett	Born in 1801
	46M16	James Collett	Born in 1803
46L5	John Collett was born at Fencott in 1761 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 08.03.1761. Sadly he only survived for just over two years before he died at Fencott in 1763 and was buried at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 31.05.1763.
46M1	William Collett was born at Fencott in the latter half of 1792 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 24.02.1793. He married Prudence Pittam at Twyford just south of Banbury in Oxfordshire on 30.03.1812.
	The couple’s first three children were born while they were living at Fencott and before the family moved the short distance to Murcott where the remaining children were born. All of their children were baptised at St Mary’s Church in Charlton-on-Otmoor.
	Sadly William died at Murcott in early 1837 and was buried at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 08.02.1837. His age at the time of his death was incorrectly given as 42 instead of 45.
	His widow Prudence was listed at Murcott in the first national census on June 1841 as having a rounded age of 50 years. Living with her was her sons George 20 and John 15, and daughter Elizabeth aged 12.
	Ten years later Prudence’s age was more accurately given as 59 and by 1861 she was 69. On the latter occasion in 1861 Prudence was staying with her son George and his family.
	Prudence was still living with her son George at his home in the Bicester & Bletchington registration district in 1871. However, she passed away shortly after that time aged 84.
	46N1	Martha Collett	Born in 1813
	46N2	Richard Collett	Born in 1815
	46N3	Thomas Collett	Born in 1817
	46N4	William Collett	Born in 1819
	46N5	George Collett	Born in 1821
	46N6	John Collett	Born in 1823
	46N7	Benjamin Collett	Born in 1825
	46N8	Mary Collett	Born in 1826
	46N9	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1829
	46N10	Benjamin Collett	Born in 1831
46M2	Mary Collett was born at Fencott, either towards the end of 1794 or during January 1795, and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 08.02.1795. No other record for Mary has so far been found.
46M3	Richard Collett was born at Fencott during the first half of 1797 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 18.06.1797. He married Martha Bottrell at Wendlebury just two miles north of Fencott on 20.11.1823. Martha was with child at the time of her wedding and the child was born at Wendlebury six months later. Richard’s stated occupation at the child’s baptism was labourer.
	Martha was the daughter of John Bottrell and Ann Buckle and had been born in 1798. Sometime after the birth of the couple’s first child the family moved five miles east just over the county boundary to Boarstall in Buckinghamshire where it is known that the remainder of their children were born.
	At the time of the census in June 1841 the family was still living at Boarstall within the Aylesbury & Thame registration district. The family comprised Richard and Martha, both with a rounded age of 40 years, and their children John aged 15, Richard 14, Ann 12, Helena 9, Elizabeth 5, and baby Martha who was not yet one year old.
	By the time of the next census in 1851 the family had moved back into Oxfordshire and was living within the Bicester & Bletchingdon registration area. The only child missing from the family was Felicia referred to as Helena in 1841.
	The full census listing was made up of Richard aged 54, Martha aged 52, sons John 26 and Richard 23, and daughters Ann 20, Elizabeth 15, and Martha aged 10.
	Within the next decade all of Richard’s and Martha’s children left the family home, so by April 1861 the couple were living in the Bicester census district where Richard was 63 and Martha was 62.
	Just thirty months later Richard died during the third quarter of 1863 and was buried in the graveyard of St Mary’s Church at Charlton-on-Otmoor. Martha survived for another seven years before she passed away in 1870.
	46N11	John Collett	Born in 1824
	46N12	Richard Collett	Born in 1827
	46N13	Ann Collett	Born in 1829
	46N14	Felicia (Helena) Collett	Born in 1832
	46N15	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1836
	46N16	Martha Collett	Born in 1841
46M4	Elizabeth Collett was born at Fencott around late 1799 or early 1800 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 15.06.1800. It is possible that her two daughters were base born, before she was married, since both girls were baptised at nearby Blackthorn with the Collett surname.
	Shortly after the birth of the second child she married Thomas Priest but tragedy struck the family when, as Elizabeth Priest, she died at Ambrosden near Bicester in April 1824, possibly during childbirth.
	46N17	Susanna Collett	Born in 1820
	46N18	Sarah Collett	Born in 1823
46M5	John Collett was born at Fencott in 1803 according to his stated age in later census records. He was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 27.10.1805 in a joint ceremony with his sister Hannah (below). It was also at St Mary’s Church in Charlton that he married Sarah Hopcraft on 16.12.1833.
	Sarah was the daughter of William and Charlotte Hopcraft of Charlton-on-Otmoor.
	There is a question as to whether John’s and Sarah’s children were born at Fencott or in neighbouring Murcott. However, the later census records indicate that it was more likely to be Fencott.
	By June 1841 Sarah had presented John with their first three children. That year’s census recorded the family as living at Charlton-on-Otmoor with both John and Sarah having the rounded ages of 35 and their three children being Charlotte 6, William aged 4, and one year old Elizabeth.
	Within the next seven years a further four children were added to the family. The census of 1851 for Charlton listed the family as John and Sarah aged 46 and their children as Charlotte 16, William 13, Elizabeth 12, Thomas 10, George, 8, John 6, and Richard aged 3.
	Ten years later in 1861 John and Sarah were 55 years old and still living with them in the family home were Charlotte 26, William 22, Thomas 18, George 16, John 14, and Richard 13. It is possible that daughter Elizabeth had married by April 1861, hence the reason for her absence.
	Also living with the family was John’s and Sarah’s first grandchild Thomas Collett who was the base born son of their eldest daughter Charlotte.
	By 1871 all of John’s and Sarah’s children with the exception of their eldest son William and their youngest son Richard had left the family home. John and Sarah were both then aged 66, while William was 35 and Richard was 22. Both sons were unmarried at that time.
	Ten years later according to the Charlton-on-Otmoor census of 1881, John was aged 77 and was a farmer of 88 acres employing one man. The census record confirmed he was born at Fencott and that his wife Sarah also aged 77 had been born at Charlton, where they were living at that time.
	Still living with them were their two unmarried sons William aged 44 and Richard aged 32, both of whom were listed as having been born at Fencott and both described as farmer’s son.
	46N19	Charlotte Collett	Born in 1834
	46N20	William Collett	Born in 1836
	46N21	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1839
	46N22	Thomas Collett	Born in 1841
	46N23	George Collett	Born in 1843
	46N24	John Collett	Born in 1846
	46N25	Richard Collett	Born in 1848
46M6	Hannah Collett was born at Fencott in 1805 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 27.10.1805 in a joint ceremony with her brother John (above). No other record for Hannah has so far been found.
46M7	Mary Collett was born at Fencott in 1784 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 12.12.1784. And it was there that she buried just over five months later on 25.05.1785.
46M8	William Collett was born at Fencott in 1786 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 31.05.1786. No other record for William has so far been found.
46M9	Mary Collett was born at Fencott in 1788 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 18.05.1788. It seems very likely that she gave birth to a base born daughter in 1809, the child incorrectly being registered as ‘Dennis the natural daughter of Mary Collett’
	Less than two years later on 19.01.1811 Mary married Richard Westbury by licence at St Mary’s Church in Charlton. Richard was of Grendon Underwood to the east of Bicester and one of the witnesses to the marriage ceremony was Mary’s father Joseph Collett.
	46N26	Denise Collett	Born in 1809
46M10	John Collett was born at Fencott in 1790 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 02.05.1790. No other record for John has so far been found.
46M11	Elizabeth Collett was born at Fencott in 1792 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 29.04.1792. No other record for Elizabeth has so far been found.
46M12	Thomas Collett was born at Fencott in 1794 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 20.04.1974. Tragically he lived for just less than nine months and was buried at Charlton on 03.01.1795. The parish burial register confirmed he was the son of Joseph and Maria Collett.
46M13	Thomas Collett was born at Fencott in 1795 and was named in honour of his brother who had died in January that year. He was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 27.12.1795 but he died around the time of his twenty-seventh birthday and was buried at Charlton on 30.12.1822.
	It is possible, although not yet proved, that he may have married Hannah Eyres at Charlton on 14.06.1819, with his older brother John Collett (above) acting as one of the witnesses.
46M14	Richard Collett was born at Fencott in 1798 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 19.08.1798. He was married by licence to (1) Phyllis Goom on 09.06.1825 at Charlton who was with child at the time.
	This child was born at Charlton less than four months after the couple were married and was followed by a second child born at Fencott eighteen months later. Tragically Richard’s wife died exactly one year later, possibly during the birth of a further child which also did not survived.
	Phyllis was just 24 years of age when she died in 1828 and was buried at Charlton on 22.06.1828.
	Richard was later married by banns to (2) Ann Faulkner at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 18.07.1836. The parish register confirmed that Richard was a widower of Charlton, while Ann was a spinster of the parish. She was also around eighteen years younger than Richard having been born in 1816.
	This marriage produced a further eight children for Richard, the first two being born while Richard and Ann were living at Charlton. There followed a moved to Fencott where the next four were born, and a later move to Murcott where the last two were born. All of them though were baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor.
	For the first four children Richard was described as a labourer and for the remainder he was a farmer. There is a possibility of some confusion with their children since living in the same area at the same time was another married couple named Richard and Ann who lived at Murcott (below).
	According to the 1861 Census for Bletchington & Bicester, Richard was aged 60 and his wife Ann was 44. Living with them at Murcott were son John 16 and daughter Louisa aged 12. As no record of the couple’s youngest son John James has been found after his baptism it is assumed that he suffered an infant death.
	Richard died at Murcott just two years after the census day in 1863 and was buried at Charlton on 03.09.1863 aged 66.
	46N27	Joseph Collett	Born in 1825
	46N28	Thomas Collett	Born in 1827
	46N29	George Collett	Born in 1837
	46N30	Thomas Collett	Born in 1839
	46N31	Albert Collett	Born in 1843
	46N32	John Richard Collett	Born in 1844
	46N33	David Collett	Born in 1845
	46N34	Louisa Collett	Born in 1848
	46N35	John James Collett	Born in 1850
46M15	George Collett was born at Fencott in 1801 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 01.11.1801. No other record for George has so far been found.
46M16	James Collett was born at Fencott either late in 1802 or early in 1803. He was a labourer and he and his wife Sarah were both listed as being aged 40 in the 1841 Census. The census record had the following children also listed with them in the Bicester & Brackley registration district. Richard 20, Caroline 12, Ann 9 and Charlotte 6.
	There was also an Elizabeth aged 6 who may or may not have been their child. The baptism records at the Church of St Mary in Charlton-on-Otmoor confirmed Caroline, Ann and Charlotte as the daughters of James and Sarah Collett of Fencott.
	James Collett of Fencott died at the aged of 51 and was buried at the Church of St Mary in Charlton-on-Otmoor on 18.12.1853. Sarah died almost exactly three years later and was also buried at Charlton with her husband on 16.12.1856 aged 64.
	46N36	Richard Collett	Born in 1820
	46N37	Caroline Collett	Baptised on 19.10.1828
	46N38	Ann Collett	Baptised on 01.01.1832
	46N39	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1834
	46N40	Charlotte Collett	Baptised on 08.03.1835
46N1	Martha Collett was born at Fencott in 1813 and was baptised on 17.07.1813 at Charlton-on-Otmoor. No other record for Martha has so far been found.
46N2	Richard Collett at Fencott in 1815 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 04.06.1815. On leaving school Richard worked as a labourer at Murcott and at the age of 23 he was married by licence to Ann Grove who was also 23 and the daughter of a farmer of Murcott.
	The wedding took place at St Mary’s Church in Charlton-on-Otmoor on 14.02.1839 where their first child was baptised only six weeks later. During the next ten years Ann presented Richard with a further four children while the family was living at Murcott.
	By June 1841 Richard’s rounded age was 40 and listed living with him at Murcott in the Bicester & Brackley registration district was his one year old daughter Elizabeth.
	All of the children’s baptisms were recorded at Charlton and in each case the child’s father was described as Richard Collett labourer. Due to the poor health of the three youngest children the register stated they were ‘privately baptised’ which meant they were baptised at home.
	Sadly all three ailing children were eventually to suffer an infant death and were buried at Charlton. The census of 1861 listed Richard and Ann as both being aged 45 and the only children listed with them were 13 years old Edward, Philip 11, Spencer 8, and Auten aged 3, following the infant deaths of Eliza, William and George.
	There is a mystery surrounding the passing of Richard their father, since in 1867 when he died at the age of 53 there was an inquest held into his death. This may indicate that he died under suspicious circumstances or that he was killed in some way, rather than dying of natural causes.
	Either way, Richard was laid to rest in the churchyard of St Mary in Charlton-on-Otmoor on 29.10.1867.
	46O1	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1839
	46O2	Robert Sturch Collett	Born in 1841
	46O3	Eliza Ann Collett	Born in 1846
	46O4	William Collett	Born in 1847
	46O5	Edward Collett	Born in 1848
	46O6	Philip Collett	Born in 1849
	46O7	George Collett	Born in 1850
	46O8	Spencer Collett	Born in 1852
	46O9	Auten Collett	Born in 1857
46N3	Thomas Collett was born at Fencott in 1817 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 06.04.1817. Not long after he was born the family left Fencott and moved to nearby Murcott. Although no listing has been found for Thomas in the census of 1841, by 1851 he was aged 35 was married to Mary aged 28 who was also of Fencott.
	Their marriage at that time had so far produced two sons for the couple and these were Thomas who was three years of age and baby Henry who was not yet one year old. The family was living at Murcott at that time. Sadly the son born in 1854 died just one month later.
	It would appear that only one further child was added to the family over the following years, so by 1861 Thomas who was 44 and Mary who was 38 had listed living with them their three sons Thomas 13, Henry 10, and Caleb who was 4 years old and who had also been born at Murcott.
	By 1871 the couple’s two oldest surviving sons had left the family home leaving just fourteen years old Caleb living with his parents Thomas who was 54 and Mary who was 48.
	According to the census of 1881 for Charlton-on-Otmoor Thomas was 64 years old and had been born at Fencott and was then a farmer of eight acres. Mary, his wife and also of Fencott, was aged 58. Still living with them was their unmarried son Caleb who was aged 24 and born at Murcott, who was employed as an agricultural labourer.
	Thomas must have died during the 1880s since by 1891 Mary was a widow aged 68. Still living with her was her son Caleb who was then 34 years of age. As Mary was not listed in the census of 1901 it must be assumed that she died during the 1890s.
	To date no further positive identification of any other children has been found, but it is very likely that the marriage of Thomas and Mary produced more than just the five or six boys listed below.
	One real possibility is Francis Collett born in 1858. In the 1891 Census for Harbury in Warwickshire where Thomas’ and Mary’s son Henry was living at that time, there was a Frank Collett aged 32. Further work needs to be done on this to ascertain if they were brothers, which seems likely, as there was no other Collett living anywhere in that immediate area.
	46O10	Thomas Collett	Born in 1847
	46O11	Edwin Collett	Born in 1849
	46O12	Henry Collett	Born in 1851
	46O13	Charles Collett	Born in 1854
	46O14	Caleb Collett	Born in 1856
	46O15	Francis Collett – see 46O12	Born in 1858
46N4	William Collett was born at Murcott in 1819 and was baptised on 16.07.1819 at Charlton-on-Otmoor. Whether in error or ignorance, but William’s age seemed to be inaccurately specified in the census records that have so far been found for him.
	Although it is a well known fact that adult ages were rounded in the 1841 Census, William’s age was entered as being 15 rather than 20.
	By 1851 William was married to 29 years old Sarah and the couple were living within the Bicester & Bletchington registration district. So it would seem reasonable that he might be slightly older than Sarah and this would correlate with the year of his birth. However, on this occasion his age was recorded as being 25
	To date no record of the couple has been found in the 1861 Census but by 1871 they were living at Witney where it would appear they lived for the remainder of their life. William was 48 and Sarah 49.
	The census of 1881 confirmed that William of Fencott, rather than Murcott, was aged 56 and was married to Sarah aged 58 of Eynsham. At that time the couple were living at Witney where William was a labourer employed at the local brewery.
	Four other people were lodging at their house and these were former brewery worker Shayler Clarke and his adopted son Frederick Drinkwater, tin plate worker Edwin Jones, and ostler Frederick Timms.
	It would appear that William and Sarah both passed away during the 1880s as no record of them has been located after 1881.
46N5	George Collett was born at Murcott in 1821 and was baptised on 25.06.1821 at Charlton-on-Otmoor. He had a rounded age of 20 in June 1841. Around 1850 George married Eliza Harris of Islip with whom he had at least five children and all of them born at Murcott.
	Over the following ten years the marriage produced the couple’s first four children, so by 1861 the family was made up of George 38 and Eliza 32, sons Lewis 7, William 3 and George 2, and daughter Elizabeth Ann who was 4. Also living with the family was George’s widowed mother Prudence.
	Shortly after the 1861 Census date Eliza presented George with their last child which indicated that she was with child on the day on the census. Ten years later the 1871 Census recorded the family as George 47, Eliza 42, Lewis 17, William 14, George 11, and latest edition Alfred aged 9.
	Missing from the family home was daughter Elizabeth who was aged 15 who was then living and working fifteen miles away at Winslow in Buckinghamshire. However, still living with the family was George’s elderly mother Prudence.
	During the next decade the family moved a couple of miles south to Beckley where they were recorded as living in 1881. George’s occupation was that of a farmer of thirty acres, he was aged 60 and had been born at Murcott. Eliza his wife had been born at nearby Islip and was aged 55.
	The only member of the family still living with them on that occasion was their unmarried son George aged 21 who was also born at Murcott and who was working as an agricultural labourer. The couple’s youngest son Alfred was living with Eliza’s sister Esther Harris and her husband Thomas Honour in Hampshire.
	46O16	Lewis Collett	Born in 1853
	46O17	Elizabeth Ann Collett	Born in 1855
	46O18	William Collett	Born in 1857
	46O19	George Collett	Born in 1859
	46O20	Alfred Collett	Born in 1862
46N6	John Collett was born at Murcott in 1823 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 25.02.1823. He was later recorded as being aged 15 in 1841. It would appear that around 1850 he married Matilda who came from Hornton near Banbury and during the following year the marriage produced their first child, this being born after the thirtieth of March.
	By the time of the 1861 Census the family had grown with the birth of four more children. The census record for Murcott in the Bicester & Bletchington registration district revealed that John was 37, Matilda was 35 and their children were Caleb 10, Clara 7, Emily 5, Rosanna 3, and baby Eli who had only just been born
	During the next ten years three more children were added to the family but the absences from the census of 1871 might indicate that two of the older children had left home. The two missing children were Caleb who would have been 20, Emily who would have been 15, in addition to which son Eli was also not listed he having died in 1865.
	The family therefore comprised John 48, Matilda 46, daughters Clara 18 and Rowena 12, together with new arrivals Herbert aged 8, Walter aged 5, and Jane who was one year old.
	According to the 1881 Census only sons Herbert and Walter were still living with their parents at that time. It is therefore possible that John’s and Matilda’s youngest daughter Jane, who would have been ten, had also not survived beyond childhood.
	The census details for 1881 recorded that the family was living at Charlton-on-Otmoor where John was 58 years of age and his birth place was confirmed as being Murcott, as it was for his sons Herbert aged 17 and Walter aged 15. All three men were working as agricultural labourers.
	John’s wife Matilda was aged 56 and her place of birth was confirmed as Hornton near Banbury. With no details having been found for Matilda in the later census records it may be safe to assume that she had passed away during the 1880s.
	By the time of the 1891 Census for Bletchington & Bicester John was aged 68 and living with him were his two unmarried sons Herbert and Walter whose ages were incorrectly given as 26 and 24 respectively. It would appear that John died during the 1890s as he was not listed in the census of 1901.
	46O21	Caleb Collett	Born in 1851
	46O22	Clara Collett	Born in 1853
	46O23	Emily Collett	Born in 1855
	46O24	Rowena Collett	Born in 1857
	46O25	Eli Collett	Born in 1860
	46O26	Herbert Collett	Born in 1862
	46O27	Walter Collett	Born in 1865
	46O28	Jane Collett	Born in 1870
46N7	Benjamin Collett was born at Murcott in 1825 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 22.01.1825. It would appear that he was subject to an infant death as the family’s next male child was also named Benjamin (below).
46N8	Mary Collett was born at Murcott in 1826 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 01.05.1826. No other record for Mary has so far been found.
46N9	Elizabeth Collett was born at Murcott in 1829 and was baptised on 14.10.1829 at Charlton-on-Otmoor and was aged 12 in June 1841. No further record of Elizabeth has been found after this date so it seems very likely that she was married by 1851.
46N10	Benjamin Collett was born at Murcott in 1831 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 27.11.1831. Sadly he only survived for less than two years and was buried at St Mary’s Church in Charlton on 30.08.1833.
46N11	John Collett was born at Wendlebury near Bicester in the spring of 1824 where his parents had been married during November in the previous year. He was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 30.05.1824. During the years after he was born John and his parents left Oxfordshire and moved the short distance across the county boundary to settle in the village of Boarstall.
	And it was at Boarstall where the family was living in June 1841 when John was aged 15. At just over thirty years of age he married Lucy Foster at Bicester on 09.11.1854. Lucy was born at Bucknell just north of Bicester in 1830 and was the daughter of Richard Foster and Martha King.
	Within the next seven years the marriage produced the first four children for John and Lucy, so by the time of the census of 1861 the family comprised John 36, Lucy 30 and their sons Richard 5, John 2, and William who was not yet one year old, together with their daughter Martha who was four years of age.
	The family was living at Clew Hill (Farm) in Arncott within the Bicester registration area at that time and it was most likely there that all of the four children had been born.
	The couple’s next two children were born after John and Lucy had move to Charlton-on-Otmoor and sometime over the following years John returned to Boarstall with his family. And it was at Boarstall that his last five children are known to have been born.
	The family move to Boarstall may have been prompted by the death of John’s father Richard in 1863 and the need to be back in the village of his childhood to be near his widowed mother Martha.
	At the time of the 1871 Census John was 46, Lucy was 40 and their children then were Richard 15, John 12, William 10, James 7, Walter 5, Esther 3, and Edith who was not yet one year old. Their eldest daughter Martha was missing from the family list following her death in 1863.
	By April 1881 John was farming 190 acres of land at Pansole Farm in Boarstall where he also employed three men, two of whom may have been his sons John and James who were still living with John and Lucy at that time.
	The full census record confirmed John as aged 56 and born at Wendlebury and that his wife was Lucy who was 50 and born at Bucknell. Listed with them were sons John Edwin Collett 20 of Arncott, James Bottrell Collett 17 of Charlton-on-Otmoor and Herbert Spencer Collett aged 6, and daughters Esther 13, Edith Bessie 11 and Beatrice Mary aged 9. The census confirmed that the four youngest children had all been born at Boarstall.
	John died at Boarstall on 29.12.1881 where he was also buried. Sometime after the death of her husband Lucy left Boarstall with some of her children and moved back to the Bicester area where they were recorded as living in 1891.
	Widow Lucy was 60 and still living with her were just four of her children James 26, Edith 20, Beatrice 19 and Herbert 16. Over the following years Lucy returned to Boarstall where she presumably lived until her death in 1914 at the age of 83.
	The 1901 Census confirmed that she was back living at Boarstall with her son John Edwin Collett and his wife and family. She was aged 70 and her place of birth was again confirmed as Bucknell near Bicester.
	46O29	Richard Collett	Born in 1855
	46O30	Martha Ann Collett	Born in 1857
	46O31	John Edwin Collett	Born in 1859
	46O32	William Foster Collett	Born in 1861
	46O33	Lucy Louisa Collett	Born in June 1862
	46O34	James Bottrell Collett	Born in 1864
	46O35	Walter George Collett	Born in 1865
	46O36	Esther Collett	Born in 1867
	46O37	Edith Bessie Collett	Born in 1870
	46O38	Beatrice Mary Collett	Born in 1871
	46O39	Herbert Spencer Collett	Born in 1874
46N12	Richard Collett was born Boarstall in Buckinghamshire in 1827 and by 1841 he was 14 years old. No other record for Richard has so far been found.
46N13	Ann Collett was born at Boarstall in 1829 and by 1841 was 12 years of age. No other record for Ann has so far been found.
46N14	Felicia Collett was born at Boarstall in 1832. According to the 1841 Census she was referred to as Helena aged 9 and was living with her family at Boarstall. No further record of her as either Felicia or Helena has been found in any later census records.
46N15	Elizabeth Collett was born at Boarstall in 1836 and was aged five years in June 1841. Between April and June in 1856 Elizabeth married Mark Honour, the marriage being registered in Bicester. Mark was born at Murcott in 1832 and was the younger brother of Thomas Honour who employed his nephew Alfred Collett (Ref. 46O13) in 1881 on his farm in Hampshire.
	Shortly after Elizabeth and Mark were married she presented her husband with their first child which was born at Murcott, as were all of their five children.
	However sometime after the birth of the last child the family left Murcott and moved south to Swyncombe near Watlington in Oxfordshire. And it was there that the family was living in 1881.
	Mark was aged 48 and was farming 500 acres of land known as Lower Farm in Swyncombe where he employed four men and a boy. His place of birth was confirmed as Murcott, while Elizabeth his wife, who was aged 41, was confirmed has having been born at Fencott and not Boarstall which seems rather curious.
	Their children were Sarah 24, Albert 22, Walter 18, Bessie 16, and William aged 9. Also supporting the family were two domestic farm servants William Morton and Benjamin Groves both aged 18.
	Tragically within the same year as the 1881 Census, Elizabeth died at Swyncombe.
46N16	Martha Collett was born at Boarstall in the second half of 1841 since she was not listed with her family on the census date of the sixth June that year. No other record for Martha has so far been found.
46N17	Susanna Collett was born in 1820 and may have been base born since she was baptised at Blackthorn on 14.05.1820 using her mother’s maiden name. No other record for Susanna or Susannah has so far been found.
46N18	Sarah Collett was born in 1823 and may have been base born since, like her sister Susanna (above) she was baptised at Blackthorn on 04.07.1823 using her mother’s maiden name. No other record for Sarah has so far been found.
46N19	Charlotte Collett was born at Fencott in 1834 and was aged 6 in the June census of 1841, 16 in 1851 and 26 in 1861. On all three occasions she was living with her parents, but for the latter she was the unmarried mother of two sons Walter Collett aged 3 and Thomas Collett aged 2.
	The exact circumstances surrounding her life over the next twenty years has not been determined, but the census of 1871 indicated she was living in the Bicester & Bletchington registration district. Her age was stated as being 35 and living with her were five of her six children.
	These were Tom aged 11, Georgina 8, Berea 6, Dorcas 3, and Jonah aged 1, and all having been born at Fencott where they were living at that time. Charlotte’s eldest son Walter had died at Fencott in 1870 aged 13. Two further children were added to the family over the following years.
	By the time of the 1881 Census she was still listed as unmarried even though she then had seven children. On that occasion she was living at the Fencott home of bachelor Thomas Cooper who was an agricultural labourer from Murcott aged 50.
	Charlotte was confirmed as being 47 and born at Fencott, and her occupation was given as needlewoman. Her relationship to Thomas as head of the household was simply ‘woman’. However, all of her children were listed as Cooper Collett, all of them having been born at Fencott.
	Just after the turn of the century Charlotte Collett of Fencott was 66 years of age and was living at Charlton-on-Otmoor.
	46O40	Walter Wentworth Collett	Born in 1857
	46O41	Thomas Cooper Collett	Born in 1858
	46O42	Georgina Cooper Collett	Born in 1861
	46O43	Barry Cooper Collett	Born in 1865
	46O44	Abigal Cooper Collett	Born in 1867
	46O45	Jonah Cooper Collett	Born in 1869
	46O46	Richard Cooper Collett	Born in 1871
	46O47	Anne Cooper Collett	Born in 1876
46N20	William Collett was born at Fencott in 1836 although his age varied in consecutive census records. For example in 1841 he was 4 years old, 13 in 1851, 22 in 1861 and in 1871 he was aged 35.
	It would appear that he never married and according to the 1881 Census he was still living with his parents on their farm at Charlton-on-Otmoor at the age of 44.
	Twenty years later farmer William Collett gave his age as 62 and his place of birth as Fencott and was still living at Charlton, presumably having taken over the management of the farm upon the death of his parents.
46N21	Elizabeth Collett was born in 1839 and this may have been at either Fencott or Murcott judging by the place of birth of the other children of the family. By June 1841 Elizabeth was one year old and ten years later she was recorded as being aged 12 in the 1851 Census. No record of her has been found thereafter, so it might be assumed that she was married by 1871.
46N22	Thomas Collett was born at Murcott in 1841. He married Anne Cox of Horton-cum-Studley during October to December in 1867 and their first child was born at Whitecross Green in Horton shortly after they were married.
	It may be of interest to note that an Ellen Martha Cox was born in 1866 at Whitecross Green in Horton-cum-Studley. She was the daughter of Thomas and Margaret Cox and she later marry James Bottrell Collett in 1895. It is likely that Thomas Cox was the brother of Anne Cox.
	Thomas and Margaret Cox were also the parents of Maud Cox of Whitecross Green in Horton-cum-Studley who married Albert Collett (Ref. 46056) around 1893, Albert being the nephew of Thomas Collett, with Maud being the niece of Anne Cox.
	The Collett connection between Thomas of Murcott and James Bottrell of Charlton was through Thomas’ father John Collett who was the brother of Richard Collett who was James’ grandfather.
	In total Thomas Collett and Anne Cox are known to have had six children, the second and third child having been born while the family was living at Arncott and their last three children after the family had moved to Fencott.
	The census of 1881 recorded the family as living within the Charlton census area which would have included Fencott where Thomas and Anne are known to have been living in 1878.
	That year’s census revealed that Thomas was a farmer of 230 acres employing three men and two boys. His place of birth was given as Murcott and he was 40 years old. His wife Anne had been born at Horton-cum-Studley and was 34.
	Their six children at that time were Aubery (recorded as Albury) aged 13 and described as a farmer’s son, Herbert 10, Mildred 9, Beatrice 5, Percival 4, and two years old Arthur.
	Ten years later the complete family was still together and comprised Thomas 49, Annie 47, Aubery 23, Herbert 20, Mildred 19, Beatrice 15, Percival 13, and Arthur aged 11.
	Just after the turn of the century Thomas and Anne were still living at Charlton but with just two of their children. Farmer Thomas was 59 of Murcott, Annie of Horton was 53, and daughter Beatrice was 25 and son Percy was 23, both of Fencott.
	The later census of 1911 placed the couple living at Fencott where farmer Thomas was 69 and Annie was 64. Annie stated that Horton was where she had been born, whereas Thomas said he was from Fencott. The census confirmed that Thomas and Annie had been married for forty-four years.
	The couple’s son Herbert, whose wife had died during the previous decade, had returned to live with them, together with the youngest of his three daughters.
	46O48	Aubrey Thomas Collett	Born in 1868
	46O49	Herbert James Collett	Born in 1870
	46O50	Mildred Collett	Born in 1872
	46O51	Beatrice Collett	Born in 1875
	46O52	Percival Con Collett	Born in 1877
	46O53	Arthur Collett	Born in 1879
46N23	George Collett was born at Fencott in 1843. When in his mid-twenties he married a lady who was eight years older and this was Emma who was born at Worminghall in Buckinghamshire in 1835.
	The marriage produced twin daughters who were born while George and Emma were still living at Fencott. However, soon after the girls were born George aged 26 and Emma aged 35 were living in the village of Beckley within the Headington St Clement region of Oxford with their twin daughters who were not yet one year old.
	During the 1870s the family of four left Oxford and moved south to Swyncombe near Watlington in Oxfordshire where George’s cousin Elizabeth Honour nee Collett (above) and her family had also moved around the same time.
	The census of 1881 for Swyncombe stated that George aged 37 and of Fencott was the farmer of 70 acres at Darkwood Farm, while his wife Emma of Worminghall was 45. Their two daughters were both 11 years of age and in service to the family as a domestic farm servant was 18 years old Frederick Chalduran of Worminghall.
	46O54	Sarah A Collett twin	Born in 1870
	46O55	Mary E Collett twin	Born in 1870
46N24	John Collett was born at Fencott in 1845 and was recorded as being aged 6 in 1851 and 14 in 1861. On 20.09.1870 John married Edith who was born at Charlton-on-Otmoor around 1848.
	Once married the couple settled initially in Fencott where their first two children were born, before moving to Charlton where their third child was born. By 1881 the family was living in a cottage in nearby Oddington where John was a farmer of 140 acres employing four men and two boys.
	The census confirmed he was aged 35 and born at Fencott and that his wife Edith E Collett was 32 and of Charlton. Their three children at that time were Albert 9, Thomas 8 and Sarah 7. However it is established that the couple did have another son John who may have been born around 1875 but who was not listed with the family in 1881.
	No record of any member of the family has so far been discovered in the census of 1891 although it is likely that they were still living at Oddington, as that was where John and Edith were living in 1901.
	According to the census that year Edith E Collett of Charlton-on-Otmoor was 54, while he husband farmer John was aged 55 and his place of birth on this occasion was listed as Murcott. Living with them was their youngest son John who was aged 25 and confirmed as having been born at Oddington.
	On 20^th September 1920 John and Edith celebrated fifty years of married life together and the occasion was marked by the presentation tom the couple of an illuminated scroll. Today this scroll hangs on the wall inside the house of John’s great grandson Stephen Collett.
	46O56	Albert John Collett	Born in 1871
	46O57	Thomas H Collett	Born in 1872
	46O58	Sarah J Collett	Born in 1873
	46O59	John Collett	Born in 1875
46N25	Richard Collett was born at Fencott in 1848. According to the 1881 Census he was aged 32 and a bachelor who was listed as a farmer’s son. At that time he was still living with his elderly parents on their eighty-eight acre farm in Charlton-on-Otmoor.
	In 1901 a Richard Collett aged 54 and of Fencott was living at Charlton where he was working as a thatcher.
46N26	Denise Collett was born at Fencott in 1809 and was the daughter of Mary Collett of Fencott who was not married until 1811. She was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 12.03.1809 and the entry in the parish records referred to her as ‘Dennis the natural daughter of Mary Collett’. Therefore the assumption has been made that the name today would be Denise.
	It is not known whether she retained the Collett name or adopted the Westbury name, following the marriage of her mother to Richard Westbury on 19.01.1811. No other record for Denise or any similar named female has so far been found.
46N27	Joseph Collett was born at Charlton-on-Otmoor in 1825 and was baptised there later that same year on 13.10.1825. No other record for Joseph has so far been found.
46N28	Thomas Collett was born at Fencott in 1827 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 24.06.1827. Tragically he only survived for around eighteen months before he died and was buried at St Mary’s Church in Charlton on 22.01.1829.
46N29	George Collett was born at Charlton-on-Otmoor in 1837. Being of poor health he was subject to a private baptism at his home in Charlton on 03.02.1838 but died shortly after and was buried at Charlton on 17.02.1838.
46N30	Thomas Collett was born at Charlton-on-Otmoor in 1839 and was baptised there on 22.08.1839. He survived for only thirty-one months and was buried at Charlton on 09.02.1842.
46N31	Albert Collett was born at Fencott in 1843 but was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 21.05.1843. Apart from the 1861 Census in which he was aged 17, no other record for Albert has so far been found.
46N32	John Richard Collett was born at Fencott in 1844 and was baptised on 18.08.1844 at Charlton-on-Otmoor. No other record for John has so far been found.
46N33	David Collett was born at Fencott in 1845 and baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 27.04.1845. Apart from the census of 1861 in which David was aged 16 and was living with his parents and sister Louisa (below), no other record has so far been found.
46N34	Louisa Collett was born at Fencott in 1848 and was aged 12 in the census of 1861 and was living with her parents and brother David (above)
46N35	John James Collett was born at Murcott in 1850 and was baptised on 04.08.1850 at Charlton-on-Otmoor. No other record for John or James or John James has so far been found.
46O1	Elizabeth Collett was born at Murcott in 1839 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 31.06.1839. She was aged 1 year in the 1841 Census for the Bicester & Brackley registration district when she was listed with her father Richard Collett. No other record for Elizabeth has so far been found.
46O2	Robert Sturch Collett was born at Murcott in 1841 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 29.03.1841. By the time he was twenty he had left Murcott and was living and working at Swalcliffe near Banbury.
	It was while in the Banbury area that he met Mary Ann whom he married a few years later. Mary Ann was born at Hanwell near Banbury and was the same age as Robert. There is a chance that she was Mary Ann Baker – see 1881 Census note below.
	Where they were married has not been discovered, but either at that time or a little while after the couple moved to London and the birth of their only known child was registered while Robert and Mary Ann were living at Waterloo Road in Lambeth. It is however likely that the couple were living at Brill in Buckinghamshire at the time of their son’s birth.
	And it was there that the family of three was still living in 1871. Robert was aged 30, as was Mary Ann, while their son William was four years old. Sometime during the next decade the family moved west and north of the River Thames and settled in Norwood Green in Middlesex.
	According to the census of 1881 the family was living at Featherstone Larches in Norwood where the occupation of Robert S Collett was a beer retailer. Both he and his wife Mary were 40 years of age and Robert gave his place of birth as Fencott, while Mary confirmed she was of Hanwell in Oxfordshire.
	Their son William was then aged 14 and was still attending school. Staying with the family at that time was Kate Baker aged 41 of Wootton in Oxfordshire the wife of an agricultural labourer who was described as ‘sister-in-law’, together with her daughter Margaret aged 3 of Hounslow.
	It would appear that Robert continued to live at Norwood for the rest of his life, although no record of him at all has been found in 1901. However in both 1891 and 1911 he was listed as living there.
	By 1891 Robert ‘Stauch’ Collett and Mary Ann Collett were both 50 and were living alone at Norwood. When Mary Ann died has not been determined and this may be linked with their absence in 1901.
	The census of 1911 confirmed that Robert Sturch Collett was still living at Norwood at the age of seventy and that by then he was a widower.
	46P1	William Collett	Born in 1866
46O3	Eliza Ann Collett was born at Murcott in 1846 and, as she was not in the best of health, Eliza was subject to a private baptism at the family home on 11.04.1846. Sadly she never recovered from her illness and died just of twelve months later and was buried at Charlton on 20.04.1847.
46O4	William Collett was born at Murcott in 1847 and probably suffered with the same ailments as his older sister Eliza Ann (above) who died seven months before he was born. William was also baptised at home in a private baptism on 14.11.1847, but he died six months later and was buried at Charlton on 18.05.1848.
46O5	Edward Collett was born at Fencott in 1847 and was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 11.04.1847. By 1861 he was aged 13 and he and his family had moved to Murcott. No other record for Edward has so far been found.
46O6	Philip Collett was born at Murcott in 1849 but was baptised at Charlton-on-Otmoor on 17.03.1850. And it was at Murcott that he was still living with his parents at the age of 11 in 1861.
	He married Louisa in the early 1870s, Louisa having been born at Clapham in London in 1848. Once they were married the couple headed for Dorset where they settled at Leigh Road in Wimborne Minster, just north of Poole, where their children were born and where the family was living in 1881.
	The census that year confirmed Philip had been born at Murcott, that he was aged 30, and that he was working as a railway agent and bus proprietor carrier. His wife was Louisa aged 32 of Clapham in Surrey, and their four children at that time were Sidney aged 6, Reginald 4, Edgar 3 and Edith who was nine months old.
	Fifteen months after the census day that year the couple’s fifth and last child was born in July 1882, but with tragic consequences. Whilst the child survived the ordeal, Louisa did not and, with the passing of his wife, Philip named the child in honour of his late wife.
	By 1891 the family was listed at Wimborne as Philip 41, Reginald 14, Edgar 13, Edith 10 and Louisa aged 8. Philip’s eldest son Sidney, at the age of 16, was living and working at Christchurch near Bournemouth on that occasion.
	Ten years later according to the census of 1901 the family was still living at Wimborne and comprised widower Philip aged 51 of Murcott who was a delivery agent, and three of his remaining four children. This time is was Philip’s second son Reginald who was not living at the family home. Instead he had left Dorset and was living in Derbyshire.
	The members of the family still living with Philip were his sons Sidney aged 26 and Edgar aged 23, who were both working as motor car drivers for their father in the family business, and daughter Louisa who was 18 years of age. The absence of Philip’s eldest daughter Edith, who would have been 21, indicated that she was already married by that date.
	Philip died at Wimborne on 05.03.1909 and a headstone in the cemetery there marks his grave. The headstone also includes under Philip’s name, the details of the passing of his wife and their son Reginald.
	It therefore seems very likely that surviving sons Sidney and Edgar arranged for the installation of the headstone to mark the grave of their parents and their brother. See the appendix at the end of this family line for the details of the headstone epitaph.
	Also following the death of their father, Philip’s two sons Sidney and Edgar took over the running of the family business and by April 1911 they had left Wimborne and had moved to Salisbury in Wiltshire where they continued the business.
	46P2	Sidney S Collett	Born in 1874
	46P3	Reginald Philip Collett	Born in 1876
	46P4	Edgar William Collett	Born in 1877
	46P5	Edith Louisa Collett	Born in 1880
	46P6	Louisa Collett	Born in 1882
46O7	George Collett was born at Murcott in 1850 and was the third child of the family to die while still an infant. Like his two sibling immediately before him, he was privately baptised on 09.05.1850 and survived for almost two years thereafter. Following his passing in 1852 he was buried at Charlton on 01.04.1852.
46O8	Spencer Collett was born at Fencott in 1852 and was aged 8 at the time of the 1861 Census. At some time in his early adult years he left Oxfordshire and moved south. His first stop may have been in Berkshire where he met and married (1) Alice of Moulsford, south of Wallingford.
	Moulsford was on the Great Western railway mainline between Oxford and London and since Spencer was a railway porter it seems likely that his travelling was as a result of his work.
	Alice was born at Moulsford and was four years younger than Spencer and would have been almost twenty years of age when they married. Sometime after they were married the couple moved to Southampton where their three sons were born.
	By 1881 the family living at 5 Osborn Road Hill in Millbrook. Millbrook was within the parish of Southampton through which the south coast mainline railway ran where Spencer was continuing to work as a railway porter.
	His place of birth was confirmed as being Fencott and his age was 28. His wife Alice was 24 and their three sons were Albert 4, Auten 3, and Ernest aged one year. The place of birth for all three boys was Southampton Hill. Shortly after the census day the family moved from Millbrook and settled in nearby Shirley where a further four children were born into the family.
	So by the time of the 1891 Census for Shirley the family had increased in size and was made up of Spencer 38, Alice 34, Albert 14, Auten 13, Ernest 11, George 9, Arthur 7, Alice 5, and Harold aged just one year.
	However, during the next ten years it would appear that Alice died leaving Spencer to married (2) Emily from West Cowes on the Isle of Wight. The 1901 Census for Shirley recorded Spencer as 48 and working as a licenced victualler. With him was his wife Emily E Collett aged 51, and five children from his first marriage.
	These were Auten aged 23, George 19, Arthur 17, Elsie (Alice) 15, and Harold aged 11. It may be interesting to note that the brothers Spencer and Auten (below) both gave up their previous professions as a railway porter and a greengrocer respectively around the end of the century to become licenced victuallers.
	Spencer and his family was still living in the Southampton area by April 1911. He was 58, although he gave his place of birth as Murcott, while his wife Emily Ellen Collett was 61 and from Cowes. Still living with them were Spencer’s sons ‘Antin’ (Auten) 33, George Robert 29, Arthur 27 and Harold who was 22
	46P7	Albert S Collett	Born in 1876 at Southampton
	46P8	Auten William Collett	Born in 1877
	46P9	Ernest Wilfred Collett	Born in 1879
	46P10	George Robert Collett	Born in 1881
	46P11	Arthur S G Collett	Born in 1883
	46P12	Alice Elsie Collett	Born in 1885 at Shirley
	46P13	Harold P Collett	Born in 1889
46O9	Auten Collett was born at Fencott in 1857 was listed as Hantin aged 3 in the census of 1861. In the second half of the 1870s he married Elizabeth who was born at Berrow Green near Worcester.
	By 1881 the couple were living at 14 Hinton Road in Lambeth where 23 years old Auten was a greengrocer. In addition to wife Elizabeth M Collett aged 25 and their son Albert Edward aged 3 who was born at Lambeth, the family of three was supported by Charlie Cotton aged 20 a servant and greengrocer’s assistant, and domestic servant Rose Cross aged 15.
	Over the next ten years Auten and Elizabeth moved to Brixton and three further children were added to the family. The census of 1891 recorded the head of the house as Austin aged 33, Elizabeth as 30 and their four children as Albert 13, Arthur 7, Mary 5, and Winifred aged one.
	By the end of the century Elizabeth had presented her husband with two new children, the first born while the family was still living at Brixton – although he later gave his place of birth as Reading, and the last was born at Reading. From there the family later moved to Tunbridge Wells in Kent which is where they were living by the turn of the century.
	Austen, as he was referred to in the 1901 Census, was 43 and was then working as a licenced victualler - he having passed the greengrocer business to his eldest son. Elizabeth M Collett of Berrow was 43 (sic) and living with them was sons Arthur 17 and Harry 8, and daughters Maude 16, Winifred 11, and Florence aged 4.
	By 1911 the family had moved again, this time to Edmonton in Middlesex, where ‘Austin’ was 53 and Elizabeth was 55. Still living with the couple was their 21 years old daughter Winifred Mary.
	46P14	Albert Edward Collett	Born in 1877
	46P15	Arthur E Collett	Born in 1883
	46P16	Maude Mary Collett	Born in 1885 at Brixton
	46P17	Winifred Mary Collett	Born in 1889 at Brixton
	46P18	Harry Austin Collett	Born in 1892
	46P19	Florence B Collett	Born in 1896 at Reading
46O10	Thomas Collett was born at Murcott in 1847. It would appear that he left the family home in Oxfordshire and moved south to London where in 1871 as a bachelor he was aged 24 and was living in Kingston-upon-Thames where he was working as a policeman.
	It would also appear that he married Frances Isabella Muckle shortly after the 1871 census day as the first of their children was born at Hampton during the following year. Frances was four years younger than Thomas having been born at Albury near Bishop’s Stortford in 1851.
	Over the next decade Frances presented Thomas with a further five children all of whom were born at Hampton or Hampton Hill. By the time of the 1881 Census the family was living at 9 Wolsey Road in Teddington in the Hampton census district. Wolsey Road is still there today and lies between the High Street (A311) and Uxbridge Road (A312).
	Thomas’ occupation was confirmed as being a police constable and he gave his place of birth as simply Charlton. He was aged 33, while his wife Frances was 29.
	Their children were aged 8, 6, 5, 4, 3 and seven months respectively and it is possible that 9 Wolsey Road was a police house and that all of the children were born there. Also living at the house with the family was Frances’ older brother Augustus Frederick Muckle aged 32 of Albury, who was an unemployed blacksmith.
	Four years later the last child was added to the family so by 1891 the family living at Hanworth within the Sunbury & Staines registration district was recorded as Thomas 43, Frances 39, William 15, Frances 14, Isabella 13, Andrew 10 and Arthur aged 5.
	It is possible that Thomas died during the 1890s as Frances appeared to be living alone in the St Margaret’s area of London near Richmond in March 1901. She was listed in the census as Margaret T Collett aged 49 from Hertfordshire.
	46P20	Eleanor Mary Collett	Born in 1872
	46P21	Elizabeth Frances Collett	Born in 1874
	46P22	William Thomas Collett	Born in 1875
	46P23	Frances Jane Collett	Born in 1876
	46P24	Isabella Muckle Collett	Born in 1877
	46P25	Andrew Ralph Collett	Born in August 1880
	46P26	Arthur M Collett	Born in 1885
46O11	Edwin Collett was born at Fencott in 1849, although there are differing ages stated in various census records, for example in 1901 he was 52 but in 1881 he was 35.
	By 1881 Edwin had left Oxfordshire and had moved to Warwickshire where his brother Henry (below) was also living at that time. He was a bachelor and was living at 18A Cape in the St Mary district of Warwick where he was working as a publican. Living with him was housekeeper and widow Mary Ann Carter aged 30 from Great Ashford in Suffolk.