PART FIFTY-SIX

The Alcester & Bidford-on-Avon District line

(The Line of Thomas Collett of Alcester, Warwickshire)

Updated November 2011

The villages of Bidford-on-Avon and Broom, just three miles south of Alcester, were also the homes of a number of members of the Collett but, because no direct connection has yet been found to this line, their details are included in Appendix 1 at the end of this file. Similarly the village of Cleeve Prior, just two miles south-west of Bidford, and also the home of another branch of the Collett family, has the details of its inhabitants included in Appendix 2.

In addition to all of this, there is a sub-section to Appendix 1, and this traces back the family line of Sarah Collett (Ref. 56m7) of Stanway in Gloucestershire, whose base-born son John Collett created a major family at the aforementioned village of Broom.

56K1	WILLIAM COLLETT was probably born around 1750, but where and to whom, has not yet been determined. He married Elizabeth and their son was baptised at Pebworth in Worcestershire, which lies very close to the county boundaries with Gloucestershire and Warwickshire, midway between Broadway and Alcester.
	56L1		WILLIAM COLLETT	Born in 1772 at Pebworth, Worcs.
56L1	WILLIAM COLLETT may have been born around 1772 and was baptised at Pebworth on 7^th August 1774, the son of William and Elizabeth Collett.
	It was possibly when William was nearing his twentieth birthday that he became a married man. The baptism records for his children give his wife’s name as Susanna, while in the later census records she was listed as Susannah Collett. The only marriage of a William Collett found around that time took place at Broadway on 5^th July 1792, when the bride was named as Anne Walker – see note below.
	The marriage is known to have resulted in the birth of at least two sons while William and Susanna were still living at Broadway, although it would appear that the family later moved north to Alcester, where their third known son was born. It is also very likely that other children were born to the couple, in addition to just the three children listed below.
	By the time of the first national census in June 1841 Susannah Collett was a widow living in Alcester with her son William Collett. Susannah had a rounded age of 60, while her son’s rounded age was 40. Ten years later, in the census of 1851, Susannah Collett, a victualler from Northleach in Gloucestershire, was recorded with her actual age of 74, when she was still living in Alcester, at 14 Henley Street. Living with her on that occasion was her granddaughter Mary Collett, age 13 and from West Bromwich, who was the daughter of Susannah’s son Thomas Collett.
	No record of Susanna Collett has been found anywhere in the census of 1861, so it may be safe to assume that she had died during the 1850s.
Note	Within the Gloucestershire IGI an Anne Walker was baptised at St Michael’s Church in Gloucester on 2^nd April 1775, the daughter of John Walker and his wife Susanna, whereas Susanna the wife of William Collett gave her place of birth as Northleach. It is therefore very likely that the William who was married to Anne Walker at Broadway in 1792 was the son of Richard Collett of Broadway, and his wife Elizabeth, whose details can be found in the Broadway Appendix at the end of the second section of Part 2 – The Secondary Line.
	56M1		Samuel Collett	Born in 1793 at Broadway, Worcs.
	56M2		William Collett	Born in 1795 at Broadway, Worcs.
	56M3		THOMAS COLLETT	Born in 1800 at Alcester, Warws.
56M1	Samuel Collett was born at Broadway in Worcestershire during 1793, the son of William and Susanna Collett who was baptised at Broadway on 16^th July 1793. There is a possibility that Samuel may have been married twice, but what is known is that he was around thirty-seven years old when he married Ann Layton at St Martin’s Church in Birmingham on 27^th January 1830.
	Once married Samuel and Ann initially settled within the Arrow area of Alcester where, almost exactly eight months later, Ann gave birth to daughter, and just over four years after that Ann presented Samuel with a son. It is very likely that other children were born into the family, but by the time of the census in 1841 there was just the four of them living within the Alcester registration district.
	In June 1841 Samuel Collett and his wife Ann Collett were both recorded with rounded ages of 45, while their two children were listed at Alcester with them as Ann Collett, age ten, and Thomas Collett who was five years old. The family was still living there in 1851 when Samuel was 57, Ann was 58, daughter Anne was 19, and son Thomas was 16.
	Judging by the next census in 1861, it would appear that Ann died during the 1850s, with Samuel then moving out of Alcester, to settle in Bidford-on-Avon, where he was recorded at the age of 67 as Samuel Collett from Broadway.
	56N1		Ann Collett	Born in 1830 at Arrow, Alcester
	56N2		Thomas Collett	Born in 1835 at Alcester
56M2	William Collett was born at Broadway in Worcestershire during 1795, where he was baptised on 18^th May 1795, the second son of William and Susanna Collett. By the time of the census in 1841 William Collett was living at Alcester with his widowed mother Susannah Collett, when he was recorded with a rounded age of 40.
56M3	THOMAS COLLETT was born around 1800 at Alcester, near the county boundary of Warwickshire with Worcestershire. He was a journeyman carpenter and appears to have travelled about a lot, presumably to seek and secure employment. He married Mary Ann Skinner in the parish of St John Bedwardine in the city of Worcester on 26.05.1828.
	The marriage is believed to have produced a number of children for Thomas and Mary Ann, including Robert who was born in 1830, George who was born in 1832, Samuel who was born in 1835, Mary Ann who was born in 1837, Edward who was born in 1840, and Sarah Skinner Collett who was born in 1842.
	It would appear that following their wedding day, the couple may have initially settled in Birmingham, since it was there that their first four children were born. However, it was eight years after the birth of their first child, that Thomas and Mary Ann arranged to have all four children baptised in a joint ceremony at St Peter’s & St Paul’s Church in the Aston (juxta Birmingham area of the city), which took place on 30^th September 1838.
	Two years later their fifth child was born at Great Bridge, near Tipton and to the west of West Bromwich. And it was in the West Bromwich registration district that Mary was living at the time of the census in June 1841. No record of Thomas has been found, so it seems likely that he was working away from his family on that occasion.
	Living with Mary, who had a rounded age of 40, were just four of her five children. They were Geo Collett, who was eight, Saml Collett, who was six, Mary Collett who was three, and Edward Collett who was one year old. Her missing son, and eldest child Robert, may well have been with his father.
	Not long after the census that year, Mary Ann produced the last of her six children, who was born while the family was still living at West Bromwich. At the time of the next census in 1851, the family was once again recorded as not being together, with Thomas in lodgings, while he was working in the Wolverhampton area with his two eldest sons, when his wife Mary had returned to her home town of Worcester with the three of the four youngest children.
	Thomas, Robert, and George were staying at The Prince of Wales Inn on Compton Road in Wolverhampton St Marks, where they were recorded as lodgers not having separate rooms. Thomas Collett was married and 51, Robert Collett was 20, and George Collett was 18. All three of them were carpenter journeymen from Warwickshire, although where the name of the town or village would have been were the initials N K (not known).
	Sharing the same room with them was unmarried agricultural labourer Michael Connor, age 24, from Mayo in Ireland. The licenced victualler at The Prince of Wales was Robert Brant who employed no hands to help him manage the inn. His wife Sarah did have a house servant, in the form of thirteen years old Sarah Jennings.
	At that same time, when half her family were away on business, Mary Ann Collett, age 46 and from Worcester, was living at 26 Boughton Street in the St John Bedwardine district of Worcester, where she married Thomas twenty-two years earlier. It was simply as Mary Collett that she was listed as being married, and working as a housekeeper, presumably for her husband and their family. The three children living with her were Samuel Collett, age 14 and from Birmingham, Edward Collett, age 11 and from Great Bridge, and Sarah S Collett who was nine years old and from west Bromwich.
	Also in the census return for 1851, Thomas’ and Mary Ann’s missing daughter Mary Ann Collett was living with her grandmother Susannah Collett, age 74, at her home at 14 Henley Street in Alcester from where, at the age of 13, she was still attending school. On that occasion the birth place of Mary Ann Collett was given by her grandmother in error as West Bromwich, rather than Birmingham, probably because she knew the family was living there for some years after Mary Ann was born.
	Although no record has been found to confirm this, it is understood that Mary Ann Collett nee Skinner died prior to 1860. Certainly by the time of the census in 1861 her husband Thomas was described as a widower, at the age of 60, when he was living at 62 Bransford Road within the parish of Worcester St John, near to where he had married Mary in 1828. His occupation was that of a carpenter, while still living with him were his two youngest children, Edward Collett age 21 and Sarah Collett who was 19.
	Apparently lodging not far away at the Royal Oak Inn in Worcester, was his son Samuel Collett who was 25.
	With his advancing years, Thomas eventually was living on his own, and it was then that his eldest son Robert, who was married in the early 1850s, invited Thomas to go and live with him and his second wife and family in Birmingham. That move from Worcester to Birmingham was confirmed in the census of 1861 when, Thomas Collett age 70 was living with Robert and Mary Ann Collett and Robert’s four children at Market Hall in Erdington.
	It was just nineteen months later, on 1^st November 1873, that Thomas Collet of Alcester died at the home of his son Robert Collett in Birmingham. The cause of death was recorded as senile decay over the preceding eighteen months. The informant of the death was Thomas’ other son Samuel Collett.
	56N3		Robert Collett	Born in 1830 at Birmingham
	56N4		GEORGE COLLETT	Born in 1832 at Birmingham
	56N5		Samuel Collett	Born in 1835 at Birmingham
	56N6		Mary Ann Collett	Born in 1837 at Birmingham
	56N7		Edward Collett	Born in 1840 at Great Bridge, nr Tipton
	56N8		Sarah Skinner Collett	Born in 1842 at West Bromwich
56N1	Ann Collett was born at Alcester during September 1830, the same year in which her parents Samuel Collett and Ann Layton were married. It was as Ann Collat that she was baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Arrow, to the west of Alcester on 20^th September 1830, when her parents were confirmed as Samuel and Ann Collat. However, Ann and her family were correctly recorded as Collett in the Alcester census of 1841.
	Ann Collett aged ten years, was living there with her parents and her younger brother Thomas (below). Ten years later, at the time of the Alcester census of 1851, the same family of four was still living there, except on that occasion Ann was recorded as Anne Collett age 19. Following the death of her mother during the next decade, it is likely that Ann was eventually married in the 1850s, since by 1861 her widowed father had left Alcester and was living in the Bidford-on-Avon area, three miles to the south.
56N2	Thomas Collett was born at Alcester, possibly in late 1834, and it was there also that he was baptised on 22^nd February 1835, the son of Samuel Collett and his wife Ann Layton. According to the June census in 1841, Thomas Collett was five years old when he was living with his parents and his sister Ann (above) in the town of Alcester.
	Thomas was still living with his family by the time of the Alcester census in 1851, by which time he was 16 years old. During the 1850s it would appear that his mother died, because in 1861 his widowed father Samuel was living alone in the Bidford-on-Avon, three miles south of Alcester.
	Sometime during the late 1850s Thomas Collett left Warwickshire when he moved south to London, presumably for better work prospects. It was there, at Goswell Street in Clerkenwell, that he was living in 1861 at the age of 26, when his place of birth was given as Alcester.
	Although not proved or verify, it would appear that Thomas married Mary Jane, and once they were married the couple returned to Alcester where their son was born. The parish record at Alcester confirmed that Fred Collett was baptised there on 13^th March 1864, the son of Thomas and Mary Jane Collett. Tragically it was just two days later that he died, the parish register confirming the date as 15^th March 1864. What happened to the couple after the death of their son is not known, since no further record of Thomas or Mary Jane has been located to date.
	56O1		Fred Collett	Born in 1864 at Alcester
56N3	Robert Collett was born at Birmingham on 15^th December 1830, the eldest child of Thomas Collett of Alcester and Mary Ann Skinner of Worcester. He was nearly eight years old when he was baptised in a joint ceremony with his three siblings at the Church of St Peter & St Paul in Aston on 30^th September 1838. At the time of the first national census in 1841, Robert and his father were both absent from the family home in West Bromwich.
	However, by 1851, and at the age of 20, Robert was a carpenter journeyman working with his father and his brother George (below) in Wolverhampton. On that particular occasion the three of them were sharing a room at The Prince of Wales Inn on Compton Road.
	It was during the next couple of years that Robert married (1) Sophia Bradley, and by the time of the census in 1861 the marriage had produced three children for the couple. The census that year recorded the family living within the Aston & Erdington registration district of Birmingham, where Robert was 30, Sophia was 31, and their three children were Frances E Collett who was six, Frederick W Collett who was three, and Emma S Collett who was one year old.
	It seems highly likely that Sophia may have been expecting the arrival of the couple’s fourth child later that same year. However, tragically Sophia died during 1863, possibly at the time of the birth of a fifth child, who also did not survive. So with four young children to look after, Robert later married (2) Mary Ann Evans from Worcester in 1865.
	This was confirmed in the census of 1871 when Robert and his family were living at Market Hall in Erdington. By that time Robert was 40, his new wife Mary Ann was 36, and with the couple were the four children from Robert’s first marriage. And they were Frances, age 15, Frederick, age 14, Emma, age 11, and Alice who was nine years old.
	Living with the family was Robert’s father, the ailing Thomas Collett, who passed away just over eighteen months later. Before the death of his father, Mary Ann presented Thomas with his fifth grandchild, Robert’s only known child by his second wife.
	According to the census in 1881, all of the children from Robert’s first marriage had left the family home to make their own way in the world. The only child still living with the couple at 36 Butler Street in the Aston area of Birmingham, was their daughter Edith.
	Curiously Robert’s age was recorded in error as 46, instead of 50, although his occupation was still that of a carpenter, and his place of birth was correctly recorded as Birmingham. His wife Mary A Collett from Worcester was 45, so he may have said 46 out of embarrassment of being a few years older than his wife. Their daughter Edith Collett was nine years old and had been born at Birmingham.
	Even more curious is the fact that ten years later, both Robert and Mary Ann were recorded as being 60 years old in the Solihull (Birmingham) census of 1891. The census return confirmed that the couple was living at a dwelling in George Street within the Hay Mills, South Yardley district of Birmingham, with their daughter Edith Collett who was 19. The birth place of Robert Collett was also confirmed as Birmingham, and he was still continuing to work as a carpenter at that time.
	Staying with the family on that day was Robert’s granddaughter Edith Collett, who was five years old and the daughter of his son Frederick William Collett who had died just three years earlier..
	It was at that same address, just less than two years later, that Robert Collett died on 4^th February 1893, at the age of 62, following which he was buried in a common grave at Yardley Cemetery. Following his death Mary Ann married Lambert Longmore, after which her granddaughter Edith Collett continued to live with the couple.
	Edith even continued to live with Lambert Longmore at Aston after Mary Ann had died, and only left when she married Charles Lee in 1909.
	56O2		Frances Emily Collett	Born in 1855 at Erdington
	56O3		Frederick William Collett	Born in 1857 at Erdington
	56O4		Emma Sophia Collett	Born in 1859 at Erdington
	56O5		Alice Mary Ann Collett	Born in 1861 at Erdington
	The only child from the second marriage of Robert Collett with Mary Ann was:
	56O6		Edith Collett	Born in 1871 at Birmingham
56N4	GEORGE COLLETT was born at Birmingham on 3^rd February 1832, the second son of Thomas and Mary Ann Collett. He was over six years old when he was one of four children of Thomas and Mary Ann to be baptised at the Church of St Peter & St Paul in Aston on 30^th September 1838. Nearly three years later, in June 1841, George Collett was eight years old when he was living in West Bromwich with his mother and the rest of his family, while his father may have been away on business.
	Ten years after that, in 1851, when George was 18, he was already working as a carpenter with his father and his older brother Robert. On the day of the census that year, the three of them were lodging at The Prince of Wales Inn on Compton Road in the Wolverhampton parish of St Marks. All three of them were sharing a room at the inn, and all three were described at a journeyman carpenter. Rather oddly though, the census form stated that their place of birth was simply Warwickshire, perhaps because it was completed by the publican Robert Brant, while the three were at work.
	Just three years after the census day, George Collett married Jane Gould at St John Bedwardine in Worcester on 6^th July 1854. Jane was baptised at Alrewas, north of Lichfield, on 3^rd June 1828, the daughter of William and Charlotte Gould. William may have been related to John Gould, the father of John Gould who married George’s youngest sister Sarah Skinner Collett (below) in the 1870s.
	Once married the couple appear to have settled in Worcester, where the first of their three children was born during the following year. The actual location may have been Claines just two miles north of Worcester, where the family was living at the time of the census in 1861. The census return listed the family as Collitt, with George 28, his wife Jane 32, and their children Thomas who was five, George who was three, and Charles G Collitt who was one year old. Tragically, two years later in 1863, Jane Collett died, possibly during childbirth, and that same year her youngest son Charles Gould Collett also passed away.
	It would appear from the later records that George did not re-married, and in 1871, according the census that year, George Collett, widower, was living in lodgings within the parish of St Martin Birmingham with his two surviving children. George was 38, Thomas was 15, and George, who was referred to as Samuel, was 13. During the next decade his eldest son became a married man, and so by 1881, George Collett, age 48 and a carpenter from Worcester, was living with his son Thomas and his family at Court 2, 1 Vaughton Street in the Deritend district of Birmingham.
	Perhaps with the family of Thomas Collett growing in size it was not possible for George to continue living with his son, and by 1891, when Thomas and his larger family were living still in Deritend, George, at the age of 58, was once again living in the St Martin parish of Birmingham where his occupation was still that of a carpenter.
	Just after the turn of the century George was back living in the Deritend area of the city, but not with his son Thomas who were also still living there. By then he was 68 and ten years later in 1911 he was 78, when yet again he was recorded as being a carpenter. With the lack of any further information, it is assumed that he died during the next decade, when he was in his eighties.
	56O7		THOMAS COLLETT	Born in 1855 at Worcester
	56O8		George Collett	Born in 1857 at Worcester
	56O9		Charles Gould Collett	Born in 1859 at Worcester
56N5	Samuel Collett was born at Birmingham on 4^th September 1835, the son of Thomas and Mary Ann Collett, and was nearly three years old when he was baptised at Church of St Peter & St Paul in Aston on 30^th September 1838 in a joint ceremony with three of his siblings. In June 1841 he and his family were living within the West Bromwich area, when Samuel was six years old. Missing from the family home on the day of the census that month was Samuel’s father and older brother Robert.
	Ten years later, the census in 1851, placed Samuel Collett, age 14, once again living with his mother, but on that occasion they were residing at 26 Boughton Street in the St John Bedwardine district of Worcester, while Samuel’s father was away working in Wolverhampton.
	With the death of his mother sometime during the 1850s, bachelor Samuel Collett was recorded as being 25 in Worcester census of 1861, when he was living not far from his widowed father and his two youngest siblings Edward and Sarah. It is unclear as to what happened to Samuel after 1861, because no record of him has been found in the census of 1871.
	However, in November 1873, it was Samuel who informed the authorities of the death of his father, who was living with Samuel’s brother Robert in Birmingham at that time. The address Samuel gave, and which appeared on his father’s death certificate, was Lombard Street in the Deritend area of Birmingham. Eight years later, in 1881, Samuel was in lodgings at Rea Street South in Deritend, a road that was only a few yards from Lombard Street and Vaughton Street, where his brother George (above) was living at the home of his son Thomas Collett.
	The census in 1881 recorded that Samuel Collett from Birmingham was 45, unmarried, and his occupation was that of a carpenter. Where he was staying was the home of widow Mary Hall, age 44, and her three children, which included a married his and his baby daughter. Although it is established that Samuel Collett died in 1898, no record of him has been discovered within any census of 1891.
56N6	Mary Ann Collett was born at Birmingham on 29^th September 1837, the eldest daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann Collett. It was one year later that she was baptised at Church of St Peter & St Paul in Aston on 30^th September 1838 with three of her siblings. She was also listed in 1841 census as simply Mary Collett, being three years old, when she was living at West Bromwich with just her mother and three of her four brothers.
	Ten years after that in 1851, Mary Ann Collett who was 13 was living at 14 Henley Street in Alcester, the home of her grandmother Susannah Collett of Northleach who was 74. Mary Ann was still attending school at that time in her life, so it was very likely her grandmother who gave her place of birth as West Bromwich where her sister Sarah (below) was born, rather than Birmingham.
	With no further record of Mary or Mary Ann Collett after 1851, it is assumed that she was married by the time of the next census in 1861.
56N7	Edward Collett was born at Great Bridge, near Tipton, in 1840, the son of Thomas and Mary Ann Collett. He was one year old in the June census of 1841, when he was living at West Bromwich with his mother and three siblings. Ten years later the census in 1851 placed Edward Collett, age 11, living at 26 Boughton Street in the St John Bedwardine district of Worcester with his mother, his brother Samuel (above), and his sister Sarah (below).
	Following the death of his mother during the 1850s, Edward Collett was 21 in 1861 when he was living with his widowed father and his sister Sarah at 62 Bransford Road in Worcester. After a further ten years, according to the census in 1871, he was 31 and was living alone within the Deritend district of Birmingham, not far from the other members of his family.
	It may have been his work that took him north during the 1870s, since by the time of the census in 1881 he was living in Macclesfield, where he was working as a joiner, while also and running the Old Kings Head Inn. No record of him has been found in 1891, but sadly by 1901, he was a patient at the Salford Union Infirmary in Pendleton, Lancashire, when he was described as a pauper and retired joiner/carpenter. It was at the Salford in 1908 that the death of Edward Collett was registered.
56N8	Sarah Skinner Collett was born at West Bromwich in 1842, the youngest of the six known children of Thomas Collett and his wife Mary Ann Skinner. It was in West Bromwich that her parents had been living for the census in June 1841, but by the time of the next census in 1851, when Sarah S Collett was age nine years, she was living at 26 Boughton Street within the St John Bedwardine parish of the city of Worcester, near to where her mother had been born, and where Sarah’s parents were married.
	It was during the latter years of the next decade that Sarah’s mother died, so by 1861 Sarah was still living in Worcester, at 62 Bransford Road, with her widowed father and her brother Edward (above). Whilst her father gave his correct place of birth as Alcester, for both Edward and Sarah he stated that they had been born in Worcester rather that the West Bromwich area. Sarah Collett was 19 and was described as a servant, presumably indicating that she was keeping house for the two men.
	Curiously no obvious record of Sarah has been found in 1871, but shortly thereafter it is established that Sarah married John Gould from Stramshall near Uttoxeter, who had recently been widowed by the death of his first wife Mary. John was baptised in Uttoxeter on 23.06.1839, the son of John and Ellen Gould, and from his marriage to Mary he had two sons, both of them born in Manchester.
	The reason for the absence from the 1871 census of Sarah Collett may indicate that she too was married by then, and that her marriage to John Gould was also her second marriage. However, in addition to this, it seems more than likely that Sarah moved north to Lancashire, perhaps for work, or maybe because she was married.
	Either way, it was in Lancashire that she married John Gould, and where she was living with him and his two sons at the time of the census in 1881. On that occasion John Gould, age 41, was a licenced victualler residing at 16 Lancashire Hill in Heaton Norris, Stockport. His wife was Sarah Skinner Gould from Worcester who was 38, and his two children were John Chadwick Gould, age 13, and William Alfred Gould who was 12.
	Also living with the family was Alice M A Collett, age 19 from Worcester, who was employed by the family as a domestic servant but, in addition to which, she was described as the niece of John Gould.
56O3	Frederick William Collett was born at Erdington in 1857, the second child and eldest son of Robert Collett and Sophia Bradley. He and his family were still residing in the Erdington area in 1861 when Frederick was three, and again in 1871 when he was 14. On that latter census day the family was living in the Market Hall district of Erdington.
	It has not been discovered where he was in 1881, when he would have been around 23 or 24, but two years later, during the first few months of 1883, he married Alice Maria Herbert from Abberley in Worcestershire, with whom he had five children before the end of the decade.
	The couple only enjoyed just over five years of married life together, during which time they saw their first child died when he was still only a few weeks old. Further tragedy struck the family when Frederick William Collett died of epilepsy on 24.07.1888, age the age of 31. By that time Alice was already pregnant with his fifth child, who was born over five months after his death, when he was buried in a common grave at Yardley Cemetery. Two years after the death of her husband, Alice married (2) Edward McHugh in 1890. This photograph of the three surviving children of Frederick and Alice was taken around the time Alice married for a second time.
	During the next year the couple were listed in the Solihull registration district in 1891 as living at Hay Mills in the South Yardley district of Birmingham. Living with them were two of Alice’s Collett children who were recorded as Elsie McHugh, who was six, and Fred McHugh who was three. Edward McHugh was 34, while his wife Alice was only 25.
	At the time of the census that year, Alice’s daughter Edith Collett, who was five years old, was staying with her paternal grandparents at their home, which was also in Hay Mills.
	Bad luck continued to haunt Alice since, just over a month after the census day in 1891, her second husband Edward McHugh died, following which she married (3) William Henry Mack, by whom she had another six children. The first of them was born at Hay Mills, after which the family moved to Leicester where the next two were born, before the family finally moved back to Yardley.
	In March 1901 the Mack family was confirmed as living in Yardley, where William, age 43 and from Harborne, was a brick maker and setter. His wife Alice M Mack was 34, and by then they had three children Sidney who was seven, Beatrice who was four, and Lilian who was one year old. Still living with the family was Alice’s son from her first marriage, Frederick William Collett, who was listed as Frederick W Mack age 13, who was learning engineering.
	Ten years later William Henry Mack was 52, and Alice Marie Mack was 45, when they were still living in Yardley. With them on that occasion was Sidney James Mack 17, Beatrice Ann Mack 14, Lilian Irene Mack 11, Arthur Henry Mack 8, Horace Charles Mack 4, and Walter Harold Mack who was one.
	56P1		William Collett	Born in 1883 at Birmingham
	56P2		Elsie Collett	Born in 1884 at Small Heath
	56P3		Edith Collett	Born in 1886 at Birmingham
	56P4		Frederick William Collett	Born in 1887 at Birmingham
	56P5		Alice Collett	Born in 1889 at Yardley
56O4	Emma Sophia Collett was born at Erdington in 1859, the third child of Robert Collett and his first wife Sophia Bradley. She was recorded as being one year old in the Aston & Erdington census of 1861, and was 11 years old in 1871 when she was living with her father and his second wife at Market Hall in Erdington.
	Upon leaving school Emma entered into domestic service and, according to the census in 1881, she was employed as a general servant by hotel-keeper Henry C Gill at the Pack Horse Hotel at Jordangate in Macclesfield. Emma Collett was 21, but strangely she gave her place of birth as Worcester, as did her sister Emma (below), that same year.
56O5	Alice Collett was born at Erdington in 1861 not long after the census day on 7^th April. She was the daughter of Robert Collett and his first wife Sophia, who would appear to have died either during the birth or shortly thereafter. Following the death of her mother, her father re-married, and so by 1871 Alice Collett, age nine years, was living at Market Hall in Erdington with her father and stepmother.
	Alice was around two years old when her elderly grandfather, who had been living with her father for some time, passed away. Like her older sister Emma (above), Alice also went into domestic service when she left school, and also like Emma, she also moved north to gain employment.
	The census in 1881 placed Alice M A Collett, age 19 and from Worcester (sic) working as a domestic servant for her aunt Sarah Skinner Gould, nee Collett of Worcester, the youngest sister of her father. Sarah’s husband was licenced victualler John Gould, whose home was at 16 Lancashire Hill in Heaton Norris, Stockport, just ten miles from where Alice’s sister Emma was working in Macclesfield.
56O6	Edith Collett was born at Birmingham in 1871, but after the census day on 2^nd April that year, the only known child of Robert Collett and his second wife Mary Ann Collett. In 1881, at the age of nine years, Edith was the only child living with her parents at 36 Butler Street within the Aston area of the city, all of Robert’s children from his first marriage having left home by then.
	Sometime after 1881, Edith’s parents left Aston and from the north side of Birmingham to the south side of the city. By 1891, when Edith was 19, she was still living with her parents at George Street in Hay Mills, South Yardley, and it was there also that her father died in early 1893. Over the following years her mother also passed away, and with no record of Edith as Edith Collett, age 29, in the March census of 1901, it is assumed that she was probably married during the latter half of the 1890s.
56O7	THOMAS COLLETT was born at Worcester in 1855, the eldest child of George Collett and Jane Gould who was curiously baptised at Bromsgrove on 6^th July 1855. At the time of the census in 1861, when Thomas was five years old, he and his family were living in the Claines district just north of Worcester city centre.
	A double tragedy hit the family two years later when Thomas’ mother and baby brother Charles both died, leaving Thomas and his brother George living alone with their widowed father in 1871, by which time the three of them were living in Birmingham St Martin, where Thomas was 15.
	It was around six or seven years later that Thomas Collett married Sarah Ann from Birmingham, with whom he had a total of eight children, and all of them born in Birmingham. The census in 1881 placed the family living at Court 2, number one Vaughton Street, in the Highgate district of the city and not far from Highgate Park.
	At that time in his life Thomas Collett, age 25 and from Worcester, was a nail caster, and living there with him was his wife Sarah A Collett, who was 24 and from Birmingham, and their first two children Thomas who was two years old, and George who was seven months old. Also living with the family was Thomas’ widowed father George Collett, a carpenter from Worcester.
	Three more children were added to the family during the next decade, during which time Thomas’ father left the family home, to be replaced by Thomas’ brother George, who was living with the family in 1891. The family of Thomas Collett was still living in the same area of Birmingham for the census that year, and was made up of Thomas Collett 36, Sarah A Collett 35, Thomas 12, George 10, Charles who was seven, Florence who was four, and Alice who was two years old.
	During the final decade of the century another three children were born into the family. So by the time of the census in March 1901 the whole family was gathered together and was still living in the Deritend area of south Birmingham, not far from where Thomas’ brother George (below) was still living.
	At that time in his life Thomas Collett, age 45, was a retired nail caster, so he may have been forced to retire through some injury or ailment. His placed of birth on that occasion was recorded as Bromsgrove, rather than Worcester. All of the other members of his family were recorded as having been born in Birmingham, and they were his wife Sarah Ann 45, Thomas 22, George 20, Charles 17, Florence 14, Alice 12, William who was nine, Harold who was three, and Sydney who was one month old. Thomas had obviously been quiet successful during his life, because the family employed a servant.
	Another family move took place during the first few years of the new century since by April 1911, Thomas and Sarah Ann were living with the four youngest members of their family in the Kings Norton registration district to the south of Birmingham. Thomas was 56, Sarah Ann was 54, Alice was 22, William was 19, Harold was 13, and Sydney was 10.
	No details of the family after that time are currently available.
	56P6		Thomas Collett	Born in 1878 at Birmingham
	56P7		George Edmund Collett	Born in 1880 at Birmingham
	56P8		CHARLES COLLETT	Born in 1883 at Birmingham
	56P9		Florence Collett	Born in 1886 at Birmingham
	56P10		Alice Collett	Born in 1888 at Birmingham
	56P11		William Collett	Born in 1892 at Birmingham
	56P12		Harold Collett	Born in 1898 at Birmingham
	56P13		Sydney Collett	Born in February 1901 at Birmingham
56O8	George Collett was born at Worcester in 1857. In the census of 1861 he was recorded as George Collitt, who was three years old and who was living with his parents George and Jane Collitt in the Claines area of Worcester. George was only a few years old when his mother died, and also around that same time, his youngest brother Charles (below) also passed away.
	Rather oddly George was recorded as Samuel Collett, age 13, in the Birmingham St Martin census of 1871, when he was living there in lodgings with his widowed father George, and his older brother Thomas (above). When his brother Thomas later became a married man, their father George went to live with him, as confirmed in the census of 1881. However, no record of George or Samuel Collett aged around 23 has been found in the same census.
	What is known is that, as George Collett, he was living with his brother Thomas at his home in Deritend at the time of the census in 1891, but instead of his age being recorded as 33, it was written as 30, perhaps an error in translation. Just a few years after that census day, George married Alice, and by the time of the census in 1901, their marriage had presented them with three children.
	The family was living at 7 Leopold Street in Deritend, where George Collett from Worcester, age 44, was managing his own fish shop, as indicated by the words “fish shop keeper having his own account”. His wife Alice, 37, and his three children, were all born in Birmingham. The children were Thomas who was six, William who was four, and George who was three years old.
	It was still at Deritend where the family was living ten years later, by which time George and Alice had added a daughter to their family although, as in previous years, George’s stated age did not correspond with the year of his birth. He was listed as being 55, while Alice was 50 instead of 47, when comparing her age to the previous census return.
	Their four children at that time were recorded as Thomas Collett who was 16, William Collett who was 14, George Collett who was 13, and Florence Collett who was only five years old.
	56P14		Thomas Collett	Born in 1894 at Birmingham
	56P15		William Collett	Born in 1896 at Birmingham
	56P16		George Collett	Born in 1898 at Birmingham
	56P17		Florence Collett	Born in 1905 at Birmingham
56O9	Charles Gould Collett was born at Worcester in 1859, the youngest of the three sons of George Collet and his wife Jane Gould. And it was in Worcester that he and his family were living at the time of the census in 1861. Tragically, Charles Gould Collett was around three years old when he died at Worcester, the same year that his mother Jane also died.
56P1	William Collett was born at Birmingham in 1883, the first born child of Frederick William Collett and his wife Alice Marie Herbert, but sadly he died that same year.
56P2	Elsie Collett was born at Birmingham in 1884, the eldest surviving child of Frederick and Alice Collett. Else was only four years old when her father died, two years later her mother married Edward McHugh. By the time of the census in 1891 Elsie was living at Hay Mills, in South Yardley with her mother and her brother Fred (below) at the home of her stepfather Edward McHugh. On that occasion she was recorded as Elsie McHugh aged six years, but just over one month later Edward McHugh died, after which Elsie’s mother married William Henry Mack. This photograph of Elsie was taken around 1930.
	The family then remained living at Hay Mills, where Elsie’s half-brother Sidney Mack was born, before the family moved to Leicester, where they lived for the next five years before returning to Yardley in Birmingham.
	Elsie Collett (Elsie McHugh in 1891) had also gone with the Mack family when they moved to Leicester, but remained there when her mother and Henry Mack went back to Birmingham. This was confirmed in the census of 1901, when Edith was recorded as Edith Collet, age 16 and from Small Heath, near Yardley in Birmingham, was working as a general domestic service at a house in Chancery Street in Leicester.
	It may be significant that also living in that same area of Leicester, at that time, but not with Edith, was 25 years old Gertrude Annie Collett, also from Small Heath in Birmingham. So the question might be, were they related, such as being cousins. No other person listed in the census that year, either male or female, was recorded as having been born at Small Heath.
	Just less than eight years later, Elsie returned to where her mother was living, when she married Harry Grainger on 20^th February 1909, at Christ Church, the parish church in Yardley. Once married the couple continued to reside in Leicester, first living at Mountcastle Road, and later at Raymond Road. During those years Elsie presented Harry with five children.
	At the time of the census in April 1911, Elsie Grainger, age 26, was living in Leicester with her husband Harry who was 28, when she was expecting the birth of their first child. Lilian Grainger was born during the month of May 1911, and was followed by Henry George Grainger (born December 1912), Frank Leslie Grainger (born September 1917), and then twins Harold Walter and Arthur Herbert Grainger, who were born during November 1920.
	Elise Grainger nee Collett died in October 1944 at the age of 60.
56P3	Edith Collett was born at Birmingham in 1886, the second daughter of Frederick and Alice Collett. Following the death of her father when Edith was just two years old, and the subsequent marriage of her mother to Edward McHugh two years later, Edith went to live with her paternal grandparents Robert and Mary Ann Collett at their home in George Street, Hay Mills in South Yardley. At the time of the census in 1891 she was recorded with them at five years of age. This photo was taken with her husband on their wedding day in 1909.
	After her grandfather Robert died, Edith continued to live with her grandmother Mary Ann, who eventually married Lambert Longmore, and it was with him that she continued to live after her grandmother died. It was only on the occasion her wedding in 1909 that she gave up living with the elderly Lambert Longmore
	Edith Collett married Charles Lee who was a grocer, whose shop was at Devon Street in the Saltley district of Birmingham up to 1922. By April 1911 Edith Lee, age 25, and Charles Lee, age 30, were living there with their first child Edith Elizabeth Lee who was one year old.
	Over the following years a further four children were added to their family, but tragically only Edith and her brother Frederick Lewis Lee, who was born in January 1919, survived beyond infancy.
	Charles Lee (pictured on the right on the day of his wedding) suffered with a weak chest, so he finally sold the family shop. He and Edith and their two children then left Birmingham and moved Naunton, near Tewkesbury, in 1922 with all of their possessions piled onto a horse and cart. Once settled in Naunton, Edith and Charles set up a village shop, which Edith continued to run with the help of her daughter. Edith Lee nee Collett died on her eighty-seventh birthday 1973, following which she was buried in the churchyard at Ripple just north of Tewkesbury. Her daughter Edith Elizabeth Lee died in 1996, while her son Frederick Lewis Lee was still alive in 2008.
	It is Frederick Lewis Lee, who is the grandfather of Kate Harding, with whose help and assistance this family line has been established.
56P4	Frederick William Collett was born at Birmingham in 1887, the only surviving son of Frederick William Collett and his wife Alice Marie Herbert. He was barely one year old when his father died, at which time his mother was expecting the birth of his next child. Two years later Frederick’s mother married Edward McHugh, and according to the census for Hay Mills in South Yardley, Frederick was listed with his mother and stepfather as Fred McHugh aged three years. This photograph of Frederick was taken around the time of his wedding day in 1913, and was kindly supplied by Kate Harding.
	So far no positive identification has been made of Frederick in the census of 1901 when he would have been 13 years old. However, it is known that he became a merchant sailor and that it was during 1907 that he first went to sea. He sent many postcards back to his family, requesting newspapers and commenting on the football scores. He also had an interest in pigeons, some of which he had in cages at home.
	At the start of 1913, Frederick William Collett married May Angelina Andrews, and their short marriage producing two daughters for the couple. Later that same year, and with the approaching World War, Frederick enlisted with the Royal Navy in 1913, and became Able Seaman F W Collett, SS/1669, and was assigned to the cruiser HMS Good Hope.
	Tragically on 1^st November 1914, Frederick William Collett died when the HMS Good Hope was sunk by two German cruisers, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, off the coast of Chile during the Battle of Coronel. His naval records gave his father’s as Frederick William Collett of Worcester, while his wife was stated as being May A Collett of 41 Alfred Street in Kings Heath in Birmingham. His name is amongst those listed on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, ref. 2.
	Sadly, just a few weeks prior to his death, May gave birth to their second child Maidie, the happy event taking place at Alfred Street in Kings Heath. Although nothing is so far known about what happened to May Angelina Collett and her two girls after the death of their father, this delightful picture of Lily and Maidie was taken during 1915/1916, and was kindly provided by Kate Harding, as were all of the pictures in this family line..
	56Q1		Lily Collett	Born in 1913 at Kings Heath
	56Q2		Maidie Collett	Born in 1914 at Kings Heath
56P5	Alice Collett was born at Yardley in 1889, just over five months after her father Frederick William Collett had died in July 1888. Having already lost her husband, Alice’s mother then had to endure the agony of seeing her youngest daughter die not long after she was born, the second of her five to perish while still a baby.
56P6	Thomas Collett was born at Birmingham in 1878, and this may have been while his parents Thomas and Sarah Ann were living at No. 1 Vaughton Street, Highgate in the Deritend area of Birmingham. It was there at Court 2, that he and his family were living in 1881, when Thomas was two years old. His family was since living in that area ten years later when Thomas was 12, and by March 1901 he and his entire family were still living in the Deritend area, to the south of Birmingham city centre.
	At that time in his life Thomas Collett, age 22, was a bachelor who was employed as a bricklayer. Shortly after the census day he married Lilian, and over the next nine years their marriage produced four children for the couple, and all of them born while the family was living in Birmingham.
	Following the birth of the fourth child, the family moved away from the Birmingham area, when they settled in Kings Norton on the county boundary with Worcestershire. According to the census in 1911, Thomas Collett was 32, his wife Lilian was 28, and their four children were Thomas who was nine, Lilian who was seven, Alfred who was four, and Muriel who was two years old.
	Further children may have been added to the family during the following years, but no details are currently available.
	56Q3		Thomas Collett	Born in 1902 at Birmingham
	56Q4		Lilian Collett	Born in 1904 at Birmingham
	56Q5		Alfred Collett	Born in 1906 at Birmingham
	56Q6		Muriel Collett	Born in 1908 at Birmingham
56P7	George Edmund Collett was born at Birmingham during August 1880, and the event very likely took place at Court 2, No. 1 Vaughton Street, Highgate in the Deritend area of Birmingham, where he and his family were living in April 1881. The census at that time recorded George Collett as seven months old.
	Ten years later he was still living in the same area of Birmingham with his family when he was 10 years old. It was the same situation at the time of the next census in 1901, when the Collett family was still living in the Deritend of Birmingham but, by which time George Collett, age 20, was working as a gun barrel parts driller in the Aston area of the city.
	During the next couple of years, it would appear that George married Ellen Elizabeth, with whom he had a son. Curiously in the census of 1911, for the first time in his life, he was recorded as George Edmund Collett, age 30, when he was living in the Deritend area with his wife Ellen Elizabeth Collett who was also 30, and their son George Edmund Collett who was five years old.
	56Q7		George Edmund Collett	Born in 1905 at Birmingham
56P8	CHARLES COLLETT was born at Birmingham in 1883, the third child of Thomas and Sarah Ann Collett. He was seven years old in the 1891 census for Deritend, and was 17 years old in 1901, when he and his family were living in Aston, when he was working for a cycle maker.
	It may have been during 1909 that Charles married Alice, their first child being born in June 1910. When the child was ten months old, in April 1911, the family of three was living in the Stafford area of Staffordshire, where Charles Collett was 27 and his wife Alice was 25. It is very likely that their son Lawrence was joined by other siblings over the following years.
	56Q8		LAWRENCE COLLETT	Born during June 1910
56P9	Florence Collett was born at Birmingham in 1886, the fourth child and eldest daughter of Thomas and Sarah Ann Collett. She was probably born at Vaughton Street in Highgate, Deritend, and it was still in that area of Birmingham that she was living with her parents in 1891 when she was four years old.
	Ten years later, in March 1901, she had already left school and had started work as a tailoress. Florence Collett, age 14, was still living with her parents on that occasion, although the family have moved a few miles north into the Aston area of Birmingham.
	With no record of Florence Collett in the census of 1911, when she would have been 24, it must be assumed that she was married by then.
	Appendix 1 – The Collett families of Bidford-on-Avon and Broom
	The small settlement that is Broom, lies immediately north of Bidford-on-Avon where the parish church is the Church of St Laurence. It is interesting that some of the Collett children, who were baptised at Bidford-on-Avon, were later recorded in the various census records as having been born at Broom, which may be an indication that the Church of St Matthew in Broom did not exist at the time of their birth.
56l1	William Collett was married to Jann, according to the baptism records for their two known sons, who were baptised at Binton, about three miles to the east of Broom.
	56m1		John Collett	Born in 1808 at Binton
	56m2		William Collett	Born in 1809 at Binton
56m1	John Collett later said that he was born at Broom. However, he was the brother of William Collett (below) and was baptised on 20^th March 1808 at the Church of St Peter in Binton, the son of William and Jann Collett, the surname written as Coloot. It was twenty-one years later that he married Mary Ann Tail at the parish church of St Laurence at Bidford-on-Avon on 27^th July 1829, and just over one year later their first child was born
	During their first eleven years of their marriage Mary presented John with four known children, although according to the census in June 1841, only three of them were living with the couple at Broom. The census recorded the family as John and Mary, who were both 33, their son John Collett who was 10, their daughter Elizabeth Collett who was two, and baby son Thomas Collett who was not yet one year old. The child who was missing was Mary who would have been five years of age, who was living with the family again in 1851.
	By 1851 John, who was 43, and Mary who was 44, with their five children who had all been born at Broom. The Broom/Bidford census listed the children as John Collett, age 20, Mary Collett, age 15, Elizabeth Collett age 13, Eli Collett who was six, and T Collett who was three years old. The latter child has been difficult to trace in the following years since the T may have been a J or and I, but certainly he had a second name of Richard which he used later in his life.
	Ten years later John Collett, age 53, was living at Bidford with his with wife Mary A Collett, age 54, and their two youngest children Eli Thomas Collett who was 14, and their youngest child who was 13, whose name cannot be easily deciphered on the census return. Living nearby in Broom was their marriage son John, with his young family.
	The elderly couple were still living in the same place ten years later in 1871, when John Collett was 63, and Mary Ann Collett was 62. Curiously in the next census of 1881 John Collett age 73, said that he was born at Throckmorton not far from Cropthorne where his wife Mary Ann Collett, age 74, was born. At that time the couple were still living in Broom village, where John was a retired shoe-maker. Instead of making shoes though, John and Mary Ann were running a boarding house which had two paying boarders and three visitors staying with them on that occasion.
	One of the three visitors, one was married Emma Smith, age 40 from Alcester, who had with her Charles Henry Smith, age 14 from Rugby, and Fanny Field, age 13 and from Alcester, who were described as nephew and niece to head of the household John Collett.
	56n1		John Collett	Born in 1830 at Broom
	56n2		Mary Anne Collett	Born in 1835 at Broom
	56n3		Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1838 at Broom
	56n4		Thomas Collett	Born in 1840 at Broom
	56n5		Eli Collett	Born in 1844 at Broom
	56n6		Richard Collett	Born in 1847 at Broom
56m2	William Collett was born in 1809 and was baptised on 11^th August 1809 at St Peter’s Church in Binton, the son of William and Jann Collett, the surname being recorded as Colit. Both he and his brother of John Collett (above) were married and living near to each other within the Broom & Bidford area by 1841. It was on 3th June 1830 that William married Elizabeth Jennings at Ilmington. Elizabeth was baptised at Alcester on 10^th September 1815, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Jennings.
	In 1841 William was 30, his wife Elizabeth was 25, and by then they had three children, Elizabeth Collett who was 10, George Collett who was eight, and Charles Collett who was three years old. Where William and Elizabeth were with their two sons in 1851 has not been discovered. However, their daughter Elizabeth, age 20, was still living in the Bidford area, when she was the only other person of that name living in the same vicinity as her likely uncle John Collett (above) and his family.
	56n7		Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1830 at Broom
	56n8		George Collett	Born in 1832 at Broom
	56n9		Charles Collett	Born in 1837 at Broom
56m7	Sarah Collett, who was baptised at Stanway in Gloucestershire on 16^th November 1813, was the daughter of John and Sarah Collett. By the time she was 37, according to the census in 1851, she was unmarried, but had three sons and was living at Badsey near Evesham. The family has not been identified in the census of 1841, but in 1851 the family was living at Silk Mill in Badsey where her two eldest sons were already working as farm labourers. John Collett was 13, had been born at Pershore and was a farm labourer, George Collett was 11 and was also a farm labourer, and Charles Collett was eight years old, both of then born at Stanway, which was referred to as Church Stanway. See Appendix 1A for full details.
	Around the middle of the next decade, Sarah’s eldest son John left the family home to be married, when he and his wife settled in the village of Broom, within the Alcester & Bidford-on-Avon area. It was also around that same time that Sarah and her two remaining sons also moved into that same area, to be near her son and his family. This was confirmed by the Alcester & Bidford census in 1861, when all of the members of her family were living within that area.
	Sarah Collett was 47, her son George Collett was 21, while Charles Collett was 19. What happened during the next ten years is not known for sure, but by 1871 Charles Collett age 27 was living alone in the Alcester & Studley area, so his mother Sarah may have died by then.
	The family of Sarah Collett can be traced back through a number of generations in the village of Stanway. She was the fifth child of John and Sarah, her other siblings being Mary, William, Elizabeth, John, Ann, George and Leah, who were born between 1804 and 1818. Sarah’s father John, was the son of John Collett who was born at Stanway around 1782, the son of John Collett who was baptised at Stanway on 18^th April 1762, the son of George and Mary Collett. Where George was born has not been determined, but he had a brother William who also married a Mary and who also lived at Stanway. George and Mary had four children who were baptised at Stanway, while William and Mary had three children baptised there.
	56n10		John Collett	Born in 1837 at Pershore
	56n11		George Collett	Born in 1839 at Stanway
	56n12		Charles Collett	Born in 1842 at Stanway
56n1	John Collett was born at Broom in 1830, and was baptised at Bidford-on-Avon on 19.09.1830 the son of John Collett and Mary Ann Tail. He was 10 years old and 20 years old at the time of the Bidford census of 1841 and 1851. A couple years later he married Emma who was from Bidford and with whom he had two children prior to the Broom census in 1861. That year his family was recorded as John Collett of Broom who was 30, Emma his wife from Bidford who was also 30, their son Thomas Collett who was five, and their daughter Mary Ann Collett who was four years old.
	The family was still living in Bidford in 1871, but had increased in size by the arrival of four new children. John and Emma Collett were both 40, and their five children were Thomas who was 16, Mary Ann who was 14, plus the four new children, Ada Elizabeth who was seven, Esther Emma who was five, and Eli who was three, and Frank Richard Collett who was two years of age.
	By the time of the next census in 1881, when the family was recorded as living in a dwelling in Broom Lane in Bidford, it was only the three youngest children who were still living at the family’s home with John and Emma who were both then 50. John’s occupation was that of a boot maker and his place of birth was Broom. With the three eldest children having already left home, the three other children were recorded as Esther Em Collett, age 15, Eli Collett who was 13 and an agricultural labourer, and Frank Collett who was 12 and still attending school.
	The couple’s daughter Ada Collett, age 17, was employed as a domestic cook at 10 Avenue Road in Leamington Priors (Spa), the home of nurseryman Edward Perkins and his large family. Twenty years later she was recorded in the census of 1901 as Ada Elizabeth Collett, age 37 and from Broom, who was working as a domestic nurse at Mottingham in Kent.
	56o1		Thomas James Collett	Born in 1855 at Broom
	56o2		Mary Ann Collett	Born in 1857 at Broom
	56o3		Ada Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1863 at Broom
	56o4		Esther Emma Collett	Born in 1865 at Broom
	56o5		Eli Collett	Born in 1867 at Broom
	56o6		Frank Richard Collett	Born in 1869 at Broom
56n2	Mary Anne Collett was born at Broom in 1835 and was baptised at nearby Bidford on 20.03.1836, the eldest daughter of John Collett and Mary Ann Tail. Curiously Mary was not with her family on the day of the census in 1841, but was with them ten years later when she was 15. By the time of the next census in 1861 it is assumed that she was married with no record found for Mary Anne Collett, age 25.
56n3	Elizabeth Collett was born at Broom in 1838, and was baptised at St Laurence’s Church in Bidford on 30.09.1838, the daughter of John and Mary Ann Collett. Elizabeth was listed with her parents at Broom in both 1841, when she was 10 (sic), and again in 1851, when she was more accurately aged as being 13. As with her older sister Mary Anne (above), it is assumed that Elizabeth was married before the census in 1861.
56n6	Richard Collett was born at Broom in 1847 but was very likely baptised with a different first name which may have begun with an I, a J, or a T, judging by the results of subsequent census returns. In 1851 he was listed living with his parents at Broom as T Collett aged three years.
	Although not identified in the census of 1861, by 1871 he was married with a wife and their first child, living in Bidford. The census that year listed the family as Iddo Richard Collett, age 23, his wife Susan Collett, age 25, and their daughter Susan Amelia Collett who was not yet one year old.
	Two further children were added to their family while they were still living in Bidford, but shortly after the birth of their third child, the family left Warwickshire and made the long journey north to Brightside at Sheffield in Yorkshire, where Richard was offered employment on the railway. During their short time at Brightside, the couple’s fourth child was born, following which the family headed further north to South Kirkby near Hemsworth in North Yorkshire, where the fifth of their children was born.
	At South Kirkby Richard was offered the post of railway station master, and it was there that he and his family were living in the spring of 1881. The census recorded the family as Jddo R Collett, age 35 from Bidford, Susan Collett, age 35 from Alcester, and their five children, Susan A Collett who was 10, Elizabeth A Collett who was nine, Martha E Collett who was six, Clara J Collett who was four, and John H R Collett who was one year old. Also living with the family was William Calter, age 21, who was a railway porter from Wilshamstead in Bedfordshire.
	The family continued to live at South Kirkby until around the middle of the 1880s, after which they moved further north yet again, and very likely as a result of Richard’s work on the railway. It was at High Bentham, on the main line railway between Skipton and Carnforth, that the family was living in 1891. Iddo R Collett was 43, Susan was 45, and it was their five youngest children who were still living with them. They were Martha E Collett 16, Clara J Collett 14, John H Collett 11, Ethel M Collett who was nine, and Albert R Collett who was six years old.
	It is not clear where their daughter Elizabeth was at that time, even though the couple’s eldest daughter Susan A Collett from Broom was working and living near to her parents at the age of 20. One other Collett was living in the Settle & Bentham area of North Yorkshire, and that was Charles Collett age 25, although it is not known at this time, who he was or from whence he came.
	By the time of the census in 1901, Richard had dropped his confusing first name, and that decision may have been taken around the time he became the railway station manager at nearby Ingleton. The census, at the end of March that year recorded him and his reducing family as Richard Collett, age 53 and from Broom, Susan Collett, age 55 from Alcester, Ethel M Collett, age 19 from South Kirkby, and Albert R Collett, age 16 and also from South Kirkby, who was a joiner’s apprentice.
	On that occasion Richard’s and Susan’s eldest son John was living and working in Leeds. John H Collett from South Kirkby was 21 and his occupation was that of a printer’s compositor.
	Ten years later Richard and part of his family was still living at Ingleton. Once again he was simply listed in the census of 1911 as Richard Collett who was 63, his wife Susan was 65, and returned to the family was their daughter Clara Jane Collett who was 34, together with Ethel, who was recorded as Martha Collett age 28, and Albert Richard Collett who was 26.
	By April 1911, Richard’s other son had left Leeds, and was living and working in Chorlton in Lancashire where he was a married man, but without any children at that time. John Henry Richard Collett was 31, and his wife was Mabel Gertrude Collett who was 27. It is very likely that their marriage was blessed by children some time after the census day that year.
	56o7		Susan Amelia Collett	Born in 1870 at Bidford-on-Avon
	56o8		Elizabeth A Collett	Born in 1872 at Bidford-on-Avon
	56o9		Martha E Collett	Born in 1874 at Bidford-on-Avon
	56o10		Clara Jane Collett	Born in 1876 at Brightside, Sheffield
	56o11		John Henry Richard Collett	Born in 1879 at South Kirkby, Yorks.
	56o12		Ethel Martha Collett	Born in 1881 at South Kirkby, Yorks.
	56o13		Albert Richard Collett	Born in 1884 at South Kirkby, Yorks.
56n10	John Collett was the base-born son of Sarah Collett and was born around 1837 at Pershore to the west of Evesham. No record of him has been identified in the census of 1841 but by 1851 he was living at the family home at Silk Mill in Badsey near Evesham. By that time his unmarried mother Sarah Collett was age 37, while John Collett, age 13, and his brother George Collett, age 11, were both employed as farm labourers. Completing the family was John’s younger brother Charles Collett who was eight years old.
	According to the IGI, in which there may be an error in transcription, it was on 13.02.1858 that John Collett married Mary Ann Brewer at Bidford-on-Avon, which was after the birth of the couple’s first child. If the date is correct, then their son was a base-born child like his father. Although the family of three was confirmed as living at Broom within the Alcester & Bidford-on-Avon area in the census of 1861, when John was 23, Mary Ann was 22, and their son Alfred was four years old, it might appear by the child’s absence from the next census that he most likely suffered a childhood death.
	Over the following ten years four more children were added to their family while they continued to live at Broom, and all four were listed with John and Mary Ann in the next census of 1871. The census return for the village of Broom, within the parish of Bidford, recorded the family as John Collett, age 33 and from Broom (sic), who was an agricultural labourer, his wife Mary Ann, age 32 and also from Broom (sic), who was a glove maker, and their children Emma who was ten, Thomas who was seven, Sarah Ann who was four, and daughter Phoebe who was twelve months old (sic). All four children were born at Broom, and baptised at the Church of St Laurence in Bidford-on-Avon.
	The fact that both John and Mary Ann were recorded as having been born at Broom, may just be an enumerator’s error, since every one of the entries on the top half of the census return were cover by ditto marks. This certainly conflicts with the information presented to the enumerator at the time of the next census in 1881, as detailed below.
	A further three more children were born into the family during the next decade, but by the time of the census in 1881 the couple’s eldest daughter Emma had already left home and, at the age of 19, was working as a domestic servant at the Rose & Crown Inn at 15 Sheep Street in Stratford-upon-Avon. Her employer was licenced victualler John Atkins, age 63, and his wife Frances Atkins who was 55.
	Emma’s own family was still living in Broom, although it is believed that the place of birth of her parents was more accurately recorded on that occasion, since it is very different from that quoted in the previous census of 1871. The 1881 census recorded the family as agricultural labourer John Collett, age 44, but from Pershore, while his wife Mary Ann, who was 43, gave her place of birth at Harvington, which is just north of Evesham. She was no longer making gloves, but was then working as a charwoman.
	The six children living with them on that occasion were Thomas Collett who was 17 and an agricultural labourer like his father, Sara Ann Collett who was 15, Phoebe Collett who was 12, Harriet Collett who was seven, Elizabeth Collett who was five, and Rose Collett who was two years old, and all of them again confirmed as having been born at Broom.
	Within a year of the census in 1881, the family moved to the north-east of Alcester, and settled in Great Alne where the couple’s last child was born. Sometime after that, the family moved again, that time nearer to Warwick. And it was there they were living in 1891 but with only three children still living with John and Mary Ann. John Collett was 53, Mary Ann Collett was 54, and the three children were Harriet Collett 17, Rose Collett 12, and Esther Collett who was seven.
	Another moved eventually took John and Mary Ann to the village of Budbrooke, just to the west of Warwick. John Collett from Pershore was still working as an agricultural labourer at the age of 63, while his wife Mary An Collett, from Salford Priors (not far from Harvington) was also 63 and working as a charwoman. The children still living with them were unmarried Harriet from Broom who was 27, and Esther from Great Alne who was 17, who were both currently working as general domestic servants. Also at the house was grandson Thomas Collett who was one year old and from Broom who may have been the base-born son of one of John’s unmarried daughters.
	From the details in the next census of 1911, John Collett must have died during the first few years of the new century, since his widow Mary Ann Collett, age 72 from Salford in Worcestershire, was still living at Budbrooke with daughters Harriet Collett, age 39, and Esther Collett who was 26. By that time her grandson Thomas Collett was also still living in Budbrooke, where he was recorded as Tommy Collett from Broom who was 11 years old. It is interesting that he was not living with anyone by the name of Collett.
	56o14		Alfred Collett	Born in 1856 at Broom
	56o15		Emma Collett	Born in 1861 at Broom
	56o16		Thomas Collett	Born in 1863 at Broom
	56o17		Sarah Ann Collett	Born in 1867 at Broom
	56o18		Phoebe Collett	Born in 1869 at Broom
	56o19		Harriet Collett	Born in 1873 at Broom
	56o20		Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1875 at Broom
	56o21		Rose Collett	Born in 1878 at Broom
	56o22		Esther Collett	Born in 1883 at Great Alne, nr Alcester
56o1	Thomas James Collett was born at Broom in 1855, but was baptised at the parish church of St Laurence in Bidford-on-Avon on 2^nd September 1855, although the baptism record spelled the surname as Collit. He was the eldest child of John and Emma Collett, with whom he was living at Broom in 1861 at the age of five years. No record for him has been found in the census of 1871 when his family was still living in the Broom and Bidford area, but by 1881 he was married with two children.
	Thomas J Collett from Bidford was 25 and was a railway station master at Back Leeming in Haworth, Yorkshire. His wife was Emily H E Collett, age 28, from Stonehouse in Gloucestershire, and their two children were Ellen Collett, who was two and born at Saltford in Somerset, and Martin Collett, who was one year old and had been born after the family had arrived at Haworth.
	During the next two years one further child was added to the family and in 1891 they were living at Bramley east of Rotherham. Thomas Collett was 35, Emily Collett was 38, Ellen Collett was 12, Martin Collett was 11, and the latest addition to the family was Walter Collett who was eight years old.
	By the time of the next census in March 1901 the family was living at Wombwell, just south of Barnsley, where Thomas was still employed as a railway station master. Thomas J Collett from Bidford–on-Avon was 45, his wife Emily H E Collett from Stonehouse was 48, and living with the couple were their two sons, Martin Collett who was 21 and a college student, and Walter Collett who was 18 and a railway clerk.
	Whether by coincidence or not, but also living in Wombwell in 1901 was Thomas Jonathan Collett who was 24 and from South Wraxall in Wiltshire, who was also employed on the railway. His details can be found in appendix 1 within Part 31 – The Wiltshire to New Zealand Line, under Ref. 31o5.
	Ten years later, at the time of the April census in 1911, Thomas James Collett of Bidford was 55, and his wife Emily Harriet Elizabeth Collett of Stonehouse was 57, were still living at Wombwell. Listed with them on that occasion was their unmarried daughter Ellen Collett who was 32, and their unmarried son Walter Collett who was 28. The couple’s other unmarried son Martin Collett of Haworth was 31 and was living and working at Bethnal Green in London.
	56p1		Ellen Collett	Born in 1878 at Saltford, Somerset
	56p2		Martin Collett	Born in 1880 at Haworth, Yorks.
	56p3		Walter Collett	Born in 1882 at Haworth, Yorks.
56o5	Eli Collett was born at Broom in 1867, the son of John and Emma Collett. In 1871 Eli was three years old when living at Bidford with his family, and was 13 ten years later, at the time of the Bidford census in 1881 when he was still living with his parents at Broom Lane, from where he was working as an agricultural labourer.
	Towards the end of the 1880s Eli married Annie from Bristol, and it was while the couple were living in the Fishponds area of the city that their two sons were born. The first was born prior to the census of 1891, and the second a few years before the end of the century. In 1891 the family living within the Stapleton & Barton Regis district of the city comprised Eli Collett, age 23 and from Broom, his wife Annie Collett, age 22 and from Fishponds, and their son Frederick John Nicholas Collett who was one year old.
	No further record of Eli or his son Frederick have been found in either of the census returns for 1901 or 1911, but on both occasions Annie and her second son Harold were still living at Fishponds. In the first of these Annie Collett age 32 was a laundress, while Harold was four years old, and in the latter Annie was 41 and Harold was 14. The fact that Annie was working may suggest that she was a widow, needing to work to support her son.
	56p4		Frederick John Nicholas Collett	Born in 1890 at Fishponds
	56p5		Harold Collett	Born in 1897 at Fishponds
56o6	Frank Richard Collett was born at Broom in 1869, the youngest son of John and Emma Collett. He was recorded living with his family in 1871, when he was two years old, and ten years when he was 13 and still attending school in Bidford-on-Avon, while living at the family home there in Broom Lane.
	Frank was married by 1891, and he and his wife Lydia Edith were living in Carburton, near Worksop in Nottinghamshire, where they were awaiting the arrival of their first child. On the census day that year Frank Collett from Broom was 22, and his wife was named as Edith Collett who was only 19. Over the following years Lydia presented Frank with a further three children, although no record of the family has been found anywhere within the census of 1901.
	According to the census in 1911, the family was living in the Mansfield area of Nottinghamshire, where Frank R Collett from Broom was 42, Lydia E Collett was 39, and their four children were Ethel Collett was 19, Annie Collett was 17, John Collett 14, and Nellie Collett who was nine years old.
	56p6		Ethel Collett	Born in 1891
	56p7		Annie Collett	Born in 1893
	56p8		John Frank Collett	Born in 1896
	56p9		Nellie Collett	Born in 1901
56o14	Alfred Collett was born in 1856 at Broom, the eldest child of John and Mary Ann Collett. He was four years old in the census of 1861, but would appear to have died shortly after.
56o15	Emma Collett, who was born at Broom in 1861, was baptised at the parish church in Bidford-n-Avon on 15.06.1862, the daughter of John and Mary Ann Collett.
56o16	Thomas Collett was born at Broom during 1863 according to the later census records, even though he was not baptised until he was around four years of age. His baptism at Bidford-on-Avon took place in a joint ceremony with his younger sister Sarah Ann (below) on 13.10.1867. He was still living with his parents at Broom in 1881 when he was an agricultural labourer, but shortly after that, the family moved to Great Alne to the north of Alcester.
	It would appear that, around three years later, Thomas married Sophia and that by April 1891 they were living in the Bidford area with their daughter. Thomas Collett was 27, Sophia Collett was 28, and their daughter Elsie Mary Collett was five years old. No record of the family has been found in the next census of 1901, but by 1911 a couple named as Thomas and Mary Sophia Collett was living in the Stourbridge area of Worcestershire when they were both 49.
	56p10		Elsie Mary Collett	Born in 1885 at Bidford-on-Avon
56o17	Sarah Ann Collett was born at Broom in 1867 and was baptised at nearby Bidford on 13.10.1867, the same day that he brother Thomas was also baptised there. The parents of both siblings were recorded as John and Mary Ann Collett.
56o18	Phoebe Collett was born at Broom during 1869, but was baptised in the neighbouring village of Bidford on 20.11.1869, the daughter of John and Mary Ann Collett.
56o19	Harriet Collett was born at Broom in 1873, and was only a few months old when she was baptised at Bidford-on-Avon on 20.07.1873, the daughter of John and Mary Ann Collett.
56o20	Elizabeth Collett was born at Broom in 1875, the youngest known child of John and Mary Ann Collett, and was baptised at Bidford on 21.08.1876.
	Other Random Colletts living at Broom or Bidford in 1911
	Thomas Collett, born at Broom in 1867, who was 43 in 1911 when living at Broom/Bidford with just his son John Collett who was 19 and also born at Broom.
	Then there is the very odd case of David Collett of Bidford. It is unclear from the census records as to when he was born or who his parents were. In 1861 he was 19 and living in Bidford. Curiously twenty years later he was married and living at Stratford Road in Yardley (Solihull) where he was working as a gardener. Even though his place of birth was confirmed as Bidford, his age was interpreted as 25 (sic). He was still in Yardley in 1891 when he was 46, and ten years after that he was 59 and his occupation was that of a non-domestic gardener. By the time of the census in 1911, David Collett, age 71 and from Bidford-on-Avon, was a resident at an institution in Yardley. There is a possibility that his wife was S Ann Collett who was born at Alcester around 1852, who was living at Yardley in 1901.
	Appendix 1A – The Family of Sarah Collett (Ref. 55m7)
	The details in this sub-appendix have been drawn purely from the IGI, and therefore may require further validation. Sarah Collett was the mother of three known base-born sons, John, George and Charles. Of interest was son John who later had nine children, eight of whom were born at Broom.
56h1A	This line starts with the brothers John and William Collett who were very likely born during the last decade of the seventeenth century, and who were both living in the north Gloucestershire village of Stanton, just two miles south-west of Broadway in Worcestershire.
	56i1A		Johannis Collett	Born circa 1692
	56i2A		Gulielmus Collett	Born circa 1694
56i1A	Johannis Collett may have been born at Stanton around 1692, although the exact date and the name of his parents are not known, except that he had a brother William Collett (below). What is known is that eight of the children of Johannis Collett were baptised at Stanton, and one at Snowshill, in Gloucestershire, just two miles north of the village of Stanway.
	56j1A	Johannis Collett			Baptised on 29.12.1714 at Stanton
	56j2A	Gulielmus Collett			Baptised on 17.09.1716 at Stanton
	56j3A	Ann Collett			Baptised in August 1720 at Stanton
	56j4A	Margaretta Collett			Baptised in October 1722 at Stanton
	56j5A	Gulielmus Collett			Baptised in October 1724 at Stanton
	56j6A	Richardus Collett			Baptised in January 1726 at Stanton
	56j7A	Georgius Collett			Baptised on 28.09.1729 at Snowshill
	56j8A	David Collett			Baptised in Dec. 1730 at Stanton
	56j9A	Robertus Collett			Baptised on 16.11.1731 at Stanton
56i2A	Gulielmus Collett was very likely born around 1694, the brother of Johannis Collett (above). The only later record for Gulielmus (William) Collett was the death or burial of his son of the same name, which took place at Stanton in 1718.
	56j10A	Gulielmus Collett			Buried on 11.02.1718 at Stanton
56j2A	Gulielmus Collett was baptised at Stanton on 17.09.1716, the second child of Johannis Collett. From the fact that the next son born to Johannis was also named Gulielmus very likely indicates that this first William Collett died between 1716 and 1720.
56j4A	Margaretta Collett was baptised at Stanton during October 1722, the daughter of Johannis Collett. She was thirty-three years old when she married John Winter at Stanton on 04.10.1755.
56j5A	Gulielmus Collett was baptised at Stanton during October 1724, the son of Johannis Collett
56j7A	Georgius Collett was baptised at Snowshill, just two miles from Stanton, on.28.09.1729, the son of Johannis Collett. He later married Mary and their four established children were baptised at Stanway, just one miles south of Stanton.
	56k1A		Margaret Collett	Baptised on 22.09.1754 at Stanway
	56k2A		Mary Collett	Baptised on 27.06.1756 at Stanway
	56k3A		George Collett	Baptised on 08.10.1758 at Stanway
	56k4A		John Collett	Baptised on 18.04.1762 at Stanway
56j8A	David Collett was baptised at Stanton during December 1730, the son of Johannis Collett. Tragically he only survived for a few weeks, when he died at Stanton on 30.01.1731.
56k3A	George Collett was baptised at Stanway on 08.10.1758, the eldest known son of George and Mary Collett. He married Elizabeth during the late 1780 and all of their children were baptised at Stanway.
	56l2A		Ann Collett	Baptised on 27.12.1789 at Stanway
	56l3A		Elizabeth Collett	Baptised on 01.01.1792 at Stanway
	56l4A		Patience Collett	Baptised on 12.01.1794 at Stanway
	56l5A		Frances Collett	Baptised on 17.05.1796 at Stanway
	56l6A		George Collett	Baptised on 12.09.1798 at Stanway
	56l7A		Francis Collett	Baptised on 04.01.1801 at Stanway
56k4A	John Collett was baptised at Stanway on 18.04.1762, the youngest known son of George and Mary Collett. It is assumed, and not yet verified, that he married and had a son of the same name, while he and his wife were still living at Stanway.
	56l8A		John Collett	Born circa 1783 at Stanway
56l5A	Frances Collett was born at Stanway, where she was baptised on 17.05.1796, the daughter of George and Elizabeth Collett. At sometime later in her life she married William Sharpe, who was a farmer at Stanton. In the Stanton census of 1851 William Sharpe, age 53, was a maltster and a farmer, and living there with him was his wife Frances Sharpe, age 53 from Stanway, together with their daughter Ann Sharpe who was 17, and Frances’ unmarried sister Ann Collett (above), who was 58 (sic) and an annuitant from Stanway. The whole family was supported by a servant, Charlotte Taylor, who was 25.
	Also living nearby in Stanton, at that time, was Elizabeth Collett, age 25 and from Stanway, who was employed as a servant at the Stanton home of farmer William Hyatt of Snowshill. It is possible that she may have been the daughter of one of Frances’ brothers, either George or Francis Collett (above).
56l8A	John Collett may have been born around 1783, the son of John Collett. He married Sarah around 1803, with whom he had eight children who were all baptised at Stanway.
	By the time of the census in 1841 John had died, leaving his widow Sarah Collett, age 65, living in the Winchcombe & Guiting registration district. The only one of her children still living with her was her unmarried daughter Elizabeth, who was 30, who around nine years earlier had given birth to a base-born son George.
	56m3A		Mary Collett	Baptised on 03.06.1804 at Stanway
	56m4A		William Collett	Baptised on 23.11.1806 at Stanway
	56m5A		Elizabeth Collett	Baptised on 19.03.1809 at Stanway
	56m6A		John Collett	Baptised on 07.04.1811 at Stanway
	56m7A		Sarah Collett – see above	Baptised on 16.11.1813 at Stanway
	56m8A		Ann Collett twin	Baptised on 28.01.1816 at Stanway
	56m9A		George Collett twin	Baptised on 28.01.1816 at Stanway
	56m10A		Leah Collett	Baptised on 28.06.1818 at Stanway
56m3A	Mary Collett was born at Stanway and it was there also that she was baptised on 03.06.1804, the eldest child of John and Sarah Collett. She later married Thomas Lock of Withington in Gloucestershire, with whom she had five known children. In 1851 the family was still living in Stanway, where Thomas Lock, age 40, was a gardener’s labourer, his wife Mary Lock was 46 and from Stanway, where their five children were also born. Only four of them were living there at that time, and they were Mary A Lock, age 21 and a silk winder, Thomas Lock, age 15 and a farm labourer, Charlotte Lock who was eight, and Henry Lock who was five years. Their daughter Sarah was absent on the occasion.
	Ten years after that, in 1861, Thomas and Mary Lock had living with them four of their five children, and a grandson by the name of William Collett who was six years old and born at Stanway. He was very likely the base-born son of their daughter Sarah Lock, who by then was unmarried at 28 years of age. Living in the adjacent dwelling was Mary’s brother John Collett (below) with his with Ann.
	Twenty years later, and following the death of her husband, Mary Lock nee Collett, age 76 and a pauper of Stanway, was living with her brother George Collett (below) and his wife Harriet in Stanway.
	56o1A		William Collett (Mary’s grandson)	Born in 1854 at Stanway
56m5A	Elizabeth Collett was born at Stanway and was baptised there on 19.03.1809, the daughter of John and Sarah Collett. Although not yet confirmed, it would appear from the census returns in 1851 and 1881 that she had two base-born children, both of them born at Stanway, and with about ten years between them. The first of them was her son George, while the second was her daughter Lydia, who was living at Stanway with Elizabeth in 1851. Unmarried Elizabeth Collett was 42, she had been born at Stanway, and her occupation was that of a charwoman. Her daughter was eight years old. Ten years earlier, in 1841, Elizabeth Collett, age 30, had been living there with her widowed mother Sarah Collett in Stanway, prior to the birth of her daughter.
	Ten years later in 1861, unmarried Elizabeth Collett, age 51, was still living in Stanway, but on that occasion she had her brother George’s family living there with her. Just five dwellings from the residence of Elizabeth Collett, living and working at the home of farmer John Holder and his family, was Elizabeth Collett, age 32 from Stanway, who was a dairymaid. So she may well have been the first base-born child of unmarried Elizabeth Collett, and has been included here in the hope that this can be verified at some time in the future.
	According to the census in 1881 unmarried Betty Collett, age 72 and a pauper from Stanway, was still living there, and living with her was her grandson George Collett who was 19 and an agricultural labourer from Stanway.
	56n0A		Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1828 at Stanway
	56n1A		George Collett	Born in 1832 at Stanway
	56n2A		Lydia Collett	Born in 1842 at Stanway
56m6A	John Collett was born at Stanway in 1810, where he was baptised on 07.04.1811, the son of John and Sarah Collett. It was around the time he was twenty-two, that John married Ann Cook, from Swindon, at Sevenhampton in Gloucestershire on 26.06.1833, and their daughter was born nearly two years later.
	Ann Cook was the daughter of Charles Cook from Withington and his with Elizabeth from Stow-on-the-Wold, and it was at Sevenhampton near Swindon where her four siblings were born and, where very likely, the family was living when Ann married John Collett.
	No record of the new Collett family has been found in 1841. However, in 1851, John Collett, age 40 and from Stanway, was living at Stanway with his wife Ann, age 38 and from Swindon. Living with the couple was Sarah Simmons, who was five and from Cheltenham, who was described as the niece of John Collett. By that time their own daughter Ann Collett, age 15 and from Stanway, was already working nearby as a servant for sawyer William Harris and his wife Elizabeth.
	Ten years later in 1861 John Collett from Stanway was 49 and his occupation was that of a labourer, while his wife was Anne Collett from Swindon was 48. Still living with the couple was their niece Sarah Simmons from Cheltenham who, by then, was 15 and also working as a labourer with her uncle. Living next door to the Colletts was the Lock family which included Mary Lock, who was John’s sister, together with her unmarried daughter Sarah Lock, age 28, whose base-born son was William Collett, age six years. John Collett’s sister Mary (above) had married Thomas Lock.
	At that same time in 1861, John’s and Ann’s daughter Ann Collett, age 25 and from Stanway, was working as a dairymaid on the 850 acre farm of her grandfather Charles Cook at Taddington Farm within the parish of Stanway, just one mile south of Snowshill.
	And ten years after that the couple were listed in the census of 1871, when John Collett was 60, and his wife Ann was 58. With no record found for the couple in the next census of 1881, it may be safe to assume that they had both passed away by then.
	56n3A		Ann Collett	Born in 1835 at Stanway
56m9A	George Collett, was a twin with his sister Ann, and was born at Stanway where he was baptised on 28.01.1816, the youngest son of John and Sarah Collett. George later married Harriet Woodward at Stanton on 03.11.1842, where Harriet was born and where the couple were living when their daughter was born. By the time of the birth of their son, the family was living at Stanway.
	Just eighteen months prior to his wedding day, bachelor George Collett was 25 years in the 1841 census for the Winchcombe & Guiting area of north Gloucestershire. Ten years later he was living in Stanway with his family, when George, an agricultural labourer from Stanway, was 34, his wife Harriet from Stanton was 28, daughter Fanny from Stanton was seven, and son John of Stanway was three years old.
	It was a similar situation in 1861, except that the family was living with George’s unmarried sister Elizabeth (above) in Stanway, when George, age 45, Harriet, age 40, Fanny, age 17, and John, age 14, were all still living together at Stanway, by which time Fanny was a gloveress and John was employed as an under-carter. Sometime during the 1860s it would appear that Fanny left home to be married, since in 1871 it was only John, age 23, who was still living at Stanway with George, age 55, and Harriet who was 45.
	By the time of the Stanway census in 1881, George Collett, age 66 and from Stanway, was a labourer working on the district’s roads. On that occasion he was living in a cottage in the village of Stanway with his wife Harriet, age 55 and from Stanton, and living with the couple was pauper and widow Mary Lock of Stanway, who was 76 and described as a boarder. She was George’s sister Mary Collett (above).
	George’s and Harriet’s son John was married with a family of his own by that time, and was living nearby in Stanway. It was also in Stanway that they were all still living in 1891, when George was 75 and his occupation was that of a roadman, and Harriet was 67. Lodging with the couple on the day of the census was John Childes, a general labourer of 38. Living next door to the couple in Stanway, was their son John and his family.
	It must be assumed that George and Harriet both passed away during the 1890s, as no record of either of them has been found in the census of 1901.
	56n4A		Fanny Collett	Born in 1843 at Stanton
	56n5A