PART FORTY-SEVEN

The Fyfield & Eastleach Martin Line

Updated October 2011

This is the family line of Frances Francis (see Ref. 47P11)

The settlement that this line centres on is ‘Fifield’ near Eastleach Martin in

Gloucestershire, very close to the county boundary with Oxfordshire.

Today it is spelt Fyfield, and is NOT the Fifield in Oxfordshire which is

situated midway between Burford and Upper Slaughter in Gloucestershire.

Being a hamlet, Fyfield did not have a church of its own in those early

days and this was why baptisms, marriages and burials were conducted

at the parish church of St Michael & St Martin in nearby Eastleach Martin

The research so far has not revealed any links to any of the other Gloucestershire lines

and the only common ground is the village of Cowley. In 1881 members of this

branch of the family were living there with Colletts from The Chedworth Line

47K1	Unknown Collett parents
	47L1	George Collett	Born circa 1760
	47L2	Richard Collett	Born in 1763
47L1	George Collett was born around 1760 and is thought to be the brother of Richard Collett (below). He later married Mary and their two known sons were baptised in a joint ceremony at Eastleach Martin. It has not been determined if the boys were twins, but it is more likely that they were not.
	Previously listed as a child of this family was Richard Collett, but it has since been discovered that he was not the child of George and Mary, nor was he born at Fifield in Gloucestershire but at Fifield in Oxfordshire. His details have therefore been removed and placed in an appendix at the end of this file.
	47M1	George Collett	Baptised on 12.10.1796
	47M2	Charles Collett	Baptised on 12.10.1796
47L2	Richard Collett was born at Fyfield in 1763 and his would appear to be the first Collett name recorded for that area of Gloucestershire. Around 1793 he married Mary who was ten years younger than Richard, and all of their children were probably born at Fyfield, although they were all baptised at Eastleach Martin.
	Mary died at Fyfield and was buried at Eastleach Martin on 24^th July 1822 at the age of 49. Eleven years later Richard died and was buried with his wife on 17^th April 1833. The entry in the parish register described Mary as being ‘of Fifield’, while her husband was recorded as ‘Richard Collett of Eastleach Martin alias Burthorpe’.
	47M3	Thomas Collett	Baptised on 11.02.1794
	47M4	Henry Collett	Baptised on 18.03.1798
	47M5	Jane Collett	Baptised on 03.08.1800
	47M6	Eleanor Collett	Baptised on 16.10.1803
	47M7	Mary Collett	Baptised on 19.04.1807
	47M8	Richard Collett	Born in 1811
	47M9	Esther Collett	Born in 1812
	47M10	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1814
47M1	George Collett was born at Fyfield and was baptised at Eastleach Martin on 12^th October 1796, the same day that his brother Charles (below) was baptised there. Nothing further is known about George at this time, except that there was no record of him in the 1841 or 1851 census records, nor in any later census.
47M2	Charles Collett was born at Fyfield and was baptised at Eastleach Martin on 12^th October 1796. He later married Sophia in 1830 when she was 20 years of age, having been born at Alvescot around 1810. The marriage produced eleven children for Charles and Sophia and all of them were born at Fyfield. It is also confirmed that the baptism of the couple’s first two children was conducted at the parish church in Eastleach Martin.
	According to the first national census held on 6th June 1841 Charles was given the rounded age of 40, while his wife Sophia had a rounded age of 30. Charles was employed as an agricultural labourer and living with the couple at Fyfield were their first six children. They were Mary aged 11, Charles 10, Robert who was eight, Eleanor who was six, Luanna who was four, and Enos who was two years old. The family was extended by a further three children during the next decade, although the family suffered the loss of one of these with the death of seven years old Josiah in 1850.
	So by the time of the census of 1851 for Fyfield, Charles and Sophia were listed as being aged 53 and 40 respectively. Their children on that occasion were Mary 21, Charles 20, Robert 18, Eleanor 16, Susanna 14, Enos 12, John 10, Obadiah who was five, and Emmanuel who was three years old.
	During the next decade the format of the family changed and by the time of the census in 1861 they were still living in the hamlet of Fyfield within the parish of Eastleach Martin. The family comprised Charles who was referred to as Charley Collett, age 63 and from Eastleach Martin, his wife Sophia, age 51 and from Alvescot in Oxfordshire, and their children Obadiah 16 – who was listed as Henry Collett, Emmanuel 12, and Neamiah who was nine years old. All three sons were confirmed as born at Eastleach Martin, and all were employed as agricultural labourers just like their father, with whom they may have been working.
	Also staying with the family at that time was the couple’s grandson William Collett, who was four years old and born at Northleach, who was the base-born son of Charles’ and Sophia’s daughter Luanna Collett.
	According to the 1871 Census for the Northleach & Bibury registration district, the family of Charles and Sophia Collett was still living in Fyfield. Charles Collett, age 75 and from Fyfield, was described as ‘out of employ’, while his wife Sophia from Alvescot was 63. Living with the couple was their son Nehemiah Collett, age 19 and from Fyfield, who was an agricultural labourer, and their grandson William Collett who was 14 and from Northleach, who was also an agricultural labourer.
	Charles Collett died in 1879, so his wife was recorded as a widow in the census of 1881. Sophia Collett, age 69 and from Alvescot, was listed as head of the household and formerly the wife of a labourer. Living with her in the Eastleach Martin census area, which included Fyfield, was her unmarried son Emmanuel Collett of Fyfield in Gloucestershire. Also staying with them was Sophia’s granddaughter Ellen Silman of Black Bourton in Oxfordshire, the daughter of Charles’ and Sophia’s married daughter Luanna, who was recorded as attending school.
	Ten years later in April 1891 Sophia gave her age as being 80 at a time when she was a visitor at the Black Bourton home of her daughter Luanna Silman. Sophia died during the following year and was described as being 'of Fifield' in the burial register for 1892.
	47N1	Mary Ann Collett		Baptised on 25.12.1829
	47N2	Charles Collett		Baptised on 06.02.1831
	47N3	Robert Collett		Born in 1832
	47N4	Eleanor Collett		Born in 1835
	47N5	Luanna Collett		Born in 1837
	47N6	Enos Collett		Born in 1839
	47N7	John Collett		Born in 1841
	47N8	Josiah Collett		Born in 1843
	47N9	Obadiah Collett		Born in 1845
	47N10	Emmanuel Collett		Born in 1849
	47N11	Nehemiah Collett		Born in 1851
47M3	Thomas Collett was born at Fyfield and was baptised at Eastleach Martin on 11^th day of a month in 1794, the name of which is illegible. He was the son of Richard and Mary Collett of Fyfield and it is believed that he married Ann.
47M4	Henry Collett was born at Fyfield and was baptised at Eastleach Martin on 18^th March 1798. He only survived for a short while and died during the following year.
47M5	Jane Collett was born at Fyfield and was baptised at Eastleach Martin on 3^rd August 1800. When she was twenty-seven years old she gave birth to a base-born baby daughter and two years later she married John Stanton at Eastleach Martin on 19^th September 1829.
	47N12	Mary Jane Collett	Born in 1827 at Fyfield
47M6	Eleanor Collett was born at Fyfield and was baptised at Eastleach Martin on 16^th October 1803. Sadly Eleanor died in 1820 when she was only seventeen years of age.
47M7	Mary Collett was born at Fyfield and was baptised at Eastleach Martin on 19^th April 1807.
47M8	Richard Collett was, according to the Family Bible compiled by his son George Collat (sic), born on 17^th June 1811 at Fyfield and was initially recorded as Richard Collat. In addition to which the IGI listing includes Richard Collett who was baptised at Eastleach Martin on 15^th July 1810, the son of Richard and Mary Collett.
	However, as the Bible date has been confirmed by the Gloucestershire Records Office, it must therefore be assumed the IGI entry is in error and should read as 15^th July 1811 for the date of his baptism.
	Richard later married (1) Priscilla Brown on 15^th March 1840 at Cowley just south of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, but not before she had given birth to their first child one year earlier. Curiously Richard gave his place of birth as Eastington near Northleach, rather than Eastleach.
	Priscilla was the daughter of Joseph and Mary Brown and at the time of their wedding Priscilla was expecting the birth of the couple’s second child.
	Less than three months after they were married Priscilla presented Richard with his first son and by the time of the June census of 1841 Richard, Priscilla and George were living right next door to Priscilla’s parents in Cowley. The absence of their daughter Emily was confirmation that she had died while still an infant.
	Exactly three years after the birth of the couple’s first son Priscilla presented Richard with a second son, from which it would appear she never recovered. Tragically just over two months after this happy event Priscilla died on 16^th September 1843, the cause of death stated as being ‘decline’, this presumably being the decline in her health since giving birth.
	Richard spent the rest of his life at Cowley where his two surviving sons from his first marriage were born. And it was also at Cowley nearly seven years later on 9^th March 1850 that Richard married (2) Esther Broad who was born in 1813 and who was the daughter of Thomas Broad.
	His second married produced no children for Richard and a year after they were married Richard and Esther were living together in Cowley, as recorded by the 1851 Census. Richard was aged 37, his wife Esther was 35, and his two sons George and James were aged 10 and seven years respectively.
	Within the next ten years Richard and Esther seem to have parted company due to Esther’s mental state, since in the Cowley census of 1861, Richard was 49 and only had living with him his two sons George who was 20 and James who was 17.
	At that same time in 1861 Esther was a patient at the County Lunatic Asylum in the North Hamlet area of Gloucester, where she was listed as being aged 45 and born at Cowley, and the wife of a labourer.
	During the next ten years the couple were reunited and by 1871 they were both living together at Cowley. Richard Collett was 61 and Esther was 55. Living with them, and listed as a visitor, was Richard’s widowed sister Elizabeth Lafford who was 59.
	Another separation of Richard and his wife appears to have taken place over the next decade, since the 1881 Census only listed Richard ‘of Fifield in Gloucestershire’ aged 70, an agricultural labourer living at Hill Cottages in Cowley. Still living with him was his sister Elizabeth Lafford.
	He was still recorded as being married, while his estranged wife Esther, age 66 and born at Cowley, was living at the workhouse in nearby Cheltenham where she was recorded as a widow and a pauper. In exchange for her accommodation, Esther was employed at the workhouse as a general servant.
	Just seven years after the census date Richard Collett died at Cowley in 1888, while it is understood that his wife Esther had died earlier during 1887.
	47N13	Emily Collett	Born on 24.03.1839
	47N14	George Richard Collett	Born on 03.07.1840
	47N15	James Collett	Born on 10.07.1843
47M9	Esther Collett was born at Fyfield in 1812, although no baptism record has so far been located for her.
47M10	Elizabeth Collett was born at Fyfield in 1814 and she later married George Lafford at Eastleach Martin on 27^th October 1832. The marriage produced only one daughter for the couple shortly after they were married, following which George then appears to have died just prior to the census of 1871.
	Elizabeth then lived with her brother Richard Collett (above) and his wife Esther at Cowley from that time until her death in 1896. In the 1871 Census she was listed as being 59 years old and her occupation was that of a nurse.
	By the time of the Cowley census of 1881 the widow Elizabeth Lafford, who was 68, was continuing to live with her brother Richard Collett at Hill Cottages in Cowley. Her place of birth was confirmed as being ‘Fifield in Gloucestershire’.
	Also living at Hill Cottages in Cowley at that same time was baker Henry Collett (Ref. 3O32), age 33 and of Painswick, together with his wife Sarah Ann Collett and his mother-in-law Sarah Long of Cowley. Henry was the son of John Collett of Chedworth.
	47N16	Mary Ann Lafford	Born in 1833 at Fyfield
47N1	Mary Ann Collett was born at Fyfield and was baptised at Eastleach Martin on 25the December 1829, the eldest of the eleven known children of Charles and Sophia Collett. At the time of the first national census in 1841 Mary was 11 years old and was living with her family in the Eastleach Martin registration district. In 1851 Mary was still living with her parents at Fyfield when she was 21.
	By that time in her life she was an unmarried mother, having given birth to a base-born daughter during the previous year. It was during the following year that her daughter was baptised at Eastleach Martin, in a joint ceremony with Mary Ann’s youngest brother Nehemiah Collett (below).
	Sometime thereafter Mary Ann married Luke Carter who was born in 1828, just two miles away in the village of Filkins in Oxfordshire. By 1881 Luke was 52 and Mary was 51 and they were living at Gardiners Row in Filkins, where both Luke and Mary were listed as being general labourers.
	Living with them on that occasion were the couple’s three youngest children, Robert Carter, age 14 and another general labourer, Elizabeth Carter who was 11, and James Carter who was eight years old, and all of them born at Filkins. What happened to Mary’s daughter Ann Collett has not been determined at this time.
	47O1	Ann Collett	Born in 1850 at Fyfield
47N2	Charles Collett was born at Fyfield and baptised at Eastleach Martin on 6^th February 1831, the eldest son of Charles and Sophia Collett. By June 1841 he was recorded as being 10 years old, when he was living with his family in Fyfield. By the time of the census in 1851, Charles was 20 and was still living at the family home in Fyfield, from where he was working as an agricultural labourer. His place of birth was confirmed as being Fyfield.
	Four and a half years after the census day, and at the age of 24, Charles married Elizabeth Newman on 29^th October 1855 at the parish church in Kempsford, where their children were subsequently baptised. Elizabeth was the daughter of Whelford agricultural labourer William Newman and his wife Elizabeth.
	Just over five years later the marriage had produced three children for Charles and Elizabeth, all of which had been born at Kempsford. The 1861 Census for Kempsford confirmed that agricultural labourer Charles Collett, age 28 and of Southrop (next to Fyfield), was married to Eliza, age 23 and of Whelford, and that their three children were Sophia Collett who was four, Sarah Collett who was three, and William Collett who was only nine months old.
	One further child seems to have been added to the family four years later, so by 1871 the family was still living within the Kempsford area and comprised Charles Collett, age 41 and from Fyfield, who was working as an agricultural labourer, his wife Elizabeth, age 32 and from Whelford, and three of their four known children.
	They were their daughters Sophia Collett, age 12, and Kate Collett, who was five years old, and their son William who was 10. All of them on that occasion were recorded as having been born at Whelford. With the passing of another decade the family was reduced in size by the departure of the two eldest daughters, who left home to be married.
	So by April 1881 the family was made up of Charles, age 49, who was an agricultural labourer, his wife Elizabeth, age 39, and their son William who was 20 and who was also working as an agricultural labourer. No trace has so far been found of the couple’s youngest daughter Kate.
	On that occasion the census return recorded Charles’ place of birth was as ‘Fifield in Gloucestershire’, while his wife and son had both been born at Kempsford, where they were living at that time.
	It would appear that Charles and Elizabeth spent the rest of their lives living at Kempsford, where they were recorded as still living in March 1901. Charles Collett of Fyfield in Gloucestershire was still employed as an agricultural labourer at the age of 69, while his wife Elizabeth Collett of Kempsford was then 59.
	Also still living with the couple in Kempsford at that time was their son William who was also still working as an agricultural labourer with his father.
	By April 1911 Charles had died leaving Elizabeth as a widow aged seventy-three. The census return confirmed that she had been born at Whelford and that she was living at Horcott near Fairford with her son William who was also a widower. Also living with them was William’s daughter Kate Collett who was 15.
	47O2	Sophia Collett	Born in 1856
	47O3	Sarah Ann Collett	Born in 1858
	47O4	William Collett	Born in 1860
	47O5	Kate Collett	Born in 1865
47N3	Robert Collett was born at Fyfield in 1832 and was listed as being eight years old in the June census of 1841, when he was living there with his family. He was still living with his parents at Fyfield in 1851 when he was 18, by which time he was employed as an agricultural labourer like his father and his older brother Charles (above). His place of birth was confirmed as Fyfield, however nothing of him has been found after that time.
47N4	Eleanor Collett was born at Fyfield in 1835 and was six years old by the time of the census of 1841, and was 16 years old in the census of 1851, when she was still living with her family at Fyfield. No further record of her has been found, which may be because she was married within the next decade.
47N5	Luanna Collett was born at Fyfield in 1837 and appeared in the 1841 Census as Luanna Collett aged four years, while ten years later she was referred to as Susanna Collett who was 14 in 1851. She was also addressed as Luanna in the later census of 1881, although it is thought that her name may have actually been Louisianna or Louisa.
	Before Luanna reached her twentieth birthday she gave birth to a base-born son at Northleach, although previously thought to have been at Fyfield, following which the child was brought up by his grandparents. In the Fyfield census return for 1861, the family of Luanna’s parents, Charles and Sophia Collett, included their grandson William Collett who was four years old and from Northleach. However, no such record has so far been found for his mother on that census day.
	Shortly after April 1861 it would appear that Luanna Collett was married and became Luanna Silman of Black Bourton in Oxfordshire. Over the next twenty years the marriage produced three known children for Luanna and her husband, and they were Charles Silman, who was born in 1865, Sarah Silman, who was born in 1867, and Ellen Silman, who was born in 1875, and all of them born at Black Bourton.
	However, by the time of the census in 1881 Luanna Silman was a widow and was listed as the only occupant of a house in Black Bourton, from where she was employed as an agricultural labourer. Luanna Silman was 45 and her place of birth was confirmed as Fyfield in Gloucestershire. Her son Charles Silman, who was 16, was a lodger at the Black Bourton home of shepherd George Giles.
	Luanna’s youngest child Ellen Silman was living with Luanna’s widowed mother Sophia Collett within the Eastleach Martin census district which included Fyfield, where she was confirmed as being six years old and born at Black Bourton. No trace has been found of daughter Sarah Silman in 1881, although she was back living with her mother by 1891.
	Luanna Silman remained living at Black Bourton for the rest of her life. In 1891 she was 54 and was listed in that year’s census as Hannah Silman. Recorded as living with her were her two daughters Sarah Silman, age 24, and Ellen Silman, who was 15. Also living with them was Luanna’s grandson, five years old James Silman who may have been Sarah’s child, and her elderly mother Sophia Collett, who died during the following year.
	Just after the turn of the century Luanna was referred to as Louisa Silman of Fyfield in Gloucestershire in the census of 1901. At that time she was 63 and was living at Black Bourton with just her young grandson for company. James Silman was 15 and was working as a horseman working on a local farm.
	47O6	William Edward Collett	Born in 1856 at Northleach
47N6	Enos Collett was born at Fyfield in 1839 and was recorded as being just two years of age in the 1841 Census for the registration district of Eastleach Martin. It was two months later, on 22^nd August 1841 that he was baptised at Southrop near Fyfield in a joint ceremony with his brother John (below). The parish record confirmed that they were the sons of Charles and Sophia Collett. By 1851 he was 12 years old, when he was still living with his family at Fyfield. However, with no later record for Enos has been found in 1861, by which time he may have died or left England.
47N7	John Collett was born at Fyfield in 1841 and was baptised at nearby Southrop not long after he was born. The baptism took place on 22^nd August 1841 and was a joint naming ceremony with his older brother Enos (above). He was 10 years old in 1851 when he was still living with his family at Fyfield.
	By the time of the census in 1881, John was recorded as being married at the age of 38, and from Fyfield. He was working as a shepherd, while he was living at Kempsford. Living there with him was unmarried domestic housekeeper Jane Batts of Lechlade and her son John Collett Batts, who was two years old and also born at Lechlade. John Collett Batts was listed as the son of John Collett.
	Also living with the family, as a boarder, was William Bridgeman, age 18 and from Little Somerford, who was an agricultural labourer. The later census of 1891 gave the name of Jane and her son John as Bates, so the record as Batts in 1881 may have been an error in translation.
	And so it was that the three of them were still living in Kempsford in 1891. Their dwelling was within that part of the village known as Dudgrove, where married John Collett, age 48 and from Fyfield, was continuing his work as a shepherd. Still living with him was single Jane Bates who was 46, and her son John Bates who was 12. It would appear that sometime after 1891 John officially married Jane and around that same time the family of three left Kempsford and returned to Lechlade, where they were living in 1901.
	At the age of 58, John Collett of Fyfield was recorded in the census return for the Lechlade area as still working as a shepherd. With him was his wife Jane Collett who was also 58, and their son John Collett who was 22 and employed as a machine man at a local dairy. The birthplace of both mother and son was once again confirmed as Lechlade
	It would appear that John and Jane continued to live their lives together at Lechlade, since it was there that they were still living in April 1911, when John was 69 and Jane from Lechlade was 68. By that time their son was married and was living within the Faringdon area.
	47O7	John Collett (formerly John Collett Bates)		Born in 1878
47N8	Josiah Collett was born at Fyfield in 1843, the son of Charles and Sophia Collett, but tragically died in 1850 aged just seven years.
47N9	Obadiah Collett was born at Fyfield in 1845, the son of Charles and Sophia Collett. In the census of 1851 he was living with his family at Fyfield at the age of five years. Curious, ten years later he was listed as Henry Collett aged 16 in the census of 1861 when he still living at the family home in Fyfield.
	However, thereafter there is a mystery with the age that he gave in subsequent census returns. In 1871 he was recorded as Obed Collett of Fyfield who was 20 years old and was working as a farm servant at the Elkstone home of John Cripps a farmer of 250 acres.
	After a further ten years, he was still unmarried at the age of 30, when he was a lodger at the home of farm labourer John Cross and his family at Old Whitlenge, near Hartlebury in Worcester. On that occasion he was described as Abadiah Collett from Fyfield in Gloucestershire, who was working as an agricultural labourer.
47N10	Emmanuel Collett was born at Fyfield in 1849 and was three years old and 12 years old in the census returns in 1851 and 1861, while living with his parents at Fyfield. Twenty years later Emmanuel was still a bachelor at the age of 32 and was living with his widowed mother Sophia at Fyfield where, he was working as a farm labourer.
47N11	Nehemiah Collett was born at Fyfield in 1851 and was baptised at Eastleach Martin in 1852, the youngest of the eleven known children of Charles and Sophia Collett. He was nine years of age at the time of the census of 1861. He was baptised at Eastleach Martin on the same day as his niece Ann Collett, the base-born daughter of Nehemiah’s oldest sister Mary Ann Collett (above).
	By the time of the 1861 ‘Nehmiah’ was aged nine years and was still living with his parents in Fyfield, although no record for him has so far been found ten years later. Around the middle of the 1870s he married the widow Mrs Elizabeth Ackley who was born at nearby Southrop in 1855 and with whom he had a son who was also born at Fyfield.
	The census of 1881 revealed that the family was living at Fyfield in the Eastleach Martin registration district and that ‘Neamiah’ of Fyfield was 29 and was working as an agricultural labourer. His wife Elizabeth A Collett of Southrop was 25 and their son Charles of Fyfield was 2 years old.
	Also living with the Collett family was five years old Edith Ackley, Elizabeth’s daughter from her first marriage who was also born at Fyfield in Gloucestershire.
	It would appear that Elizabeth presented her husband with a further five children over the next decade with the first of these born at Fyfield and the remainder at Cirencester. So by 1891 the family living with the Fairford & Cirencester area comprised ‘Nehemiah’ aged 40, his wife Elizabeth aged 37, and their seven surviving children; one had suffered an infant death in 1880.
	They were Charles 16 – he must have been older than two years in 1881, Mary who was 12, Sarah who was eight, Henry who was five, William who was four, John who was two, and George who was under one year old. It is possible, although not yet proved, that Nehemiah was employed on Langford Downs Farm near Cirencester and that it was at ‘Langford Downs’ that the couple’s Cirencester children were born.
	A search of the 1901 Census has so far not revealed the whereabouts of Nehemiah and Elizabeth, or their son William.
	47O8	Charles Edward Collett	Born in 1875
	47O9	Mary A Collett	Born in 1878
	47O10	William Collett	Born in 1880
	47O11	Sarah A Collett	Born in 1882
	47O12	Henry Collett	Born in 1884
	47O13	William Collett	Born in 1886
	47O14	John Collett	Born in 1888
	47O15	George Collett	Born in 1890
47N13	Emily Collett was born on 24^th March 1839 and this may have taken place at Cowley where her parents were married in March 1840, and where her two brothers were also born. Sadly Emily Collett died during 1840.
47N14	George Richard Collett was born at Cowley on 3^rd July 1840 where he was living with his father and his brother James (below) in 1851 and 1861, when he was aged 10 and 20 respectively. With them in 1851 only was the boys’ stepmother Esther Collett, their father’s second wife.
	On 7^th February 1866 at the Elkstone parish church George Collett married Emily Newcombe. Emily, from the neighbouring hamlet of Winstone, was the daughter of William and Mary Ann Newcombe. And it was at Winstone where George and Emily settled and where their first five children were born.
	By the time of the census of 1871 the marriage had produced two children for the couple, in addition to which Emily was expecting their third child. The Winstone census of 1871 confirmed that George, an agricultural labourer of Cowley, was 30 and his wife Emily listed as ‘Emma of Winstone’ was 28.
	Living with them was their son James who was three and their daughter Jane who was one year old. Also living with the family was lodger James Mitchall who was 19 and an agricultural labourer from Cowley. Their son Richard was born exactly three months after the census day, but he did not survive.
	Over the next ten years Emily presented George with a further four children. The first two of these was born while the family was still living at Winstone, but shortly after the birth of the second child, around 1874, the family moved back to George’s home parish of Cowley, where his last three children were born.
	According to the 1881 Census the family were living between The School and The Lodge in Cowley and it may have been around that time when George began to compile the Family Bible which later provided valuable clues to his family’s background.
	The census recorded that George Collett, age 40 and of Cowley, was an agricultural labourer who was probably employed at Cowley Manor. His wife Emily of Winstone was also 40, and their children at that time were Jim Collett 13, Jane Collett 11, Janet Collett who was nine, and Charles Collett who was seven, who were all born at Winstone. The two youngest children at that time, Richard Collett who was five, and Emily Collett who was three years old, were both born after the family had moved to Cowley.
	In the same way that Emily was pregnant on the day of the 1871 Census, she was also with-child again on 3^rd April 1881 and gave birth to the couple’s last child five months later.
	Over the following ten years two of the couple’s four daughters left the family home, so by 1891 George and Emily, both aged 51, were living at Cowley with James 22, Charles 17, Richard 15, Emily 13, and Annie who was nine years of age.
	Before the end of the century two of George’s sons, plus one of their cousins, left Gloucestershire and followed their two sisters south to Cobham in Surrey where they had both settled.
	So by the census of 1901 only daughter Annie Collett, age 19, was still living with her parents at the family home in Cowley. George was then working as a cattleman on a farm at the age of 60, while his wife Emily was 61.
	George’s and Emily’s oldest son James was also living in Cowley in 1901, as were two other people with the Collett name. They were baker Henry Collett (Ref. 3O32), age 53 and from Stonehouse (Painswick), and his wife Mary, age 52 and from Elkstone.
	According to the next census in 1911, George Collett was 70, and his wife Emily was 72. Still living with them at Cowley was their unmarried son Jim Collett who was 42.
	And it was at Cowley that George Collett died just over seven months later on 25^th November 1911. At the time of his death, as in the census that year, his occupation was that of a cowman working at Cowley Manor, where his eldest son James was also employed as a gardener.
	Emily Collett survived as his widow for a further seven years after George’s passing and was eventually reunited with her husband on 27^th January 1919.
	The aforementioned Family Bible produced by George Collett was passed onto his eldest son James at the time of his death. The Bible remained in his possession until his death, when it was passed onto his youngest sister Ann. Today the Bible, together with a book in which the words ‘James Collett’ and ‘Cobberley School’ appear inside, are held by one of Ann’s granddaughters.
	It is known that Ann attended Cobberley School, so perhaps James did as well, which would probably indicate that all of the children in between may have also been educated there.
	47O16	James Collett	Born on 22.06.1868
	47O17	Jane Collett	Born on 11.06.1869
	47O18	Richard Collett	Born on 03.07.1871
	47O19	Janet Collett	Born on 03.07.1872
	47O20	Charles Collett	Born on 22.08.1873
	47O21	Richard Collett	Born on 23.12.1875
	47O22	Emily Collett	Born on 01.02.1877
	47O23	Ann Collett	Born on 13.09.1881
47N15	James Collett was born at Cowley on 10^th July 1843 and was seven years old, and 17, respectively in the censuses of 1851 and 1861. On both occasions he was living with his father Richard and his brother George (above). The boys’ stepmother Esther was only present in 1851.
	At the age of 27 James was living in the Kingsholm area of Gloucester, but within the next few years he married Martha Stallard who was born at Coberley in 1846. Cowley and Coberley lie adjacent to each other being only about half a mile apart.
	Once married the couple initially set up home in the village of Elkstone just south of Cowley and it was there that their first two children were born. Around 1877 the family of four moved the two and a half miles to Colesbourne where their next two children were born and where the family was still living in April 1881.
	The census that year confirmed that James of Cowley was aged 36 and was employed as a slatter and plasterer while living with his family in a cottage in Colesbourne. His wife Martha was 34 and their four children at that time were Percy 7, Joseph 5, John 3, and one year old Tom.
	The cottage accommodation occupied by the family of six must have been of a reasonable size since they also had three lodgers living there with them. These were farm labourers and bachelors John Smith aged 40 of Colesbourne, John Hill aged 21 of Withington, and George Smith aged 17 of Woodmancote.
	Martha may have been with-child on the day of the census in 1881 since later that year she presented James with the fifth of his seven children. Two more children were added to the family before the end of the decade and all of them born while the family was living at Colesbourne.
	Just after the turn of the century the family was still living at Colesbourne where James aged 56 and from Cowley was continuing his occupation as a slatter and plasterer. In addition to his wife Martha aged 53 and of Coberley, the only members of their family still living with them were sons John 23 and William 11, and daughter Edith aged 19.
	James’ wife Martha died sometime during the following ten years since, according to the census of 1911, he was a widower still living in Colesbourne with just two of his children. They were Edith who was 29 and William who was 21.
	47O24	Percy E Collett	Born in 1873
	47O25	Joseph James Collett	Born in 1875
	47O26	John Collett	Born in 1877
	47O27	Thomas Henry Collett	Born in 1879
	47O28	Edith May Collett	Born in 1881
	47O29	Anne Louise Collett	Born in 1884
	47O30	William Archibald Collett	Born in 1889
47O2	Sophia Collett was born at Kempsford in 1856 and was baptised there on 29^th June 1856. She was aged four years in 1861, but was recorded as being aged 12 in 1871 and born at Whelford. Around seven or eight years later she married Thomas Fincher and by April 1881 their marriage had produced two offspring for the couple.
	The census that year recorded the family living at Kempsford where Thomas aged 29 and from Alveston in Warwickshire was working as a coachman. His wife Sophia of Kempsford was aged 23, and their two children were Tom Fincher aged 2, and George Fincher aged eight months.
	Further children were born into the family over the following years and by March 1901 they were still living at Kempsford. Thomas was then 49 and working as a labourer on a farm, Sophia was 43, and with them were their two youngest sons William aged 17, who was an under carter on the farm where his father worked, and John G Fincher who was nine years old.
	Sophia’s son George Fincher of Kempsford was a groom aged 23, and was living and working at Cricklade in 1901, while no trace has been found of her eldest son Thomas Fincher.
47O3	Sarah Ann Collett was born at Kempsford in 1858 and it was there that she was baptised on 23^rd May 1858. Sarah was aged 3 in the Kempsford census of 1861 but this stated she was born at Whelford. She was not living with her family ten years later. However, by 1881 Sarah was 23 and was married to 31 years old James Gosling, an agricultural labourer of Kempsford.
	It would appear that they had not long been married as living with them was their first born child Harry Gosling who was just one month old.
	From 1891 onwards it would appear that Sarah was either a widow or that her husband was elsewhere. That year’s census recorded just Sarah aged 32 and her son Harry aged 11 as living in the Cirencester registration district.
	Ten years later Sarah A Gosling of Kempsford was 42 and was working as a ward attendant in Gloucester, and possibly at the city hospital. He son Harry was 21 and was of Whelford and his occupation was that of an assistant civil engineer in Cirencester.
47O4	William Collett was born at Whelford around 1860 and was baptised at nearby Kempsford on 5^th August 1860. The earliest census records for Kempsford of 1861, 1871 and 1881 confirmed that it was there that he had been born and that his age of those occasions was respectively nine months, ten years and twenty years. At the time of the latter he was an agricultural labourer working with his father Charles Collett
	He was still living with his parents Charles and Elizabeth Collett at Kempsford just after the end of the century, by which time he had been married and was already a widower with two daughters.
	According to the census return for 1901, William Collett was 39 and an agricultural labourer, living in the hamlet of Horcott within the parish of Kempsford, where his two daughters had been born. These were Annie who was six, and Kate Elizabeth who was four years old.
	During the next few years William’s father died and by April 1911 William’s widowed mother Elizabeth was living with him at Horcott. By that time William, who was 52, was employed as a shepherd on a farm, and the only daughter still living with him was Kate Collett who was 15.
	47P1	Annie Collett	Born in 1894 at Horcott
	47P2	Kate Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1896 at Horcott
47O5	Kate Collett was born at Kempsford in 1865 and was living there with her parents in 1871 aged five years. However, no record of Kate or Katherine has been found in any subsequent census which might indicate that she had died sometime during the 1870s with her absence from the 1881 Census.
47O6	William Edward Collett was born at Northleach in 1856, the base-born child of Luanna Collett of Fyfield. He was simply listed as William Collett aged four years in the census of 1861, when he was living with his grandparents Charles and Sophia Collett in the hamlet of Fyfield, within the parish of Eastleach Martin. Over the next decade he continued to be brought up by his grandparents at Fyfield, so by the time of the next census in 1871, William Collett from Northleach was 14 and working as an agricultural labourer.
	Ten years after that he was unmarried at the age of 24, when he was recorded as being the head of the household, a servant and an agricultural labourer to his landlord, while living in part of the house at Downs Farm House in Little Barrington. Once again his place of birth was given as Northleach.
	There were two other people listed with William in April 1881 and they were Amos Radburn, age 18, a servant and agricultural labourer, and Caroline Tovey who was seven years old and of Little Barrington who was recorded as the daughter of the head of house and described as a farmer’s daughter.
	If she was the daughter of unmarried William Collett, he would have been seventeen or eighteen years of age at the time of her birth and presumably her mother, who may have passed away, would have been Miss Tovey. So it is interesting that also living within the parish of Eastleach Martin, where William had been living with his grandparents ten years earlier, was farm labourer Robert Tovey, age 62, his wife Harriet, and their two youngest child William, age 13, and Lucy, who was nine.
	No record of William has been found in any census return after that time, so actually what happened to him from 1881 onwards is not known.
47O7	John Collett was born at Lechlade in 1878. He was originally the base-born child of John Collett of Fyfield and Jane Bates of Lechlade, and at the time of the census of 1881 he was listed as John Collett Batts aged two years. On that occasion he was living at the Kempsford home of his father John Collett whose housekeeper was Jane Batts (sic), both adults being listed as unmarried.
	In the Kempsford census of 1891, John was recorded as John Bates, age 12, who was living with his ‘married’ father John Collett and his ‘single’ mother Jane Bates at Dudgrove in Kempsford.
	During the next decade John’s parents appear to have married, at which time the family moved away from Kempsford and settled in Lechlade. By March 1901 John Collett Bates was referred to as simply John Collett. At that time he was 22, and was a machine man working at a local dairy in Lechlade, while still living there with his parents John and Jane Collett.
	It was sometime during the next ten years that two things happened in the life of John Collett, although at the moment it is not known in which order they occurred. One was the death of his father, and the other was his marriage to Ada. The two events were confirmed in the next census in April 1911, when John Collett, age 32 and from Lechlade, was living in the Faringdon area with his wife Ada Collett who was 28.
	Also living with the childless couple at that time, was John’s mother, the widow Jane Collett from Lechlade who was 68.
47O8	Charles Edward Collett was born at Fyfield around 1875. However, the exact year is difficult to pinpoint due to the differing ages given for him in all of the census records. In 1881 he was aged two years while living with his parents at Fyfield, although this is known to be an error.
	By 1891 he and his family had left Fyfield and had moved into Cirencester where his age was given as being sixteen. Sometime during the next ten years Charles left Cirencester and moved ten miles north and was living at Elkstone by 1901 where he was working as a labourer on a farm. On that occasion his age was given as being 24 and he was still a bachelor.
47O9	Mary A Collett was born at Fyfield in 1878, but strangely was missing from her family in Fyfield for the 1881 Census. She would have been two years old, but instead her older brother Charles (above) was recorded in error as being aged two years.
	By 1891 Mary was 12 and was living with her parents in Cirencester. Although no trace of her parents Nehmiah and Elizabeth Collett has been found in 1901 Mary A Collett of Fyfield and her sister Sarah A Collett of Fyfield were living and working in service together in Great Malvern. Mary was then aged 21 and was employed as a domestic housemaid.
47O10	William Collett was born at Fyfield in January 1880 but suffered an infant death and was buried at Eastleach Martin on 17^th January 1880. The parish burial record confirmed that he was ‘of Fyfield’.
47O11	Sarah A Collett was born at Fyfield in 1882 and shortly after she was born her parents moved from Fyfield to Cirencester where she was living in 1891 when she was eight years old. It would appear that upon living school she joined her older sister Mary who was working in domestic service at a house in Great Malvern in Worcestershire.
	So by the census of 1901 she was listed as Sarah A Collett aged 17 of Fyfield, who was employed as a domestic servant and kitchen maid.
47O12	Henry Collett was born at ‘Langford Downs’ near Cirencester in 1884 and was living there with his family in 1891 at the age of five years. Ten years later he was still living in Cirencester but was referred to as Harry aged 16 whose occupation was that of a domestic groom. His place of birth was confirmed as Cirencester.
47O13	William Collett was born at ‘Langford Downs’ near Cirencester in 1886 and was four years old in the 1891 Census for Cirencester. So far though, no further record of him has been found after this time. His absence from the census of 1901 might indicate that he was with his parents who have also not been located in that census.
47O14	John Collett was born at ‘Langford Downs’ near Cirencester in 1888 and was two years old by April 1891 and 12 years of age by the end of March 1901. On both occasions John was living in Cirencester, although not with his parents in 1901. His place of birth was confirmed as Cirencester.
	Ten years later in April 1911 he was twenty-two and was still a bachelor living in Cirencester. However, that was about to change since, within a year or so of the census day John married Millicent and within a further year the couple were blessed with the birth of a son.
	It is possible that the couple were married at Holy Trinity Church in the Watermoor district of Cirencester, where it is known they were living during the Second World War when John and Millicent received the news that their son Robert had been killed in action in France.
	It seems highly likely that the marriage had produced more than just the one known son for John and Millicent, but nothing is so far known to prove or disprove this theory.
	47P3	Robert John Collett	Born in 1912
47O15	George Collett was born at ‘Meysey Hampton’ near Cirencester in 1890 and was under one year old at the time of the census of 1891. He was still living at Cirencester in 1901 with his older brother John (above), but not with their parents. He was 11 years old, and his place of birth was confirmed as Cirencester. No obvious record of him has been found in the census of 1911.
47O16	James Collett, who was referred to as Jim, was born at Winstone on 22^nd June 1868 and was three years old in the 1871 Census of Winstone. In 1874 his parents left Winstone and moved the three miles north to Cowley.
	By 1881 he and his family were living at Cowley where Jim was working as an agricultural labourer with his father at the age of 13. This was probably at Cowley Manor where it is known he was working later in his life.
	Ten years later James was aged 22 still living there with his family. He was not married by the time of the census of 1901 but was still a bachelor then aged 32 and living at Cowley from where he was employed as a domestic gardener at Cowley Manor.
	Cowley Manor was built by the architect George Somers Clarke in 1860 and today is a grand 30 bed room luxury hotel with restaurant, bar and spa.
	James was aged 54 when he married Mary Jane Winter on 23^rd February 1922. Sixteen years later Mary died on 23^rd July 1938 and was followed by James ten years later on 21^st August 1948, just two months after his eightieth birthday.
47O17	Jane Collett was born at Winstone on 11^th June 1869 and was one year old in 1871 while still living at Winstone. In 1874 her parents moved to Cowley where in 1881 she was aged 11.
	Towards the end of the 1880s Jane had left the family home and moved to Dorking in Surrey where she was working as a domestic servant in early April 1891. Just six weeks after the census day Jane married William Sims on 18^th May 1891 at Effingham parish church in Surrey.
	William was born at Effingham around 1868 and once they were married the couple settled in Cobham in Surrey where they lived for the first twenty five years of their life together. Before the end of the century they adopted their daughter who was born at Cobham in 1893.
	According to the 1901 Census for Cobham, Jane was 31 and from Winstone in Gloucestershire, her daughter Dorothy W Sims was seven, and her husband William, aged 32, was a general labourer. Lodging with the family were Jane’s’ two brothers Charles Collett and Richard Collett and their cousin Joseph Collett (all below).
	It must have been Jane’s move to Surrey that encouraged the other members of her family to join her there, which also included her sister Janet who lived nearby in Cobham.
	Around the time of the outbreak of war Jane, William and Dorothy left Surrey and moved to Barnet in Hertfordshire. Later in their life they moved again, this time to Wivenhoe in Essex. Their daughter Dorothy married Wilfred Stevens but the marriage produced no children for the couple.
47O18	Richard Collett was born at Winstone in 1870, but died shortly after and did not appear in the census of 1871.
47O19	Janet Collett was born at Winstone on 3^rd July 1872 and by the time of the 1881 Census she was aged 9 and was living with her family at Cowley.
	Just like her sister Jane (above), Janet also left Gloucestershire during the late 1880s and had moved to Surrey where she was living in Dorking and working as a domestic servant in 1891.
	Just over five years later Janet married Walter John Stanbridge at Dorking on 02.08.1896. Walter was born in 1866 at East Grinstead in Sussex and was the eldest son of Walter and Emma Stanbridge. At the time of the birth of Janet’s and Walter’s first child the couple were living at Emsworth near Portsmouth which might indicate that Walter was a sailor in the navy.
	Certainly Walter was absent from the family home in Cobham in Surrey two years later and Janet aged 29 and from Winstone in Gloucestershire was listed as ‘receiving war pay’ in the 1901 Census. Living with her at that time was her son Ernest who was two years old and of Emsworth in Hampshire.
	Walter returned to the family home shortly after 1901 resulting in a further six children being born into the family over the next ten years. Tragically though, three of the children, including a set of twins, died as babies in 1905, which followed the earlier death of another baby in 1902.
	It may have been just after this sad event that Janet and Walter left Cobham and moved the four miles to Claygate where the family was living at Vale Road in 1911.
	The marriage between Janet and Walter suffered a breakdown after this time when Walter left Janet who continued to live in Vale Road until her death in 1945 when the house was taken over by her son Norman. Janet’s estranged husband Walter died twenty-three years earlier in 1922.
	Around the time that Janet’s husband left the family home in Claygate her brother Richard (below) moved into the house in Vale Road, as this was the address given in his wartime service record.
	47P4	Ernest Charles Stanbridge	Born on 09.01.1899
	47P5	Walter Stanbridge	Born in 1902
	47P6	John Stanbridge twin	Born in 1905
	47P7	Janet Stanbridge twin	Born in 1905
	47P8	Walter Charles Stanbridge	Born in 1905
	47P9	Ruby Florence Stanbridge	Born in 1907
	47P10	Norman Walter Stanbridge	Born on 06.10.1910
47O20	Charles Collett was born at Winstone on 22^nd August 1873 and was seven years old in the 1881 Census while living with his family at Cowley. He was still there ten years later but shortly after he and his brother Richard (below) and their cousin Joseph (below) followed his two sisters to Surrey.
	Both brothers were employed as non-domestic gardeners by the time of the 1901 Census for Cobham where they were living with their sister Jane Sims nee Collett (above). Charles was confirmed as being aged 27 and born at Winstone in Gloucestershire.
	Charles never married and joined the army during the last year of the First World War when he would have been forty-five years old. From his wartime service record he is known to have worn spectacles. It is also believed that he returned to Cowley upon his retirement around 1948.
47O21	Richard Collett was born at Cowley on 23^rd December 1875 following his family’s recent move from Winstone. The census of 1881 placed the family as living at Cowley where Richard was aged 5.
	Ten years later he was still living there with his family at the age of 15, but sometime after he and his brother Charles (above) and their cousin Joseph Collett (below) left Gloucestershire to start a new life in Surrey.
	By 1901 Richard aged 25 and from Cowley in Gloucestershire was living at the Cobham home of his married sister Jane Sims nee Collett. Also living with them was his brother Charles and cousin Joseph Collett. Both of the brothers were employed as non-domestic gardeners.
	And also just like his brother Charles, Richard never married. Sometime later, probably after 1914, Richard went to live at Vale Road in Claygate with his married sister Janet Stanbridge nee Collett (above) who was separated from her husband.
	Richard played an active part with the army in the Great War and was still living at Claygate with his sister Janet when he died from heart failure on 29^th December 1925.
47O22	Emily Collett was born at Cowley on 1^st February 1877 and she was three years of age and 13 years old respectively in the Cowley censuses of 1881 and 1891. By the end of March 1901 Emily had left Gloucestershire and was working in service as a domestic servant at a house in Kidlington near Oxford. She was aged 23 and her place of birth was confirmed as Cowley, Cheltenham.
	Emily was still living in Kidlington ten years later when she married Joseph Thomas Tuffrey there on 17^th October 1911. Not long after they were married the couple moved to Rushden in Northamptonshire where their two daughters were born.
	Northamptonshire was the main centre for the manufacture of footwear at that time and it was at Rushden that Joseph Tuffrey was a bespoke boot and shoe maker.
	The six year gap between his two children possibly indicates that Joseph took an active role in the First World War and was absent from the family home for some years.
	Twenty years after the birth of her first child Emily died at nearby Wellingborough on 19^th August 1933 at the age of 56.
	47P11	Lily Tuffrey	Born on 20.12.1913
	47P12	a second Tuffrey daughter	Born in 1920
47O23	Ann Collett, who was known as Annie, was born at Cowley on 13^th September 1881 and by 1891 she was listed as Annie Collett aged nine years, while living with her family at Cowley. It is understood that she was educated at nearby Cobberley School.
	She was still living at Cowley with her parents in 1901 aged 19. The census did not give her as having an occupation but as the only child still living with her parents she was very likely looking after them in their advancing years.
	Just as two of her sisters and two of her brother had ten years earlier, Annie also moved to Surrey in the early years of the new century. And it was there at Cobham that she married Thomas Clements on 5^th June 1911, just five months before her father died.
	Thomas Clements was a gardener as were Annie’s two brother Charles and Richard (above). So it seems likely that she was introduced to her husband through her brothers knowing him by working with him in Cobham where they also living and worked.
	Annie lived the rest of her life at Cobham where her two children were born and where in 1936 her gardener husband Thomas died. After his death Annie worked in the kitchens of the White Lion Hotel in Cobham and survived for thirty years after her husband, before she died on 05.06.1966.
	Upon the death of her oldest brother James Collett (above), Annie inherited the Family Bible produced by her father George Richard Collett, which in turn was passed to one of her granddaughters. Also with the Bible was a Cobberley School book belonging to James Collett.
	47P13	Marjorie Nellie Clements	Born on 13.09.1911
	47P14	James Hector Clements	Born on 30.07.1913
47O24	Percy E Collett was born at Elkstone in 1873. Apart from being recorded as being aged seven years and living with his family at Colesbourne in 1881, no further details have so far been discovered as to what happened to Percy later in his life.
47O25	Joseph James Collett was born at Elkstone in 1875 although his family moved to Colesbourne just after he was born. In the 1881 Census for Colesbourne he was aged 5 while living with his parents.
	It would appear that during the 1890s he joined his four cousins (above) in a move that took them from Gloucestershire to Surrey. By 1901 Joseph was aged 25 and he was living with his cousin Jane Sims nee Collett at her Cobham home, where his occupation was that of a bricklayer.
	During the first few years of the new century Joseph married Kate Selina from Gloucestershire and by 1911 the marriage had produced three children for the couple. Other children may have followed, but no details are available so far.
	According to the census of 1911 Joseph James Collett of Elkstone was 35 and was living at Chertsey in Surrey with his wife Kate Selina Collett who was 32 and their three children, Myrtle who was five, Edith Emmeline who was three, and William Joseph who was one year old.
	47P15	Myrtle Collett	Born in 1906
	47P16	Edith Emmeline Collett	Born in 1908
	47P17	William Joseph Collett	Born in 1910
47O26	John Collett was born in 1877 at Colesbourne just after his parents had moved there from Elkstone. John was aged three at the time of the census in 1881 and was living at Colesbourne with his family.
	John was still living with his parents at Colesbourne twenty years later when he was 23 and was employed as a farm labourer. Two major events in John’s short life happened in the new few years, although it is not yet known which occurred first.
	One was the death of his mother Martha, and the other was his marriage to Sarah Frances who was also born at Colesbourne. By April 1911 the marriage had not produced any children for the couple who, by that time, had left Colesbourne and were living in the Cirencester area, where John Collett was 33 and his wife Sarah Frances Collett was 30.
47O27	Thomas Collett was born at Colesbourne in 1879 and was listed as Tom aged one year in the Colesbourne census of 1881. So far no further record of Thomas or Tom has been found after that time..
47O28	Edith Mary Collett was born at Colesbourne in 1881, but after 3^rd April that year. Edith was still living at Colesbourne with her parents at the time of the 1901 Census. She was listed as being 19 years of age when she was working as a domestic servant.
	Edith’s mother died at Colesbourne during the first decade of the new century, so by the time of the census of 1911 she had taken over housekeeping duties for her elderly father James. Edith Mary Collett was 29 and was still a spinster, and living with her and her father was her youngest brother William (below).
47O29	Anne Louise Collett, who was referred to as Annie, was born at Colesbourne in 1884. However, no trace of Annie has so far been found in the census records for 1891 and 1901.
47O30	William Archibald Collett was born at Colesbourne in 1889. Just after the turn of the century, when he was 11, he was still living with his family at Colesbourne according to the census in March 1901.
	Ten years later William Archibald Collett was 21 and was still living in the family home in Colesbourne, although the family had been reduced to just his father and sister Edith Mary Collett (above) by then, following the earlier death of his mother.
47P3	Robert John Collett was born at Cirencester in 1913 and probably at Watermoor. Very little else is known about Robert except that he later married Betty May and continued to live at Watermoor in Cirencester, and that he was a soldier during the Second World War.
	Robert joined 2^nd Battalion South Wales Borders in which he was Private Collett 14590673. Tragically on 8^th July 1944 at the age of 31, he was killed during the heavy fighting in the Bayeux and Caen area of France and was buried at the Hottot-les-Bagues War Cemetery fourteen kilometres from Bayeux.
	His next-of-kin were named as his parents John and Millicent Collett, and his wife Betty May Collett of Watermoor. At the age of 31 it is most likely that his marriage had produced some children by that time, of whom nothing is known at this time.
	The War Memorial in Cirencester bears the name of Robert John Collett.
47P4	Ernest Charles Stanbridge was born at Emsworth near Portsmouth on 9^th January 1899. By the end of March 1901 he was two years old and was living at Cobham in Surrey with his mother Janet. His father Walter was absent from the family home at that time for which his mother was in receipt of war pay. Ernest was married later in his life and the marriage produced five children for the couple.
47P5	Walter Stanbridge was born at Cobham in 1902 and died within three months of being born.
47P6	John Stanbridge was one half of a set of twins born at Cobham in earlier 1905. Tragically both he and his twin sister Janet (below) died during the same March quarter of 1905.
47P7	Janet Stanbridge was one half of a set of twins born at Cobham in earlier 1905. Tragically both she and her twin brother John (above) died during the same March quarter of 1905.
47P8	Walter Charles Stanbridge was born at Cobham in late 1905 and tragically did not survive beyond the end of that year. Walter’s death was the fourth infant death that the family had suffered in just three years.
47P9	Ruby Florence Stanbridge was born in 1907 and this may have been at Cobham, or after her parents moved to nearby Claygate. Sadly she died from rheumatic fever when she was just 15 years of age, when she passed away on 21^st August 1922.
47P10	Norman Walter Stanbridge was born at Vale Road in Claygate on 6^th October 1910. He later married Alice Preece in 1936 and the marriage produced two daughters for Norman and Alice. Following the death of his mother Janet Stanbridge nee Collett in 1945, Norman and his family took over the house in Vale Road.
47P11	Lily Tuffrey was born at Rushden in Northamptonshire on 20^th December 1913. She never married and died in Oxfordshire on 12^th January 1982.
47P12	The youngest Tuffrey daughter of Emily Collett and Joseph Tuffrey was born in Rushden in 1920. She is still alive and living in Oxfordshire in 2008 and is married with three daughters.
47P13	Marjorie Nellie Clements was born at Cobham on 13^th September 1911. She later married Robert Craven Wakeman who was born in 1913 with whom she had two daughters. The eldest daughter emigrated to Australia and has four children and seven grandchildren.
	Marjorie and Robert were divorced in 1947, with Robert remarrying in 1948. Marjorie had a long term partner with whom she had another daughter. Marjorie and her new daughter eventually emigrated to Australia in 1960 to be reunited with their eldest daughter and it was at Adelaide in 1978 that Marjorie died. Robert died in England two years later in 1980.
	Marjorie’s and Robert’s youngest daughter Frances was a scientific and technical information officer before retraining as a secondary school teacher. Frances is now retired and still lives in the United Kingdom and has two children and five grandchildren, with the sixth expected in 2009.
	And it is Frances Francis who kindly provided the basic details that has enabled this family line to be developed.
47P14	James Hector Clements was born at Cobham on 30^th July 1913. He later married Joan Margaret Francis Taylor who was born in 1922 and with whom he had a daughter. Joan died in 1977 and was followed by James who died at Effingham in Surrey in 1989.
	During his life James was a commercial artist with the Milk Marketing Board.
47P17	William Joseph Collett was born in 1910 and when he was only one year old he and his family were living within the Chertsey area of Surrey.
	He was twenty-nine at the outbreak of the Second World War, and it was around then that he joined the Royal Army Medical Corp with which he was Private Collett 7535348. He was posted to the Far East where he was involved in the campaign against the Japanese.
	Tragically he was killed on Saint Valentine’s Day in 1942 at the age of 31 and his name appears on the Singapore War Memorial (Column 105) amongst the 24,000 casualties who have no known grave.
	It is possible that he was not married as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission does not give the name of any next-of-kin, with his father obviously having passed away many years earlier.
	Appendix for Fifield in Oxfordshire
	The following information had been previously incorrectly placed in this family, but has now been removed to this appendix because it relates to the alternative Fifield near Burford in Oxfordshire.
47l1	William Collett was married to Elizabeth and their son was born at Fifield near Burford in 1803.
	47m1	Richard Collett	Born in 1803
47m1	Richard Collett was born in 1803 and was baptised at Fifield by Burford in Oxfordshire on 10^th July 1803, when his parents were confirmed as being William and Elizabeth Collett. In the later census returns for 1851 and 1861 Richard stated that his place of birth was ‘Fifield in Oxfordshire’.
	He was married to Mary and in 1861 the couple were living at Bledington, which is a village near to Fifield in Oxfordshire.
	Further work is therefore need to determine where William and Richard Collett fit into the wider Collett family