PART FIVE

The Tewkesbury Line - 1630 to 1900

This is the second of two sections of the fifth part of the Collett family

Updated January 2012

This section of the Collett family of Tewkesbury contains information gathered during my travels, but which I have had no need to progress or develop since it apparently did not contribute towards my own lines of investigation. However, a chance meeting with Neil Collett of Kenilworth in Warwickshire on 8^th June 1996 during the Collett Reunion at Shepton Mallet resulted in more work being done to provide the details set out in this section. Other contributors around that same time were Margaret Chadd and Kate Birkett of Buckinghamshire, and more recently Jeni Rice of Australia.

The link to an earlier line is through Henry Collett (Ref. 1H10) of Charlton Kings who was referred to as ‘Gentleman of Tewkesbury’ in his Will of 1712. It was originally thought that members of the Collett family included in this section set sail for South Africa to form the basis for the Colletts that reside there today. However, this theory has now been discounted, since those pioneering Colletts came from Stroud.

The aforementioned Neil Collett, whose own family line is the subject of Part Fifteen – The Kenilworth Line, provided the detailed information taken from the tombstones within St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. These confirm the accuracy of much of the data provided in this section, and transcripts from the tombstones are provided on this website under Headstone Epitaphs.

In December 2011 it was felt that the time might be right to publish on the Collett website the first draft of Section One of The Tewkesbury Line covering the previous one hundred years from 1530 to 1630. This was originally compiled many years earlier and is based solely on the records available from the Church of Latter Day Saints. Therefore further work is needed to be carried out to validate the information contained herein.

It was also during December 2011 that new information was received from Darcey Slaughter in Columbia, Missouri which resulted in a major review of this family line. The details received from Darcey resulted in the removal of the line of descendents from Pendock in Worcestershire to a new line, this being Part 61 – The Worcestershire to Utah Line. The effect of this major change to this section of Part 5 means it has been re-titled 1630 to 1900.

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5I6	William Collett was born around 1631 at Tewkesbury where he married Eleanor around 1652. All of their children were born and baptised at Tewkesbury. However, so far, no connection has been made to confirm that William was a close relative of Henry Collett (below)
	5J3	Esther Collett						Baptised on 03.03.1653 at Tewkesbury
	5J4	Richard Collett						Born in 1660 at Tewkesbury
	5J5	Ann Collett						Baptised on 04.02.1665 at Tewkesbury
	5J6	Eleanor Collett						Born in 1668 at Tewkesbury
	5J7	Henry Collett						Born in 1670 at Tewkesbury
	5J8	Sarah Collett						Born in 1672 at Tewkesbury
	5J9	William Collett						Born in 1675 at Tewkesbury
5I7	Henry Collett (Ref. 1H10) was born in 1639 and baptised on 6^th November 1643 at Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham, which is about ten miles from Tewkesbury. It was also at Charlton Kings that he married Elizabeth on 20^th March 1669. Elizabeth was considerably younger than Henry having born in 1651 and she died on 17^th August 1724 at the age of 73.
	Henry Collett died on 29^th September 1712, aged 73, and was buried in St Catherine's Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. His Will (see Will in Legal Documents) dated 14^th January 1712 was drawn up in the tenth year of the reign of Our Sovereign Lady Anne Queen of Great Britain, France and Ireland. It was proved over four years later on 26^th May 1716 and makes no reference to any sons, only his wife and their three daughters, all of whom were born and baptised at Charlton Kings.
	In the Will, Henry bequeathed all of his free lands lying in the parish of Charlton Kings to his wife as long as she lives, and thereafter to Edmund Goodrich and his wife Sarah, the youngest of Henry’s three named daughters. Of his other daughters, Joyce received £60 and Elizabeth received £70. In addition to this, his grandchildren each received ten shillings which, he stated, they be given within two years of his death. All household goods were to remain the property of his wife until her death, when they were to be equally shared between the three daughters.
	However, despite the lack of any mention of sons, the family tombstone in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey includes the name of his son Henry Collett who died in 1722 aged 55. It is therefore this information that indicates he was base-born in 1667, two years before his parents were married, and perhaps this was in some way connected to his exclusion from his father’s Will.
	On the same family tombstone are the details of Henry’s son Benjamin Collett (Ref. 5J13) and his family, who died on 2^nd February 1738 aged 63. This equates to a year of birth of 1675, the same year that his sister Sarah Collett (Ref. 5J12) was baptised, but again there is no mention of Benjamin in Henry’s Will. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
	There appears to be another unresolved mystery between Henry’s Will and the family tombstone. Within the Will his daughter Sarah is referred to by her married name of Goodrich, she having married Edmund Goodrich in 1708. However, the family tombstone refers to her as beloved wife of Edmund Bradbury, which may indicate that she was twice married. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
	Whilst it is confirmed that the couple’s first four children were born and baptised at Charlton Kings, it is likely that the family moved to live in Ashchurch near Tewkesbury where the remaining children may have been born.
	Certainly it is confirmed that the two youngest children were married at Ashchurch, whilst the children of Henry’s son Benjamin were all born and baptised at Tewkesbury and his daughter Eleanor was married there. When Henry Collett was in his thirties, he was recorded in the 1672 Hearth Tax as having three hearths.
	5J10	Henry Collett			Base born in 1667 at Charlton Kings
	5J11	Joyce Collett			Baptised on 29.09.1670 at Charlton Kings
	5J12	Elizabeth Collett			Baptised on 15.02.1672 at Charlton Kings
	5J13	Sarah Collett			Baptised on 13.08.1675 at Charlton Kings
	5J14	Benjamin Collett			Born in 1675 at Ashchurch
	5J15	Eleanor Collett			Born circa 1681 at Ashchurch
	5J16	William Collett			Born circa 1683 at Ashchurch
	5J17	Mary Collett			Born circa 1685 at Ashchurch
5J1	William Collett was baptised at Alstone, three miles east of Ashchurch on 16^th November 1669, the son of William and Joan Collett. It would appear that his mother died either during or just after the birth, since his father married Elizabeth in the June of the following year. William Collett later married Sara Spilman at Tewkesbury on 6^th June 1696, and three months after that their son was born.
	5K1	William Collett						Baptised on 14.09.1696 at Tewkesbury
5J3	Esther Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 3^rd March 1653 where, as ‘Hester’, she married William Young on 9^th June 1684.
5J4	Richard Collett was born in 1660 and he married Ann Sparks at Tewkesbury on 6^th June 1683, where all of their children were also born and baptised.
	5K2	Ann Collett						Baptised on 01.04.1684 at Tewkesbury
	5K3	Elizabeth Collett						Baptised on 04.01.1685 at Tewkesbury
	5K4	Mary Collett						Baptised on 15.04.1689 at Tewkesbury
	5K5	Richard Collett						Born in January 1690 at Tewkesbury
	5K6	William Collett						Born in April 1693 at Tewkesbury
	5K7	Susannah Collett						Baptised on 08.12.1695 at Tewkesbury
	5K8	Sarah Collett						Baptised on 27.01.1698 at Tewkesbury
5J6	Eleanor Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1668 and she married John Kendrick on 11^th August 1689 at Deerhurst, which is less than two miles south of Tewkesbury. John’s brother Richard Kendrick married Eleanor’s sister Sarah Collett (below) five years later.
5J7	Henry Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1670 and he married Ann circa 1691. Their son Benjamin was also born and baptised at Tewkesbury.
	5K9	Benjamin Collett						Baptised on 30.05.1692 at Tewkesbury
5J8	Sarah Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1672. She married Richard Kendrick in September 1694, the brother of John Kendrick who married Sarah’s sister Eleanor Collett (above).
5J9	William Collett was born at Tewkesbury around 1675 and he married Ann Porter on 14^th April 1696 at Ashchurch, which is one mile east of Tewkesbury. All four children were baptised at Ashchurch where the baptism records confirmed the parents as William and Ann
	5K10	Ann Collett						Baptised on 04.04.1697 at Ashchurch
	5K11	John Collett						Baptised on 02.03.1699 at Ashchurch
	5K12	John Collett						Baptised on 22.12.1700 at Ashchurch
	5K13	Elizabeth Collett						Baptised on 08.02.1702 at Ashchurch
5J10	Henry Collett from Charlton Kings was the base-born son of Henry Collett and was born in 1667, two years before his father married his mother. Henry junior married (1) Elizabeth in 1688 and it would appear that she died around the time of the birth of their second child, following which Henry married (2) Ann, the mother of his son Benjamin. All three children were born and baptised at Tewkesbury.
	Henry was one of His Majesty’s (King George I) Justices of the Peace for the County of Gloucester. He was also a Bencher of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn. Henry died on 26^th July 1722 aged 55 and was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. (See Headstone Epitaphs) Henry, just like his older brother Benjamin (above) was not mentioned in his father’s Will of 1712, perhaps because both were already financially set up and successful.
	5K14	Henry Collett						Baptised on 07.11.1689 at Tewkesbury
	5K15	Sarah Collett						Born in 1690 at Tewkesbury
	5K16	Benjamin Collett						Baptised on 30.05.1692 at Tewkesbury
5J11	Joyce Collett was baptised at Charlton Kings on 29^th September 1670, the eldest daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. Judging by the reference in the Will of her father Henry Collett, she never married or at least was not married by 1712 when she was 42 years old. Only youngest sister Sarah (below) was referred to as being married in the 1712 Will.
5J12	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Charlton Kings on 15^th February 1672, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. Just like her sister Joyce (above), Elizabeth was still single in 1712 when she was 40, judging by the reference to her in the Will of her father Henry Collett.
5J13	Sarah Collett was baptised at Charlton Kings on 13^th August 1675, another daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. She married Edmund Goodrich on 24^th April 1708 at the Church of St Mary de Lode in Gloucester, and just over four years later her father Henry Collett died.
	Sarah Collett died at Tewkesbury on 9^th September 1728 and was buried in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey, where she was listed as the wife of Edmund Bradbury. This is curious since Sarah and her husband Edmund Goodrich were both named in the Will of her father as inheriting his land upon the death of Sarah’s mother Elizabeth Collett. (See Headstone Epitaphs). This might mean that she married Edmund Bradbury after she was had been married to Edmund Goodrich.
5J14	Benjamin Collett was born at Ashchurch in 1675, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. He was married twice, the first time to (1) Elizabeth and after to (2) Jemima Waterworth, whom he wed in the Spring of 1726. All of the children came from the second marriage, and were born and baptised at Tewkesbury.
	Elizabeth, who was also born in 1675, died on 25^th November 1725, at the age of 50. Within a few months of her death Benjamin, who was then 51 years old, married twenty-five years old Jemima who was born in 1701, and who died on 22^nd November 1753, aged 52.
	Benjamin and his older brother Henry (above) were the only members of his father’s family not to be mentioned in his Will of 1712, although there was reference to each of the grandchildren, who each received ten shillings.
	Benjamin died on 2^nd April 1738, aged 63, and he and his two wives are listed on the family tombstone in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
	5K17	Henry Collett				Baptised on 04.03.1726 at Tewkesbury
	5K18	Benjamin Collett				Baptised on 09.10.1728 at Tewkesbury
	5K19	Joseph Collett				Baptised on 16.12.1729 at Tewkesbury
	5K20	Waterworth Collett				Born in September 1731 at Tewkesbury
	5K21	Elizabeth Collett				Born in 1735 at Tewkesbury
5J15	Eleanor Collett was born at Ashchurch around 1681, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. She later married Richard Clark at Tewkesbury on 15^th June 1704.
5J16	William Collett was born at Ashchurch around 1683, the youngest son of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. He was 23 years old when he married Ann Elizabeth Lovett at Ashchurch on 26^th November 1706, where their son was born and baptised.
	5K22	William Collett						Baptised on 19.04.1708 at Ashchurch
5J17	Mary Collett was born at Ashchurch around 1685, the youngest and last child of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. It was twenty-three years later that she married Samuel Savage at Ashchurch on 10^th March 1708.
5K1	William Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 14^th September 1696, the only known son of William Collett and Sara Spilman. He was around twenty years of age when he married Ann Parker at Tewkesbury on 27^th December 1716, where all of their children were born and baptised.
	5L1	Elizabeth Collett						Baptised on 30.08.1722; infant death
	5L2	William Collett						Born circa 1725 at Tewkesbury
	5L3	John Collett						Born circa 1730 at Tewkesbury
	5L4	Henry Collett						Baptised on 12.12.1732 at Tewkesbury
	5L5	Elizabeth Collett						Baptised on 28.01.1734 at Tewkesbury
	5L6	Benjamin Collett						Baptised on 03.12.1736; infant death
	5L7	Joseph Collett						Baptised on 28.05.1739 at Tewkesbury
	5L8	Joseph Collett						Baptised on 03.05.1740 at Tewkesbury
	5L9	Benjamin Collett						Born on 29.12.1741 at Tewkesbury
5K4	Mary Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 15^th April 1689, the daughter of Richard Collett and his wife Ann Sparks. It was also at Tewkesbury nearly twenty-four years later that she married William Turfoot on 29^th January 1713.
5K8	Sarah Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 27^th January 1698, another daughter of Richard Collett and Ann Sparks. She married Fernando Wilks on 19^th September 1726 at Kemerton, just north of Tewkesbury.
5K10	Ann Collett was baptised at Ashchurch on 4^th April 1697, the eldest child of William Collett and his wife Ann Porter who were married there on 14^th April 1696.
5K11	John Collett was baptised at Ashchurch on 2^nd February 1699, the son of William and Ann Collett, but would appear to have suffered an infant death with the couple’s next child having the same name.
5K12	John Collett was baptised at Ashchurch on 22^nd December 1700, the son of William and Ann Collett. It would appear that upon reaching full age John left the Tewkesbury area, when he moved ten miles to the north-east, where he eventually married Elizabeth Wyatt at Badsey, just to the east of Evesham.
	The continuation of the family line of John Collett of Ashchurch can be found in Part 57 – The Bakers of Abbots Morton in Worcestershire Line, which also incorporates the Colletts of Badsey, both in the introduction and in a separate appendix at the end of that file.
5K13	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Ashchurch on 8^th February 1702, the last known child of William Collett and his wife Ann Porter.
5K14	Henry Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 7^th November 1689, where he married Elizabeth Webb on 20^th May 1712, and where all of their children were born and baptised. Henry died sometime after the birth of their third child, following which Mrs Elizabeth Collett married John Humphreys on 29^th September 1719.
	5L10	Ann Collett						Baptised on 16.07.1712 at Tewkesbury
	5L11	Henry Collett						Born in 1714 at Tewkesbury
	5L12	Elizabeth Collett						Born in 1715 at Tewkesbury
5K15	Sarah Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1690, the daughter of Henry Collett and his first wife Elizabeth, who sadly died just after Sarah was born. It was also at Tewkesbury where Sarah Collett married Thomas Brown on 2^nd October 1711.
5K17	Henry Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 4^th March 1726, the eldest child of Benjamin Collett and his second wife Jemima Waterworth. He later married Bridget who was born in 1728. Henry was a Barrister at Law and all of the couple’s children were born and baptised at Tewkesbury.
	Bridget died on 9^th May 1763, at the relatively young age of 35, and that happened around the time of the birth of their last child. Henry passed away just over eleven years later on 21^st August 1774, when he was 47. Both of them were buried in the family tomb at St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey, where they were later joined by three of their children, John Waterworth Collett, Jemima Collett, and Frances Collett.
	Not very far away from the family’s tomb, is tomb number 67, the tomb of the couple’s eldest and married daughter Ann Cliffe nee Collett, on which there is a Latin inscription that refers to her brother, the Rev. Henry Collett.
	The Collett tomb is listed as number 72 in the Abbey records and is described as ‘adjoining No 70 on the south side, in line with western part of St Catherine’s Chapel’. The wording on the actual tomb is barely legible, but the verger at the Abbey kindly provided Sue James with a copy of the record, which confirms the words displayed in the website file Headstone Epitaphs 1 – Tewkesbury.
	5L13	Ann Collett						Born in 1751 at Tewkesbury
	5L14	Jemima Collett						Baptised on 13.04.1752 at Tewkesbury
	5L15	Bridget Collett						Baptised on 25.07.1753 at Tewkesbury
	5L16	Bridget Collett						Baptised on 02.09.1754 at Tewkesbury
	5L17	Henry Collett						Baptised on 16.10.1754 at Tewkesbury
	5L18	John Waterworth Collett						Baptised on 21.08.1757 at Tewkesbury
	5L19	Frances Collett						Baptised on 13.02.1760 at Tewkesbury
	5L20	Benjamin Collett						Born in 1763 at Tewkesbury
5K18	Benjamin Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 9^th October 1728. He was a surgeon but died when he was only 28 on 3^rd May 1757, following which he was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
5K19	Joseph Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 16^th December 1729 where he married Elizabeth Martin on 5^th February 1752. And it was there also where all of their children were born and baptised.
	Joseph Collett died on 4^th June 1771, aged 41, and was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
	5L21	Elizabeth Collett						Baptised on 04.11.1753 at Tewkesbury
	5L22	John Collett						Baptised on 30.12.1756 at Tewkesbury
	5L23	John Collett						Born in December 1757 at Tewkesbury
	5L24	Benjamin Collett						Baptised on 23.03.1759 at Tewkesbury
	5L25	Elizabeth Collett						Baptised on 22.02.1761 at Tewkesbury
	5L26	Susannah Collett						Baptised on 31.05.1762 at Tewkesbury
5K20	Waterworth Collett was born at Tewkesbury in September 1731. He was a gentleman and Attorney at Law. He died on 18^th November 1761, aged 60, and was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
5K21	Elizabeth Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1735 and she died there on 27^th March 1740 at the age of only four years. She was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
5K22	William Collett was baptised at Ashchurch on 19^th April 1708. He married Elizabeth Johnson at Tewkesbury on 19^th August 1731, where their first child was born. All of the other children were born and baptised at Upper Swell near Stow on the Wold.
	5L27	Henry Collett						Baptised on 16.08.1733 at Tewkesbury
	5L28	Ann Collett						Baptised on 17.05.1735 at Upper Swell
	5L29	Richard Collett						Baptised on 13.08.1737 at Upper Swell
	5L30	Thomas Collett						Baptised on 24.12.1738 at Upper Swell
	5L31	William Collett						Baptised on 19.04.1740 at Upper Swell
	5L32	Samuel Collett						Baptised on 11.03.1743 at Upper Swell
	5L33	Elizabeth Collett						Baptised on 14.07.1745 at Upper Swell
	5L34	Samuel Collett						Baptised on 28.12.1747 at Upper Swell
5L2	William Collett was born at Tewkesbury around 1725, the eldest son of William Collett and Ann Parker. He later married Rebecca Godsell on 8^th July 1746 at Tewkesbury, although to date, no record has been found to suggest that they ever had any children.
	Within the Tewkesbury church records there is a reference to William and Rebecca Collett for 25^th May 1783, when there were the witnesses at the marriage of Richard Prew and Mary Hughes. The record also indicates that William made the mark of a cross.
	It is possible that William was in some way attached to the church as there were other occasions when a W B Collett was referred to as being a witness at other marriages. With two brothers having the name Benjamin, it is likely that William B Collett was William Benjamin Collett.
	It is not known when William died, except that he was survived by his wife who died in 1812 and was buried at Tewkesbury on 25^th November 1812. The burial record referred to her as Rebecca Collett the widow of William Collett.
5L3	John Collett was born at Tewkesbury around 1730, where he later married Elizabeth Stephens on 20^th December 1751.
5L4	Henry Collett was baptised Tewkesbury on 12^th December 1732, the son of William and Ann Collett. It was also at Tewkesbury where he married Ann Price on 1^st July 1760, and where all of their children were born and baptised.
	The Tewkesbury burial records include the name of Henry Collett who was buried there on 22^nd October 1811 but, with no age given at the time of death, it cannot be determined if it was this Henry Collett.
	There is a possibility it may have been his son listed with his children below, or alternatively it might have even been either of the Henry Colletts Ref. 5L27 or Ref. 5M18.
	5M1	Hannah Collett						Baptised on 06.08.1761 at Tewkesbury
	5M2	Henry Collett						Baptised on 05.12.1763 at Tewkesbury
	5M3	John Collett						Baptised on 08.02.1768 at Tewkesbury
	5M4	Nancy Collett						Baptised on 04.06.1770 at Tewkesbury
	5M5	Sarah Collett						Baptised on 08.06.1772 at Tewkesbury
	5M6	Catherine Smith Collett						Baptised on 31.07.1774 at Tewkesbury
5L5	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 28^th November 1734 as Elis Collett, the daughter of William and Ann Collett. It was there also, on 29^th May 1763 that she married John Rice who was born in 1732. However, it is thought that Elizabeth died shortly after the birth of the couple’s first and only child, John Rice, who was born in 1770.
	Elizabeth’s son John Rice later married Elizabeth Preece on 04.12.1792 at Tewkesbury in the presence of his father John Rice and Ann Blanch. John and Elizabeth had thirteen children before John died in 1844.
	This is the family line of Jeni Rice of Australia
5L7	Joseph Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 28^th May 1739. He was the son of William and Ann Collett, but sadly appears to have died shortly after he was born, since the next child born to William and Ann was also named Joseph (below).
5L8	Joseph Collett was born at Tewkesbury on 3^rd May 1740, the son of William and Ann Collett. It was also at Tewkesbury that he married Jane Lysom on 27^th October 1760, and where all of their children were born and baptised.
	5M7	William Collett						Baptised on 13.08.1761; infant death
	5M8	John Collett						Born on 09.03.1763 at Tewkesbury
	5M9	Joseph Collett						Baptised on 22.12.1764; infant death
	5M10	Joseph Collett						Born on 29.12.1765 at Tewkesbury
	5M11	William Collett						Baptised on 13.03.1768 at Tewkesbury
5L11	Henry Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1714. He married Theodosia Williams on 2^nd November 1734 at Tewkesbury and was baptised there as an adult on 19^th May 1735, prior to the christening of his first child three months later. All of the couple’s children were born and baptised at Tewkesbury.
	5M12	Ann Collett						Baptised on 21.08.1735 at Tewkesbury
	5M13	Jane Collett						Baptised on 07.07.1737 at Tewkesbury
	5M14	Mary Collett						Baptised on 13.09.1739 at Tewkesbury
5L12	Elizabeth Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1715. There is a possibility that she was the Elizabeth Collett who married Samuel Hawkins at Tewkesbury on 6^th November 1753. It needs to be determined whether she married as a spinster or a widow, so further work is required to resolve this matter.
5L13	Ann Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1751, the eldest child of Henry and Bridget Collett. It was in 1771 that she married William Cliffe, with whom she had a daughter. Ann Cliffe nee Collett died on 16^th October 1777 at the young age of 26.
	Following her passing, her body was laid to rest in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. According to the Abbey records the tomb is listed as being number 67, and is described as ‘adjoining number 66, and on the north of it’. The Abbey record also includes the following words in Latin, which appear on the tomb. ‘Hic inter cineres paternos quod, mortale fuit sui deponi voluit, Revdus Henricus Colleth A. In quod immortale non nisi per, Salvatoris merita deo occipiendurro, et cum plurimo honorum ominium, xx humillime efflavit ix die Julie anno domini MDCCCIII, Etatis suae XLVIII’.
	This is then followed by an epitaph, in English, for her daughter Anna Cliffe, even though she was buried at Dawlish in Devon. The Latin section above is a reference to the brother of Ann Collett, this being the Reverend Henry Collett (below). The website file Headstone Epitaphs 1 – Tewkesbury, contains the words written on the tomb for both Ann Cliffe nee Collett and her daughter Anna Cliffe.
	5M15	Anna Cliffe						Born in 1771
5L14	Jemima Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 13^th April 1752. She never married and died on 10^th April 1783, aged 31. She was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
5L15	Bridget Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 25^th July 1753 and she died on 30^th August 1754 aged just 14 months. She was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
5L17	Henry Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 16^th October 1754. He was educated at Pembroke College in Oxford, where he matriculated on 27^th May 1772, aged 18. The college record confirmed that he was the son of Henry Collett of Tewkesbury. Henry went on to obtain his BA on 19^th April 1776.
	The next major event in his life was his marriage to Sarah Woodford. That took place at Tewkesbury on 1^st January 1778. The marriage register stated that the weddings by performed by banns in the presence of James and Elizabeth Lane. And it was at Tewkesbury that all of Henry’s and Sarah’s children were born and baptised.
	Henry continued to attend Pembroke College after he was married, where he received his MA on 15^th July 1783, following which he became the Reverend Henry Collett. For both his ordination as deacon at Christ Church in Oxford on 15^th June 1777, and priest at Hereford Cathedral on 30^th May 1779, he was given special dispensation by the Bishop, through letters dimissory, granting him permission to depart to another diocese. As a deacon, permission was given by the Bishop of Gloucester and when priested, it was given by the Bishop of Coventry & Lichfield. This was very unusual, but it is not known why this was applied to Henry.
	It is also known that, at some time in his life, Henry was the curate at the church of St Martin de Tour in Woolstone near Bishop’s Cleeve, to the east of Tewkesbury. The church boasts a famous leaning tower, the result of the underlying geologic structure on Crane Hill. In 1471 the opposing armies of Lancaster and York fought the bloody Battle of Tewkesbury, following which the defeated Lancastrians sought sanctuary in the church. However, the Yorkists cared nothing for convention and entered the church, where they discovered and slaughtered their prey, causing the church to be re-consecrated.
	It is interesting that St Martin de Tour was the patron saint of soldiers. In addition to the Woolstone connection, there are also parish records at Tewkesbury in which Henry Collett was listed as a witness at some events. The first of these was on 26^th September 1775 at the marriage of Walter Powell of Bourton-on-the-Hill and Hannah Hammond of Tewkesbury. The next was on 9^th April 1793 for the marriage of the Reverend Robert Knight and Harriet Mercy Humphreys.
	Henry Collett died on 9^th July 1803 at the age of 48, following which he was buried in St Catherine’s Chapel in the south side of the Ambulatory. His tombstone, number 67, unlike other members of the Collett family, is the only one with the epitaph written in Latin, the rough translation of which is included below, although there are still two sections that have not been fully understood.
	‘It was here between the ruins and the ashes, that our father's mortal body was laid to rest ........ Rev. Henry Collett, MA ........ and with the greatest humility and honour, he passed away 9th day of July, in the year of 1803, at the age of 48. The same tomb also contains the body of his eldest sister, Anne Cliffe nee Collett, and the tombstone itself includes a mention of her daughter Anna Cliffe who was buried at Dawlish in Devon.
	5M16	Elizabeth Collett						Baptised on 30.12.1778; infant death
	5M17	Elizabeth Collett						Born in December 1779 at Tewkesbury
	5M18	Henry Collett						Baptised on 20.04.1781 at Tewkesbury
	5M19	Samuel Collett						Baptised on 15.02.1784 at Tewkesbury
	5M20	William Collett						Baptised on 26.03.1786 at Tewkesbury
	5M21	Rebecca Collett						Born in January 1789 at Tewkesbury
	5M22	Waterworth Henry Collett						Baptised on 29.01.1792 at Tewkesbury
	5M23	James Collett						Baptised on 04.06.1797 at Tewkesbury
5L18	John Waterworth Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 21^st October 1757. He was a gentleman and member of Brasenose College in Oxford in 1774. He died on 13^th July 1778 aged 21 and was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
5L19	Frances Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 13^th February 1760 and died on 22^nd December 1786, aged 27. No record has been found to suggest that she ever married. She was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
5L20	Benjamin Collett was born at Tewkesbury on 6^th April 1763 and he died three days later on 9^th April 1763. He was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
5L21	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 4^th November 1753 and she died on 23^rd June 1760 at the age of just six years. She was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
5L22	John Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 30^th December 1756. Together with his cousin John Waterworth Collett (above), he was educated at Brasenose College in Oxford where he matriculated on 8^th December 1774 aged 18 and where the college record confirmed that he was the son of Joseph Collett of Tewkesbury.
5L24	Benjamin Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 23^rd March 1759 and he died on 31^st October 1773, aged 14. He was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
5L26	Susannah Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 31^st May 1762 and her father Joseph died in June 1771 when she was nine years old. Just over twelve years later she married George Woolley by licence at Tewkesbury on 11^th December 1783.
	The Tewkesbury register confirmed that Susannah Collett was of this parish, while her husband was from the parish of St Catherine in the City of Gloucester. The witnesses to the marriage were Susannah’s widowed mother Eliza (Elizabeth) Collett and W B Collett.
	W B Collett may have been attached to the church as his name appears on more than one occasion within the church records. It is therefore possible that he was William Collett (Ref. 5L2) and the cousin of Susannah.
5L27	Henry Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 16^th August 1733, the son of William and Elis Collett. He later married Hannah around 1762. All of the couple’s children were born and baptised at Tewkesbury.
	5M24	William Collett						Baptised on 09.10.1763 at Tewkesbury
	5M25	Hannah Collett						Baptised on 19.03.1765 at Tewkesbury
	5M26	Ann Collett						Baptised on 25.08.1767 at Tewkesbury
	5M27	Mary Collett						Baptised on 29.06.1769 at Tewkesbury
	5M28	John Collett						Baptised on 16.06.1771 at Tewkesbury
	5M29	Charlotte Collett						Baptised on 03.07.1774 at Tewkesbury
5L31	William Collett was baptised at Upper Swell on 19^th April 1740. He married Ann Johnson on 29^th March 1761 at Alderton, midway between Upper Swell and Tewkesbury. William’s mother was Elizabeth Johnson and was very likely a member of the same family, probably indicating that William and Ann were cousins.
5L32	Samuel Collett was baptised at Upper Swell on 11^th March 1743, the son of William Collett and Elizabeth Johnson. Sadly he only survived for a short while, when he died at Upper Swell on 15^th June 1744.
5L34	Samuel Collett was baptised at Upper Swell on 28^th December 1747, the second son of William Collett and Elizabeth Johnson to bear the name Samuel, following the death of his brother and namesake three years earlier.
	It was previously listed here that Samuel Collett had married Anne Clifford at Upper Swell on 9^th June 1767. However, it is now believed that this Samuel was the son of Thomas and Mary Collett, and that he was baptised at Upper Slaughter on 8^th August 1732.
	This new information arises from details received indirectly from Betty Judge via Marilyn Stoddard, whose family features in Part 48 – The Dudley West Midlands Line, whilst the details of the marriage between Samuel Collett and Anne Clifford can be found in the Appendix at the end of this file.
	If this proves to be correct, which seems more than likely, it is possible that Samuel Collett, who was baptised at Upper Swell in 1747 and the son of William Collett and Elizabeth Johnson, married Anne Carter at Adlestrop near Stow-on-the-Wold on 9^th April 1768.
5M5	Sarah Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 8^th June 1772. She was twice married at Tewkesbury within five years of each other. In the first occasion she married (1) Joseph Morris on 15^th August 1802. Joseph was a widower of the parish of Tewkesbury, while Sarah was a spinster.
	The couple were married by banns in the presence of James Cooper and Elizabeth Collett who both made their mark with a cross. Elizabeth Collett may have been Sarah’s aunt and sister-in-law to Sarah’s father Henry Collett.
	Some tragedy befell Sarah and Joseph when shortly after they were married Sarah was made a widow by the death of her husband. It is not known whether the short marriage produced any children.
	Within the next few years Sarah married (2) James Hill on 14^th April 1807. James was a widower of Tewkesbury as Sarah was a widow and they were married by banns in the presence of William Tompkins and Ruth Martin. Both Sarah and James signed the register with the mark of a cross.
5M8	John Collett was born at Tewkesbury on 9^th March 1763. Two of his brothers died as infants but there is no similar record for John. For some reason his parents, Joseph Collett and Jane Lysom, seem not to have arranged his baptism until he was over six years old, when the records show he was baptised at Tewkesbury on 10^th December 1769.
	It is possible, having regard to his age, that he may have been married prior to the turn of the century. There was a number of John Colletts born in Tewkesbury in the 1760s that married there and had children, and this John may have been one of them.
	However, at sometime in his adult life, perhaps for work reasons, John seems to have moved west from Tewkesbury towards Hereford where he appears to have settled to the south-east of the town in the village of Frownhope. The fact that he was ‘free to move’ may indicate that he was not married, nor had he any children.
	For the continuation of this family line see Part 40 – The Hereford Line
5M10	Joseph Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 29^th December 1765. He later married Margaret Weaver on 13^th October 1796 at St Mary de Lode Church in Gloucester, although there is an earlier date for their wedding at the same church on 27^th May 1796. Four of their five known children were baptised at Tewkesbury, with the exception being second son Cornelius who was baptised at St Michael’s Church in Gloucester.
	No baptism record for the two additional children added in the January 2012 updated has been found. However, Cornelius, Elizabeth and Richard were all stocking makers in Tewkesbury during their lives, and Elizabeth was living with Richard in 1841, and again in 1851, and was also living with Richard’s widow in 1861.
	5N1	Joseph Collett						Born in 1797 at Tewkesbury
	5N2	Cornelius Collett						Baptised on 24.03.1799 at Gloucester
	5N3	Elizabeth Collett						Born around Nov 1800 at Tewkesbury
	5N4	Frederick Collett						Baptised on 20.06.1802 at Tewkesbury
	5N5	Jane Collett						Baptised on 10.01.1806 at Tewkesbury
	5N6	Richard Collett						Born circa 1807 at Tewkesbury
	5N7	Eliza Collett						Baptised on 02.04.1815 at Tewkesbury
5M11	William Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 13^th March 1768. He married Mary Crosswell on 5^th March 1797 at St Mary de Lode Church in Gloucester, although all four of their children were baptised at Tewkesbury. It would very much appear that in their later life William and Mary followed their eldest son William to the village of Overbury, just a few miles north-east of Tewkesbury, since it was there that they and William’s family were all living in 1841.
	The census that year revealed that the elderly couple was recorded living there, very close to their widowed daughter-in-law and their three grandchildren. William Collett had a rounded age of 75, while his wife Mary was 66. It is also conceivable that Catherine and her children were actually living with William and Mary.
	5N8	William Collett						Baptised on 01.04.1798 at Tewkesbury
	5N9	John Crosswell Collett						Baptised on 01.06.1800 at Tewkesbury
	5N10	Joseph Collett						Baptised on 27.02.1803 at Tewkesbury
	Another Joseph Collett (Ref. 13N2) born on 15.02.1803 in Stroud was the brother James Lyford Collett (Ref. 13N1) who was born at Stroudwater on14.02.1800. They were the sons of William and Martha Collett. James emigrated to South Africa in 1821, while Joseph went to America. See Part Thirteen – The South Africa Line
5M15	Anna Cliffe was the daughter of Ann Collett and William Cliffe and was born at Tewkesbury in 1771. When Anna was only five years old her mother died and was buried at Tewkesbury.
	A church record at Tewkesbury reveals that Anna was still living at Tewkesbury in 1793 when she was listed as one of the witnesses to the marriage of the Reverend Robert Knight and Harriet Mercy Humphreys on ninth April that year.
	Also listed as a witness was clerk Henry Collett, who may have been Anna’s uncle the Reverend Henry Collett (Ref. 5L17).
	Anna Cliffe never married and died in 1803 at the age of 33. She was buried at Dawlish in Devon, although there is an epitaph to her in St Catherine’s Chapel of Tewkesbury Abbey. This is on the tomb that contains the body of her mother Ann Cliffe nee Collett and her uncle the Reverend Henry Collett, her mother’s younger brother. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
5M18	Henry Collett was born at Tewkesbury on 1^st April 1781, where he was baptised on 20^th April 1781, the eldest son of Henry Collett and his wife Sarah Woodford. Henry left Tewkesbury and made his way to London where it is believed he married Sarah and that the marriage produced two known sons for the couple.
	It seems likely that the wedding took place around in early 1803 as their first child was born at Finsbury towards the end of that year. Both boys were baptised at St Luke’s Church in Old Street in Finsbury. It is possible that Henry and Sarah had more than just the two sons listed here.
	What is interesting is that their sons Henry and George have featured in a DNA Study undertaken in the USA by Barry Collett in 2008, and it is through this exercise that they have been identified as the sons of Henry and Sarah.
	5N11	Henry Collett						Born on 24.11.1803 at Finsbury
	5N12	George Collett						Born on 09.02.1811 at Finsbury
5M19	Samuel Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 15^th February 1784. And it was there that he married Mary Shepherd on 1^st July 1804. Samuel and Mary both signed the register with the mark of a cross and both were confirmed as being of the parish of Tewkesbury, he a bachelor and she a spinster.
	They were married by banns in the presence of William Hampton and Mary’s mother Elizabeth Shepherd.
	Following the birth of their children, who were all born and baptised at Tewkesbury, it is believed that this family emigrated to South Africa, although this has not been proved or disproved. Therefore further research is needed.
	5N13	Mary Ann Collett						Baptised on 21.04.1805 at Tewkesbury
	5N14	William Collett						Baptised on 19.10.1806 at Tewkesbury
	5N15	Thomas Shepherd Collett						Baptised on 03.12.1807 at Tewkesbury
	5N16	Harriett Collett						Baptised on 06.12.1812 at Tewkesbury
5M20	William Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 26^th March 1786, the son of Henry Collett and his wife Sarah Woodford.
5M22	Waterworth Henry Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1791 where he was baptised on 29^th January 1792, the son of Henry and Sarah Collett. Waterworth, who was named after his great grandmother Jemima Waterworth, married Sally Fowler at Kempsey, just south of Worcester on 11^th August 1824.
	She was born at Ripple near Naunton, just south-east of Upton-on-Severn, although it was at Naunton where she was baptised as Sally Fowler on 12^th April 1795. She was also recorded as Sally on the occasion of her marriage, when her husband was mistakenly recorded as Walterworth Collett. At other times in his life he was named simply as Walter Collett, perhaps of his own choosing.
	The marriage produced three children for Waterworth and Sally, and all of them were born and baptised at Tewkesbury, although the baptism record for the couple’s first child has not been located as yet. In addition to this, their third child and only son died before reaching ten years of age.
	By the time of the first British census in June 1841, the family was living at Hanley Castle, one mile north of Upton-on-Severn and within the parish of Great Malvern. ‘Walter Collett’ was 50, his wife ‘Sarah Collett’ was 47, and their two surviving children were Mary who was 18, and Charlotte who was 16.
	Walter was described as working as an agricultural labourer, which seems at odds with the fact that his father was educated at Oxford and held the title of Reverend Henry Collett of Tewkesbury. This therefore raises the question as to whether Waterworth had some sort of falling-out with his parents.
	Ten years later in 1851 Waterworth Collett was 59 and his place of birth was confirmed as Tewkesbury. By that time in his life he was working as a hose frame knitter, and living with him in the village of North Malvern within the Hanley Castle registration district was his wife Sally Collett who was 56 and a laundress from Ripple in Worcestershire, together with their daughter Charlotte Collett who was 24 and a laundress from Tewkesbury.
	The couple’s eldest daughter Mary Ann was married with a family of her own by then, and on her marriage certificate her father was named as ‘Walter Collett’ and his occupation as that of a weaver.
	Just over three years later Waterworth Collett became a widower when his wife Sarah Collett died at Hanley Castle on 20^th May 1854. Her death was reported to the registrar in Great Malvern by her son-in-law John Banner, the husband of Mary Ann Collett, and the death certificate named her husband as Walterworth Collett, a. stocking weaver.
	Waterworth and his daughter Charlotte remained living at Hanley Castle where they were still recorded as living at the time of the census in 1861, when it was once again listed as North Malvern. Walterworth H Collett was 69 and a labourer, while his unmarried daughter was 34 and a laundress.
	Over the following years Charlotte became a married lady, but continued to live at Hanley Castle and near to where her elderly father was living. On 3^rd May 1870 the death of ‘Walter Collett’ aged 78 was reported to the registrar in Great Malvern by John Nott, the husband of Charlotte Collett, the death certificate confirming that he had been a stocking weaver.
	5N17	Mary Ann Collett						Born in 1824 at Tewkesbury
	5N18	Charlotte Collett						Baptised on 21.05.1826 at Tewkesbury
	5N19	Timothy Collett						Baptised on 30.03.1828 at Tewkesbury
5M23	James Collett was born at Tewkesbury and was baptised there on 4^th June 1797, the youngest child of Henry Collett and Sarah Woodford. New information has come to light during 2011, which raises the question as to whether or not he had a son by the name of Henry Vine Collett. The child, for whom no baptism record has been found, was added to this file sometime between 2002 and 2008, but sadly no record can now be found to confirm the source of this information. Furthermore, it is now established that a Henry Vine Collett was born in Cornwall during 1832, and it seems unlikely that there were two people with that same name, who were born in the same year.
	For the time being Henry Vine Collett will remain here as the son of James Collett, but at the same time a new file has been opened for Henry Vine Collett the son of Henry and Ann Collett who was born at Truro in 1832. For further details go to Part 58 – The Line of Henry Vine Collett [Cornwall to New Zealand].
	What is known for sure about James Collett of Tewkesbury is that he was a soldier and was married to Eliza who was born in Liverpool in 1808. The IGI includes the marriage of James Collett and Eliza Matilda Sweny as taking place at the Church of St Mary the Virgin at Deane in Lancashire on 3^rd April 1827. Once married James’ occupation may have taken him to many places, but it is certainly known that in 1841 the two of them were living in Cheltenham when their daughter was born.
	By the time of the census in 1851 the family was living within the parish of St Michael in Chester. James Collett, age 52 and from Tewkesbury, was a servant and a Chelsea Pensioner living and working at the Grosvenor Street home of Charles Hervey, age 36, who was a half pay captain in the army, who had been born in Mauritius and who was described as a British Subject.
	James’ wife was Eliza Collett, age 42 and from Liverpool, who was the cook, while their daughter Jemima Collett from Cheltenham was a ten years old school girl. It seems likely that Eliza died during the 1850s, since James Collett, age 64, was a widow by 1861 when he was living at Market Street in Manchester with just his daughter Jemima, age 19, for company.
	No record of James or his daughter have been found in the next census of 1871, so by then James had very likely passed away, and Jemima was probably married by then.
	5N20	Henry Vine Collett					Born in 1832
	5N21	Jemima Collett					Born in 1841 at Cheltenham
5M26	Ann Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 25^th August 1767, where she married William Pitman on 4^th October 1795.
5M28	John Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 16^th June 1771. He married Jane in 1790 and all of their children were born and baptised at Tewkesbury. The record for the baptism of surviving son William lists his parents John and Jane as protestant dissenters.
	5N22	Jane Collett						Baptised on 16.08.1790 at Tewkesbury
	5N23	Anne Collett						Baptised on 24.01.1792 at Tewkesbury
	5N24	John Collett						Baptised on 24.02.1795 at Tewkesbury
	5N25	William Collett						Baptised on 04.06.1797; infant death
	5N26	William Collett						Baptised on 07.01.1799 at Tewkesbury
5N1	Joseph Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1797, the eldest son of Joseph Collett and his wife Margaret Weaver. It was also at Tewkesbury that Joseph junior married Hester Beale on 2^nd February 1817. However, the Tewkesbury baptism record for their son Henry gave the name of the boy’s mother as Elizabeth, rather than Hester or Esther. However, with no later record of him, it is possible that he did not survived beyond infancy or childhood.
	5O1	Henry Collett						Baptised on 19.10.1817 at Tewkesbury
5N2	Cornelius Collett was baptised at St Michael’s Church in Gloucester on 24^th March 1799, the son of Joseph and Margaret Collett. He married (1) Hester Wither Bale on 31^st May 1822 at Tewkesbury.
	Both of the couple’s known sons were born and baptised at Tewkesbury and the individual baptism records stated that the father was Cornelius, while the mother’s name was given as Hester and Esther respectively.
	It was previously stated here that Cornelius married (2) Amelia Harrison on 13^th May 1833 at Churcham, just to the west of Gloucester, and this only happened following the assumed death of his first wife. However, it has been revealed in the 1841 census records for Tewkesbury that Cornelius Collett was still married to Esther.
	This first national census in Great Britain specified adult ages to the nearest five years, so Cornelius and Esther were both recorded as being forty, while their son William Collett was 15. No record for the couple’s eldest son Joseph has been found in 1841 or 1851, so it is possible that he suffered a childhood death.
	Ten years later in 1851 the census that year recorded the couple’s ages more accurately. Cornelius Collett was 51 and his wife Esther was 53. Also by that time their son William Collett was listed as being 23 years old. All three of them were confirmed as being born at Tewkesbury where they were living at Gravel Walk. All three members of the household were described as having the occupation of a stock (stocking) frame work knitter. After a further ten years they were still living in Tewkesbury in 1861, when Cornelius was 61 and Esther was 63. It was also just prior to the census in 1861 that their son William had died at Tewkesbury, leaving his widow Charlotte with four young children.
	Following the death of his own wife sometime after 1861, Cornelius went to live at the home of his daughter–in-law, where he was recorded in both of the census returns for 1871 and 1881. By 1871 Cornelius was 71 when he was living with Charlotte Collett and her two youngest children. Also living with the family in Tewkesbury was Charlotte’s father Charles Scott who was 75.
	According to the next census in 1881 Cornelius Collett, age 81 and a stocking weaver, was living at 20 Spring Gardens in Tewkesbury, where head of the household was widow Charlotte Collett, age 55, a cord winder from Tewkesbury. All of her children had left the family home by then, but still living with her was her father Charles Scott, age 83, who was a cord winder from Painswick.
	The absence of Cornelius Collett in the census of 1891 very likely confirms that he died during the 1880s.
	5O2	Joseph Collett						Baptised on 16.12.1824 at Tewkesbury
	5O3	William Collett						Baptised on 21.12.1828 at Tewkesbury
5N3	Elizabeth Collett was possibly born midway between Cornelius Collett (above) and Frederick Collett (below). Her placing in the Tewkesbury family of Joseph Collett and Margaret Weaver is purely based on census information in 1841, 1851, and 1861 when she was living with her brother Richard Collett (below).
	Elizabeth never married and in the census conducted in June 1841 she was living at Davies Alley off Barton Street in Tewkesbury. Today Barton Street in the main road A438. Elizabeth Collett had a rounded age of 35, and was sharing the dwelling with her was Richard Collett whose rounded age was 30. Richard was a stocking maker, while Elizabeth, with no stated occupation, was presumably keeping house for her brother, although no relationship were quoted in that first national census.
	During the following decade Richard became a married man, and in the census of 1851 he was head of the household at Barton Street in Tewkesbury, where he was living with his wife and their daughter. Also living with the family were four other people, the first of which was unmarried Elizabeth Collett, age 49, who was a stocking maker from Tewkesbury. On that occasion she was simply described as a relation of Richard Collett, while the other three were described as lodgers.
	Ten years later unmarried Elizabeth Collett from Tewkesbury was 60 and her occupation was that of a cotton dealer. She was still living at Barton Street in Tewkesbury, although by then she was living at the home of Silvia Collett (Richard’s wife), who was head of the household and also a cotton dealer. On that occasion Elizabeth Collett was recorded as being the sister-in-law of Silvia Collett.
	With no further record of Elizabeth Collett found to date, it may be safe to assume that she died at Tewkesbury during the 1860s.
5N4	Frederick Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 20^th June 1802, the son of Joseph and Margaret Collett. When he was 26 years of age he married Ann Tarling in Cheltenham during April 1828. Two different dates for the event are indicated on the IGI, the first being 13^th April, and the second being 28^th April. Once married the couple settled in Charlton Kings, to the south and east of Cheltenham, and it was there that their three known children were born and baptised when, on each occasion, the parents were recorded as Frederick and Ann Collett.
	It was also at Charlton Kings that the family was living at the time of the census in 1841. The census return listed the family as Frederick Collett and his wife Ann, both with a rounded age of 35, while their three daughters were Eliza Collett, who was eleven, Emma Collett, who was eight, and Elizabeth Collett who was six years old.
	The family was still living in Charlton Kings at the end of the decade, but by the time of the census in 1851 only the couple’s youngest daughter was still living at the family home in Charlton Kings. The family’s surname on that occasion was spelt with just one t, so Frederick Collet from Tewkesbury was 49, his wife Ann was 51, and daughter Elizabeth Collet was 16.
	Living and working nearby in Charlton Kings, and under the correct spelling of her name, was the couple’s eldest daughter Eliza Collett, who was 22, and whose place of birth was confirmed as Charlton Kings, while the other absent daughter Emma was living and working in Cheltenham at the age of 19, although her place of birth was noted by her employer as Cheltenham, rather than Charlton Kings.
	In 1861 Frederick and Ann were living alone in Charlton Kings, where Frederick Collett from Tewkesbury was 59, and his wife Ann Collett was 61. With no trace of any of their three daughters, it must be assumed that they were all married by that time.
	The couple was also recorded as still residing in Charlton Kings ten years later in 1871, when Frederick was 69 and Ann was 70, but with no trace of them in 1881 it is assumed that they both passed away during the 1870s.
	5O4	Eliza Collett			Baptised on 05.07.1829 at Charlton Kings
	5O5	Emma Collett			Baptised on 05.07.1832 at Charlton Kings
	5O6	Elizabeth Collett			Baptised on 03.05.1835 at Charlton Kings
5N6	Richard Collett was born at Tewkesbury around 1807, and was possibly the son of Joseph and Margaret Collett. Richard was a stocking maker like his possible brother Cornelius (above). By the time of the census in 1841 Richard Collett was living with Elizabeth Collett at Davies Alley off Barton Street in Tewkesbury.
	The census that year gave Richard a rounded age of 30, and his occupation was that of a stocking maker, while Elizabeth was 35. Both of them were recorded as being born within the county of Gloucestershire. From the next census in 1851 it is evident that Richard and Elizabeth were not husband and wife, but that they were related in some way, possibly siblings or cousins. Certainly around the middle of the 1840s Richard married Silvia and the birth of their daughter was registered at Tewkesbury during the second quarter of 1847.
	According to the census in 1851 Richard Collett, age 44 and from Tewkesbury, was again working as a stocking maker, while he was still living in a dwelling on Barton Street in Tewkesbury. His wife Silvia Collett, from Tewkesbury, was 40 and also a stocking maker, while his daughter Elizabeth Collett was three years old. Living with the family was Elizabeth Collett who was described as an unmarried relation to head of the household Richard who, at 49 was another stocking maker from Tewkesbury.
	Also living with the family at that time were three lodgers, and they were Samuel Wearing, an annuitant of 78 from Fairford, Frederick Martin, age 40, a pauper from Tewkesbury, and Maria Golding from Pendock in Worcestershire, who was 20 and a dressmaker.
	Ten years later in 1861 the family’s home was still on Barton Street in Tewkesbury, but by then there was no record of Richard Collett, even though the status of Silvia Collett, as head of the household, was that of a married women. She was a cotton dealer at the age of 53, rather than 50 as from the previous census, and living with her was her daughter Elizabeth Collett who was 13, and her unmarried ‘sister-in-law’ Elizabeth Collett from Tewkesbury, who was 60 and also a cotton dealer. Lodging with the family on that occasion was Hannah Brooking, a widow of 56 from Warwickshire.
	Curiously in the Tewkesbury census of 1871 Silvia Collett was recorded as being 58 years old, just five years advanced from her recorded age in 1861. This detail is further complicated by her stated age in the next census of 1881 – see below. Still living there with her was her daughter Elizabeth, who was unmarried at 23, and the older relative that was Elizabeth Collett, who was listed as being 76, which may have been an error for 70 which correlated more closely with her previously stated age in the earlier census returns.
	By the time of the census in 1881, Elizabeth Collett had died. As to what relation she was to Richard Collett has still to be determined. His widow on that occasion was recorded as Sylvia Collett who was 64. This conflicts with her stated age in all previous census returns and therefore it is more than likely that she was actually around 70 years of age. By that time she was living at Woods Court in Tewkesbury, where she was the keeper of the Independent Chapel. Living with her was her unmarried daughter Elizabeth Collett who was 33 and also born in Tewkesbury, like her mother.
	With no record of Silvia Collett in the next census of 1891, it is safe to assume that she had died at Tewkesbury during the 1880s.
	5O7	Elizabeth Collett							Born in 1847 at Tewkesbury
5N8	William Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 1^st April 1798, the eldest child of William Collett and his wife Mary Crosswell. When he was nearing thirty years of age he married Catherine and the couple settled in the village of Bredon less than three mile north-east of Tewkesbury. However, not long after their three children were born and baptised at Bredon Catherine was made a widow by the death of her husband. The baptism records at Bredon confirm the children’s parents were William and Catherine Collett.
	Either before that sad event, or possibly following the death of William Collett around 1839/1840, Catherine and her three child moved to the next village of Overbury, just two miles east of Bredon, where they were living in June 1841. The census that year listed the family as Catherine Collett, who had a rounded age of 30, John Collett who was ten, William Collett who was six, and Mary Collett who was two years old.
	Also living within the Tewkesbury & Overbury registration district was Catherine’s parents-in-law, William and Mary Collett, with whom she may have actually been living. Ten years later, and following the deaths of her in-laws, Catherine Collett left Overbury when she moved into the town of Tewkesbury, where she was living in 1851. The only one of her children still living with her was her youngest child Mary. Catherine was 48 and her daughter was 12 years of age.
	Catherine’s son John had remained living and working in Overbury, where he was recorded in the census as John Collett, aged 19 years. He was the only Collett still living there in 1851. What happened to the family after that time has yet to be discovered.
	It may be of interest at some time in the future that one other person by the name of Collett was living at Overbury in 1841. That was Charles Collett, age 13, who was also baptised at Bredon on 7^th July 1826, but who was recorded in the birth register as the son of Ann Collett. This raises the question was Ann the first wife of William Collett? Or could she have been the wife of one of his brothers John Crosswell Collett or John Collett.
	5O8	John Collett	Baptised on 05.06.1831 at Bredon, nr Tewkesbury
	5O9	William Collett	Baptised on 24.08.1834 at Bredon, nr Tewkesbury
	5O10	Mary Collett	Baptised on 23.06.1839 at Bredon, nr Tewkesbury
5N11	Henry Collett was born at Finsbury on 24^th November 1803 and was baptised there at St Luke’s Church in Old Street on 5^th March 1804.
5N12	George Collett was born at Finsbury on 9^th February 1811 and was baptised there at St Luke’s Church in Old Street on 9^th June 1811. Old Street runs eastwards and just one mile from St Lukes it becomes Hackney Road in Bethnal Green, and it was in that area that George was living by June 1841.
	From the census information that month it would appear that George had only been married for a short time, since he was living there with his wife and baby son. George was 29, his wife Elizabeth was 28, and their son George Collett was not yet one year old, although he may have been six years old judging by the next census in 1851.
	The family was still living in the same area of London in 1851, when the census for Hackney Road in Bethnal Green recorded the three members of the family as George Collett, age 38, his wife Elizabeth, also 38, while their son George Collett was listed as being 17 years old. During the next three years George’s became the father of a son of his own and in 1861 the couple’s grandson was the only other person living with them.
	By that time George and Elizabeth had moved to the parish of St Mary Islington in the London Borough on Finsbury, where they were residing at 12 Richard Street, and from where both of them were making uniforms for the British Army. George Collett was 49 and an army tailor from St George’s in Middlesex, his wife Elizabeth was 48 and an army tailoress from Bloomsbury, and living with the couple was their grandson George Collett, aged six years and a scholar from Shoreditch.
	Could the reason for their grandson to be living with them due to the death of his father, since nothing further appears to be known about George Collett his father, who also appears to be the only known son of George and Elizabeth Collett. Or were his parents overseas at that time, and were they later joined by George and Elizabeth and their grandson sometime after 1861, since no record of any of them has been found in Great Britain after that time.
	5O11	George Collett							Born circa 1833-40 in London
5N13	Mary Ann Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 21^st April 1805 where she married Charles Heaven on 14^th September 1846.
5N14	William Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 19^th October 1806. Tragically he died in 1818 at the age of 11, while he was living with his family at Church Street in Tewkesbury. William was buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s Church in Tewkesbury on 15^th February 1818.
	Shortly after his death his family is believed to have emigrated to South Africa.
5N17	Mary Ann Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1824, the eldest daughter of Waterworth Collett and Sally (Sarah) Fowler. Although no baptism record for her has been found to date, she was living with her parents at Hanley Castle in Worcestershire in 1841, when she was 18 years old.
	Although it is known that adult ages were not accurately recorded in that first British census, Mary appears to have been given an age that was two years older than her actual age, judging by her recorded age in the subsequent census returns.
	It was on 28^th August 1843 that Mary Ann Collett married John Banner at Malvern, when her father was confirmed as ‘Walter Collett’, a weaver. John Banner was the son of Richard and Mary Banner and he was baptised at Leigh with Bransford on 27^th October 1819. Over the following two decades Mary Ann presented John Banner with eight children.
	The first two children were born prior to the census in 1851 when the Banner family was recorded as living at the village of Leigh to the west of Worcester. John Banner was 30, Mary Banner was 26, and their children at that time were Mary who was six, and Amelia who was under one year old.
	A further four children were added to the family during the 1850s, so by 1861 the family living at Leigh comprised John 41, and Mary 36, and their children Mary Matilda Banner 16, Amelia Banner 10, George Walter Banner 7, Sarah Selina Banner 4, Harry Banner 2, and Alice Banner who was not yet one year old. In 1865 the couple’s eldest daughter Mary Matilda married John Allen.
	Two more children were born into the family during the next ten years and by the time of the Leigh census in 1871 the family was listed as John Banner 51, Mary A Banner 46, George W Banner 17, Harry T Banner 11, Alice Banner 10, Francis A Banner 5, and Arthur J Banner who was two years old. Sadly during the following years, Mary Ann Banner passed away.
	The next census in 1881 gave the family’s address as 2 Crooks Cottages, on the Main Road through the village of Leigh in Worcestershire, from where sixty-one years old widower John Banner worked as a coach-builder. Living there with him was four of his children, these being Sarah 24, coach-builder Harry 21, laundress Alice 20, and errand boy Arthur who was eleven.
	Also living with the family was John Banner’s grandson, William Banner who was seven years old. William Banner was baptised at Leigh with Bransford on 14^th June 1874, the son of William and Harriet Banner. This is curious since at no time was John Banner credited with a son by the name of William, unless he was from an earlier marriage.
	By the time of the 1881 Census, John Banner’s eldest daughter Mary Matilda and her family were living at Crooks Cottage on Pump Street in Great Malvern with her aunt Charlotte Nott (her mother’s younger sister).
	Mary Matilda Banner had married John Allen on 23^rd July 1865 at St. Matthias Church in Malvern Link. Over the years between 1865 and 1881 Mary had presented her husband with seven children, and all of them born while the family was living in Malvern. The census in 1881 confirmed that John was a plasterer from Gloucester and that he was 41, while his wife Mary M Allen was 37 and a nurse from Malvern.
	Their seven children were listed as labourer Alfred C Allen 15, apprentice plumber Frederick G Allen 14, Laura L Allen 9, Albert E Allen 8, Elizabeth E Allen 5, Fanny M Allen who was 3, and Walter J Allen who was just one year old.
	John’s and Mary’s daughter Laura Louisa Allen was born at Malvern on 25^th June 1870 and she married William Henry Hooper Booth on 1^st December 1889 with whom she had five children. William was a professional golfer from Twyning in Gloucestershire and travelled extensively across southern England. The couple’s first child was born at Minehead in Somerset, and the next two at South Norwood in London, but by the end of the century the family had settled in South Wales.
	By the time of the April census in 1911 the family living in the Gower area of Wales was made up of William Henry Hooper Booth 42, Laura Louisa Booth 41, Florence May Booth 18, Violet Dorothy Booth 16, Daisy Blanche Booth 14, Lilian Rose Booth who was 8, and Edgar Walter Booth who was seven years old.
	It was their son Edgar who was born on 7^th July 1903 who had a son of his own, William Henry Booth who was born on 6^th November 1931, and he was the father of Sue James nee Booth who kindly provided all of the information regarding her family back to Waterworth Collett.
5N18	Charlotte Collett was born in 1826 at Tewkesbury where she was baptised on 21^st May 1826, the daughter of Waterworth and Sarah Collett. She was still living in the Tewkesbury area in 1828 when her baby brother Timothy (below) was born, but sadly he did not survive.
	It may have been this family tragedy that prompted the family to leave Tewkesbury and move to the neighbouring county of Worcestershire where Charlotte’s mother had been born. By the time of the census in 1841 Charlotte and her sister Mary (above) were living at Hanley Castle with their parents.
	Charlotte was incorrectly listed as being sixteen years of age, rather than fifteen which she actually was in June 1841. Ten years later in the census of 1851 her age was more accurately given as twenty-four, when she was working as a laundress while still living with her parents at Hanley Castle near Upton-on-Severn.
	Just over three years after this, Charlotte’s mother died in May 1854, leaving her to look after he aging father. By 1861 thirty-four years old Charlotte was still unmarried and living with her sixty-nine years old father at Hanley Castle.
	There were two major events in Charlotte’s life during the next decade, the first being her marriage to bricklayer John Nott, and the second being the death of her father in May 1870 for which his son-in-law John Nott was the informant.
	Just less than a year later in April 1871, Charlotte and John Nott were still living in Hanley Castle. This revealed that Charlotte was 44, while her husband John was thirteen years old at 57.
	Charlotte’s marriage was short lived, when sometime during the 1870s John Nott died leaving Charlotte alone and a widow by the time of the census in 1881. At that time in her life she was living at Bedford Cottage in Pump Street in Great Malvern. She was described as being formerly a laundress who was aged 54 and from Tewkesbury.
	Living at the same address, and listed separately but on the same census return, was the family of John Allen and his wife Mary Matilda Allen who was the eldest daughter of Charlotte’s sister Mary Ann Banner nee Collett.
	It would appear from the absence of Charlotte Nott in the next census in 1891 that she had died at Great Malvern during the 1880s.
5N19	Timothy Collett was born at Tewkesbury and it was there that he was baptised on 30^th March 1828, the son of Walterworth and Sarah Collett. It would appear from the census in 1841 that Timothy had died some years earlier since he was not listed with the rest of his family which was living at Hanley Castle in Worcestershire by that time.
5N24	John Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 24^th February 1795 where he married Judith Poole on 22^nd June 1815. John’s occupation as lace maker may have been the reason for the family moving between Tewkesbury and Nottingham. An indication of this is given by the birth place of the first, fourth and fifth child being Tewkesbury, with the second and third child being born at St Mary in Nottingham.
	The sixth and last child was not of the marriage of John and Judith and was born at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. She was the issue of a relationship between John Collett and Julia Snape nee Julia Gabbitas.
	In the census return for June 1841 John, with a rounded age of 40, was confirmed as living in the Mansfield area of Nottinghamshire with Julia who was 28, and five of John’s children. They were Mary 15, Eliza 14, Joseph 9, Ellen 7, and baby Harriet who was just one year old. No trace of any member of the family has been found within the census of 1851.
	This is the family line of Kate Birkett of 28 The Spinney, Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire.
	5O12	William Haynes Collett		Baptised on 08.03.1816 at Tewkesbury
	5O13	Mary Ann Collett		Baptised on 08.12.1822 at Nottingham
	5O14	Richard Collett		Baptised on 08.05.1825 at Nottingham
	5O15	Eliza Collett		Born in 1827 at Tewkesbury
	5O16	Joseph Collett		Born in 1831 at Tewkesbury
	5O17	Ellen Collett		Born in 1834 at Tewkesbury
	5O18	Harriet Snape Collett		Born on 20.11.1839 at Mansfield
5N26	William Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 7^th January 1799, the youngest child of John and Jane Collett. The baptism record indicated that his parents were protestant dissenters.
5O1	Henry Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 19^th October 1817, the only known child of Joseph Collett and his wife Hester Beale, although on the baptism record his mother was named as Elizabeth. No further details regarding Henry or his parents are known after that time.
5O3	William Collett was possibly born around 1827 and was baptised at Tewkesbury on 21^st December 1828, the second son of Cornelius and Esther Collett. By 1841 he was living with his parents in Tewkesbury at the age of 15, and was still there ten years later in 1851 when he was 23.
	Three years later William married Charlotte Scott at Tewkesbury on 14^th May 1854; he was 27 and she was 29. The marriage record also confirmed the groom’s father was Cornelius Collett.
	Charlotte was born in 1825 at Tewkesbury and was the daughter of Charles Scott of Painswick, near Gloucester. Judging by the fact that couple’s eldest daughter was born later that same year or very early in the following year, Charlotte may have been with-child on the occasion of their wedding. Over the next few years Charlotte presented her husband with a total of four children, but tragically around the time of the birth of the last child William Collett died.
	So by the time of the census in 1861, Charlotte was a widow and had just four children living with her at a dwelling on the High Street in Tewkesbury. Charlotte Collett, age 34, was earning a living as a seamstress to support her young family, who were recorded as Emma Collett, who was six, Charles Collett, who was five, Eliza Collett, who was three, and Sarah Collett who was one year old. All occupants of the house were confirmed as having been born at Tewkesbury, while the census return also confirmed that the three older children were all attending the local school.
	Ten years later, in 1871, Charlotte Collett was 46 when she was still living in Tewkesbury. By that time her two eldest children had left home, but still living with Charlotte were her daughters Eliza Collett who was 13, and Sarah A Collett who was 11. Following the death of her mother-in-law Esther Collett sometime after 1861, Charlotte took into her home her widowed father-in-law Cornelius Collett. In addition, she also had her own widowed father Charles Scott living with her in 1871.
	It was a similar situation in 1881, except by then all of Charlotte’s children had left the family home. According to that year’s census return Charlotte Collett, age 55, was working as a cord winder, while living with her at 20 Spring Gardens in Tewkesbury was her father Charles Scott who was 83 and also listed as a cord winder, together with her father-in-law Cornelius Collett who was 81, and a stocking weaver.
	Living next door to them, at 18 Springs Gardens in Tewkesbury, was Charlotte’s married son Charles Collett with his family. Also on that occasion Charlotte’s youngest daughter Sarah was 21 and was living and working in Wolverhampton where she was joined by Charlotte a few years later, presumably after the deaths of her two elderly relatives.
	With no corresponding records having been found for her two other daughters Emma and Eliza, it may be assumed that they were both married before 1881.
	As mentioned above, Charlotte left Tewkesbury during the 1880s and in 1891 she was living in Wolverhampton at the age of 65, and by which time her daughter Sarah was married. Her place of birth was confirmed as Tewkesbury, as it was in March 1901 when she was still living in Wolverhampton at 75.
	With no record of Charlotte Collett of Tewkesbury in the census in April 1911, it is highly likely that she died sometime between 1901 and 1911, and probably at Wolverhampton.
	5P1	Emma Collett							Born in 1854 at Tewkesbury
	5P2	Charles Collett							Born in 1855 at Tewkesbury
	5P3	Eliza Collett							Born in 1857 at Tewkesbury
	5P4	Sarah Ann Collett							Born in 1859 at Tewkesbury
5O7	Elizabeth Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1847, where her birth was registered during the second quarter of the year. She was the only child of Richard Collett by his wife Silvia. In 1851 she was living with her parents at Barton Street in Tewkesbury, when she was three years old. Ten years later in 1861 when she was 13, her mother was described as still being married, although it was only her mother, as head of the household, with whom she was living at Barton Street on that occasion. Her father’s absence then, and in the later census returns, would indicate that he was no longer alive.
	By the time of the census in 1871 unmarried Elizabeth Collett, age 23 was still living with her widowed mother, and after a further ten years it was the same situation in 1881, except by then they were living at Woods Court in Tewkesbury, where Elizabeth was still unmarried at 33. As in the previous census returns, Elizabeth was not credited with having an occupation.
	The lack of an acknowledgement that she was able to work may have been due to an inability, such as an illness or other affliction. What is known is that, following the death of her mother during the 1880s, Elizabeth was taken into an institution within the Gloucester Kingsholm registration district, where she was recorded in 1891 as Elizabeth Collett from Tewkesbury, when she was 43. No record of her as Elizabeth Collett has been found after that time.