PART FIVE

The Tewkesbury Line - 1630 to 1960

(including The Worcestershire to Utah Line)

Updated August 2010

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.

Further information has been kindly provided by Clive Long and more recently David Young Thomas (see Ref. 5Q10) of Utah whose great great grandfather was Reuben Collett (Ref.5O8) of Pendock in Worcestershire and Smithfield of Cache County in Utah.

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 updated edition discounts this theory and indicates that 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.

5I1	William Collett was born around 1631 at Tewkesbury where he married Eleanor around 1652. All of their children were born and baptised at Tewkesbury. So far no connection has been made to confirm that William was a close relative of Henry Collett (below)
	5J1	Esther Collett			Baptised on 03.03.1653
	5J2	Richard Collett			Born in 1660
	5J3	Ann Collett			Baptised on 04.02.1665
	5J4	Eleanor Collett			Born in 1668
	5J5	Henry Collett			Born in 1670
	5J6	Sarah Collett			Born in 1672
	5J7	William Collett			Born in 1675
5I2	Henry Collett (Ref. 1H10) was born in 1639 and baptised on 06.11.1643 at Charlton Kings near Cheltenham which is about ten miles from Tewkesbury. He married Elizabeth on 20.03.1669 at Charlton Kings. Elizabeth was considerably younger than Henry having born in 1651 and she died on 17.08.1724 aged 73. Henry died on 29.09.1712 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 and proved on 26^th May 1716 makes no reference to any sons, only his three daughters, all of whom were born and baptised at Charlton Kings.
	However, the family tombstone in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey includes the name of their son Henry Collett who died in 1722 aged 55. This is slightly curious as it would mean that he was 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 Benjamin Collett (Ref. 5J12) and his family, who died on 02.02.1738 aged 63. This equates to a year of birth of 1675, the same year that his sister Sarah Collett (Ref. 5J11) was baptised, but again there is no mention of Benjamin in Henry’s Will. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
	More details on Henry Collett (Ref. 1I3) and his daughters are provided in Part One, which includes another mystery. In Henry’s Will his daughter Sarah (Ref. 5J11) 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. (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 son Benjamin were all born and baptised at Tewkesbury and daughter Eleanor was married at Tewkesbury.
	Henry’s wife Elizabeth, who was born in 1651, died in 1724 aged 73.
	5J8	Henry Collett			Base born in 1667
	5J9	Joyce Collett			Baptised on 29.09.1670
	5J10	Elizabeth Collett			Baptised on 15.02.1672
	5J11	Sarah Collett			Baptised on 13.08.1675
	5J12	Benjamin Collett			Born in 1675
	5J13	Eleanor Collett			Born circa 1681
	5J14	William Collett			Born circa 1683
	5J15	Mary Collett			Born circa 1685
5J1	Esther Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 03.03.1653 where, as ‘Hester’, she married William Young on 09.06.1684.
5J2	Richard Collett was born in 1660 and married Ann Sparks at Tewkesbury on 06.06.1683 where all of their children were born and baptised.
	5K1	Ann Collett			Baptised on 01.04.1684
	5K2	Elizabeth Collett			Baptised on 04.01.1685
	5K3	Mary Collett			Baptised on 15.04.1689
	5K4	Richard Collett			Born in January 1690
	5K5	William Collett			Born in April 1693
	5K6	Susannah Collett			Baptised on 08.12.1695
	5K7	Sarah Collett			Baptised on 27.01.1698
5J4	Eleanor Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1668 and married John Kendrick on 11.08.1689 at Deerhurst which is less than two miles from Tewkesbury. John’s brother Richard Kendrick married Eleanor’s sister Sarah Collett (Ref. 5J6) five years later.
5J5	Henry Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1670 and he married Ann circa 1691. Their son Benjamin was also born and baptised at Tewkesbury.
	5K8	Benjamin Collett			Baptised on 30.05.1692
5J6	Sarah Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1672. She married Richard Kendrick in September 1694, the brother of John Kendrick who married Eleanor Collett (Ref. 5J4).
5J7	William Collett was born at Tewkesbury around 1675 and married either Ann Porter on 14.04.1696 at Ashchurch which is one mile from Tewkesbury or Sara Spilman on 06.06.1696 at Tewkesbury.
	The Tewkesbury baptism of William’s son William records his parents as William and Sara, whereas the later four children are credited to William and Ann. Three of the four were baptised at Ashchurch, while the first John was baptised at Fiddington just south of Ashchurch. More research needs to be carried out in this area to resolve these issues.
	5K9	William Collett			Baptised on 14.09.1696
	5K10	Ann Collett			Baptised on 04.04.1697
	5K11	John Collett			Baptised on 02.03.1699; infant death
	5K12	John Collett			Baptised on 22.12.1701
	5K13	Elizabeth Collett			Baptised on 08.02.1702
5J8	Henry Collett from Charlton Kings was base born in 1667 and married (1) Elizabeth in 1688. It would appear that Elizabeth 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 26.07.1722 aged 55 and was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. (See Headstone Epitaphs) Henry, just like his brother Benjamin (Ref. 5J12) 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
	5K15	Sarah Collett			Born in 1690
	5K16	Benjamin Collett			Baptised on 30.05.1692
5J9	Joyce Collett was baptised at Charlton Kings on 29.09.1670. Judging by the reference in the Will of her father Henry Collett (Ref. 1I3) she never married or at least was not married by 1712 when aged 42 years. Only youngest sister Sarah (Ref. 5J11) was referred to as being married in the 1712 Will.
5J10	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Charlton Kings on 15.02.1672 and just like her sister Joyce was still single in 1712 judging by the reference to her in the Will of her father Henry Collett (Ref. 1I3).
5J11	Sarah Collett was baptised at Charlton Kings on 13.08.1675. She married Edmund Goodrich on 24.04.1708 at the church of St Mary de Lode in Gloucester.
	Sarah died on 09.09.1728 at Tewkesbury and was buried in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey where she was listed as the wife of Edmund Bradbury. Both Sarah and Edmund were named in the Will of her father Henry Collett (Ref. 1I3) as inheriting his land upon the death of Sarah’s mother Elizabeth Collett. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
5J12	Benjamin Collett was born at Charlton Kings in 1675. He married (1) Elizabeth and (2) Jemima Waterworth 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 25.11.1725 aged 50. Within a few months of her death Benjamin, then aged 51, married twenty-five years old Jemima who was born in 1701 and who died on 22.11.1753 aged 52.
	Benjamin and his older brother Henry (Ref. 5J8) were the only members of his father’s family not to be mentioned in the Will of 1712, although there was reference to each of the grandchildren who each received ten shillings.
	Benjamin died on 02.04.1738 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
	5K18	Benjamin Collett			Baptised on 09.10.1728
	5K19	Joseph Collett			Baptised on 16.12.1729
	5K20	Waterworth Collett			Born in September 1731
	5K21	Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1735
5J13	Eleanor Collett was born around 1681 and she married Richard Clark at Tewkesbury on 15.06.1704.
5J14	William Collett was born at Charlton Kings around 1683 and married Ann Elizabeth Lovett on 26.11.1706 at Ashchurch where their son was born and baptised.
	5K22	William Collett			Baptised on 19.04.1708
5J15	Mary Collett was born at Charlton Kings around 1685 and married Samuel Savage on 10.03.1708 at Ashchurch.
5K3	Mary Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 15.04.1689 where she married William Turfoot on 29.01.1713.
5K7	Sarah Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 27.01.1698. She married Fernando Wilks on 19.09.1726 at Kemerton just north of Tewkesbury.
5K9	William Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 14.09.1696 where he married Ann Parker on 27.12.1716 and 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
	5L3	John Collett			Born circa 1730
	5L4	Henry Collett			Baptised on 12.12.1732
	5L5	Elizabeth Collett			Baptised on 28.01.1734
	5L6	Benjamin Collett			Baptised on 03.12.1736 infant death
	5L7	Joseph Collett			Baptised on 28.05.1739 infant death
	5L8	Joseph Collett			Baptised on 03.05.1740
	5L9	Benjamin Collett			Baptised on 29.12.1741
5K14	Henry Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 07.11.1689 and where he married Elizabeth Webb on 20.05.1712 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 29.09.1719.
	5L10	Ann Collett			Baptised on 16.07.1712
	5L11	Henry Collett			Born in 1714
	5L12	Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1715
5K15	Sarah Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1690 where married Thomas Brown on 02.10.1711.
5K17	Henry Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 04.03.1726 and 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 09.05.1763 aged 35 soon after the birth of their last child and Henry passed away on 21.08.1774 aged 47.
	Both were buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
	5L13	Ann Collett			Born in 1751
	5L14	Jemima Collett			Baptised on 13.04.1752
	5L15	Bridget Collett			Baptised on 25.07.1753 infant death
	5L16	Bridget Collett			Baptised on 02.09.1754
	5L17	Henry Collett			Baptised on 16.10.1754
	5L18	John Waterworth Collett			Baptised on 21.08.1757
	5L19	Frances Collett			Baptised on 13.02.1760
	5L20	Benjamin Collett			Born in 1763
5K18	Benjamin Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 09.10.1728. He was a surgeon but died aged 28 on 03.05.1757 and 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 16.12.1729 where he married Elizabeth Martin on 05.02.1752 and where all of their children were born and baptised.
	Joseph died on 04.06.1771 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
	5L22	John Collett			Baptised on 30.12.1756
	5L23	John Collett			Born in December 1757
	5L24	Benjamin Collett			Baptised on 23.03.1759
	5L25	Elizabeth Collett			Baptised on 22.02.1761
	5L26	Susannah Collett			Baptised on 31.05.1762
5K20	Waterworth Collett was born at Tewkesbury in September 1731. He was a gentleman and Attorney at Law. He died on 18.11.1761 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 died there on 27.03.1740 aged 4. 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 19.04.1708. He married Elizabeth Johnson at Tewkesbury on 19.08.1731 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
	5L28	Ann Collett			Baptised on 17.05.1735
	5L29	Richard Collett			Baptised on 13.08.1737
	5L30	Thomas Collett			Baptised on 24.12.1738
	5L31	William Collett			Baptised on 19.04.1740
	5L32	Samuel Collett			Baptised on 11.03.1743
	5L33	Elizabeth Collett			Baptised on 14.07.1745
	5L34	Samuel Collett			Baptised on 28.12.1747
5L2	William Collett was born at Tewkesbury around 1725 where he married Rebecca Godsell on 08.07.1746. 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.
	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 25.11.1812. 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 married Elizabeth Stephens on 20.12.1751.
5L4	Henry Collett was baptised Tewkesbury on 12.12.1732 where he married Ann Price on 01.07.1760 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 22.10.1811 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
	5M2	Henry Collett			Baptised on 05.12.1763
	5M3	John Collett			Baptised on 08.02.1768
	5M4	Nancy Collett			Baptised on 04.06.1770
	5M5	Sarah Collett			Baptised on 08.06.1772
	5M6	Catherine Smith Collett			Baptised on 31.07.1774
5L5	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 28.01.1734 and it was there on 29.05.1763 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 and John died in 1844.
	This is the family line of Jeni Rice of Australia
5L8	Joseph Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 03.05.1740 where he married Jane Lysom on 27.10.1760 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
	5M9	Joseph Collett			Baptised on 22.12.1764; infant death
	5M10	Joseph Collett			Born on 29.12.1765
	5M11	William Collett			Baptised on 13.03.1768
5L11	Henry Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1714. He married Theodosia Williams on 02.11.1734 at Tewkesbury and was baptised there as an adult on 19.05.1735 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
	5M13	Jane Collett			Baptised on 07.07.1737
	5M14	Mary Collett			Baptised on 13.09.1739
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 06.11.1753. It needs to be determined whether she married as a spinster or a widow, so further work is required to resolve this matter as she could have also been Mrs Elizabeth Collett the widow of John Collett above.
5L13	Ann Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1751 and married William Cliffe in 1771. She died on 16.10.1777 aged 26. She was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
	5M15	Anna Cliffe			Born in 1771
5L14	Jemima Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 13.04.1752. She never married and died on 10.04.1783 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 25.07.1753 and died on 30.08.1754 aged 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 16.10.1754. 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. This took place at Tewkesbury on 01.01.1778. 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.
	Within the church records at Tewkesbury are references to a Henry Collett who was a witness at certain events, which might indicate his interest in the church and that he sometime worked there even when he was at Oxford.
	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 died on 9^th July 1803 aged 48 and was buried in St Catherine’s Chapel in the south side of the Ambulatory. His tombstone, unlike other members of the Collett family, is the only one with the epitaph written in Latin.
	5M16	Elizabeth Collett			Baptised on 30.12.1778; infant death
	5M17	Elizabeth Collett			Born in December 1779
	5M18	Henry Collett			Baptised on 20.04.1781
	5M19	Samuel Collett			Baptised on 15.02.1784
	5M20	William Collett			Baptised on 26.03.1786
	5M21	Rebecca Collett			Born in January 1789
	5M22	Waterworth Henry Collett			Baptised on 29.01.1792
	5M23	James Collett			Baptised on 04.06.1797
5L18	John Waterworth Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 21.08.1757. He was a gentleman and member of Brasenose College in Oxford in 1774. He died on 13.07.1778 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 13.02.1760 and died on 22.12.1786 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 06.04.1763 and died three days later on 09.04.1763. 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 04.11.1753 and died on 23.06.1760 aged 6. 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 30.12.1756. 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 23.03.1759 and died on 31.10.1773 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 31.05.1762 and her father Joseph died in June 1771 when she was nine years old. Just over twelve years later she married George Woolley at Tewkesbury by licence on 11.12.1783.
	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. It is therefore possible that he was William Collett (Ref. 5L2) and the cousin of Susannah.
5L27	Henry Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 16.08.1733 and he married Hannah around 1762. All of the couple’s children were born and baptised at Tewkesbury.
	5M24	William Collett			Baptised on 09.10.1763
	5M25	Hannah Collett			Baptised on 19.03.1765
	5M26	Ann Collett			Baptised on 25.08.1767
	5M27	Mary Collett			Baptised on 29.06.1769
	5M28	John Collett			Baptised on 16.06.1771
	5M29	Charlotte Collett			Baptised on 03.07.1774
5L31	William Collett was baptised at Upper Swell on 19.04.1740. He married Ann Johnson on 29.03.1761 at Alderton midway between Upper Swell and Tewkesbury. William’s mother was Elizabeth Johnson (Ref. 5K22) 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 11.03.1743, the son of William Collett and Elizabeth Johnson. Sadly he only survived for a short while, when he died at Upper Swell on 15.06.1744.
5L34	Samuel Collett was baptised at Upper Swell on 28.12.1747, the second son of William Collett and Elizabeth Johnson to bear the name Samuel following the death of his brother three years earlier.
	It was previously listed here that Samuel Collett married Anne Clifford at Upper Swell on 09.06.1767. 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 08.08.1732.
	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, the details of which are shown in the Appendix Two at the end of this file.
	If this proves to be correct, then it is very likely that Samuel Collett, who was baptised at Upper Swell and the son of William Collett and Elizabeth Johnson, married Anne Carter at Adlestrop near Stow-on-the-Wold on 09.04.1768.
5M5	Sarah Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 08.06.1772. She was twice married at Tewkesbury within five years of each other. In the first occasion she married (1) Joseph Morris on 15.08.1802. 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 14.04.1807. 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 09.03.1763. 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 10.12.1769.
	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 29.12.1765 and he married Margaret Weaver on 13.10.1796 at St Mary de Lode Church in Gloucester. Four of their five children were baptised at Tewkesbury, with the exception being second son Cornelius who was baptised at St Michael’s Church in Gloucester.
	5N1	Joseph Collett			Born in 1797
	5N2	Cornelius Collett			Baptised on 24.03.1799
	5N3	Frederick Collett			Baptised on 20.06.1802
	5N4	Jane Collett			Baptised on 10.01.1806
	5N5	Eliza Collett			Baptised on 02.04.1815
5M11	William Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 13.03.1768. He married Mary Crosswell on 05.03.1797 at St Mary de Lode Church in Gloucester, although all four of their children were baptised at Tewkesbury.
	5N6	William Collett			Baptised on 01.04.1798
	5N7	John Crosswell Collett			Baptised on 01.06.1800
	5N8	James Collett			Born in 1801
	5N9	Joseph Collett			Baptised on 27.02.1803
	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 never married and died in 1803 aged 33. She was buried at Dawlish in Devon although there is an epitaph to her in St Catherine’s Chapel of Tewkesbury Abbey. (See Headstone Epitaphs)
5M18	Henry Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 20.04.1781. 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.
	5N10	Henry Collett			Born on 24.11.1803
	5N11	George Collett			Born on 09.02.1811
5M19	Samuel Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 15.02.1784. And it was there that he married Mary Shepherd on 01.07.1804. 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.
	5N12	Mary Ann Collett			Baptised on 21.04.1805
	5N13	William Collett			Baptised on 19.10.1806
	5N14	Thomas Shepherd Collett			Baptised on 03.12.1807
	5N15	Harriett Collett			Baptised on 06.12.1812
5M20	William Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 26.03.1786. He married Elizabeth Bromage on 07.10.1805 at Tirley which lies about five miles from Tewkesbury. Elizabeth was the daughter of John Bromage and Elizabeth Jackman and was baptised on 01.12.1770 at Eldersfield on the border between Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.
	Both of the couple’s first two daughters’ baptisms were recorded at Tirley, the first under the names of William and Betty Collett and the second with William and Elizabeth.
	It would appear that the family then moved to Corse just south of Eldersfield where their son was baptised, before settling in Pendock near Eldersfield where their later two daughters were baptised and born.
	Elizabeth died on 24.05.1841 at Frogmarsh in Gloucester. After the death of his wife William moved to Cheltenham where he died on 07.03.1864.
	Whilst it is confirmed that these are the children of Elizabeth Bromage and William Collett there is a slight doubt that the William was the one baptised at Tewkesbury on 26^th March 1786. Instead it is thought he may have been the William Collett who was born at Charlton Abbots near Cheltenham on 31.01.1780.
	If proved so, then his father was Thomas Collett who was born at Charlton Abbots in October 1752 and who died at Charleston near Weymouth, and before him was William Collett born at Lower Slaughter in 1725 whose father in turn was Richard Collett of which nothing is known.
	5N16	Elizabeth Collett			Baptised on 22.12.1805; infant death
	5N17	Elizabeth Collett			Baptised on 10.12.1806
	5N18	Daniel Collett			Baptised on 12.12.1808
	5N19	Ann Collett			Baptised on 12.01.1812
	5N20	Amy Collett			Born in 1815
5M22	Waterworth Henry Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1791 where he was baptised on 29.01.1792, 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 11.08.1824.
	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 12.04.1795. 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 was his wife Sally Collett who was 56 and a laundress from Ripple, 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 20.05.1854. 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. 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 03.05.1870 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.
	5N21	Mary Ann Collett			Born in 1824
	5N22	Charlotte Collett			Baptised on 21.05.1826
	5N23	Timothy Collett			Baptised on 30.03.1828
5M26	Ann Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 25.08.1767 where she married William Pitman on 04.10.1795.
5M28	John Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 16.06.1771. 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.
	5N24	Jane Collett			Baptised on 16.08.1790
	5N25	Anne Collett			Baptised on 24.01.1792
	5N26	John Collett			Baptised on 24.02.1795
	5N27	William Collett			Baptised on 04.06.1797; infant death
	5N28	William Collett			Baptised on 07.01.1799
5N1	Joseph Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1797 where he married Hester Beale on 02.02.1817. However, the Tewkesbury baptism record for their son Henry records his mother’s name as Elizabeth.
	Judging by the outcome of the two censuses of 1841 and 1851, Joseph Collett had died. In the first Elizabeth Collett had a rounded age of 35, and ten years later she was 49.
	By the time of the census in 1861 the widow Elizabeth Collett was living with in Tewkesbury with her daughter-in-law and grandchild following the death of her son Henry. Elizabeth Collett was recorded as being sixty years old.
	5O1	Henry Collett			Baptised on 19.10.1817
5N2	Cornelius Collett was baptised at St Michael’s Church in Gloucester on 24.03.1799, the son of Joseph and Margaret Collett. He married (1) Hester Wither Bale on 31.05.1822 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 13.05.1833 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 was fifteen. 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 was fifty-one and his wife Esther was fifty-three. Also by that time their son was listed as being twenty-three years old.
	5O2	Joseph Collett			Baptised on 16.12.1824
	5O3	William Collett			Baptised on 21.12.1828
5N8	James Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1801 and married in the 1820s.
	5O4	Henry Vine Collett		Born in 1832
5N10	Henry Collett was born at Finsbury on 24.11.1803 and was baptised there at St Luke’s Church in Old Street on 05.03.1804.
5N11	George Collett was born at Finsbury on 09.02.1811 and was baptised there at St Luke’s Church in Old Street on 09.06.1811.
5N12	Mary Ann Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 21.04.1805 where she married Charles Heaven on 14.09.1846.
5N13	William Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 19.10.1806. Tragically he died in 1818 at the age of 11 while living with his family at Church Street in Tewkesbury. William was buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s Church in Tewkesbury on 15.02.1818.
	Shortly after his death his family is believed to have emigrated to South Africa.
5N17	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Tirley near Tewkesbury on 10.12.1806 and was named after her late sister who had died infancy. She later married Robert Buck at Redmarley D’Abitot near Ledbury in Worcestershire on 02.04.1825. Elizabeth died on 10.10.1864.
5N18	Daniel Collett was baptised at Corse on 12.12.1808 and at sometime in his life he lived at Tirley where his older sister (above) was born. But it was at Corse that he married (1) Esther Jones on 14.04.1833. Esther was born at Bullingham in Herefordshire on 10.10.1814 and was baptised at St Martin’s Church in Bullingham in Hereford.
	Shortly after they were married Daniel and Esther were living at Pendock in Worcestershire where their first and fourth children were born. In between times the family was living at Wellington in Hereford and Beckerton in Worcestershire where the couple’s second and third children were born.
	Sometime after the birth of their fourth child the family sailed to America, and it was there at Nauvoo in Hancock County in Illinois that their next two children were born, although the first of these, their daughter Fanny, also died there not long after she was born.
	Their next two children were born in the state of Iowa but within a couple of years the family eventually settled in Utah. Their first Utah home was at Mill Creek near Salt Lake City where daughter Julia was born and then shortly after they moved to Lehi where their last two children were born.
	Daniel and Esther were both baptised into the Church of Latter Day Saints on 06.04.1840 and this was followed six years later by a marriage blessing on 02.02.1846.
	Esther was aged forty-three at the time of her death on 04.06.1857 and she was buried two days later at Lehi in Utah. Later that same year Daniel married (2) Mary Foulks who was born at Totternhoe in Bedfordshire England on 09.07.1826 and with whom he had a daughter born the following year.
	When Mary died at Plain City in Weber County in Utah on 31.08.1859 (and buried at Smithfield) Daniel married (3) Elizabeth Gordon on 23.10.1859. Elizabeth was born on 03.05.1823 at Bridge of Weir in Renfrewshire in Scotland and she married Daniel at Plain City and the following year she gave birth to a son at Smithfield in Cache County in Utah.
	While still married to Elizabeth (who later died on 17.10.1869) Daniel then aged 56 married (4) thirty-four years old Elizabeth Ward at Salt Lake City on 06.02.1864. Elizabeth was born at Preston in Lancashire England on 15.11.1830 and this marriage produced another two sons for Daniel, both of them being born at Smithfield. Elizabeth died at Raymond in Alberta Canada on 25.12.1910, perhaps suggesting that she had separated from her husband Daniel some years earlier.
	A fifth and final marriage took place on 04.10.1880 at Smithfield, when Daniel married (5) Martha Drury Noble who was born at Wyberton in Lincolnshire England around 1811. And it was at Smithfield that Martha died eight years later in 1888.
	Daniel Collett survived for a further six years after the death of Martha when he too died at Smithfield on 08.06.1894, where he was buried two days later.
	5O5	Sylvester Collett				Born on 31.12.1833
	5O6	Sylvanus Collett				Born on 03.05.1835
	5O7	Rhoda Sylvia Collett				Born on 20.04.1837
	5O8	Reuben Collett				Born on 19.07.1839
	5O9	Fanny Marie Collett				Born on 22.11.1841
	5O10	Daniel Collett				Born on 22.11.1843
	5O11	Mary Ann Collett				Born on 03.09.1846
	5O12	Elizabeth Matilda Collett				Born on 27.02.1849
	5O13	Julia Ann Collett				Born on 27.09.1851
	5O14	Charles Albert Capper Collett				Born on 28.12.1853
	5O15	James Jones Collett				Born on 24.04.1856
	5O16	Eliza Ann Collett				Born on 03.08.1858
	5O17	William Gordon Collett				Born on 11.11.1860
	5O18	Thomas Ward Collett				Born on 08.05.1865
	5O19	Daniel Ward Collett				Born on 04.07.1866
5N19	Ann Collett was baptised at Pendock on 12.01.1812 and later travelled to America with her brother Daniel (above).
5N20	Amy Collett was born at Pendock in 1815 but sadly only survived for one year.
5N21	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 this 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 28.08.1843 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 27.10.1819. 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 14.06.1874, 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 23.07.1865 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 25.06.1870 and she married William Henry Hooper Booth on 01.12.1889 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 Hopper 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 07.07.1903 who had a son of his own, William Henry Booth who was born on 06.11.1931, and he was the father of Sue James nee Booth who kindly provided all of the information regarding her family back to Waterworth Collett.
5N22	Charlotte Collett was born in 1826 at Tewkesbury where she was baptised on 21.05.1826, 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 died at Great Malvern during the 1880s.
5N23	Timothy Collett was born at Tewkesbury and it was there that he was baptised on 30.03.1828, 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.
5N26	John Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 24.02.1795 where he married Judith Poole on 22.06.1815. 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. These were Mary 15, Eliza 14, Joseph 9, Ellen 7, and baby Harriet who was just one year old.
	This is the family line of Kate Birkett of 28 The Spinney, Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire.
	5O20	William Haynes Collett	Baptised on 08.03.1816 at Tewkesbury
	5O21	Mary Ann Collett	Baptised on 08.12.1822 at Nottingham
	5O22	Richard Collett	Baptised on 08.05.1825
	5O23	Eliza Collett	Born in 1827 at Tewkesbury
	5O24	Joseph Collett	Born in 1831
	5O25	Ellen Collett	Born in 1834 at Tewkesbury
	5O26	Harriet Snape Collett	Born on 20.11.1839 at Mansfield
5N28	William Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 07.01.1799. The baptism record indicating that his parents were protestant dissenters.
5O1	Henry Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 19.10.1817. He married Sylvia of Tewkesbury with whom he had daughter. Sadly just around the time of the birth or shortly after, Henry died
	By the time of the census in 1881, Sylvia was sixty-three and at 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 who was thirty-three and also born in Tewkesbury like her mother.
	5P1	Elizabeth Collett				Born in 1847 at Tewkesbury
5O3	William Collett was possibly born around 1827 and was baptised at Tewkesbury on 21.12.1828, the second son of Cornelius and Esther Collett. By 1841 he was living with his parents in Tewkesbury at the age of fifteen, and was still there ten years later in 1851 when he was twenty-three.
	Three years later William married Charlotte Scott at Tewkesbury on 14.05.1854, he was 27 and she was 29. The marriage record also confirmed the groom’s father as 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.
	However, by the time of that census, Charlotte had given birth to four children and these were listed with her at Tewkesbury in 1861 but, curiously there was no mention of her husband William. Charlotte was 34, and her four children were Emma who was 6, Charles who was 5, Eliza who was 3, and one year old Sarah. So with no record of William then or at any time thereafter, it may be safe to assume that he had died after the birth of his last child and April 1861.
	In 1871 the widow 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 thirteen, and Sarah A Collett who was eleven.
	By the time of the census of 1881, all of Charlotte’s children had gone. The census once again confirmed she was a widow, and that she was working as a cord winder at the age of fifty-five. Living with her at 20 Spring Gardens in Tewkesbury was her widower father Charles Scott who was 83 and also listed as a cord winder, together with her widowed 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 this 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 sixty-five, 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 seventy-five.
	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.
	5P2	Emma Collett				Born in 1854 at Tewkesbury
	5P3	Charles Collett				Born in 1855
	5P4	Eliza Collett				Born in 1857 at Tewkesbury
	5P5	Sarah Ann Collett				Born in 1859
5O5	Sylvester Collett was born at Pendock in Worcestershire on 31.12.1833 and tragically died that same day.
5O6	Sylvanus Collett was born at Wellington in Herefordshire on 03.05.1835. When he was around five years old his family emigrated to America and it was there at Lehi in Utah that he married (1) Lydia Karren on 19.02.1853. Lydia was born at Liverpool on 29.12.1838.
	The marriage produced five children for the couple, the first two having been born at Lehi, the next two at Smithfield and the last at Logan in Cache County in Utah. Sadly Lydia died at Logan on 15.11.1865 just one month after the birth of their last child.
	It would appear that Sylvanus married (2) Phoebe Lodina Merrill in 1864 and prior to the death of his first wife. This second marriage for Sylvanus produced a further four children, the first born at Logan and the others at Smithfield.
	Phoebe Lodina Merrill was born at Elbe in Genesee County in New York state on 15.08.1832. Whether Phoebe died around the time of the birth of her fourth children is not known, but it is established that on 02.12.1872 Sylvanus married (3) Elizabeth Frances Praetor.
	It is also known that Sylvanus took three further wives although the date of each of the marriages is not known. These were (4) Sarah Ellen Gee, (5) Jane Lawrence, and (6) Phoebe Jackson.
	5P6	Sylvanus Collett				Born on 23.01.1856
	5P7	Esther Ann Collett				Born on 03.02.1858
	5P8	Lydia Isabel Collett				Born on 25.04.1861
	5P9	Sylvester Collett				Born on 23.07.1863
	5P10	Thomas Karren Collett				Born on 19.10.1865
	5P11	Samuel Merrill Collett				Born on 16.12.1865 at Logan
	5P12	Daniel Francello Collett				Born on 20.07.1867 at Smithfield