PART FIFTY-FIVE

The Wakefield & Leeds Line - 1710 to 2010

Updated November 2011

This is the family line of Peter Collett Turnbull (Ref. 55S1) of Keighley, who was

instrumental in putting it together, the line being denoted by the names in capitals.

It is also the family line of Michael Richard Collett (Ref. 55S2) of Wiltshire

which is denoted by the names that are underlined

	It may be significant that during 2011 the baptism record for a member of the Collett family was found in Wakefield. It recorded that Ann Collitt was baptised at All Saints Church in the town on 25^th January 1665. She was the daughter of Edward Collitt, but tragically died eighteen months later on 26^th August 1666. Where this family might fit into the Wakefield family has still to be determined.
	It is confirmed that Richard Collett (Ref. 36L10), who starts this family line, was the second son and sixth child of William Collett of Barwick-in-Elmet and his wife Margaret Berry of Featherstone Moor, whose complete family can be found in Part 36 – The Barwick-in-Elmet (Leeds) Line, and whose line of descendents goes back to 1610.
55L2	Richard Collett (Ref. 36L10) was born at Barwick-in-Elmet in 1710, where he was baptised on 01.05.1710. He married Mary Healey of Wakefield on 03.06.1734 at All Saints Church in Wakefield, where the couple settled and where all of their children were born and baptised.
	It is worth noting here, that all of the children of Richard and Mary were baptised with the name Collit, whereas for the following generations, the more traditional spelling of the name was used, and it is this which is used throughout this family line.
	Richard’s father died in 1748 and his Will proved in 1749 included his son Richard Collett as a beneficiary. However, rather curiously having regarding to the fact that all of Richard’s children were baptised at Wakefield, he was described as “my son Richard Collett of Nottingham, a framework knitter” for which he received Five Pounds.
	Later in the same Will, Richard Collett and his older brother Thomas Collett each received a further Three Pounds, over and above the Five Pounds bequeathed to them earlier in the Will.
	55M1	Mary Collett			Baptised on 26.03.1735 at Wakefield
	55M2	Hannah Collett			Baptised on 04.01.1737 at Wakefield
	55M3	Catherine Collett			Baptised on 08.10.1738 at Wakefield
	55M4	John Collett			Baptised on 06.10.1740 at Wakefield
	55M5	Fanny Collett			Baptised on 01.11.1742 at Wakefield
	55M6	Ann Collett			Baptised on 27.09.1744 at Wakefield
	55M7	Richard Collett			Baptised on 30.01.1748 at Wakefield
	55M8	Robert Collett			Baptised on 11.12.1750 at Wakefield
	55M9	William Collett			Baptised on 09.10.1752 at Wakefield
55M1	Mary Collett was born at Wakefield where she was baptised at All Saints Church on 26.03.1735, the eldest child of Richard Collett and Mary Healey. It was also at All Saints that Mary married Joseph Smirthwaite on 30.11.1757
55M2	Hannah Collett was born at Wakefield where she was baptised at All Saints Church on 04.01.1737. Hannah was around twenty-two years of age when she married John Scholey at All Saints on 27.02.1759.
	The marriage resulted in the birth of eight children and these were: Agnes (1763-); John (1764-); Sarah (1767-1768); Fanny (1769-); Henry (1770-); Thomas (1772-); Sarah (1773-); and Ann (1778-).
55M4	John Collett was born at Wakefield where he was baptised at All Saints Church on 06.10.1740, the eldest son of Richard and Mary Collett. When in his mid-twenties John married Mary Punton at the parish church of St Peter’s in Leeds on 13.01.1766.
	Once married the couple settled in Leeds where all of their children were born, and all bar one of them was baptised at St Peter’s Church. It was their fourth child who was baptised at All Saints Church in Wakefield.
	55N1	Richard Collett	Born in 1766 at Leeds
	55N2	Mary Collett	Born in 1769 at Leeds
	55N3	Fanny Collett	Baptised on 14.03.1772 at St Peter’s Leeds
	55N4	Richard Collett	Born in 1774 at Leeds
	55N5	Mary Collett	Born in 1779 at Leeds
	55N6	John Collett	Born in 1781 at Leeds
55M6	Ann Collett was born at Wakefield where she was baptised at All Saints Church on 27.09.1744. She later married Andrew Silcock on 17.11.1768, and this also took place at All Saints in Wakefield.
55M7	Richard Collett was born at Wakefield where he was baptised at All Saints Church on 30.01.1748, and it was there also that he married Betty Newton on 09.01.1780.
	Richard and Betty continued to live in Wakefield after they were married, where their children were born and baptised.
	55N7	John Collett		Born in 1782
	55N8	Richard Collett		Born in 1784
	55N9	Mary Collett		Baptised on 25.05.1786 at Wakefield
	55N10	Elizabeth Collett		Baptised on 17.08.1789 at Wakefield
55M8	Robert Collett was born at Wakefield where he was baptised at All Saints Church on 11.12.1750. It is not exactly clear what happened to Robert, but it is believed that he was married and that this produced a son for Robert who was born at Wakefield around 1785.
	55N11	Robert Collett			Born circa 1785 at Wakefield
55N1	Richard Collett was born at Leeds in 1766 and was the eldest child of John Collett and Mary Punton. He was baptised at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 12.01.1767, although it seems highly likely that he died while he was still in his infancy.
55N2	Mary Collett was born at Leeds in 1769 and was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 24.06.1769 but, like her brother Richard (above), she too did not survive beyond infancy.
55N4	Richard Collett was born at Leeds in 1774 and, unlike all of his siblings, he was baptised at All Saints Church in Wakefield on 03.12.1774. It was however, at St Peter’s Church in Leeds where he married Mary Bulmer on 26.05.1800. Mary was more than four years older than Richard, having been born at Leeds on 04.01.1770, where she was baptised on 11.02.1770, the daughter of Richard Bulmer.
	Richard and Mary continued to live in Leeds after they were married, and it was there that all of their children were born, and baptised at St Peter’s Church. At the time of the birth of their son Alfred, Richard was referred to as ‘of Briggate’ which was a street running through the heart of central Leeds.
	55O1	Charles Edwin Collett			Born in 1802 at Leeds
	55O2	Newton Collett			Born in 1804 at Leeds
	55O3	Alfred Collett			Born on 14.11.1806 at Leeds
	55O4	John Collett			Born in 1808 at Leeds
	55O5	Eliza Mary Collett			Born on 05.12.1810 at Leeds
55N5	Mary Collett was thought to have been born at Leeds in 1779, while it was certainly there, at St Peter’s Church, that she was baptised on 06.04.1779. However, with her marriage to John Williams at St Peter’s Church on 18.01.1796, when she would have been sixteen, there is a strong possibility that she may have been baptised when she was anything up to three years old.
55N6	John Collett was born at Leeds in 1781 and was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 08.12.1781, the youngest child of John Collett and Mary Punton. He married Maria Laycock at St Peter’s on 14.08.1809 and at the end of the following year the couple’s only child was born.
	When their son was four years old, John Collett died at Leeds during 1815.
	55O6	William Collett		Born in 1810 at Leeds
55N7	John Collett was born at Wakefield in 1782, where he was baptised at All Saints Church on 22.04.1783, the eldest son of Richard Collett and Betty Newton. He later married Mary Kitson on 2^nd June 1811, with whom he had five daughters who were all baptised at St John’s Church in Wakefield. According to the 1848 marriage record for their daughter Elizabeth, John Collett was a millwright.
	An alternative source of information incorrectly states that ‘John Collet who was baptised in April 1783, the son of Richard and Betty Collet, died on 6^th February 1798’.
	55O7	Sarah Collett		Born in 1812 at Wakefield
	55O8	Mary Collett		Born in 1814 at Wakefield
	55O9	Ann Collett		Born in 1819 at Wakefield
	55O10	Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1819 at Wakefield
	55O11	Susan Collett		Born in 1821 at Wakefield
55N8	Richard Collett was born at Wakefield in 1784 and was baptised there at All Saints Church on 06.12.1784, the second son of Richard Collett and Betty Newton. Just prior to his twentieth birthday, Richard married Sarah Shepherd at All Saints on 12.04.1803.
	Sarah Shepherd was about seven years older than Richard, having been born in Leeds around 1777. All of their first six children were born at Leeds, where they were baptised at the Church of St Peter’s. Richard Collett died in 1838 three years after his eldest son Charles became a married man in London. However, the seventh children, and youngest daughter, was baptised at Wakefield on 3^rd March 1819, when the child’s parents were confirmed as Richard and Sarah Collitt.
	Following the death of her husband, Sarah travelled to London to live with son Charles and his wife. And it was there, at 12 Upper Brunswick Terrace in Islington that she was living with them in 1851 at the age of 73, when she was described as an annuitant. It was just three years after that in 1854, that Sarah Collett nee Shepherd died in London.
	55O12	Charles Collett	Born on 08.11.1806 at Leeds
	55O13	John Shepherd Collett	Born on 10.03.1808 at Leeds
	55O14	Henry Collett	Born on 22.03.1810 at Leeds
	55O15	Sarah Collett	Born in 1813 at Leeds
	55O16	Sarah Collett	Born in 1815 at Leeds
	55O17	Maria Collett	Baptised on 03.03.1819 at Wakefield
55N11	Robert Collett was born at Wakefield around 1785, the only son of Robert Collett. All that is known about him is that he married Elizabeth, and that this marriage produced five children for the couple, and that all of them were born at Wakefield and baptised at All Saints Church.
	55O18	John Collett	Born in 1814 at Wakefield
	55O19	Ann Collett	Baptised on 11.12.1816 at Wakefield
	55O20	Charles Collett	Baptised on 16.06.1819 at Wakefield
	55O21	Robert Collett	Baptised on 19.02.1825 at Wakefield
	55O22	Thomas Collett	Baptised on 12.01.1827 at Wakefield
55O1	Charles Edwin Collett was born at Leeds in 1802 but was baptised at All Saints Church in Wakefield on 01.05.1802, the eldest child of Richard Collett and Mary Bulmer. Around the age of twenty-one Richard married Elizabeth Wainwright at Kirkheaton on 24.02.1823, with whom he had three children.
	It is likely that all three children were born while the couple were living in Leeds, as it was there at St Peter’s Church that they were baptised.
	55P1	Richard Henry Collett	Born in 1824 at Leeds
	55P2	Eliza Mary Collett	Baptised on 23.11.1825 at St Peter’s Leeds
	55P3	Juliana Collett	Baptised on 07.04.1828 at St Peter’s Leeds
55O2	Newton Collett was born at Leeds in 1804 and was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 05.03.1804. Sadly, it is believed, that he died while he was still in his infancy.
55O3	Alfred Collett was born at Leeds on 14.11.1806, and it was there he was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 19.04.1807. He was twenty-one when he married Elizabeth Liversedge at St Peter’s Church on 10.07.1826 and together they had four children, including a set of twins, and all of them born while the family was living in Leeds.
	Rather curiously the first two sons, born one year apart, were both given the name Richard. These, together with twin Alfred, were baptised at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on the same day in 1831. It also seems strange that it was only the first Richard that survived beyond infancy, whereas it was more usual for a subsequent child to be named after a dead sibling, and very unusual to have two consecutive children given the same first name.
	At the time of the census in 1851, Alfred and Elizabeth were living in Queen Square in the Little London district of Leeds with their three children. Alfred was 44 and his occupation was that of a bookkeeper, while Elizabeth was 47. Their son Richard was 21 and a clerk and bookkeeper at a woollen warehouse, Alfred was 20 and was working as a printer, while Mary was 17.
	55P4	Richard Collett	Born in 1829 at Leeds
	55P5	Richard Collett twin	Born in 1830 at Leeds
	55P6	Alfred Collett twin	Born in 1830 at Leeds
	55P7	Mary Emily Collett	Born in 1833 at Leeds
55O4	John Collett was born at Leeds in 1808, and he was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 24.06.1809, the youngest son of Richard Collett and Mary Bulmer.
55O5	Eliza Mary Collett was born at Leeds on 05.12.1810 and was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 28.04.1811, the youngest child of Richard Collett and Mary Bulmer.
55O6	William Collett was born at Leeds in 1810 where he was baptised on 25.12.1810, the only son of John Collett and Maria Laycock. When William was around the age of five years his father died in 1815. Seventeen years later he married Sarah Dufton who was also born in Leeds around 1810.
	The marriage took place at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 15.02.1832, and over the following years the couple were blessed with the birth of five daughters. All of them were born while William and Sarah were living in Leeds, with the first two girls having been baptised at St Peter’s Church in Leeds. Sadly, the couple’s third child did not survive beyond her infant years as see was listed with her family in 1841, but was not there in 1851.
	In June 1841 the family was living within the Leeds & North Leeds registration district, when William and his wife Sarah both had a rounded age of 30, while their four daughters on that occasion were Maria Collett, who was eight, Sarah Collett, who was five, Emma Collett, who was one year old, and Ellen Collett who was only a few months old.
	Ten years later the family was recorded in the 1851 census for Leeds & West Leeds as William Collett and Sarah Collett, both 41, with their four surviving daughter being Maria Collett, age 18, Sarah Collett, age 15, Ellen Collett, who was 10, and Mary Collett who was under one year old. No record of any member of the family has been found after 1851.
	55P8	Maria Collett			Born in 1832 at Leeds
	55P9	Sara Ann Collett			Born in 1835 at Leeds
	55P10	Emma Collett			Born in 1838 at Leeds; infant death
	55P11	Ellen Collett			Born in 1840 at Leeds
	55P12	Mary Collett			Born in 1850 at Leeds
55O7	Sarah Collett was born at Wakefield on 16^th May 1812, just eleven months after her parents were married. She was later baptised at St John’s Church in the town on 13^th September 1812, the eldest child of John Collett and his wife Mary Kitson.
55O8	Mary Collett was born at Wakefield during 1814 and was baptised at St John’s Church on 30^th October 1814, the second daughter of John and Mary Collett.
55O9	Ann Collett was born at Wakefield in 1816, where she was baptised at the Church of St John on 1^st September 1816, the third daughter of John and Mary Collett.
55O7	Elizabeth Collett was born at Wakefield around 1818, and it was at the Church of St John that she was baptised on 11.04.1819, the fourth daughter of John Collett and Mary Kitson.
	It was on 05.11.1848 that Elizabeth Collett married Elias Goodall in the parish church at Thorner, a village midway between Leeds and Tadcaster. Their respective fathers were named as John Collett, a millwright, and John Goodall, a baker. The witnesses were John Norbury and Thomas Putt.
	Eight years later the couple had a son, Elias Goodall, who was born at Horsforth on 30.11.1856 to parents Elias Goodall and Elizabeth Goodall, formerly Collett.
	Elias Goodall died while in the Lunatic Asylum at Stanley in Yorkshire on 05.03.1867 aged 43 years, the cause of death being phthisis. However, it is believed that he was actually 46 when he died.
	Following the loss of her husband, Elizabeth Goodall married William Pettinger on 29.11.1869 at Leeds. The marriage registered confirmed that William Pettinger was 55 and a widower, and that Elizabeth was 51 and a widow. The fathers were named respectively as William Pettinger, an Inland Revenue Officer, and John Collett, a millwright. The witnesses on that occasion were William Parsons and Maria Collett.
	Elizabeth’s son Elias Goodall eventually married Emma Leavens they had a son, John Collett Goodall who was born at Horsforth on 29.06.1893.
55O11	Susan Collett was born at Wakefield, where she was baptised on 25^th November 1821 at St John’s Church, the youngest of the five daughters of John Collett and his wife Mary Kitson. In was during the third quarter of 1842, around the time of her twenty-first birthday, that Susan married Longley Megson at Wakefield, following which they had seven children. Sadly Longley died at the age of 44, just two years after the birth of their last child.
	Susan, on the other hand, lived a very long life and went on to become a grandmother, then a great grandmother. She also lived to attend the married in 1912 of her youngest great granddaughter, Florrie Dyson who was born at Mirfield in 1889 in Mirfield. That happy event took place just two and a half years before Susan Megson nee Collett died at the end of 1914 at the age of 93. It is therefore quite likely that Susan may have lived long enough to hold and admire her first great-great-granddaughter.
55O12	Charles Collett was born at Leeds on 08.11.1806 and was baptised there on 03.12.1806, the eldest son of Richard Collett and Sarah Shepherd. Charles married (1) Charlotte Machin at St James’ Church in Westminster, London on 05.04.1835.
	Charlotte was born at Swynnerton in Staffordshire around 1794 and was about twelve years older than Charles. It would appear that Charles and Charlotte continued to live in London after they were married, since it was there during the fourth quarter of 1853 that Charlotte died.
	Two years earlier, the census in 1851 placed Charles and Charlotte living at 12 Upper Brunswick Terrace in the Islington district of the city. Charles, at 44 and from Leeds, was a London City Missionary. His wife Charlotte from ‘Swinnerton’ was 56, and living with the couple at that time was Charles’ widowed mother Sarah Collett who was 73 and an annuitant from Leeds.
	The three of them were supported by a general servant, Mary A Brown who was 18 and from the Bramley area of Leeds.
	Eight years after the death of Charlotte, Charles married (2) Mary Lomas at the Church of St John the Evangelist in Notting Hill on 29.10.1861. This second marriage lasted for a similar number of years for Charles as his first had, when Mary died at Brentford in Middlesex during the third quarter of 1888.
	According to the 1881 Census, Mary was born at Littlebury near Saffron Walden in Essex around 1810 and was a well to do lady with her income coming from house property. By that time Charles was 74 and a retired missionary, and he and Mary 71 were living at 7 Windsor Terrace in Ealing, where they employed a general servant, 17 years old Anne Slackwood who was also from Littlebury
55O13	John Shepherd Collett was born at Leeds on 10.03.1808 and it was at St Peter’s Church that he was baptised on 16.01.1809. Just before his twentieth birthday John married (1) Mary Robinson at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 27.01.1828, with whom he had three children who were all born in Leeds.
	It is not known when Mary died, but John was in his fifties when he married (2) Jane Flanders at Kensington in London during the second quarter of 1863. Sadly Jane, who was born at Eaton Bray near Dunstable in Bedfordshire in 1810, died eight years later in 1871 when the couple was living in the Lambeth area of London.
	Following the death of his second wife, John left London and was living on Portsea Island in Hampshire near to where his son John William Collett was living, when he died in 1874.
	55P13	Henry Collett			Born in 1829 at Leeds
	55P14	Richard Isaac Collett			Born in 1830 at Leeds
	55P15	John William Collett			Born in 1836 at Leeds
55O14	Henry Collett was born at Leeds on 22.03.1810 and one month later he was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 18.04.1810. It would appear that he married Elizabeth before he was nineteen years old, since the first of their three children was born at Leeds in 1829. All three children were baptised at St Peter’s Church in Leeds.
	55P16	William Collett			Born in 1829 at Leeds
	55P17	Mary Ann Collett			Baptised on 10.07.1831 at Leeds
	55P18	Elizabeth Collett			Baptised on 27.01.1834 at Leeds
55O15	Sarah Collett was born at Leeds in 1813, where she was baptised on 11.06.1813. It has been assumed that she died within the next year, since the third child born into the family was also given the name Sarah.
55O16	Sarah Collett was born at Leeds where she was baptised on 15.05.1815 at St Peter’s Church, the daughter of Richard Collett and his wife Sarah Shepherd. Sarah was in her twenty-first year when she married James Barnett at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 1^st September 1835.
55O18	John Collett was born at Wakefield in 1814 and was the eldest son of Robert and Elizabeth Collett. He was baptised at All Saints Church in Wakefield on 10.09.1814 and he married Mary who was born at North Newbold near Market Weighton during 1817.
	The wedding may have taken place in Leeds prior to 1840, since it was there that the couple’s five children were born between 1840 and 1854. The youngest child was around nine years old when John died at Leeds during the second quarter of 1863.
	According to the census in 1861, the family living at North Leeds comprised John who was 46, his wife Mary who was 43, and their four children, Maria Collett 16, Hannah Collett 14, Jane E Collett 12, and Margaret A Collett who was six years old.
	In 1871 his widow Mary was 53, and the only member of her family still living with her was her youngest daughter Margaret A Collett who was 16.
	By the time of the census in 1881, John’s wife Mary was a widow aged 63 and on that occasion she was living with her married daughter Mary Lee and her family at 26 Grant Place in Leeds.
	Mary survived John by over thirty years, when she died at Leeds during the first quarter of 1895.
	55P19	Joseph Collett			Born in 1840 at Leeds
	55P20	Mary Maria Collett			Born in 1844 at Leeds
	55P21	Hannah Collett			Born in 1846 at Leeds
	55P22	Jane E Collett			Born in 1848 at Leeds
	55P23	Margaret A Collett			Born in 1854 at Leeds
55P1	Richard Henry Collett was born at Leeds in 1824, the eldest son of Charles Edwin Collett and Elizabeth Wainwright. He was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 26.05.1824 when he was just a few months old. Towards the end of 1847, Richard married Ann who was born in 1822 at Chapeltown to the south of Barnsley.
	In the census of 1851 for Leeds North, Richard H Collett 28, his wife Ann was 28, and their first born child had died three years earlier leaving the couple with just their son Charles who was under one year old on the day of the census.
	All of the couple’s five children were born while Richard and Ann were living in Leeds, and by 1861 their family was complete. At that time they were still living in North Leeds where Richard H Collett was 38, Ann Collett was 37, Charles E Collett was 10, Eva A Collett was 8, Richard H Collett was 5, and Eliza Collett was three years old.
	Ten years later in 1871 only the couple’s two surviving daughters were living in Leeds with Richard and Ann. The census on that occasion recorded the family as Richard Hy Collett 47, Ann Collett 46, Eva A Collett 17, and Eliza Collett who was 13. By that time their son Charles was living and working in the Walmgate in the City of York.
	It seems curious that neither Richard or Ann have been located in the census of 1881, particularly since it was at Leeds that Richard Henry Collett died during the third quarter of 1889.
	55Q1	Margaret Collett			Born in 1848 at Leeds; infant death
	55Q2	Charles Edwin Collett			Born in 1850 at Leeds
	55Q3	Eva Ann Collett			Born in 1852 at Leeds
	55Q4	Richard A Collett			Born in 1855 at Leeds
	55Q5	Eliza Collett			Born in 1857 at Leeds
55P4	Richard Collett was born at Leeds in 1829 at Leeds, the eldest son of Alfred Collett and Elizabeth Liversedge. It was two years later that he was baptised at St Peter’s Church, the same service on 17.03.1831 also including the baptism of his twin brothers Richard and Alfred.
	Unlike his namesake, his brother Richard (below) who died while he still a young child, this Richard reached the age of forty-nine before he died during December in 1878.
	In 1851 Richard was working as a clerk and bookkeeper at a local woollen warehouse at the age of 21, while living at the family home with his parents Queen Square, Little London in Leeds.
55P5	Richard Collett was one half of a set of twins born to Alfred Collett and Elizabeth Liversedge. Rather oddly he carried the same name as his old brother (above) who was born during the previous year. Richard was born at Leeds in 1830 and was baptised in a joint ceremony with his twin brother Alfred (below) and his older brother Richard at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 17.03.1831, but tragically he suffered an infant death shortly after.
55P6	Alfred Collett, who was a twin with his brother Richard (above), was born at Leeds in 1830. The twins were baptised together with their older brother Richard (above) at St Peter’s Church on 17.03.1831, but sadly Alfred was the only twin to survive.
	In 1851 Alfred was twenty years old and was still living at the home of his parents at Queen Square in Little London, Leeds and his occupation at that time was that of a printer.
	It was sometime around his twenty-fifth birthday that Alfred married (1) Maria Vevers at the parish church in Wakefield on Monday 23^rd April 1855. During the next fifteen years Maria presented Alfred with three sons, the first two born while the couple were living in Leeds, and the last after the family had moved to Broadbent Street in Horton, Bradford.
	By the time of the census in 1861 the marriage had produced two sons for Alfred and Maria. The census for West Leeds recorded the family as Alfred aged 30, Maria 26, and their two sons Henry P Collett aged 3 and Charles aged 2, both having been born at Leeds.
	In 1871 the family was living within the North Leeds registration district where Alfred was 40, Maria was 36 and their three sons were Henry 12, Charles 11 and Arthur aged 2 who was born in the Horton area of Bradford.
	The family was still living in Leeds ten years later in 1881. The census that year recorded them living at 10 Blundell Street in Leeds where fifty years old Alfred was listed as a plumber and a painter. Blundell Street is still there today and lies between the A58(M) Inner Ring Road and the General Infirmary.
	Maria was 47 and still living with the couple were two of their three sons Charles aged 21 and Arthur aged 12, while their eldest son Henry was married by then. Also by that time, Alfred’s two oldest sons had taken up similar occupations to their father and perhaps even worked together.
	Just over seventeen years after the birth of their third and last child, Maria died on 27.12.1886 at the age of 52, having been born on 29.04.1834 and baptised at Leeds on 25.12.1834. Two years later in 1888 Alfred was back in Leeds where he married (2) Jane Hennries during the second quarter of the year. After less than nine years together, Alfred Collett died on 03.08.1897.
	55Q6	Henry Prince Collett			Born in May 1857 at Leeds
	55Q7	Charles Collett			Born in 1859 at Leeds
	55Q8	Arthur Edward Collett			Born on 06.02.1869 at Horton, Bradford
55P7	Mary Emily Collett was born at Leeds in 1833, the youngest of the four children of Alfred Collett and Elizabeth Liversedge. She was around four years of age when she was baptised at St Peter’s Church in Leeds on 27.02.1837, and was twenty years old when she married Daniel Horton at Leeds in the second quarter of 1857.
55P8	Maria Collett was born at Leeds in 1832, the eldest child of William Collett and Sarah Dufton. Maria was baptised at the Leeds parish Church of St Peter’s on 12.08.1832. She was eight years old in the Leeds census of 1841, and was 18 years of age by the time of the Leeds census in 1851 when she was still living there with her family.
55P9	Sara Ann Collett was born at Leeds in 1835 and it was there at St Peter’s Church that she was baptised on 28.02.1836, the second child of William and Sarah Collett. It was simply as Sarah that she was recorded living with her parents at Leeds in 1841, when she was five, and again in 1851 when she was 15.
55P13	Henry Collett was born at Leeds in late 1829 or early 1830, the eldest child of John Shepherd Collett and Mary Robinson. He was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 26.12.1830 in a joint ceremony with his younger brother Richard Isaac Collett (below).
55P14	Richard Isaac Collett was born at Leeds in 1830 and was baptised with his brother Henry Collett (above) on 26.12.1830 at St Peter’s Church. He was twenty years of age when he married Mary Few at Bath in Somerset during the fourth quarter of 1850. Mary was also born in 1830, but at Potterne near Devizes in Wiltshire.
	Mary was very likely with-child on their wedding day since, several months later, according to the Devizes census at the end of March in 1851, Richard Collett was 21, his wife Mary was 20, and their son John Collett was just a few weeks old.
	Ten years later, the next census in 1861 recorded Richard and Mary Ann as still living at Devizes with their first three children. These were John aged 10, Mary aged 8, and Richard J Collett aged 3, and all born at Devizes. Sadly Richard only survived until the summer of 1870 when he died at the age of 12.
	All of the couple’s first seven children were born while the family was living at Devizes, but by 1871 they had moved to Winchester in Hampshire. At that time in early April 1871, Mary was expecting the birth of the couple’s eighth child which was born at Winchester later that year.
	Pregnant Mary was aged 40 and her husband Richard was 41. Their six children on that occasion were John Collett who was 20, Mary Collett 18, Charles Collett 7, Annie Collett 5, Alfred Collett 4, and two years old Emily Collett.
	In the spring of 1881 Richard and Mary and their family were living at 13 North Walls in the St Bartholomew Hyde area of Winchester. Richard was a wool sorter aged 51, Mary A Collett was 50, and just the couple’s three youngest children were still living there with them. These were Alfred who was 14 and an apprentice to a wool sorter – perhaps to his father, Emily who was 12 and still at school, and Richard J Collett who was nine years old.
	The youngest of these children was just twelve years old when Richard Isaac Collett died in Winchester during the last quarter of 1883. His widow Mary survived for nearly a further twenty years, when she died at Winchester during the first three months of 1902.
	By the time of the census in 1891, Richard’s widow Mary A Collett was sixty and was still living in Winchester. The only member of her family still living there with her was her daughter Emily, who by then had given birth to a base-born daughter just prior to the census day.
	Mary Ann was still living in the Hyde area of Winchester in March 1901 when she was seventy years of age and described as living on her own means. It was almost exactly one year after that, that she passed away.
	55Q9	John Collett			Born in 1851 at Devizes
	55Q10	Mary Collett			Born in 1852 at Devizes
	55Q11	Richard J Collett			Born in 1857 at Devizes; died in 1870
	55Q12	Charles Collett			Born in 1863 at Devizes
	55Q13	Annie Collett			Born in 1865 at Devizes
	55Q14	Alfred Collett			Born in 1866 at Devizes
	55Q15	Emily Collett			Born in 1868 at Devizes
	55Q16	Richard James Collett			Born in 1871 at Winchester
55P15	John William Collett was born at Leeds in 1836 and he was the youngest of the three sons of John Shepherd Collett and Mary Robinson. He was baptised on 01.01.1837 at the parish Church of St Peter’s in Leeds.
	He later married Fanny Fletcher at the Church of St John the Baptist in Shoreditch, London on 20.02.1860, Fanny having been born at Eaton Socon near St Neots in Bedfordshire in 1835.
	The couple’s first three children were born while they were living in London, the first and third at St Lukes and the second at St Pancras, although all three sons were baptised at Eaton Socon. Around 1865 the family moved to Hampshire and it was at Southsea that their remaining children were born.
	By 1871 John aged 34 and Fanny also 34 had four of their five children living with them in the Portsea & Landport registration district of Southsea. These were John aged 10, Newton aged 9, Mary aged 5, and Harry aged 2. It is not known where son Joseph was at this time.
	By 1881 both John and his brother Richard were living in Hampshire, John and his family living at 9 Castle Place in Portsea, from where 45 years old John W Collett from Leeds was employed as a gold beater. His wife Fanny from Eaton Socon in Bedford was also 45 years old.
	All nine of their children, including Joseph who was absent ten years earlier, were still living with the couple at that time, and these were sons John 21 and Joseph 17, both of whom had been born at St Lukes in London, Newton who was 19 and born at St Pancras, and Mary 15, Harry 12, Archie 10, Daisy 8, Willie 4, and May who was ten months old, and all of them born at Southsea.
	No trace of John and his wife have so far been found in 1891 although other older members of their family were still living in the area at that time. However, in 1901 John W Collett from Leeds was 64 and was still living in the Portsmouth area of Hampshire with his wife Fanny who was 63.
	And it was later that same year that John William Collett died during the third quarter of 1901 at Alton in Hampshire. With no trace of his wife in the next census of 1911, it must be assumed that she passed away during the first decade of the new century.
	55Q17	John William Collett			Born in 1859 at London St Luke’s
	55Q18	Newton Collett			Born in 1861 at London St Pancras
	55Q19	Joseph Henry Collett			Born in 1863 at London
	55Q20	Mary Collett			Born in 1865 at Southsea
	55Q21	Harry Collett			Born in 1868 at Southsea
	55Q22	Archie Collett			Born in 1870 at Southsea
	55Q23	Daisy Collett			Born in 1872 at Southsea
	55Q24	Willie Collett			Born in 1876 at Southsea
	55Q25	May Collett			Born in June 1880 at Southsea
55P16	William Collett was born at Leeds in 1829 and was the first child of Henry and Elizabeth Collett baptised at St Peter’s Church on 10.05.1829. William appears to have moved south from Leeds, perhaps because of his work, where he met and married Ann.
	Ann was born in 1830 at Clanfield north of Faringdon in Berkshire. It is therefore possible that they were married at or near Faringdon as their only child was born at Little Coxwell less than a mile from Faringdon.
	Sometime after the birth of their son the family moved north of the River Thames to the nearby village of Kelmscott in Oxfordshire which lies to the east of Lechlade.
	This was confirmed by the 1871 Census in which the couple were recorded as living at Kelmscott with their son Frank aged 11.
	Ten years later in 1881 William and Ann had moved again, this time to Stanton St Quinton in Wiltshire where William, now aged 53 and from Leeds, was a farm bailiff living with his wife Ann aged 51 of Clanfield in Berkshire. Stanton St Quinton lies midway between Malmesbury and Chippenham.
	At that same time their son was working as a schoolmaster in Oxford and was a boarder at the home of John Irons at 52 James Street in the St Clements district of the city.
	Neither William, his wife, nor his son seem to be listed in the 1891. All that is known is that sometime between 1881 and 1901 William died.
	Just after the turn of the century William’s widow Ann was living at Sherington near Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire. The 1901 Census confirm that she was 71 and born at Clanfield and was a retired school mistress. Living with her was her son Frank aged 40.
	55Q26	Frank Collett			Born in 1860
55P20	Mary Maria Collett was born at Leeds in 1844, the eldest daughter of John and Mary Collett. At the age of twenty-five she married Alan Lee who was born at Leeds in 1841. The marriage took place at Leeds during the second quarter of 1869 and resulted in the birth of one daughter and three sons.
	All four children were born at Leeds, and they were: Jane E Lee (1869-); Joseph R Lee (1872-); William Lee (1876-); and Christopher Lee (1878-).
	According to the census in 1881, Alan was born at Leeds in 1841 and was a glue boiler. Mary M Lee was listed as being a tailoress and all of their four children had been born at Leeds.
	Living with the family at 26 Grant Place in Leeds on the day of the census on 3^rd April 1881 was Mary’s widowed mother Mary Collett aged 63 and born at Newbold near Chesterfield.
	By the turn of the century the family was living at Potternewton in Yorkshire and comprised Alan aged 59 who was then working as a shopkeeper in a greengrocers, Mary (Maria) was 56, and their children were Joseph 28 a restaurant waiter, William 26 a general smith and millwright, and Christopher 22 who was working as a tailor’s cutter.
55Q2	Charles Edwin Collett was born at Leeds in 1850, the eldest son of Richard Henry and Ann Collett. And it was at Leeds where he lived with his family during his early years. In 1851 he was under one year old, in 1861 he was 10 years old, and by 1871 at the age of 20 he was living and working in the Walmgate district of York.
	Ten years later, at the age of 30 Charles was an unmarried school teacher living in Greasbrough near Rotherham. In the census in 1881 he was a boarder at the home of blacksmith George P Whittington at Carlton House, 2 Greenside in Greasbrough, but it was one year after this that he became a married man.
	He was around thirty-two years of age when he married twenty-six years old Sarah Bennett during the second quarter of 1882. The wedding took place at Bramley in Leeds, where Sarah had been born in 1856. Once married the couple settled in Wetherby where they were living in 1891 when Charles E Collett was 40 and his wife Sarah was 34.
	Judging by this and the census in March 1901 Charles and Sarah never had any children, and by 1901 they were living at Hunslet, where 50 years old Charles was a grocer and a shopkeeper from Leeds, while his wife Sarah from Bramley was 44. No record of either of them has been found in the census of 1911.
55Q3	Eva Ann Collett was born at Leeds in 1852 and she was approaching her fifties when she married Sam Schofield during the second quarter of 1900, Sam being two years younger than Eva.
55Q6	Henry Prince Collett was born at Leeds during the month of May in 1857, and was the eldest child of Alfred Collett and Maria Vevers. It was in 1880 at Leeds that he married Ellen Boyce who was born at Wookey in Somerset in November 1850. It was also at Wookey Parish Church that she was baptised on 08.01.1851, and she was recorded as being four months old at the time of the census in 1851.
	Shortly after they were married Henry and Ellen were living at 2 Tramway Street in Leeds where Henry worked as a plumber and painter, and possibly with his father Alfred who had the same occupation.
	It is known that the second of their three children was born while the family was living at 2 Tramway Street in Leeds, so it is likely that all three were born there. It is also very likely that it was at that same Leeds address where they all died, with none of them surviving beyond a few months.
	It was at 34 Chapeltown Road in Leeds where Henry Prince Collett was living when he died on 10.04.1890. Where his widow was exactly a year later has not been discovered, but by March 1901 she was running a boarding house at 59 Well Close Terrace in Leeds, and in the census that year she was described in error as Ellen Collitt, age 49 from Wookey in Somerset, who was a widow. Ten years later Ellen Collett from Wookey in Somerset was 59, when she was living alone in the Salford area of Manchester.
	Ellen Collett nee Boyce survived her husband by nearly forty-two years, when she died on 20.02.1932.
	55R1	William Henry Collett			Born in Oct 1882; died Nov 1882
	55R2	Florence Emily Collett			Born on 23.04.1884; died Oct 1884
	55R3	Edith Collett			Born in July 1885; died Aug 1885
55Q7	Charles Collett was born at Leeds in 1859, and it was there also that he married Annie Armenia Wilson on 30.07.1884 at Leeds Parish Church. Annie was born at Durham in 1860 and during the first six years of their marriage she presented Charles with two children.
	Three years earlier, according to the census in 1881, 21 years old Charles was a paper hanger living at the home of his plumber and painter father Alfred Collett at 10 Blundell Street in Leeds with whom he probably worked.
	Charles’ and Annie’s first child, Sidney Vevers Collett, was named in honour of Charles’ mother who had died during the preceding twelve months. He, together with his brother Walter Eldred Collett, was born while the couple were living in Leeds.
	By the time of the census in 1891 Charles was still living in Leeds where he was working as plumber at the age of 31. Living there with him was his wife Annie who was 30, and sons Sidney 3, and Walter who was not yet one.
	Ten years later plumber Charles was 42, Annie was 41, and their two boys were 13 and 10 and were still attending school in Leeds. By April 1911 it was just Walter who was still living with his parents in Leeds, as Sidney had joined the army and was recorded as ‘overseas military’ at the age of 24.
	At that time Charles Collett was 51, his wife Annie was 50, and their son Walter was 20.
	Charles Collett died while at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield on 16.10.1915, and his wife Annie lived on for a further eighteen years, until she passed away in 1933.
	55R4	Sidney Vevers Collett			Born in 4^th Quarter of 1887 at Leeds
	55R5	Walter Eldred Collett			Born in May 1890 at Leeds
55Q8	Arthur Edward Collett was born at 2 Broadbent Street in the Horton area of Bradford on 06.02.1869. He was the youngest child of Alfred Collett and Maria Vevers, and on 11.01.1893 he married (1) Ethel Haigh Wade at Leeds.
	It was a tragic start to married life for Arthur when, a year after they were wed, the couple had the joy of Ethel giving birth to a daughter. However, the joy was short lived when, just a fortnight after the birth, Ethel died on 12.02.1894 and this sad event was followed three weeks later by the death of their daughter, who died on 03.03.1984.
	Following four years as a widower, Arthur eventually married for a second time when he married (2) Hannah Eliza ‘Annie’ Ackroyd. The wedding ceremony took place at the Brunswick Chapel in Leeds on 07.04.1898. Annie was born at 55 Glover Street in Leeds on 28.07.1870.
	From this marriage Arthur had four children who were born at Leeds, and all of them, including Arthur and Annie lived long lives. The only exception to this was their daughter Kathleen who died just after the First World War, perhaps as a result of the flu pandemic that killed thousands around that time.
	At the time of the census in 1901, Arthur E Collett and his family were living at 34 Chapeltown Road in Leeds. At the age of 32 his occupation was that of a master plumber and painter. His wife Hannah E Collett was thirty years old and was expecting the imminent birth of the couple’s next child, while their daughter was Florence E Collett who was two years old.
	With the addition of the three new children in the following years, by April 1911 the family still living in Leeds was recorded as Arthur Edward Collett from Bradford who was 42, Hannah Eliza Collett from Leeds who was 40, Florence Emily 12, Kathleen 10, Henry Reginald 7, and five years old Winifred Lily.
	And it was at 239 Chapeltown Road in Leeds that Arthur was living when he died on 15.01.1947. Just over six years later his wife Annie died in St James’ Hospital in Leeds on 16.07.1953.
	55R6	Florence Ethel Collett			Born on 28.01.1894; died 03.03.1894
	55R7	Florence Emily Collett			Born on 28.03.1899 at Leeds
	55R8	Kathleen Collett			Born on 11.04.1901; died 13.04.1919
	55R9	Henry Reginald Collett			Born on 27.06.1903 at Leeds
	55R10	Winifred Lily Collett			Born on 29.03.1906 at Leeds
55Q9	John Collett was born at Devizes during the weeks just prior to the census day on the thirtieth of March in 1851. He was the first child of Richard Isaac Collett from Leeds and Mary Ann Few from Potterne near Devizes who were only marriage in the last quarter of the previous year.
	In 1861 John and his family were still living in Devizes, when he was ten years old, but in 1870 the whole family moved to Winchester where they were living in 1871 when John was twenty. At that time his mother was expecting her eighth child, so perhaps because of the cramped living conditions John left home just after this.
	It was during this period in his life that he made the journey north to Yorkshire, the county of his father’s birth. According to the census in 1881, John Collett from Devizes was an unmarried lodger at the home of widow Betsy Ramsden at Arundel Street in Wakefield. His occupation at that time was a book seller and manager at Smiths Bookstall.
55Q13	Annie Collett was born at Devizes in 1865 and was nearly five years old when her parents left Devizes and moved to Winchester in 1870. The census in the following year recorded Annie as being aged 5 years, when she was living in Winchester with her parents and the rest of her family.
	Ten years later in 1881, Annie had left school and had started work as a general servant. The census return recorded that she was fifteen years of age, had been born in Devizes, and was employed at the home of milliner and ladies outfitter Mary E Webb at 121 High Street in Winchester.
	Unmarried Mary Webb, aged 36 and from Winchester, had a live-in partner Rosa Chapman who was 28 and from Alresford in Hampshire, who was also a milliner and ladies outfitter. Completing the household was Mary Webb’s elderly mother, the widow Mary Webb from Blackheath in Kent who was the housekeeper at the age of 68.
55Q14	Alfred Collett was born at Devizes in 1866, the fourth child of Richard Isaac Collett of Leeds and Mary Ann Few from Devizes. He was four years old in 1871, by which time his family had left Devizes and had settled in Winchester. The census ten years later recorded the family living at 13 North Walls in the St Bartholomew district of the city near Hyde Abbey, when Alfred was fourteen and an apprentice wool sorter working with his father.
	It was originally thought that Alfred had died at Highworth near Swindon between July and September 1866, but the details in the 1881 Census prove this to be incorrect. However, with no record of him in any later census, it is possible the year of his death was 1886 or 1896.
55Q15	Emily Collett was born at Devizes in 1869, the youngest daughter of Richard Isaac Collett of Leeds and Mary Ann Few of Devizes. Not long after she was born her family moved to Winchester where in 1871 they were living when Emily was two years of age. The census of 1881 provided the family’s address as 13 North Walls in the St Bartholomew Hyde area of Winchester.
	Following the death of her father during the next few years, Emily was the only child still living with her mother in Winchester in April 1891. However, by that time she had just given birth to a base-born daughter, the second forename of which may indicate the surname of the father.
	No record of mother and child has been found in the March census of 1901 when Emily would have been 32 and her daughter Helen would have been ten years old. It therefore seems highly likely that Emily was married by then.
	Interestingly in April 1911, Helen Hope Collett, aged twenty, was living in the Stow-on-the-Wold district of Gloucestershire.
	36R11	Helen Hope Collett	Born in 1891 before 5^th April at Winchester
55Q16	Richard James Collett was born at Winchester on 04.08.1871, the youngest son of Richard Isaac Collett and Mary Ann Few. It was very likely his work that took him to the south-east of England, and it was at Eastry in Kent that he met and married Esther Shrewsbury Wratten during the last three months of 1894. Esther had been born at Deal in Kent on 30.08.1872 and was the daughter of bricklayer John Henry Wratten and his wife Ann Thompson, the family living at 7 West Street in Deal, Kent in 1881. It was also while the couple were living at Deal that all of the children of Richard and Esther were born.
	Curiously no record of Richard and his family has been found amongst the census records for 1901. However, around 1908 he was the owner of a butchers shop in Deal.
	This was confirmed three years later in the April census of 1911. The family living in Deal was listed as Richard James Collett 39, Esther Shrewsbury Collett 38, Mary Estella Collett 14, Elsie Florence Collett 13, Doris Grace Collett 11, and Richard James Collett who was eight years old.
	At some other time during his life he was the manager of the Adelphi Theatre in Birmingham, although Richard was still living in Deal when he died on 31.07.1939. His wife Esther also died there, but seventeen years later on 22.08.1956.
	55R12	Mary Estella Collett			Born in 1896 at Deal in Kent
	55R13	Elsie Florence Collett			Born in 1897 at Deal in Kent
	55R14	Doris Grace Collett			Born in 1899 at Deal in Kent
	55R15	Richard James Collett			Born in 1902 at Deal in Kent
	55R16	Charles Collett			Born in 1912 at Deal in Kent
36Q17	John William Collett was born at St Lukes in London on 21.06.1859. Three years later on 29.06.1863 he was baptised at Eaton Socon, the Bedfordshire village where of his mother Fanny Fletcher was born and where she married John’s father John William Collett senior.
	At the age of six his parents left London and moved to Hampshire and the town of Portsea where they were living in 1871 he was 11 years old. and by 1881 he was 19 when he was working as a gilder while living with his family
	By 1881, and at the age of 21, his occupation was that of a gold beater like his father, with whom he was very likely working, and at that time he was living at 9 Castle Place in Portsea with his family.
	In 1891 John W Collett was 31 and was still living at Portsea & Landport, but no trace of him has been found in 1901.
55Q18	Newton Collett was born at St Pancras in London on 06.09.1861, but was baptised in his mother’s home village of Eaton Socon in Bedfordshire (now in Cambridgeshire). This took place when he was two years old on 27.12.1863, when he was confirmed as the son of John William Collett and Fanny Fletcher.
	When he was around four years old he and his parents left London when they moved to Hampshire. In the census for Portsea & Landport in 1871 he was 9 years old and by 1881 he was 19 when he was working as a gilder while living with his family at 9 Castle Place in Portsea.
	Just after his twenty-first birthday Newton Collett married Elizabeth Mary Doran on 27.10.1883 at Portsea. Elizabeth was born at Portsmouth in 1866, and was the daughter of marine engine driver Charles William Doran and Elizabeth Mary Tong. It was also during the last quarter of 1883 that the couple’s first child was born at Portsmouth.
	Over the next ten years the marriage produced a further four children for the couple and all of them born at Portsmouth. The first of these was named after his father Newton, the second after his grandfather John William Collett, and the third named after her grandmother Fanny Fletcher.
	By March 1901 the census for Portsmouth recorded the family as follows. Head of the household Newton was 39 and had been born in London, and was working again as a gilder, having previously been a picture framer; his wife Elizabeth was 34; theirs sons were Newton who was 15 and John 14, and daughter Fanny who was eleven.
	Tragically Newton Collett died when he was only 48 years old. This happened at Southsea on 19.09.1910 and his passing was confirmed in the census of 1911 when Elizabeth Mary Collett was a widow at 44, while she was still living in the Portsmouth area. With her also were her three children Newton Henry Collett 25, John William Collett 24, and Fanny (Franny) Collett who was 21.
	55R17	Daisy Collett			Born in 1883 at Portsmouth
	55R18	Newton Henry Collett			Born in 1885 at Portsmouth
	55R19	John William Collett			Born in 1886 at Portsmouth
	55R20	Harry Collett			Born in 1887 at Portsmouth
	55R21	Fanny Collett			Born in 1889 at Portsmouth
55Q19	Joseph Henry Collett was born at St Lukes in London on 06.08.1863 and was baptised at the Bedfordshire village of Eaton Socon on 27.12.1863, the third child of John William Collett and Fanny Fletcher. He was about one year old when his family left London and moved to Hampshire.
	Just like his father and older brother (both John William Collett), his occupation was that of a gold beater. In the Portsea Island & Landport census of 1891 he was aged 27 and was still a bachelor.
	The only other information known about Joseph is that he later married Elizabeth who was born in Portsmouth during 1865.
55Q20	Mary Elizabeth Collett was born at Southsea in 1866, and was 15 years old in the census of 1881 when she was living with her family at 9 Castle Place in Portsea. It was four years later that Mary Elizabeth married John Henry Davis at Portsea in 1885.
55Q21	Harry Collett was born at Southsea in Hampshire in 1869 and was 20 years old in the census of 1891, although at that time he was listed as Henry Collett. Three years later in 1894 Harry married Annie Caroline Challis at Portsea. Annie was born at Portsmouth in 1871 and all of the couple’s sons were born at Southsea, although in 1901 the family was living in Portsmouth.
	The census that year confirmed that Harry was 32, his wife Annie was 29, and their children were Harry R Collett aged 6, John W aged 4, and Joseph F Collett who was under one year old. Harry’s occupation at that time was a picture framer and gilder.
	By April 1911 the family was still living in Portsmouth when Harry was 42 and Annie was 40, and their three sons on that occasion were recorded as Harry Collett 15, John William Collett 14, and Joseph Frederick Collett who was eleven.
	Around the time of the death of their son John William during World War One, Harry and Annie were living at 23 Kent Road in Southsea.
	36R22	Harry R Collett			Born in 1894 at Southsea
	36R23	John William Collett			Born in 1896
	36R24	Joseph Frederick Collett			Born in 1900 at Southsea
55Q22	Archibald Collett, who was known as Archie, was born at Southsea in 1871, and just prior to the census day that year. By 1881 ten years old Archie was living with his family at 9 Castle place in Portsea. Rather oddly, no record of any member of his family has been located in the census in 1891, but just a few years after this Archie was married.
	Unfortunately the entry in the census of 1901 only gave the initials of his family members. Archie Collett was 30 and an architect’s assistant living at 11 High Street in the Alverstoke district of Gosport. His place of birth on that occasion was given as Portsmouth.
	Listed with his was his wife A N Collett who was 24 and from Portsmouth, sons A B J Collett who was 6, and C G L Collett who was 5, both born at Portsmouth, and daughter I H R Collett who was two years old and born at Gosport.
	During the next few years two more children were added to the family, but tragically around the time of the birth of the last child it would appear that Archie’s wife must have died. By April 1911 Archie was living in the Portsmouth area with just his children.
	Archie Collett from Southsea was 39, and his five children were simply recorded as Archie Collett 16, Cyril Collett 15, Iris Collett 12, Harold Collett 8, and Audrey Collett who was six years old.
	36R25	Archie B J Collett			Born in 1894 at Portsmouth
	36R26	Cyril G L Collett			Born in 1895 at Portsmouth
	36R27	Iris H R Collett			Born in 1898 at Gosport
	36R28	Harold Collett			Born in 1902 at Gosport
	36R29	Audrey Collett			Born in 1904 at Gosport
55Q23	Daisy Collett was born at Southsea in 1873 and was baptised there on 09.04.1874, the second youngest daughter of John William Collett and Fanny Fletcher. In 1881 she was eight years old and was living with her family at 9 Castle place in Portsea.
55Q24	William Collett was born at Southsea in 1877 and was four years old at the time of the census in 1881 when he was living with his family at 9 Castle Place in Portsea. No record of William or any member of his family has been found in the census of 1891, but in the mid-1890s he married Bessie.
	The census in March 1901 described William Collett as being 23 and born at Portsmouth, where he was living at 52 Central Street in the town, and where he was a grocer and a shopkeeper ‘with his own account at home’. Living there with him was his wife Bessie who was 22 and from Portsmouth, and their daughter May Bessie Collett who was four years old and also born at Portsmouth.
	Whether some tragedy befell the family during the next ten years has not been confirmed, but William was absent at the time of the April census in 1911. Bessie Collett was 33, while her daughter May Bessie Collett aged 14 was the only person living with her.
	36R30	May Bessie Collett			Born in 1896 at Portsmouth
36Q34	Frank Collett was born in 1860 at Little Coxwell close to Faringdon in Berkshire (today in Oxfordshire), the only son of William and Ann Collett. It was there that he and his parents were living in April 1861, but ten years later they had moved the few miles north to Kelmscott where Frank was listed at the age of 11.
	Frank followed the same profession as his mother and in 1881 he was working as a schoolmaster in Oxford and was a boarder at the home of John Irons at 52 James Street in the St Clements district of the city.
	By 1901 Frank’s widowed mother Ann aged 71 had retired to Sherington near Newport Pagnell and had bachelor Frank aged 40 living with her. She was described as a retired school mistress, while Frank was employed as a certified school master.
	Frank eventually married and moved east to Ipswich, although it has not been determined where it was that he was married. What is known is that the marriage produced at least one child who was born while the couple were living in Ipswich.
	It was at Ipswich that the family of three were living in April 1911, when Frank was 50, his wife Elizabeth was 39, and baby Eustace was just one month old.
	36R31	Eustace Collett	Born in February 1911 at Ipswich
55R5	Walter Eldred Collett was born in May 1890 at Leeds and was one of the two sons of Charles Collett and Armenia Wilson. Sometime during the period from April to June in 1913, Walter married Evelyn L Cox at Leeds, Evelyn having been born at Rugby in Warwickshire around 1889.
55R7	Florence Emily Collett was born at Leeds on 28.03.1899, the eldest child of Arthur Edward Collett and his second wife Hannah Eliza Ackroyd who was known as Annie. Just over three years after the end of The Great War, Florence married Reginald George Burn at the Newton Park Union Church in Leeds on 04.01.1922. Reginald was born at Bradford on 14.06.1893.
	After nearly forty years together, Reginald died at Bolton-le-Sands, Carnforth in Lancashire on 29.05.1961. It was just over thirty years later that Florence Emily Burn nee Collett died at St Wilfrids Nursing Home in Halton, Lancashire on 06.03.1992.
55R9	Henry Reginald Collett was born at Leeds on 27.06.1903, the only son of Arthur Edward Collett and his second wife Annie Ackroyd. He was just a few moths short of his sixtieth birthday when he died at the Royal Earleswood Hospital at Redhill in Surrey on 12.01.1963.
55R10	Winifred Lily Collett was born at Leeds on 29.03.1906, the youngest child of Arthur Edward Collett and his second wife Annie Ackroyd. It was also during that same year when Winifred was baptised at the Brunswick Chapel in Leeds.
	In 1930 Winifred married Donald Hagyard Turnbull who was born at Bowling in Bradford on 13.09.1903. The ceremony took place at the Newton Park Union Church in Leeds on 30.07.1930, and during the following year their son was born at Leeds.
	At sometime during their life, the family moved to Warwickshire, and it was on 05.06.1991 at the General Hospital at Stratford-upon-Avon that Winifred Lily Turnbull nee Collett died at the age of 85. Her husband remained in Warwickshire for the next few years, and it was at Kineton Manor Nursing Home in the county that Donald died on 03.01.1995
	This family history has been developed by her son, using the details previously put together by Winifred Lily Collett. Our thanks therefore go to Peter for his generosity and kindness in providing all of the information that has enabled the story of his family to be told. Peter’s involvement has also helped to clarify and correct the earlier errors that existed in Part 36 – The Barwick-in-Elmet Line, and for this we are eternally grateful.
	Peter has also managed to trace his Yorkshire family roots back to Featherstone in 1565, going back in time from the current starting point in the aforementioned Part 36.
	55S1	Peter Collett Turnbull			Born in 1931 at Leeds
55R12	Mary Estella Collett was born at Deal around 1896. She married (1) Charles Thomas Collins on 26.02.1918 and the marriage produced two daughters Joyce Marie Collins born on 17.01.1919 and Phyllis Cecily Collins who was born on 29.02.1924.
	Upon the death of her husband Charles Thomas Collins, Mary married (2) Mr Harding before she died in 1978.
55R13	Elsie Florence Collett was born at Deal around 1897. On 07.04.1920 she married George Hugh Woodhams who was born on 25.05.1892. For the most part of their married life together it is believed that the couple lived in London. However, when Elsie died in 1991 she was living at Dover.
55R14	Doris Grace Collett was born at Deal around 1899. She married Andrew Rudolf Fraser on 06.09.1916 and they had two children, Yvonne Betty Fraser born on 23.12.1917 and Ronald Andrew Fraser who was born on 05.04.1921. Tragically Andrew died in his twenties on 23.01.1922. It seems likely that Doris never re-married, but it is known that she died in 1976.
55R15	Richard James Collett was born at Deal in Kent in 1902, the youngest child of Richard James Collett and Esther Shrewsbury Wratten. It was on 05.11.1927 at Brentford in Middlesex that he married Laura G Turner. At sometime during his life he lived in France and Ireland and this may have been before he was married. He was an engineer by trade and while living in London he was involved in aircraft assembly with Handley Page.
	At the outbreak of war and following the death of his father, Richard and Laura moved out of London in 1939 because of the threat to their safety from air-raids and the bombing of the city. The family then settled in Swindon where Richard worked as a foreman for Vickers Armstrong.
	The move from London to Swindon may have also been prompted by the arrival, or pending arrival, of their son that same year. Twenty-four years later, and two years prior to the wedding of their son in 1963, Richard and Laura returned to live in Deal.
	Once back in Deal, Richard and Laura became the landlord and landlady of the Ship Inn in Middle Street where they lived and worked until Richard’s death in 1971.
	Richard James Collett died on 23.06.1971, while his wife Laura died nineteen years later on 03.10.1990.
	55S2	Michael Richard Collett			Born in 1939
55R16	Charles Collett was born at Deal around 1912 and he married Doreen Daphne Butler on 15.03.1930. It is understood that the marriage produced no children and that Charles died in 1980.
55R18	Newton Henry Collett was born at Portsmouth in 1885 and followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming a gilder. In 1901 Newton was a general gilder aged 15 and was living and working with his father Newton Collett at Portsmouth.
	Following the death of his father in September 1910, Newton Henry Collett was still living with his widowed mother Elizabeth Mary Collett at the time of the Portsmouth census of 1911 when he was unmarried at the age of 25.
55R23	John William Collett was born at Southsea in 1896 and was 4 years old in the 1901 Census when he was living with his parents and two brothers in Portsmouth. He and his family were still living in Portsmouth ten years later as confirmed by the 1911 Census in which John William Collett was fourteen years old.
	His close association with the sea resulted in him enlisting in the Royal Navy at the outbreak of the First World War. He was ordinary seaman SS16825 attached to the cruiser HMS Hampshire.
	Tragically he died aged 19 years on 05.06.1916 when the Hampshire hit a German mine off the Orkney Islands and sank with only twelve survivors. The total ship’s compliment at that time comprised 655 officers and crew, plus seven civilians one of which was Lord Kitchener.
	The name of John William Collett appears on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial reference 14.
55S2	Michael Richard Collett was born in 1939 and on 27.03.1965 he married Joan Mumford who was born in 1945.
	APPENDIX
	During the compilation of this family line other Collett children born at Wakefield have been found, although it is not clear where they might fit in. Therefore they have been included here in this appendix in the hope that one day their place within the Wakefield Collett families will be established.
	Thomas Collit was married to Ann, and their two children were baptised at All Saints Church in Wakefield in a joint ceremony on 25^th April 1812. Sarah Collit was born on 20^th August 1805, and her sister Mary Collit was born on 26^th September 1807.