PART FIFTY-EIGHT

The Line of Henry Vine Collett [Cornwall to New Zealand]

Updated November 2011

This is the family line of Alan Raymond Collett (Ref. 58R9) of Wellington in New Zealand,

and Tim (Peter Timothy) Collett (Ref. 58R16) of Bathurst in Australia

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Henry Vine Collett, who was probably born between 1800 and 1810, was married to Ann Creed and is known to have had a son Henry Vine Collett, although the later records provide conflicting information as to where he was born. It was their son’s marriage certificate in 1856 that gave his father’s name as Henry Collett, a baker, and his mother as Ann Creed, and when his place of birth was stated as being Plymouth.

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Henry Vine Collett

Born in 1832 at Truro or Plymouth

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Henry Vine Collett was apparently born at Truro in Cornwall, although it may have been Plymouth in 1832. The date, but not the location, was noted in a family Bible held by a family member in New Zealand. There is listed in Part 5 – The Tewkesbury Line a Henry Vine Collett (Ref. 5N23) who is thought to have been born to James Collett of Tewkesbury (Ref. 5M23) in 1832. However, no baptism record has been found for either of these gentlemen, who may well be one and the same. The story within the family is that Henry ran away from home when he was 13, presumably just after he had finished his time at school, and that he went to sea.

On the occasion of the birth of his youngest daughter Margaret, Henry acted as the informant for the birth registration because by that time his wife Martha was blind. On the child’s birth certificate he stated that his place of birth was Truro, while at the time of his death, it was simply recorded as Cornwall. It was on 23^rd September 1856 at Melbourne in Australia that labourer Henry Collett, a bachelor of 24 from Plymouth in England, married Martha Munro, also 24, who was a needlewoman from Paisley, Scotland. Martha Munro was the daughter of farmer Daniel Munro and his wife Margaret Martin, and had been born at Paisley in Renfrewshire on 22^nd November 1829. She was baptised at Middle Church in Paisley when she was only one week old, on 29^th November 1829. At the time of the first national census in Great Britain in 1841, the only Martha Munro was 12 years old and was living in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, but not with her parents.

Although she said she was a spinster when she married Henry, it is established that before she arrived in Australia she had married Robert Jardine at Paisley Abbey on 23^rd April 1853. Once married the couple emigrated to Australia and it was at the goldfields settlement of Emerald Hill in Victoria that their son Daniel Munro Jardine (or Daniel Munro Gardan, as recorded on his birth certificate) was born on 21^st December 1855. During the following months Martha was presumably made a widow when Robert died, leaving her free to marry Henry Collett.

Sometime after they were married Martha’s son Daniel adopted the name Collett. Just over a year after they were married, Martha presented Henry with a son and namesake, who was also born at Emerald Hill in Victoria, Australia. Two more sons were born while the family was still living at Emerald Hill, and in 1863 the family left Australia. According to a passenger list held at the Early Settlers Museum in Dunedin, Martha and three children left Port Melbourne on 22^nd April 1863 aboard the ship ‘Rialto’ bound for Port Chalmers. They travelled in the forward section of the vessel, which had sailed from Ireland through Victoria to New Zealand, and were recorded as Mrs Collett, D Collett, G Collett, and an infant, assumed to be John Kilgour.

There was however, no mention of Henry Vine Collett or his son Henry Vine junior. So it is possible that they may have made the journey ahead of the rest of the family. This seems the more likely option, even though there is a record of a Mr Collett as a passenger on the ‘S S Otago’ which sailed from Sydney to New Zealand on 20^th January 1864.

Henry Vine Collett was living at Constitution Street in Port Chalmers when he died on 12^th July 1897, the informant of his death being his eldest son Henry. His wife Martha Collett nee Munro survived him by just over five years, when she also died at Port Chalmers on 12^th October 1905.

The above photograph of the couple was very likely taken around the time when Henry was 60, while in the larger picture Martha is holding a baby, who was most probably one of their grandchildren. Henry’s death certificate gave his occupation as that of a fireman, and his age at the time of his passing was recorded as being 64. That particular age indicates that he was actually born during the second half of 1832, and most likely between the months of August and December that year. On the death certificate was also a note that he had been ill for the previous four years.

Once again the certificate confirmed that his father was Henry Vine Collett, who had been a baker, and that his mother was Ann Collett, formerly Creed. In addition, it gave his place of birth as Cornwall, England, and that he had been in New Zealand for 34 years. According to the certificate he was buried at New Cemetery in Port Chalmers on 16^th July 1897, and was survived by seven male children and one female child. The death of Henry Vine Collett was recorded on 15^th July 1897, the informant being his son Henry Collett of Port Chalmers.

The ages of the eight issue of Henry Collett were given as 41 (Daniel), 39 (Henry), 37 (George), 35 (John), 31 (James), 29 (William), 27 (Septimus), and 21 (Margaret). The later death certificate for his son Henry Vine Collett also confirmation that his occupation was that of a labourer.

One of the records in the New Zealand Archives includes the declaration of bankruptcy at the Dunedin High Court of Henry Collett of Port Chalmers during 1869, in which he was described as a mariner. Whether this was Henry Vine Collett or not, has not been determined at this time.

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Daniel Munro Collett (formerly Jardine)

Born on 21.12.1855 at Emerald Hill

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Henry Vine Collett

Born on 18.10.1857 at Emerald Hill

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George Collett

Born on 27.12.1859 at Emerald Hill

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John Kilgour Collett

Born on 18.02.1862 at Emerald Hill

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James Dick Collett

Born on 10.11.1865 at Port Chalmers

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William Collett

Born on 07.10.1867 at Port Chalmers

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Septimus Munro Collett

Born on 13.01.1870 at Port Chalmers

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Margaret Munro Collett

Born on 09.01.1876 at Port Chalmers

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Daniel Munro Collett was originally born as Daniel Jardine (or Gardan) at Emerald Hill in Victoria on 21^st December 1855, the only child of Robert Jardine and his wife Martha Munro. Upon the presumed death of his father, before he was nine months old, his mother married Henry Vine Collett, following which his name was changed to Daniel Munro Collett. When he was around nine years of age his family left Australia and settled in the Port Chalmers district of Dunedin on New Zealand’s south island. Three months after his twenty-fourth birthday Daniel married Johnann Anderson on 12^th March 1880, Johnann having been born around 1857. The couple are pictured here with their first born child.

Once married the couple lived at Oamaru, to the north of Dunedin, where all of the children were born. And it was at Oamaru that Daniel Munro Collett died on 15^th January 1930, with his widow surviving for a further twenty-one years, when she died on 2^nd September 1951.

The New Zealand Archive Records list a company by the name of Anderson-Collett Limited which was founded in 1889, was passed into liquidation in 1894. It seems highly likely that this company was a collaboration/partnership between the two families.

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Justina Dalziel Hundy Collett

Born in 1881 at Oamaru

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Martha Munro Collett

Born in 1882 at Oamaru

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James Dick Collett

Born in 1886 at Oamaru

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Albert Edward Collett

Born in 1887 at Oamaru

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John Collett

Born in 1889 at Oamaru

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Johnetta Anderson Collett

Born in 1891 at Oamaru

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Elizabeth Egglestone Anderson Collett

Born in 1896 at Oamaru

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Daniel Munro Collett

Born in 1898 at Oamaru

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Henry Vine Collett

Born circa 1904 at Oamaru

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HENRY VINE COLLETT was born on 18^th October 1857 at Emerald Hill in Victoria, which today is known as South Melbourne. He was the eldest child of Henry Vine Collett from England and Martha Munro from Scotland. When he was around six years old his family sailed to New Zealand and settled in Port Chalmers near the town of Dunedin on the south island. Henry was twenty-eight when he married (1) Mary Ann Barlow who was around ten years younger, having been born during 1867 at Alderton in England. The wedding took place on 3^rd December 1885, and it was during the following year that the first of their five children was born.

During the next year the couple’s second child was born at Dunedin, after which the family moved to Port Chalmers where their remaining children were born. Tragically for the family, Mary Ann died at Port Chalmers on 9^th May 1894, leaving her husband with five small children. At that time the family was living in a house on Constitution Street in Port Chalmers, while the cause of death was recorded as ‘natural abortion’ meaning that she died during childbirth, the child also not surviving. She had been ill for four weeks, and had been vomiting for seven days.

Her parents were confirmed as gardener William Barlow and his wife Lucy Barlow, formerly Cope, after whom her late son William had been named. She was buried on 11^th May at the New Cemetery in Port Chalmers. The death certificate confirmed that Mary Ann had been born in England at Alderstone, had married Henry Collett ten years earlier, and had been living in New Zealand for fifteen years. The informant of her passing had been her husband Henry Collett, and her children were listed as being aged female 6 years, male 5 years, and female 16 months. They would have been Lucy, Henry, and Martha, indicating that William had already died by then, with Annie not being mentioned.

Henry Vine Collett then married (2) Emily Amelia Perry (right) on 2^nd April 1898. She was twenty years younger than Henry and therefore capable of giving him three more children, although only two survived. In the Electoral Roll for Chalmers, Otago in 1911, Emily Amelia Collett was residing at Constitution Street in Port Chalmers with her husband Henry Collett, a labourer, and his son Henry Vine Collett whose occupation was that of a boilermaker. Her daughter Myra was around 12 years old and therefore too young to be included on the electoral roll. And it was exactly the same situation three years later when the Electoral Roll for Port Chalmers included precisely the same details

However, by that time Emily had given birth to her second daughter, Thora, who was born in their house on Constitution Street in Port Chalmers. By 1919 the Electoral Roll still included the names of the three older members of the family; Emily Amelia Collett – married, Henry Collett – labourer, - Henry Vine Collett – boilermaker, and all still living at Constitution Street. On that occasion Emily’s daughters Myra and Thora would have been around 20 and 5 years of age respectively.

Henry Vine Collett died at Port Chalmers on 10^th March 1926, when his youngest child was around 12 years old. The death certificate confirmed that he was a labourer, and the son of labourer Henry Vine Collett and Martha Collett nee Munro. The address at which he was living at the time of his death was recorded as 34 Island Terrace in Port Chalmers, while the cause of death was given as apoplexy and heart failure.

The certificate also stated that it was just ten days earlier that he had first been taken ill, and that he was buried at Port Chalmers on 12^th March. It also gave his age at death as 60, [rather than 69], that he had been born in Melbourne, had married Mary Ann Barlow when he was 28, and that he was 39 [rather than 41] when he married Emily Amelia Perry, who was 21.

The age of his widow was 48, and the ages of his children were recorded as male 37, female 33, male [sic] 26, and female 12. They would have been Henry, Martha, Myra and Thora, all of whom are known to have survived beyond 1926. Curiously his eldest daughter Lucy and her sister Annie were not listed, even though it is known that they survived long after the death of her father.

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Lucy Barlow Collett

Born in 1887 at Dunedin

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Annie Louisa Collett

Born in 1887 at Dunedin

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Henry Vine Collett

Born in 1888 at Port Chalmers

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William Cope Collett

Born in 1890 at Port Chalmers

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Martha Munro Collett

Born in 1893 at Port Chalmers

The following were the children of Henry Vine Collett and his second wife Emily Amelia Perry:

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Stillborn Collett

Born and died in October 1898

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Myra Florence Collett

Born in 1899 at Dunedin

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Thora Isabel Ruth Collett

Born in 1914 at Port Chalmers

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George Collett was born at Emerald Hill on 27^th December 1859, the son of Henry and Martha Collett. Although his family moved to New Zealand around 1863, George must have returned to live in Australia as an adult. He was twenty-six when he married Amy Emily Dickenson on 30^th September 1886 in Australia, Amy being twenty-three, having been born at Mudgee in New South Wales during 1863. Five years after they were married, Amy’s sister Mary Dickenson married George’s brother William (below).

Over the first ten years of their married life together Amy presented George with six children, and all of them were born while the couple was living at Balmain North in New South Wales, although tragically only two survived. George Collett was still living in New South Wales when he died at Lidcombe on 11^th June 1931.

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Flora Collett

Born in 1887 at Balmain, NSW

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William E Collett

Born in 1888 at Balmain, NSW

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Oliver J Collett

Born in 1889 at Balmain, NSW

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Elsie Ann Mary Collett

Born in 1890 at Balmain, NSW

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Harold Stanley Collett

Born in 1891 at Balmain, NSW

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Norman W Collett

Born in 1893 at Balmain, NSW

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John Kilgour Collett was born at Emerald Hill on 18^th February 1862, Kilgour being the surname of the midwife who assisted at the birth. He was thirty-five and living at Invercargill when he died on 27^th December 1897, just five months after his father Henry Vine Collett had died.

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James Dick Collett was born at Port Chalmers, near Dunedin, New Zealand on 10^th November 1865, just after his parents had moved there from Melbourne in Australia. As an adult he was living in Auckland when he married Priscilla Mary Felton on 5^th October 1892. The picture on the right was taken on that day. And it was while the couple were still living in Auckland that their four children were born. Sadly their eldest son was killed during The Battle of the Somme in 1917, at a time when James and Priscilla were living at 3 Bond Street, Arch Hill at Grey Lynn in Auckland. At the time that George Herbert enlisted with the army in January 1917, he stated on his attestation form that his father James Richard Collett had lived in New Zealand for 50 years rather than 52, and that his mother Mary Collett had been a resident for 45 years.

Dick and Mary were still living at 3 Bond Street at Arch Hill in Auckland in 1921 when the received the medals and commemorative plaque from the army for their son George. Further tragedy struck the family in 1931, with the death of Priscilla Mary Collett nee Felton when the couple was still living in Auckland. James Dick Collett survived his wife by a further twenty-two years, when he died at Auckland on 1^st October 1953.

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George Herbert Collett

Born in 1893 at Auckland

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Myra May Collett

Born in 1895 at Auckland

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Elsie Marion Collett

Born in 1898 at Auckland

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William Henry Vine Collett

Born in 1901 at Auckland

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William Collett was born at Port Chalmers on 7^th October 1867 and on 5^th August 1891 he married Mary Dickenson, who was his sister-in-law, she being the sister of Amy Emily Dickenson who married William’s older brother George (above) five years earlier. Mary Dickenson was five years younger than her sister Amy, having been born at Mudgee, NSW, during 1868. It seems very likely that the couple were married in New South Wales, since it was at Balmain that their first child was born. However, the next two children were born at Port Chalmers, while their last two children were born at nearby Dunedin.

According to the Electoral Roll for Otago, Dunedin North in 1919, William Collett was a storeman, and listed with him was his wife Mary Collett, and his son Henry Vine Collett who was a baker like his grandfather and namesake, Henry Vine Collett. At that time, the family of William Collett was living at 484 Leith Street, and only his eldest daughter Daisy was married and had left the family home by then.

Being of similar ages, William and Mary both died within the same year and just less than six weeks apart. William Collett died at Dunedin on 19^th August 1945, while Mary passed away on 28^th September 1945.

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Daisy Martha May Collett

Born in 1892 at Balmain, NSW

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Henry Vine Collett

Born in 1893 at Port Chalmers

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William Edwin Collett

Born in 1896 at Port Chalmers

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Elsie Amy Collett

Born in 1902 at Dunedin

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Amelia Louise Collett

Born in 1906 at Dunedin

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Septimus Munro Collett was born at Port Chalmers on 13^th January 1870, the youngest son of Henry and Martha Collett. He married Isabella Ritchie Forrester on 25^th December 1894, and the first of their four children was born nine months later at Port Chalmers. The photograph on the right, of Septimus, Isabella and son Henry, was very likely taken around the time of his first birthday. The couple’s next two children were also born at Port Chalmers, while the fourth and last child was born after the family had settled in Timaru, nearly 100 miles north of Port Chalmers.

In 1916, when their son Peter Forrester Collett enlisted with the New Zealand Army, Septimus and Isabel were living at 55 Hassall Street in Timaru with their family.

Septimus Munro Collett died at Timaru on 25^th October 1950, and in the probate records for Timaru in 1951 included the fact the Septimus Munro Collett was an engineer. His wife Isabella, who had been born at Dunedin on 26^th January 1870, died on 16^th January 1964. From her eldest son’s military record it would appear that during her life she was more commonly referred to as Bell Collett.

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Henry Vine Collett

Born in 1895 at Port Chalmers

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Peter Forrester Collett

Born in 1897 at Port Chalmers

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Isabel Ritchie Collett

Born in 1898 at Port Chalmers

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Bertram Harold Collett

Born in 1903 at Timaru

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Margaret Munro Collett was born at Port Chalmers on 9^th January 1876, the youngest child of Henry Vine Collett and his wife Martha Munro. Martha never saw her daughter because she was completely blind by the time of Margaret’s birth. At the time of her birth, her family was living at Scotia Street in Port Chalmers when her father ‘Harry Collett age 43 and from Truro in Cornwall, England’ was employed as a fireman, and her mother Martha was 46. The birth certificate also confirmed that Margaret’s parents were married at Melbourne on 23.09.1856, and it was her father who registered the birth on 25^th January 1876.

Margaret Munro Collett, who was also known as Maggie, never married. She later moved to Australia and settled in the Glen Iris District of Melbourne where she worked as a housekeeper for a Mr Charmers. Upon his death he established a trust that ensured Margaret would be well provided for. Throughout her life she remained in close contact with the family in Melbourne, Sydney, and those still in New Zealand. And it was at Glen Iris that she died during October 1957.

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Justina Dalziel Hundy Collett was born at Oamaru in 1881, the first of the nine children of Daniel Munro Collett and his wife Johnann Anderson. In 1902 she married John Carruth Walker, who was known as Jack, and over the next seventeen years Justina presented him with six children who were all born at Oamaru. They were Mavis Irene Walker (born 1903; died at Auckland in 1975), Johnetta Anderson Walker (born 1905-1990), Ellenor Carruth Walker (born 1907; died at Auckland in 1989), Justina Dalziel Hundy Walker (born 1911), John Carruth Walker (born 1913; died at Oamaru in 1988), Daniel Munro Walker (born 1919; died in Scotland during 1941). Justina Dalziel Hundy Walker nee Collett died at Christchurch in 1947.

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Martha Munro Collett was born at Oamaru in 1882. She must have been in her later teenage years when she was first married, and became Martha Munro Chambers, but her husband died not long after their wedding day, since it was in 1902 that she married (2) John Byrnes, pictured with her on the right on their wedding day. That second marriage produced two children for Martha and John, in the shape of Oliver Byrnes and Cyril Byrnes.

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James Dick Collett was born at Oamaru in 1886, the eldest son of Daniel Munro Collett and Johnann Anderson. He was known as Jim and he married Ellen Margaret Carman in 1912. The marriage produced no children for James, who died in 1959.

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Albert Edward Collett was born at Oamaru in 1887. He married Jessie Moore in 1912 and they had two children. Rather curiously a Jessie Collett, widow, was living at 247 Cambridge Terrace within the Christchurch East district of Canterbury in 1919, as recorded in the Electoral Roll. As Albert’s wife is the only Jessie in this family line, the entry may not be referring to this Jessie, since it is known that Albert Edward Collett died in 1946, four years after his wife Jessie had passed away in 1942.

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Henry Vine Collett

Born circa 1913

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Winifred Iris Collett

Date of birth unknown

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John Collett was born at Oamaru in 1889. He married Eva Kimm in 1914 with whom he had four children. John Collett was 63 when he died in 1952.

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Clive Collett

Date of birth unknown

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Iris Collett

Date of birth unknown

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Eric Collett

Date of birth unknown

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Kim Collett

Date of birth unknown

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Johnetta Anderson Collett was born at Oamaru in 1891 and she later married Alex Bartlett. Their marriage produced two children, Bruce Bartlett, and William Bartlett who in turn married Norma Dixon. Norma may well have been related to Ronald G Dixon who married Johnetta’s sister Elizabeth Collett (below).

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Elizabeth Egglestone Anderson Collett was born at Oamaru in 1896, the youngest daughter of Daniel Munro Collett and Johnann Anderson. During 1920 Elizabeth married Ronald G Dixon, with whom she had three children. Naomi Dixon, June Dixon, and Bruce Dixon. Elizabeth Egglestone Anderson Dixon nee Collett was sixty-five when she died in 1961.

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Daniel Munro Collett was born at Oamaru on 18^th July 1898. At the outbreak of the First World War Daniel was only 16 and was therefore too young to join the army. Instead he joined the Territorial Service where he served with the 10^th Regiment. Four days after his twentieth birthday he enlisted with the New Zealand Defence Force on 22^nd July 1918. However, his time with the army was short-lived with the ending of hostilities on 11^th November that same year.

His military records show that he left his mother’s home in Eden Street in Oamaru on 10^th September and arrived at Trentham Camp the following day, having been assigned to B Company of 47^th Reinforcement NZEF as Private D M Collett 88634. His occupation up until then had been that of a carpenter, working for Craig & Co. in Oamaru. It may be of interest that the same record gave his date of birth as 29^th June 1898.

Other details in the record named his next-of-kin as Mrs Johnann Collett (mother) who had been born in Dumfries Scotland, while his father had been born in Melbourne Australia. His age on entry was 20, and he was 5 feet 8 inches tall and 142 lbs, with dark brown hair, grey eyes, and a fresh complexion. He was eventually discharged on 24^th November 1918.

Just after the Great War he met Dorothea Margaret Koppert who was born in 1903, whom he married in 1921. Later that same year their first child was born, and he was followed by a further five children all born during the 1920s. Daniel Munro Collett died during 1966, while his widow Dorothea Margaret Collett died nine years later in 1975. Probate for Dorothy Margaret Collett was resolved at Timaru High Court during the same year, when she was described as being a widow of Oamaru.

The photograph on the right includes four of the six children of Daniel Munro Collett and his wife Dorothea, although neither of the boys’ parents was present at that time. The four children are, from right to left, James Brian Collett, Thomas Raymond Collett, Maxwell Collett, and Leonard Munro Collett. Judging by their ages, the picture was taken around 1930.

From the left, the three adults in the pictures are the boys’ grandfather, Daniel Munro Collett, with his step-sister Margaret Munro Collett, and his wife Johann Collett, the photograph having been taken at the family home in Oamaru in New Zealand.

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Leonard Munro Collett

Born in 1921

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Henry Collett

Born in 1922

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Maxwell Collett

Date of birth unknown

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Thomas Raymond Collett

Born in 1925

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James Brian Collett

Born in 1926

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Dorothy Margaret Collett

Date of birth unknown

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Henry Vine Collett was born at Oamaru around 1904, the youngest child of Daniel Munro Collett and his wife Johnann Anderson. All that is known about him is that he died at Oamaru on 24^th October 1928.

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Lucy Barlow Collett was born at Dunedin in 1887, the daughter of Henry Vine Collett and his first wife Mary Ann Barlow, and was sadly blind from birth. It was not until she was twenty-eight years old when she became Lucy Barlow McLean, following her marriage to Charles Andrew McLean in 1914. Only one child was born to Lucy and Charles, and that was Pearl Lenore McLean in 1915, and it may be that Charles died during the First World War.

The only child of Lucy Barlow Collett and Charles McLean was Pearl Lenore McLean who was born on 30^th September 1915. Pearl married (1) Austin Joseph O’Donnell on 16^th March 1944 with whom she had three children. Austin was born on 3^rd December 1912, but the marriage only lasted for just over thirteen years when he died on 27^th October 1957. Pearl then lived the life of a widow for the next ten years until, on 6^th October 1967, she married (2) Samuel Charles Harrison Wilson (born 26^th May 1906) who was very likely related to her son-in-law. It was after a further seven years that Pearl died at Dunedin on 7^th December 1984. The three children from her first marriage were:

(a) Nancy Lenore O’Donnell who was born at Invercargill during 1944, who married Maurice Stanley Wilson on 29^th June 1963, who had three children at Dunedin who were Nicholas Craig Wilson (born 1967), Gavin Charles Wilson (born 1968), and Megan Jane Wilson (born 1971). Nicholas married Toni Jane Powell on 5^th October 1991 and their daughter Hannah May Wilson was born at Palmerston North in 1997.

(b) Shirley Anne O’Donnell who was born at Invercargill during 1946, and she later married Barrie William Boyd.

(c) Colin Charles Austin O’Donnell who was born in 1948, who married (1) Jennifer Clare Bennett on 30^th August 1969 from whom he was later divorced. Colin then married Sheryl Anne Corbishle on 4^th July 1981, and they had a son Andrew Charles O’Donnell.

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Annie Louisa Collett was born at Dunedin in 1887, the daughter of Henry and Mary Ann Collett. Curiously, at the time of the premature death of her mother in 1894, when Annie and her sister Lucy (above) would have been around seven years of age, only one daughter of Mary Ann Collett was listed on her death certificate.

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Henry Vine Collett was born at Port Chalmers in 1888, the eldest son of Henry Vine Collett and Mary Ann Barlow. Henry was only five years old when his mother died in 1894, and this early photograph of him, taken during his teenage years, shows him wearing jockey silks. Whether he was successful as a jockey is not yet known. He never married and died at Dunedin on 11^th October 1961. Probate was dealt with at Dunedin High Court, when Henry Vine Collett of Port Chalmers was simply described as retired. In between these two times, Henry Vine Collett was recorded in the Electoral Rolls for Chalmers in 1911, 1914, 1919, and 1935. In the first three of these he was an unmarried boilermaker who was still living with his father Henry Collett, and his stepmother Emily Amelia Collett, at Constitution Street in Port Chalmers.

Following his death, an article was published in the local newspaper, which read as follows: “HENRY COLLETT – On October 11 1961, at Dunedin, Henry Vine, of 34 Island Terrace, Port Chalmers, beloved son of the later Mary and Henry Collett and loved brother of Myra (Mrs Shanks) and Thora (Mrs L Hodge), Dunedin and the late Lucy and Martha, in his seventy-fourth year. Deeply mourned. The funeral will leave our chapel, 78 Andrew Street, tomorrow (Friday) October 13, at the conclusion of a service commencing at 11 am for the Anderson Bay Crematorium. Messages to Flat 4, Wickliffe Terrace, Port Chalmers. No flower, by request. – Hope & Sons Ltd, Funeral Directors.”

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William Cope Collett was born at Port Chalmers during March 1890 and also died there just a few months later on 1^st July 1890. His second forename came from his maternal grandmother, Lucy Cope.

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Martha Munro Collett was born at Port Chalmers during January 1893, the youngest child of Henry Vine Collett and his first wife Mary Ann Barlow. Martha was just sixteen months old when her mother died in May 1894, and it was after a further twenty-four years that she married Cyril Ernest Owen during 1918. The marriage produced three children for Martha and Cyril, and they were Ethel Own, Keith Owen, and Ross Owen.

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Myra Florence Collett was born at Dunedin in 1899, the second of the three daughters of Henry Vine Collett by his second wife Emily Amelia Perry. Not long after she was born her parents moved to a dwelling in Constitution Street in Port Chalmers. Myra later married William Buller Downs in 1922, but that marriage may have ended in divorce when Bernard William Henry Shanks was born in 1924, to Myra and John Shanks, who she married in 1929. Two years later their second child, Bruce Alexander Shanks (1931-1954) was born. B W H Shanks later married Betty and they had two daughters, Sherill and Dawn.

Unlike her older sister, who was born and died during the month of October in the year before she was born, Myra Florence Shanks nee Collett lived a long life and died in 1969.

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Thora Isabel Ruth Collett was born in the family home on Constitution Street in Port Chalmers on 6^th January 1914, the youngest of the two surviving daughters of Henry Vine Collett and his much younger second wife Emily Amelia Perry. Thora was twenty-five when she married Leonard Langlow Hodge on 24^th August 1939. Like Thora, Leonard had also been born at Port Chalmers, but on 17^th June 1913.

Leonard Langlow died in New Zealand on 1^st November 1989, and it was almost exactly nine years later that his widow Thora Isabel Ruth Hodge nee Collett died at Wakari in New Zealand on 15^th November 1998. During their life together, the marriage had produced two sons, Wayne Leonard Henry Hodge (born 1945 at Port Chalmers) and Mervyn Lionel Hodge (born 1947).

Wayne married Doris Elizabeth Marsh during August 1976, with whom he had seven children. Vickie Marie Hodge (born 1980), Lisa Jane Hodge (born 1981), Michael Wayne Hodge (born 1985), Craig Leonard Hodge (born 1987), Blair James Hodge (born 1989), Jason Robert Hodge (born 1992), and Julian Hodge (born and died on 22.07.1993).

Mervyn married Rachelle Ann Hinds in September 1971, and they had two sons Mark Wayne Hodge (born 1971), and Dylan Jon Hodge (born 1973).

The announcement of the death of Thora Isabel Ruth Hodge was published in the local newspaper, as follows: “On November 15, 1998 at Wakari Hospital; in her 85^th year. Dearly loved wife of the late Leonard, loved mother and mother-in-law of Wayne and Doris, and Mervyn, loved nana of all her grandchildren. Special thanks to the doctors and nurses at Wakari Hospital. Privately cremated yesterday. Messages to 12 Miller Street, Abbotsford. Hope and Sons Ltd, Funeral Director.”

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Flora Collett, who was born at Balmain, NSW in 1887, was possibly the first child of George Collett and Amy Emily Dickenson. Very little is known about her, and the family photograph on the right was taken in Sydney around 1905 and is inscribed with the words “Love Flora”.

58P19

William E Collett was born at Balmain, NSW in 1888, the second of the first three children of George Collett and Amy Emily Dickenson not to survive. William barely lived for five years, when he died at Balmain in 1893.

58P20

Oliver J Collett was born at Balmain, NSW in 1889 and also died there during the following year. Oliver was the third child of George and Amy Collett who did not survive.

58P21

Elsie Ann Mary Collett was born at Balmain, NSW in 1890, to George Collett and Amy Emily Dickenson. She married (1) Robert A Morrison in 1909, by whom she had three sons at Balmain. The eldest son, Robert J J Morrison was born during 1911, and he later married Mary Kirk Gilbert-Perkins. The other two sons were George S Morrison (born 1912), and Mervyn J Morrison (born 1917).

It would appear that Robert Morrison may have died during the Great War, since Elsie married (2) Arthur Frederick Jolliffe on 30^th November 1922. Arthur had been born at Ashford in Middlesex, England in 1893.

58P22

Harold Stanley Collett was born at Balmain, NSW in 1891, the only surviving son of George Collett and Amy Emily Dickenson. Over the next thirty years Harold remained living in Balmain, during which time he married Edith Leila Lincoln in 1912, with whom he had a son while the couple was still living at Balmain.

58Q13

Harold David Collett

Born in 1918 at Balmain, NSW

58P23

Norman W Collett was born at Balmain, NSW in 1893 and was yet another child of George and Amy Collett who did not reach adulthood. Norman’s was the fourth child death in the family of six children, when he died just a few months after he was born.

58P24

George Herbert Collett was born at Auckland in New Zealand on 25^th July 1893, the eldest child of James Dick Collett and his wife Priscilla Mary Felton. At the time of the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 George was twenty-one and he joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) and served as Private G H Collett No. 51526 with the Canterbury Regiment, 1^st Battalion F Company.

Tragically he was just 24 years old when he was killed in action in Belgium on 3^rd December 1917, following which his body was laid to rest at Hooge Crater Cemetery, four kilometres to the east of Ieper (Ypres), grave Ref. IXA.J.11.

George signed up for military service at Auckland on 24^th January 1917 when he confirmed he had been born there on 25^th July 1893, the son of James Richard Collett of Port Chalmers and his wife Mary Collett from Auckland. At that time he was 23 and was employed as a salesman with the company of George Hart in Lorne Street, while he was still living with his parents at 3 Bond Street, Arch Hill in Auckland. He was 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighted 9 stones 7 lbs, had auburn hair, hazel eyes, and a fair complexion. On his medical examination form there was mentioned of a severe stomach problem seven years earlier which had resulted in absence from work for eight months, but apart from that he was declared fit for service.

After receiving his initial training in New Zealand, George sailed from there on 16^th July 1917 and disembarked at Liverpool on 16^th September. On 26^th October he left for France, and arrived at Etaples on 29^th October. It was on 10^th November that he joined his battalion in the field, and just over three weeks later he was dead.

58P25

Myra May Collett was born at Auckland in 1895, the daughter of James and Priscilla Collett. She married (1) Percival Child on 12^th January 1921 with the result that they had two children, Verna Mary Child and Herbert Allen Child. Following the death of Percival Child, and much later in her life, Myra married her cousin (2) William Edwin Collett (below) who was a similar age to Myra, having been born at Port Chalmers in 1896. It was just a few years after they were married that Myra May Collett, nee Collett, died at Auckland on 14^th September 1964. Almost seven years later her second husband, William Edwin Collett, died at Auckland on 10^th July 1971.

Of her two children, Verna Mary Child married Frank Sleeman, with whom she had three children, Grant Sleeman, Janis Sleeman, and Gail Sleeman. Herbert Allen Child married Joy Mansfield, and their family comprised Gregory Child, Gawick Child (who married Sheryl Law and had three children Jeremy, Simon, and Marcus), Wendy Child (who married Ronald Walker and had three children Kelly, Hayley, and Paula), and Mark Child.

Grant Sleeman married Lesley Whitehead, and their family included Sarah Sleeman (born 1981), Jessica Sleeman (born 1983), and Rebecca Sleeman (born 1986). Janis Sleeman married Frank Housiaux who had Susan Housiaux and Laura Housiaux, while Gail Sleeman married Stephen Munce and they had Hollie Munce (born 1978), and David Munce.

58P26

Elsie Marion Collett was born at Auckland in 1898, the youngest daughter of James Dick Collett and his wife Priscilla Mary Felton.

58P27

William Henry Vine Collett was born at Auckland in 1901, the youngest child of James Dick Collett and his wife Priscilla Mary Felton. The Electoral Register for 1928 included William Henry Vine Collett as living at Grey Lynn district of Auckland. The only other known information about him at this time, is that he was a clerk and that he was still living in Auckland when he died on 17^th March 1972. It was in the probate records at Auckland High Court, where he was described by the Department of Justice as a clerk.

58P28

Daisy Martha May Collett was born at Balmain, NSW in 1892, the first child of William Collett and Mary Dickenson. At the age of twenty-two she married Edward Page in 1914 and the married produced two sons, Thomas Page who married Gladys, and Eric Page who married Wilma.

58P29

Henry Vine Collett, who was known as Jack, was born at Port Chalmers on 30^th May 1893, the eldest son of William and Mary Collett. When war broke out in the summer of 1914 Henry was working as a baker, like his grandfather and namesake, Henry Vine Collett. He was living at 14 Tukanaki Road in Dunedin and was employed by Walter Ball (Baker) of Richmond Avenue. Prior to that time he had been a member of the Company of Dunedin City Guard, which was disbanded before the start of the war.

On 17^th August he enlisted with the New Zealand Medical Corps and joined the No.1 Field Ambulance Unit as Private H V Collett 3/239. At that time his next-of-kin was named as Wm E Collett (father) of 129 Crawford Street, South Dunedin. On entry he was described as being 5 feet 4½ inches tall and weighing 144 lbs, with dark brown hair, hazel eyes, and of pale complexion.

During his active service he served a total of 4 years and 145 days, of which 3 years 339 days were spent overseas, with just 137 in New Zealand. His first overseas posting was to Egypt where he was based from 1914 to 1916, although in May 1915 he was in the area of Dardanelles and Gallipoli. From 1916 to 1918 he saw action in Western Europe. It was on 27^th June 1920 that he was awarded the 1914 - 1918 Star war medal.

The war record of Henry Vine Collett includes the following items: September 1915 disembarked from the Hospital Ship Iona ‘slightly sick’; January 1916 sailed from Malta to Egypt on board Hospital Ship Euripides ‘fit for active service’; October 1917 ‘taken sick at Rouen; there then followed a period of seven months in France when he was not at all well. At a meeting of the Medical Board on 31^st May 1918, the subject of the health of Henry Vine Collett was discussed. The board found that, due to his exposure to the frontline fighting at Passchendaele during October 1917, he was suffering from neurasthema after shell-shock and had been withdrawn from frontline operations ever since.

The Board’s report continued, that by 19^th May 1918, while in hospital in France, his condition had been improving, only to be set back when the hospital was bombed during an enemy attack. It was also recorded that he had fallen out of a route march on 10^th April 1918, when his condition was noted to be nervous and shaky, with marked tremors of the fingers, and giddy attacks. The Board therefore recommended twelve months rest, with 20% pay for six months.

During the first week in June 1918 he was sent to England where he spent a short time in Torquay. It was while he was at Torquay that he was fined one day’s pay for ‘breaking into camp’, which followed earlier misdemeanours of being drunk (in France in April 1917), and breaking out of camp (in in France in May 1917), the penalty for which was loss of ten day’s pay. On 8^th August Henry was taken to Plymouth where he boarded the troopship S S Paparoa bound for Auckland. During the voyage a further meeting was held on 17^th August to once again discuss the health of Private H V Collett. However, it was not until the end of 1918 that the situation with his health reached a climax.

It was at a meeting of the army’s medical board in Dunedin, held on 17^th December 1918, that it was agreed to finally discharge Private H V Collett 3/239 on the grounds of him not being fit for active service, and when asked how long his condition would prevail, it was stated, permanently. As a result of their decision, he was discharged from service on 21^st December to his home address of 484 Leith Street in Dunedin. Although the entries on his medical record are barely visible, it is evident that there were 27 occasions when he was taken ill or injured, while taking care of others on frontline duty.

Once back in the safety of his own home, he was recorded in the Electoral Roll for Otago, Dunedin North in 1919. By that time in his life was still living with his parents at 484 Leith Street, from where he had resumed his occupation as a baker. It was later that same year that he became a married man.

Henry Vine Collett married Gladys Edith Eva Newton on 24^th December 1919 and, although they were together for over forty years, it would appear that they had no children. Three months later on 24^th February 1920, Henry wrote a letter to the War Expenses Office. The letter read as follows: “Sir, I am writing in reference to the shilling a day whilst in camp in 1914 with the Main Body at Epsom Camp Auckland, hoping you will look into my case. I remain your obedient servant, Private Henry Vine Collett 3/239 NZ Medical Corps, 17A Serpentine Avenue, Dunedin.” As a result, Henry received a pay warrant for one pound, being his pay for one month.

In April 1923 Henry and Gladys were living at 85 Maitland Street in Dunedin, but not long after that they moved to Southland. Less than two years later, in January 1925 Henry was still working as a baker, and by then he and Gladys were living at Otautau, where Henry was employed by Laing & Knighton (Bakers). According to the Electoral Roll for 1928 Henry Vine Collett was living and working in Wallace (Wallacetown) in the Southland area of South Island, not far from Otautau.

Henry Vine (Jack) Collett died at Oamaru, fifty miles north of Port Chalmers, on 2^nd January 1962, when he and Gladys were living at 2 Virgil Street in Oamaru. Gladys survived him by nearly thirty years, when she passed away at Oamaru on 8^th November 1991 at the age of 91. Probate for Henry Vine Collett of Oamaru was resolved at Dunedin High Court during 1962, when he was referred to as a rabbiter. This probably indicates that at some time in his life he eventually gave up the family tradition of being a baker.

58P30

William Edwin Collett was born at Port Chalmers in 1896, the son of William and Mary Collett. During his life he was married two times. His first wife was (1) Edith, for whom there are no records of any children, so she may have died during childbirth, and much later in his life his second wife was (2) Myra May Sleeman nee Collett (above), who had been born in 1895, who was William’s cousin who had already outlived two husbands. Myra died at Auckland on 14^th September 1964 and was followed by William nearly seven years after, on 10^th July 1971, who was also still living in Auckland at that time.

58P31

Elsie Amy Collett was born at Dunedin in 1902, the daughter of William and Mary Collett. She later married James Fraser and had four children by him. They were Ian Fraser, Joyce Fraser, Fergus Fraser, and Keith Fraser. Joyce Fraser married Robert McNamara with whom she had Gleny McNamara, Ross McNamara, and Noelene McNamara.

58P32

Amelia Louise Collett was born at Dunedin in 1906, the younger child of William Collett and Mary Dickenson. She was better known as Millie Collett, and it is established that she never married, but lived all of her life at Dunedin, where she died on 7^th June 1998. The reporting of her passing was covered in the local newspaper with the following words:

“Amelia Louise (Millie) Collett late of Achilles Avenue and Fulton Home. On June 7, 1998 in Dunedin Hospital; in her 92^nd year. Dearly loved daughter of the late William and Mary Collett, loved sister and sister-in-law of the late Daisy and Ted Page, Jack and Gladys Collett, Bill, Gwen and Myra Collett, and Elsie and Jim Fraser, dearly loved aunt of Tom and Gladys Page, Joyce and Bob McNamara (Balclutha, Otago), Ian and Maureen Fraser (Brisbane), Fergus and Audrey Fraser (Hastings), Keith (Sydney), and all their families. Special thanks to the staff of Fulton Home for their loving care of Millie. A service for Millie will be held in Gillions Chapel, 407 Hillside Road, on Wednesday June 10, at 2 pm, then to the Andersons Bay Cemetery. Messages to 43 Gilkison Street, Dunedin. Gillions Funeral Services.”

58P33

Henry Vine Collett was born at Port Chalmers on 14^th October 1895, the first child born to Septimus Munro Collett and his wife Isabella Ritchie Forrester. He originally served with the 2^nd S C Regiment, and first applied to join the army at Timaru in May 1916, but was rejected because of a chest problem. However, just one year later, when he was in better health, Henry Vine Collett enlisted as Timaru on 3^rd May 1917.

Just over four months later, with all of the preliminaries completed Henry left the family home at Hassall Street in Timaru on 17^th September and arrived at Trentham Camp during the following day. In order to join the army he had given up his job as a tailor with Ballantyne & Co of Timaru. He was initially assigned to the Quartermaster’s Stores as Private H V Collett 64884.

His military record confirmed that his next-of-kin was Bell Collett (mother) of Hassall Street, and that his father was Septimus Collett. He was described as being 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing 135 lbs, with brown hair, blue eyes, and a sallow complexion, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. His conduct sheet shows that on 6^th December 1917 he was absence from duty at the Q M Stores, for which he was punished with one day spent in the brig.

On 18^th March 1918 Henry Vine Collett was transferred from the Q M Stores at Trentham Camp when he appears to have spent some time as an Officers’ Orderly with the Homes Service Guard at Fort Balland, Mahanga Bay near Wellington. By the time he was discharged on 16^th May 1918, he was recorded as Gunner H V Collett 67/24354, when his character was described as good.

By the time of the compilation of the Electoral Roll in 1919 he was a lone resident at 244 Gloucester Street in Christchurch East district of Canterbury, where he was recorded as working as a tailor. The only other person with the Collett name listed in the same electoral roll, was the widow Jessie Collett of 247 Cambridge Terrace. – see Ref. 58P4.

Just after the First World War he married the widow Sarah Short, formerly Sarah Dell, who had been born on 11^th February 1898, who may have lost her husband during the war years. The marriage produced a set of twins for the couple, although sadly one of them died when he was just four years of age.

It would appear from the Electoral Roll for Christchurch North, in 1928, that Henry’s wife Sarah was known as Dell, since it was as Dell Collett that she was recorded living with Henry Vine Collett, a tailor, at 12 Lindsay Street. Living within the same area, but at 29 Kilmore Street, was Richard Irwin Collett, a labourer, although so far it has not been determine who he actually was.

Sarah Collett, formerly Short nee Dell, died during February 1981, at the age of 83, when it was as ‘Dell Collett, married’ that she was recorded by the High Court in Christchurch during the period of probate. Her husband, Henry Vine Collett, was one-hundred years old when he died at Port Chalmers on 5^th July 1996. The probate records at Christchurch High Court described him as a retired tailor.

That same month, July 1996, the Christchurch Press ran the following article: “Mr ‘Harry’ Collett. One of New Zealand’s oldest film stars, Henry (Harry) Vine Collett, died earlier this month, aged 101. Mr Collett spoke to ‘The Press’ in 1992 about his starring role in the 1917 film ‘The kid from Timaru’ as a 22 year-old from the New Zealand Army at Trentham. The film was adapted from Barrie Marschel’s poem of the experiences of a young Timaru man at Gallipoli.

Mr Collett was interviewed to help the New Zealand Film Archive launch its ‘Last Film Search’ in an effort to find and save old movie footage buried in Canterbury homes. Marschel directed ‘The Kid From Timaru’ himself, and offered Collett a trip to Australia – saying he was a natural for film. Mr Collett turned it down, preferring to stick to tailoring at Ballantyne’s.

Mr Collett was born in Port Chalmers in 1895. His family moved to Timaru then, in 1917, to Christchurch, where he remained. He enjoyed rugby and cricket, but his greatest passion was yachting. He was often seen out on Lyttelton Harbour in his yacht ‘The Idle Hour’, which he co-owned with a friend. He sailed it well into his eighties and was made a life member of the Banks Peninsula Cruising Club. Mr Collett is survived by a son.”

58Q14

Delma Lyall Collett

Born in 1925

58Q15

Vine Henry Collett

Born in 1925

58P34

Peter Forrester Collett was born at Port Chalmers on 13^th January 1897, the son of Septimus and Isabella Collett. The photograph on the right shows Peter in his army uniform between October 1916 and June 1919. For his military records, see below. It was four years after the war that he married Mary Frances Amelia McDonnell on 15^th May 1922, Mary having been born in West Victoria, Australia on 7^th September 1894. Once married they settled in Sydney. Tragically their daughter and eldest child died on the day she was born. Peter Forrester Collett died at Caringbah in New South Wales on 8^th July 1978. Mary outlived her husband by a further four years, when she died on 30^th July 1982.

On 26^th September 1916 Peter was examined for suitability for the army. He was 19 years old, had dark brown hair, grey eyes and a dark complexion, was 5 feet 8 inches tall, and weighed 150 lbs. Being class fit for duty, he enlisted a week later on 4^th October and entered service with the 1^st Battalion Canterbury Infantry Regiment at Trentham Camp on 18^th October as Private P F Collett 38940.

Upon entry, his military the record confirmed his next-of-kin and father was Septimus Munro Collett, and his mother as Isabel Collett, both born at Dunedin, and that he was living with them at 51 Hassall Street in Timaru, from where he worked as an engineer for Parr & Company. His religion was stated as being Presbyterian and his date and place of birth was given as 15^th January 1897 at Port Chalmers. It was also recorded that prior to this, he had served with the 2^nd South Canterbury Regiment.

Initially he was given the rank of private, but on 1^st November he was promoted to Lance Corporal, and nineteen days after that he was given the temporary rank of Corporal. On 16^th February 1917 Corporal Collett sailed from New Zealand on the ‘Navua’ bound for Devonport in Plymouth, England, where he disembarked on 23^rd April. Three days later he reverted to Lance Corporal. On 21^st May he marched into Etaples, fifteen miles south of Boulogne, the main base-camp who those heading for the frontline. It was there that the troops received intensive training in gas warfare and bayonet drill.

After four days in Etaples, Lance Corporal Collett reverted to Private Collett. Just less than one month later, on 20^th July, Peter was taken ill from the affects of the gas warfare and was eventually admitted into hospital in London on 2^nd August, where he stayed until 12^th September. A period of convalescence followed and on 5^th November he was detailed for duty as a carpenter at the Convalescence Hospital at Bloomsbury Square in the Camden area of London, this he did up until 29^th April 1918.

It was in November 1918 that he rejoined his battalion at Etaples, the record indicating that he marched into the camp on 19^th and resumed his duties on 22^nd. The next entry recorded the battalion’s return to England on 11^th February 1919, following which Peter and his comrades sailed out of Tilbury Docks on the ship ‘Tofua’ on 18^th April. Prior to their arrival in New Zealand on 26^th June Peter was confined to the ship’s hospital with influenza. That happened on 19^th April, and from which he was finally released on the 27^th, even though his discharge papers give his final day of service as 26^th April.

He served a total of 2 years and 252 days, of which only 149 days were served in New Zealand, and was awarded the British War Medal, and the Victory Medal. At the time he received the medals in 1924, Peter Forrester Collett was living at 428 Oxford Street in Paddington, a suburb of Sydney in Australia.

58Q16

Patricia Mary Collett

Born in 1925 at Sydney

58Q17

Peter Forrester Collett

Born in 1926 at Sydney

58P35

Isabel Ritchie Collett was born at Port Chalmers on 23^rd Sept 1898, the daughter of Septimus and Isabella Collett. She married Victor Keay in 1920 and during the following year their only child, Victor Munro Keay, was born. Victor married Annis Mae Spencer on 20^th December 1947 and they had two sons, Gregory Keay (born circa 1948), and Jeffrey Keay (born 1950). Sadly for the family, Isabel’s husband died around the time of the birth of their first grandchild, while Isabel lived the life of widow for a further thirty-four years, when she died during May 1982.

58P36

Bertram Harold Collett was born at Timaru on 7^th May 1903 and was the youngest child of Septimus Munro Collett and his wife Isabella Ritchie Forrester. When he was around twenty years of age he married Annie Margaret McFadyen who was known as Peggy, and who had been born on 14^th May 1898. Their marriage produced two children for the couple, the first of which was born when they were living in Wellington. Bertram Harold Collett died on 25^th May 1990 and probate for his estate was resolved at the High Court in Christchurch.

58Q18

June Marjory Collett

Born in 1925 at Wellington

58Q19

Pam Elizabeth Collett

Born in 1933

58Q1

Henry Vine Collett is believed to have been born at Oamaru around 1913, the year after his parents, Albert Edward Collett and Jessie Moore, were married. The only other possible fact known about this particular Henry Vine Collett is that, according to the Electoral Roll, he was living in the Waitaki district of Oamaru in 1935.

58Q4

Iris Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the second child of John Collett and Eva Kimm. Later in her life Iris was married, when she became Iris Baron.

58Q6

Kim Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the fourth child and youngest of the three sons of John Collett and Eva Kimm. Kim Collett is known to have married Betty, but no further details are available at this time.

58Q7

Leonard Munro Collett was born in 1921 and was the first child of Daniel Munro Collett and his wife Dorothea Margaret Koppert. He married Bertha Hamilton and they had two children.

58R1

Ian Collett

Date of birth unknown

58R2

Paula Collett

Date of birth unknown

58Q8

Henry Collett was born in 1922 and he later married Ngaire Nuttall, with whom he had three daughters.

58R3

Glenda Collett

Date of birth unknown

58R4

Julie Collett

Date of birth unknown

58R5

Vicki Collett

Date of birth unknown

58Q9

Maxwell Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Ellen Clements and she provided him with two children.

58R6

Maxwell Collett

Date of birth unknown

58R7

Fergus Collett

Date of birth unknown

58Q10

Thomas Raymond Collett was born in 1925 and was 27 years old when he married Joyce Eileen McLeod in 1952. The marriage resulted in the birth of three children for Thomas and Joyce, who was born in 1929.

58R8

Glenys Joy Collett

Born in 1952

58R9

Alan Raymond Collett

Born in 1958

58R10

Lynette Marie Collett

Born in 1960

58Q11

James Brian Collett was born in 1926 and was the youngest son of Daniel and Dorothea Collett. The only other detail known about him at this time is that he married Margaret Brown and together they had a son and a daughter.

58R11

Roger Collett

Date of birth unknown

58R12

Faith Collett

Date of birth unknown

58Q12

Dorothy Margaret Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the youngest child of Daniel Munro Collett and his wife Dorothea Margaret Koppert. She later married William Sinclair and they had two children. Their daughter Johnann Sinclair married Peter Williams Rev, and their son Ross Sinclair married Christina.

58Q13

Harold David Collett was born at Balmain, NSW in 1918, the only known child of Harold Stanley Collett and his wife Edith Leila Lincoln. Harold was twenty-six years old when he married Mavis Alice Kenny on 24^th June 1944, Mavis having been born at Paddington, NSW, during 1924.

58Q14

Delma Lyall Collett was one half of a set of twins born on 29^th March 1925 to Henry Vine Collett and his wife Sarah Short. Tragically she was only four years old when she died in 1929.

58Q15

Vine Henry Collett was born on 29^th March 1925, the twin brother of Delma Lyall Collett (above). He married (1) Patricia Anne Dinnie on 17^th July 1951, following which, over the next six years, Patricia presented Vine with three children. Patricia was born on 1^st January 1931 and died on 21^st December 1989. Five years later, during 1994, Vine married (2) Gweneth Elaine Johnson who had been born at Greymouth, New Zealand in 1931. This second married for him only lasted for around three years, when Vine Henry Collett died at Waikanae on 19^th June 1997.

58R13

Susan Dell Collett

Born in 1952

58R14

Steven John Collett

Born in 1954

58R15

Lynley Joy Collett

Born in 1957

58Q16

Patricia Mary Collett was born at Sydney on 15^th September 1925, the daughter of Peter Forrester Collett and Mary Frances Amelia McDonnell. Tragically she died on the same day that she was born.

58Q17

Peter Forrester Collett was born at Sydney in 1926, the son of Peter Forrester Collett and Mary Frances Amelia McDonnell. It was on 13^th March 1948 that he married Peggy Winifred Collier. Peggy was born at Rockdale in New South Wales in 1925. During the Second World War Peter served as a leading aircraftsman with the Royal Australian Air Force, in the crash boat service, and was stationed on the east coast of Australia.

58R16

Peter Timothy Collett

Born in 1949 at Arncliffe, NSW

58R17

Paul Christopher Collett

Born in 1951 at Arncliffe, NSW

58R18

Penelope Winsome Collett

Born in 1957

58R19

David Arthur Collett

Born in 1957

58Q18

June Marjory Collett was born at Wellington in 1925, the eldest child of Bertram Harold Collett and his wife Margaret McFadyen. During March 1948 she married Walter Pearse Harper who was known as Pat. Over the following eight years June presented Pat with four children. Lynne Harper was born in 1950 and she married John Burns, Clive Harper was born in 1952 and he married Ailsa Johnson, and Wendy Harper was born in 1955 and she married Vaughn Legros and they had three children – Anton, Janina (born circa 1980) and Liam (born circa 1997). June’s and Pat’s last child was Grant Harper, who was born in 1956.

58Q19

Pam Elizabeth Collett was born in 1933, the youngest of the two daughters of Bertram and ‘Peggy’ Collett. She was 21 when she married Walter Spencer Leslie on 7^th January 1954. Walter was known as Wattie, and he and Pan had a son and a daughter. Anne Leslie was born in 1956 and she later married Peter Berry in 1974 and had Justin in 1976 and Aleasha in 1979, while Peter Leslie was born in 1961. When Aleasha was around eighteen years old she gave birth to a son Jayden Morgan who was born in New Zealand on 27^th March 1997.

58R6

Maxwell Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the eldest son of Maxwell Collett and Ellen Clements, and he later married Mary.

58R7

Fergus Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the youngest son of Maxwell Collett and Ellen Clements. He later married Sharon with whom he had two children.

58S1

Tania Collett

Date of birth unknown

58S2

Daniel Collett

Date of birth unknown

58R8

Glenys Joy Collett was born in 1952, the eldest child of Thomas Raymond Collett and his wife Joyce Eileen McLeod. Glenys later married Brian Smith.

58R9

Alan Raymond Collett was born in 1958, the only son of Thomas and Joyce Collett. Alan married Michaela on 10^th January 1998 at Hunter Valley in New South Wales, and during 2000 their son Daniel was born. In 2001 the family moved to Wellington in New Zealand. Alan provided much of the information relating to this section of the family, and in particular that of the descendants of Daniel Munro Collett (Ref. 58O1).

58S3

Daniel Munro Collett

Born in 2000 in Australia

58S4

Joshua Collett

Born in 2003 at Wellington, NZ

58R10

Lynette Marie Collett was born in 1960, the youngest of the three children of Thomas Raymond Collett and Joyce Eileen McLeod. Lynette later married Wayne Holmes.

58R11

Roger Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the eldest of the two children of James Brian Collett and his wife Margaret Brown.

58R12

Faith Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the daughter of James Brian Collett and Margaret Brown, and she later married Mark Julius.

58R13

Susan Dell Collett was born in 1952 the first child of Vine Henry Collett and his first wife Patricia Anne Dinnie. It was around 1973 that Susan married (1) John Corbett, from whom she was later divorced, but not before the birth of their daughter Kylie Amber Corbett, who was born in 1974.

Eleven years after the birth of her first child, Susan Dell Corbett married (2) Lewis Scott on 13^th September 1985. That second marriage for Susan produced another three children before she and Lewis were also later divorced. The three children were Lewis Dion Scott (born 1977), Brooke Kimberley Dell Scott (born 1979), and Jade Colette Scott who was born in 1981 and who later married Ron Blenkiron on 20^th August 1993.

58R14

Steven John Collett was born in 1954, the only son of Vine and Patricia Collett. On 23^rd February 1985 he married Shelly Joanne Park who had been born in 1960. Two children were born from their marriage, and they were Katherine and Vine.

58S3

Katherine Collett

Born in 1989

58S4

Vine Henry Aaron Collett

Born in 1991

58R15

Lynley Joy Collett was born in 1957, the youngest of the three children of Vine Henry Collett and his first wife Patricia Anne Dinnie. It was during 1979 that she married Rodney Cooper with whom she had a daughter De Cooper who was born in 1980, and a son Sam Cooper who was born in 1984. Sometime later Lynley and Rodney were divorced.

58R16

Peter Timothy Collett was born at Arncliffe in NSW during 1949. He was the eldest child of Peter Forrester Collett and his wife Peggy Winifred Collier, and is known by the name Tim. It was on 15^th April 1972 that Peter married Lynnette Mary Fitzhenry, Lynne having been born at Kogarah in NSW in 1950. In the years following their wedding day the couple lived at Cronulla in NSW until 1976, when the Central Mapping Authority, where Tim worked as a cartographer, was decentralised to Bathhurst in western NSW, where they still live today.

It was Tim who kindly provided the details of his family line right back to the first Henry Vine Collett (Ref. 58M1).

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Elaene Mary Collett

Born in 1977 at Bathurst, NSW

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Michelle Louise Collett

Born in 1979 at Bathurst, NSW

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Paul Christopher Collett was born at Arncliffe, NSW in 1951, the second son of Peter and Peggy Collett. He married Carole Diane Johnson on 6^th September 1975. Carole had been born in 1955, but after the birth of the couple’s two sons, they were divorced.

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Christopher Lachlan Collett

Born in 1979 at Caringbah, NSW

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Michael Forrester Collett

Born in 1981 at Caringbah, NSW

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Penelope Winsome Collett, known as Penny, was born in 1957, the only daughter of Peter and Peggy Collett and twin sister of David (below). On 6^th September 1980 she married David Alexander Richards who was born during 1954. Their marriage produced three children, they being Emma Winsome Richard (born at Kogarah in 1983), Timothy Alexander Richards (born at Kogarah in 1985 who married Kate Hull on 8^th May 2010), and Luke David Richards who was born on 26^th August 1992, but who tragically died that same day.

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David Arthur Collett, the twin brother of Penny (above), was born in 1957, the youngest of the four children of Peter Forrester Collett and his wife Peggy Winifred Collie. David married Carmen Simone Azzopardi who was born in 1959 who presented him with three children.

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Daniel Forrester Collett

Born in 1990

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Caitlin Ashleigh Collett

Born in 1992

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Ashleigh Victoria Collett

Born in 1994

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Elaene Mary Collett was born at Bathurst, NSW in 1977, the eldest of the two daughters of Peter Timothy Collett and his wife Lynnette Mary Fitzhenry. She married David Donald Williamson on 19^th October 2002, David having been born at Penrith in New South Wales in 1967. Their three children are Bryce Sean Williamson (born 2011 at New Lambton Heights, NSW), Skye Nadine Williamson (born 2006 at Maitland, NSW), and Elysia Grace Williamson (born 2008 at Maitland).

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Michelle Louise Collett, who is known as Shelly, was born at Bathurst, NSW in 1979 the youngest daughter of Peter and Lynette Collett. She married Peter Solomon on 3^rd March 2007, by which time they had three children. Peter was seven years older than Shelly, with him having been born in 1972. Their three children are Leneyah Solomon (born 1999 at Hornsby, NSW), Inari Vianne Solomon (born 2002 at Bathurst), and Ellette Mauve Solomon (born 2004 at Caloundra, Queensland).

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Christopher Lachlan Collett was born at Caringbah, NSW in 1979, the eldest of the two sons of Paul Christopher Collett and his wife Carole Diane Johnson. It was on 2^nd January 2010 that he married Nicole Wilkinson.