PART FIVE

 

The Tewkesbury Line - 1630 to 1960

(including The Worcestershire to Utah Line)

 

 

This is the second section of the fifth part of the Collett family

Updated February 2009

 

 

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 8th 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. 5Q4) 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. 1I3) 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 (Ref. 1I3)

 

 

 

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. 1I3) 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 14th January 1712 and proved on 26th 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; infant death

 

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 25th 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 27th 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 19th 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 15th 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 26th September 1775 at the marriage of Walter Powell of Bourton on the Hill and Hannah Hammond of Tewkesbury.  The next was on 9th April 1793 for the marriage of the Reverend Robert Knight and Harriet Mercy Humphreys.

 

 

 

Henry died on 9th 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 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 8th 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.

 

 

 

 

5L34

Samuel Collett was baptised at Upper Swell on 28.12.1747 where he married Ann Clifford on 09.06.1767.

 

 

 

 

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 26th 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 Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1792 and he married Sarah around 1824.  Both of their children were born and baptised at Tewkesbury.

 

 

 

5N21

Charlotte Collett

Baptised on 21.05.1826

 

5N22

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.

 

 

 

5N23

Jane Collett

Baptised on 16.08.1790

 

5N24

Anne Collett

Baptised on 24.01.1792

 

5N25

John Collett

Baptised on 24.02.1795

 

5N26

William Collett

Baptised on 04.06.1797; infant death

 

5N27

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.

 

 

 

5O1

Henry Collett

Baptised on 19.10.1817

 

 

 

 

5N2

Cornelius Collett was baptised at St Michael’s Church in Gloucester on 24.03.1799.  He married (1) Hester Wither Bale on 31.05.1822 at Tewkesbury.  It would appear that Hester died either in the late 1820s or early 1830s since Cornelius married (2) Amelia Harrison on 13.05.1833 at Churcham just to the west of Gloucester.

 

 

 

Both of the listed sons were born and baptised at Tewkesbury and were from the first marriage.  The baptism records state the mother’s name as Hester and Esther respectively.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

5N22

Timothy Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 30.03.1828.  There is no record to show that Timothy was living in the UK by 1881 which may indicate that he had died or left the country.

 

 

 

 

5N25

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 and 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.

 

 

 

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

Ellen Collett

Born in 1834 at Tewkesbury

 

5O25

Harriet Snape Collett

Born on 20.11.1839 at Mansfield

 

 

 

 

5N27

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 who, in the 1881 Census, was aged 63 and a widow.  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 aged 33 and also born in Tewkesbury.

 

 

 

5P1

Elizabeth Collett

Born in 1847 at Tewkesbury

 

 

 

 

5O3

William Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 21.12.1828 where he married Charlotte Scott on 14.05.1854.  Charlotte was born in 1825 at Tewkesbury and was the daughter of Charles Scott of Painswick near Gloucester.

 

 

 

By the time of the 1881 Census Charlotte was a widow aged 55 and a cord winder.  Living with her at 20 Spring Gardens in Tewkesbury was her widower father Charles Scott aged 83 also a cord winder, and her father-in-law Cornelius Collett aged 81 a stocking weaver and also a widower.

 

 

 

Living next door to them at 18 Springs Gardens was their son Charles and his family.

 

 

 

5P2

Charles Collett

Born in 1847

 

 

 

 

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 other 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.

 

 

 

5P3

Sylvanus Collett

Born on 23.01.1856

 

5P4

Esther Ann Collett

Born on 03.02.1858

 

5P5

Lydia Isabel Collett

Born on 25.04.1861

 

5P6

Sylvester Collett

Born on 23.07.1863

 

5P7

Thomas Karren Collett

Born on 19.10.1865

 

5P8

Samuel Merrill Collett

Born on 16.12.1865 at Logan

 

5P9

Daniel Francello Collett

Born on 20.07.1867 at Smithfield

 

5P10

Marion Merrill Collett

Born on 21.04.1870 at Smithfield

 

5P11

Mary Merrill Collett

Born on 21.04.1870 at Smithfield

 

 

 

 

5O7

Rhoda Sylvia Collett was born at Beckerton in Worcestershire on 20.04.1837 and emigrated to America with her family in 1840. 

 

 

 

It would appear that Rhoda was a child bride when, at the age of twelve years and one month, she married (1) John Sunderland Eldredge on 24.05.1849.  John was aged 28 at that time having been born at Sennett in Cayuga County in New York on 30.04.1821.  However, their first child was not born until she was seventeen and half years of age.  That event may have taken place at American Fork in Utah where the last two of their four children were born.

 

 

 

Their children were Ira Eldredge born on 03.10.1854, Esther Ann Eldredge born 03.05.1860, Daniel Eldredge born 01.03.1862, and Horace Eldredge who was born on 05.02.1865.

 

 

 

Over eight years after the birth of her last child, and possibly following the death of her first husband, Rhoda married (2) Philemon Christopher Merrill on 09.10.1873 at Salt Lake City.  Philemon was born at Byron in Geness County in New York on 12.11.1820 and was the older brother of Phoebe Lodina Merrill who married Rhoda’s brother Sylvanus Collett (above).

 

 

 

This second marriage for Rhoda produced another son who was born at Bennington in Bear Lake County and who curiously carried the Collett surname.  Rhoda died on 28.11.1929 at St David in Cochise County in Arizona.

 

 

 

5P12

Adrian Collett

Born on 03.11.1876

 

 

 

 

5O8

Reuben Collett was born at Pendock in Worcestershire on 19.07.1839.  He travelled to America with his parents when he was around one year old and was baptised there when he was eleven years old on 01.05.1850.

 

 

 

Fifteen years later Reuben married Elthurah Roseltha Merrill on 17.01.1861.  Elthurah was born at Nauvoo, Hancock County in Illinois on 13.09.1842 and was baptised on 25.12.1853.

 

 

 

Over the next twenty-seven years Elthurah presented Reuben with twelve children, the first six of which were born at Smithfield in Cache County in Utah.  The family then seem to have moved to Idaho where their next child was born before returning Utah and Escalante where the following child was born.

 

 

 

Four years later the family was living in Arizona and it was at Leti in Maricopa County that the next three children were born.

 

 

 

Around 1887 Reuben and Elthurah returned once more to Utah and their last child was born at Vernal in Uintah County.

 

 

 

Elthurah died on 13.07.1915 at Smithfield in Cache County in Utah where she was buried two days later.  It was also at Smithfield that Reuben died on 21.01.1920 and where he was buried on 25.01.1920 and it was also there that his father had died twenty-six years earlier.

 

 

 

5P13

Phoebe Theresa Collett

Born on 24.07.1862

 

5P14

Reuben Samuel Collett

Born on 26.05.1864

 

5P15

Sylvester Daniel Collett (twin)

Born on 15.12.1866

 

5P16

Sylvanus Collett           (twin)

Born on 15.12.1866

 

5P17

Julia Ann Collett

Born on 20.02.1869

 

5P18

Adelbert Teancum Collett

Born on 03.11.1872

 

5P19

Charles Merrill Collett

Born on 06.06.1875

 

5P20

Princetta Collett

Born on 11.01.1878

 

5P21

Orrin Collett

Born on 16.07.1882

 

5P22

Roseltha M Collett

Born on 29.04.1884

 

5P23

Clarence James Collett

Born on 05.05.1886

 

5P24

George Collett

Born on 15.09.1888

 

 

 

 

5O9

Fanny (Fannie) Marie Collett was born at Nauvoo in Hancock County in Illinois on 22.11.1841 but died shortly after either in late 1841 or early 1842.

 

 

 

 

5O10

Daniel Collett was born at Nauvoo in Hancock County on 22.11.1843 but died there within the next few months.

 

 

 

 

5O11

Mary Ann Collett was born at Sugar Creek in County Lee in Iowa on 03.09.1846 and was baptised as an adult on 26.05.1878.  She had not reached her eighteenth birthday when she married (1) William Wamsley (or Walmsley) on 01.05.1864 at Vernal.  William was thirteen years old than Mary Ann having been born at Preston in Lancashire in England on 13.04.1834.

 

 

 

The marriage of Mary Ann and William resulted in the birth of eleven children and the many different places of birth suggested that they were a travelling family.  Esther Ann was the first born on 04.09.1865 at Bear Lake, then came Lydia Theresa at Bloomington on 03.06.1867, and the next three were born at Smithfield.  These were Marinda born 30.01.1870, Francis born 11.04.1872, and William Thomas who was born on 06.04.1873.

 

 

 

During the next couple of years the family returned to Bloomington where the next three were born, Jane Vilate on 14.10.1876, Daniel Heber on 14.02.1878, and Albert who was born on 08.04.1880.  The last three children, Myrtle born 23.06.1882, Maude 20.08.1884, and Mary Eliza who was born on 02.12.1887 were born at Preston, St David Cochise, and Vernal respectively.

 

 

 

Sometime during her life, possibly following the death of her husband, Mary Ann married for a second time when she wed (2) Ralph Merrill who was very likely related to Phoebe and Philemon Merrill (above) who also married members of the Collett family. 

 

 

 

It is even possible that Ralph Merrill was in fact Ralph Teancum Merrill who earlier had married Mary Ann’s sister Elizabeth Matilda Collett (below).  What is known is that Mary Ann died at Price in Carbon County in Utah on 15.11.1929 and was buried at Maeser Fairview Cemetery in Vernal.

 

 

 

 

5O12

Elizabeth Matilda Collett was born at Council Bluffs in Pottawattamie County in Iowa on 27.02.1849.  She was twenty years old when she married Ralph Teancum Merrill at Salt Lake City on 24.05.1869.  Ralph was also born at Council Bluffs on 13.06.1849.

 

 

 

The marriage produce five children for Elizabeth and Ralph and all of them were born at Smithfield.  These were Nora Matilda Merrill born 23.04.1870, Ralph Teancum Merrill born 22.06.1872, Lydia Merrill born 27.12.1875, Julia Merrill born 29.12.1877, and Alice Olive Merrill who was born on 31.12.1882.

 

 

 

Although Elizabeth lived to a grand age, it is possible that Ralph later married Elizabeth’s older sister Mary Ann (above) following the likely death of her husband.Elizabeth was living at Smithfield in Cache County at the age of 95 when she died on 30.05.1944 and was buried there two days later.

 

 

 

 

5O13

Julia Ann Collett was born at Millcreek in Salt Lake on 27.09.1851 and was baptised in June 1862.  Ten years later she married James Cantwell at Salt Lake City on 15.01.1872 with whom she had nine children, all of which were born at Smithfield.

 

 

 

James was from England, having been born in Liverpool on 28.02.1843 and his and Julia’s children were Daniel James born 12.10.1872, William Hamer born 17.03.1874, Elthura born 01.01.1875, Francis Reuben born 06.12.1878, Stephen born 21.01.1882, Julia born 03.02.1885, Leonora born 24.08.1886, Esther born 20.08.1888, and Milo who was born on 15.07.1890.

 

 

 

Like her sister Elizabeth (above) Julia was also living at Smithfield when she died on 21.04.1934.

 

 

 

 

5O14

Charles Albert Capper Collett was born at Lehi in Utah on 28.12.1853.  When nearly twenty-three years of age he married Hannah Ann Merrill at Salt Lake City on 28.10.1876.  Hannah was born at Farmington in Davis County in Utah on 24.01.1860 and was another member of the united Collett and Merrill families – see earlier references above.

 

 

 

Hannah presented Charles with eleven children during the first twenty-seven years of their life together, and all of them were born at various locations across Utah and Iowa again suggesting a wandering life-style.  Sometime around the turn of the century Charles and Hannah left Utah and moved to Canada, and it was there at Magrath in Alberta that their last child was born.

 

 

 

And at the time of his death Charles was still living in Canada, and it was at Taber in Alberta that he died on 17.12.1922 and where he was buried three days after.

 

 

 

5P25

Mary Jane Collett

Born on 12.09.1877 at Smithfield

 

5P26

Melissa Collett

Born on 24.10.1879 at Smithfield

 

5P27

Charles Capper Collett

Born on 06.06.1882 at Bennington

 

5P28

Maude Collett

Born on 27.11.1884 at Bennington

 

5P29

Philemon Merrill Collett

Born on 03.05.1886 at Bennington

 

5P30

Lenora Collett

Born on 08.10.1889 at Bennington

 

5P31

Harriet Amelia Collett

Born on 16.03.1892 at Smithfield

 

5P32

David Reuben Collett

Born on 08.10.1894 at Meadowville

 

5P33

Ralph Demar Collett

Born on 10.04.1897 at Meadowville

 

5P34

Lola Collett

Date of birth unknown

 

5P35

Morgan Collett

Born on 23.06.1904 at Magrath

 

 

 

 

5O15

James Jones Collett was born at Lehi on 24.04.1856.  He later married (1) Mariett Tidwell on 28.12.1877, the same day that his younger sister Eliza (below) was also married. 

 

 

 

Mariett was born at Ogden in Weber, Utah on 23.08.1858 and was later baptised on 16.05.1867.  The couple’s first four children were born while James and Mariett were living at Smithfield in Cache County, while their last child Julia was born after the family had moved to Bennington in Bear Park County in Idaho. 

 

 

 

After nearly ten years of married life together Mariett died at Smithfield on 25.02.1887 and it was there that she was buried.

 

 

 

Nine years after the death of his wife James married (2) Jane Wardrop on 25.07.1896 at Bennington and their first child born at Bennington during the following year was named after his first wife.  Jane was born at Salt Lake City on 07.04.1859 and was baptised there on 15.04.1859.

 

 

 

Of James’ and Jane’s two other children, the second of these was born at Logan in Cache County whereas it has not been determined yet where daughter Alice was born or when.

 

 

 

James and Jane appear to have moved to Canada, like his brother Charles (above), once their children had grown up.  And it was at Raymond in Alberta that James died on 12.05.1924 and where he was buried four days later.

 

 

 

Jane survived for another twenty-seven years and also died at Raymond on 06.06.1951 where she was buried with her husband.

 

 

 

5P36

James Tidwell Collett

Born on 30.09.1878

 

5P37

Sadie Sophronia Collett

Born on 15.04.1880

 

5P38

Elmer T Collett  twin

Born on 04.11.1882 at Smithfield

 

5P39

Elsie Collett                 twin

Born on 04.11.1882

 

5P40

Julia Collett

Born on 02.10.1884

 

5P41

Marriette Collett

Born on 22.04.1897

 

5P42

Alice Blanche Collett

Date of birth unknown

 

5P43

Ralph W Collett

Born on 21.05.1902

 

 

 

 

5O16

Eliza Ann Collett was born at Lehi in Utah on 03.09.1858 and was baptised on 29.12.1867 was the only child of Daniel Collett and his second wife Mary Foulks.  Ten years after she was baptised Eliza married Robert John Jones at Smithfield on 17.12.1877 with whom she had nine children.

 

 

 

Robert was born at Kaysville in Davis County in Utah on 31.07.1854.  Their first six children were both while the couple were living at Smithfield but around 1888 the family moved to Dayton in Franklin County in Idaho where the last three children were born.

 

 

 

And they were Mary Ann born 07.09.1878, Charles born 22.08.1880, Robert Roy born 25.11.1881, Sylvester born 20.09.1883, Daniel Reuben born 29.01.1886, Lenora Lillian born 04.11.1887, George Leslie born 10.11.1889, Delila Jane born 06.02.1892, and Vessa Maud who was born on 01.12.1900.

 

 

 

Eliza died at American Falls in Power County in Idaho on 11.06.1929 but was buried at Dayton in Franklin County on 14.06.1929.

 

 

 

 

5O17

William Gordon Collett was born at Smithfield on 11.11.1860.  He was baptised on 19.08.1884 and he married Ada Rich on 23.05.1888 but died later that same year.

 

 

 

 

5O18

Thomas Ward Collett was born at Smithfield on 08.05.1865 and was baptised ten years later on 18.07.1875.  After a further eleven years he married Ida Amelia Anderson on 11.11.1886.

 

 

 

 

5O19

Daniel Ward Collett was born at Smithfield on 04.07.1866 and was baptised there just eight days later.  He married Sarah Lottie Phillips on 07.03.1891 at Preston in Franklin County in Idaho.  She was born at Bright City in Box Elder County in Utah on 25.11.1872.

 

 

 

During their married life Sarah presented Daniel with thirteen children, although it might appear that not all of them survived beyond infant with two daughters having the same name.  Only the details of four of the thirteen are known for sure.  For the others the place and date have not been determined.

 

 

 

Daniel was living at Hagerman in County Gooding in Idaho when he died on 28.09.1932 and was buried at Dayton in Franklin County on 02.10.1932.

 

 

 

5P44

Edna Collett

Born on 18.12.1892 at Dayton, Idaho

 

5P45

Lottie Lewella Collett

Born on 26.11.1894 at Henry, Idaho

 

5P46

Sarah Collett

Date/place of birth unknown

 

5P47

Daniel Phillips Collett

Date/place of birth unknown

 

5P48

Elizabeth Collett

Born on 11.11.1902 at Basalt, Idaho

 

5P49

William Phillips Collett

Date/place of birth unknown

 

5P50

Mable Collett

Date/place of birth unknown

 

5P51

Ralph Thomas Collett

Date/place of birth unknown

 

5P52

Elverta Collett

Date/place of birth unknown

 

5P53

Barbara Opal Collett

Date/place of birth unknown

 

5P54

Berniece Collett

Born on 05.09.1916 at Weston, Idaho

 

5P55

Berniece Collett

Date/place of birth unknown

 

5P56

Alton Ward Collett

Date/place of birth unknown

 

 

 

 

5O22

Richard Collett was born at Nottingham and was baptised at St Mary’s Church on 08.05.1825.  Sadly he survived for only four months when he died and was buried at Nottingham on 04.09.1825

 

 

 

 

5P1

Elizabeth Collett