PART SIX

The New Zealand Line - 1815 to 2000

This family line commences with Elizabeth Collett & Henry Collett from Part One

Updated February 2010

The information provided for this update was gratefully received from

Ron & Sue Payne in Perth, Australia

The information provided for the previous updates was gratefully received

from Tania Bryant whose mother was Janis Patricia Collett (Ref. 6R5) of New Zealand

This is the family line of Jennifer Alison Collett (Ref. 6S2) whose

husband Martin Gregory kindly provided details of their family

6N1	ELIZABETH COLLETT (Ref. 1N53) was baptised on 20.03.1817 at Leonard Stanley. She later married her cousin Henry Collett (Ref. 1N61) on 13.07.1840 at St Mary de Lode Church in Gloucester.
	One month after the wedding the couple emigrated to New Zealand when they sailed out of Gravesend on the British barque HMS London on 13^th August 1840. The barque London was chartered by the New Zealand Company and sailed from the Port of London bound for Port Nicholson with 228 emigrants aboard.
	The voyage took four months to complete and the ship eventually arrived at Port Nicholson in New Zealand on the 12^th December 1840. There had been four infant deaths during the voyage and six new births. Astonished by the number of settlers arriving on their shores, the local Maori asked if the 'whole tribe' had come out from England, not realising that this was only the beginning of the settlement of New Zealand.
	One account of the ship’s arrival, given by one of the passengers on board the London, was as follows: "Rising at dawn, we crowded the ships rails, anxious to get a first glimpse of the land which was to be our new home. The sea was calm as we sailed into Port Nicholson on that warm sunlit December morning in 1840 and soon shelters and shacks could be seen dotted along the waterfront. Presently, native canoes came paddling out from the shore; there must have been a score or more coming to greet us. Our long journey from England was coming to an end."
	Twenty years after their arrival in New Zealand, Elizabeth and Henry and their family were living at 81 Hutt Road in Petone, near Wellington, where their last child was born. Many homes were erected along Hutt Road for various members of the Collett family. This photograph was taken in 1874 and shows the Collett farm. It was also on this day that the first railway train ran between Wellington and Napier, along land previously owned by the Collett family and purchased from them in 1873. From 1842 Henry Collett was an established wheelwright and had associations with the company of Collett, Styles and Dean of Lower Hutt in Petone, which was formed by his son Aaron Collett (below).
	Two of Henry’s other sons eventually took over the family business which became Collett Brothers in 1887, of which further details are provided under Edward Henry Collett and Albert William Collett.
	Henry was also acknowledged as one of the early pioneers and even had pride of place in the Pioneer Muster Roll celebration (the Jubilee of Colonisation) that was held in Wellington on 22^nd January 1890.
	Elizabeth Collett died at the family home on the old Hutt Road in Petone on 25.10.1881 at the age of sixty-three, and was followed thirteen years later by her husband Henry who died at Petone on 12.09.1894 at the age of seventy-six.
	Elizabeth was buried at the old Taita Cemetery in the Hutt Valley just north of Wellington, which was formerly known as Christ Church Graveyard.
	Following the death of their parents, the children of Elizabeth and Henry Collett sold off the paddock land to the rear of the family homestead in 1901, and this ultimately became part of the Riddlers Crescent development.
	It is well established that Elizabeth and Henry had with them on their sea voyage from England, some rose plants which they planted in the garden of their home on the old Hutt Road, and which survive at the Collett home to this day. This is at 36 Riddlers Crescent in Petone, formerly 81 Hutt Road, and in 2000 the house was placed on the New Zealand Historic Places Register.
	See further property notes under Mabel Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 6P9).
	6O1	Edward Henry Collett			Born on 17.04.1841
	6O2	Thomas George Collett			Born on 22.03.1843
	6O3	Elizabeth Collett			Born on 05.05.1845
	6O4	JAMES COLLETT			Born on 25.10.1847
	6O5	Martin Collett			Born on 31.10.1849
	6O6	Mary Jane Collett			Born on 02.12.1851
	6O7	Aaron Collett			Born on 02.01.1854
	6O8	Charles Samuel Collett			Born on 09.01.1856
	6O9	Albert William Collett			Born on 06.06.1858
	6O10	Ellen Maria Collett			Born on 01.05.1860
6O1	Edward Henry Collett was born on 17.04.1841 at Wellington almost exactly nine months to the day after his parents had married. He never married and was a founder member of the Manchester Unity Loyal Petone Lodge and in his early days he was an enthusiastic church worker.
	Together with his brother Albert (below), Edward founded Collett Brothers in 1887, a wheelwright, general smith, and funeral business at Lower Hutt, the premises of which are shown in the photograph on the right. Whether through a disagreement with his brother, the partnership was dissolved in 1895. A formal announcement to this effect was placed in the local newspaper and read as follows:
	‘We, Edward Henry Collett and Albert William Collett, trading as Collett Brothers at the Lower Hutt and at Petone, a wheelwrights, general smiths, and undertakers, hereby give notice that we have this day dissolved the partnership. Edward Henry Collett will carry on the undertaking business and Albert William Collett will carry on the wheelwright and general smith business at Lower Hutt and pay and receive all debts due to and by that branch of the business. Dated this day 29^th March 1895’
	An earlier announcement in the Evening Post referred to the establishment of the company in 1887 as follows:
	‘To the residents of Lower Hutt and district. E H & A W Collett beg to notify that having taken over the business carried on by Mr A Collett [their brother Aaron] near the Hutt Railway Station, have opened a Wheelwright’s Shop in connection therewith, and hope to receive a continuation of past favours. The business will in future be carried on under the style of Collett Bros Lower Hutt and Petone.
	Edward died on 04.12.1916 and was buried at Lower Hutt in New Zealand.
6O2	Thomas George Collett was born on 22.03.1843 at Wellington. He was married Mary Ann of Mangaroa and established a farm on the eastern side of the Mangaroa Valley. The farm was later worked by Thomas’ daughter Elsie and her husband.
	Thomas George died in June 1930 and was buried at Trentham in New Zealand.
	6P1	William Herbert Collett			Date of birth unknown
	6P2	Elsie Collett			Date of birth unknown
	6P3	Charles William Collett			Born in 1876
6O3	Elizabeth Collett was born on 05.05.1845 at Wellington. She married William Buick and started her married life and family at Buick Farm. She was known as Mrs W Buick of Petone, and Elizabeth Street in Petone is named after her.
	Elizabeth died on 01.08.1926 and was buried at Masterton in New Zealand.
6O4	JAMES COLLETT was born on 25.10.1847 at Petone in New Zealand. He married Elizabeth Fox of Taita on 11.09.1867 and they lived all their life at 89 Hutt Road with James’ brother Charles Collett (below) living next door.
	James worked at Percy’s Flour Mill and later worked as a quarryman at Ngahauranga. His last job was with Petone Borough Council. He lived a very long life and died in 1930 aged eighty-two, following which he was buried at Lower Hutt.
	On 5^th December 1870, when James was around twenty-three years old, he had the honour of being a drummer in the band that played at the historic funeral of the Maori chief Honiana Te Puni at Pito-one (which later became Petone). Thirty years earlier, at the time of the arrival of James’ parents at Port Nicholson in 1840, Honiana Te Puni and hundreds of Maori natives with tattooed faces were anxiously awaiting the arrival of six pioneer vessels from a far off land.
	Over the following years, chief Honiana Te Puni became an old and well tried friend to many of the 1840 settlers, and it was he who was one of the signatures to the Treaty of Waitangi which was signed in 1840. A memorial to the great Maori chief can be found today on the beach front at Petone.
	6P4	Ethel Ellen Collett			Born in 1882
	6P5	Ernest James Collett			Born in 1884
	6P6	HAROLD AARON COLLETT			Born in 1886
	6P7	Elsie Jane Collett			Born in 1893
6O5	Martin Collett was born on 31.10.1849 at Petone. He was married and made his home at Waipawa where he was woodworking tradesman. He lived at Petone until his death in February 1936.
	6P8	Henry Charles Collett			Date of birth unknown
6O6	Mary Jane Collett, who was known as Jane, was born on 02.12.1851 at Petone. When her mother Elizabeth knew she was dying she made Jane promise to look after her father Henry Collett (Ref. 1N61 and 6N1). And this was the reason that she never married.
	She was a staunch supporter of St Augustine’s Church and a Sunday School Superintendent until she was 60 years of age. She died in 1916 and was buried at Lower Hutt.
6O7	Aaron Collett was born on 02.01.1854 at Petone. He married Elizabeth Mason of Middlesex in England, and after they were married Aaron and Elizabeth lived in a property close to his business. During his life he was a blacksmith and builder of horse-drawn coaches for which he entered into a partnership with his brother Charles (below).
	However, on the first day of 1886 a public notice in the Evening Post announced that the partnership had been ended. This read as follows:
	‘The partnership hitherto existing between the undersigned, as Blacksmiths & Co, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All accounts owing to the late firm to be sent to the Hutt Shop at once. Mr Wiles is authorised to receive all accounts owing to the late firm, or they may be paid at the shop. As witness our hands this day 1^st January 1886 – Aaron Collett of Hutt and Charles S Collett of Petone.
	The Hutt branch will still be carried on by Mr Aaron Collett, and the Petone branch by Mr Charles S Collett. In reference to the above notice, Mr Aaron Collett begs to thank his numerous friends and public generally for the support given in past time, and hopes that he will get a fair share of support in future. Patrons may depend upon everything being done in a workmanlike manner. Orders for wheelwright work taken as usual and punctually attended to.’
	During the following year the separate business that Aaron had established was taken over by his brothers Edward and Albert when it became Collett Bros, at which time there was an announcement to that effect in the local newspaper – see under Edward Henry Collett (above).
	At one time the company set up by Aaron was called Collett Coachbuilders, and this later became Collett, Styles and Dean on the site of Dux Engineering in Railway Avenue at Lower Hutt.
	Aaron Collett died on 04.12.1901 and was buried at Lower Hutt.
	6P9	Mabel Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1878
	6P10	William Aaron Collett			Born in 1879
	6P11	Henry Augustus Collett			Date of birth unknown
	6P12	Ellen Collett			Died when 18 months old
	6P13	Edgar Arnold Collett			Date of birth unknown
6O8	Charles Samuel Collett was born on 09.01.1856 at Petone, the son of Henry Collett and his wife Elizabeth Collett from Gloucestershire in England.
	Charles married Ruth Archer and he built his home at 87 Hutt Road alongside that of his brother James Collett (above). The house was still in good order in the early days of the 21^st Century.
	He was paralysed for much of his life which, it was rumoured, was due to competition amongst the brothers to lift the family anvil.
	It seems very likely that he became paralysed in 1885 and was unable to work, at a time when he was in partnership with his brother Aaron (above). On the first of January in 1886 the partnership between the two brothers was dissolved through an announcement in the local newspaper, as detailed above.
	Charles Samuel Collett died in October 1929 and was buried at Masterton. His wife Ruth died during the 1918 influenza epidemic while working as a volunteer nurse.
	Details of another Charles Collett, who was born in 1862, are included in an appendix at the end of this family line since, at this time it is not established where he might be linked to this family line.
	6P14	Winifred Collett			Date of birth unknown
6O9	Albert William Collett was born on 06.06.1858 at Petone. He married Ettie and his occupation was that of an engineer. Once they were married the couple lived at Petone for some years.
	Albert followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming a wheelwright and, together with his older brother Edward (above), established Collett Brothers, a wheelwright, general smith and funeral business. During the spring of 1895 the business was dissolved and this was accompanied by an announcement in the local newspaper – the article is reproduced here under Edward Henry Collett’s name above.
	Despite the announcement stating that Albert would continue with the wheelwright business, only two days later he had changed his mind when the following announcement was printed in the newspaper:
	‘I, Albert William Collett hereby give notice that I have leased my wheelwright, general smith and farriery business at Lower Hutt to Messrs Purser & Ridley. I take this opportunity of thanking the public for their liberal support in the past, and trust that it will be extended to my successors. Dated this day 1^st April 1895.’ The item was signed by Albert Collett, and Cruwys Dee Purser and William Vincent Ridley
	It was perhaps at this time in his life that he became involved in the making and supplying of timber-milling equipment. The companies with which he was involved were (1) Colletts and (2) Dannervirke & Colletts of Taumaranui.
	While at Petone he was a member of the first Petone Borough Council, and in 1889 he was a member of the Council that voted in favour of a new property tax of one shilling in the pound which was introduced on first June that year. He was also an organist at the Taumaranui Anglican Church. Despite being seriously injured in two incidents he lived to see his eighty-third birthday.
	Albert William Collett died in February 1941 and was buried at Taumerau in New Zealand.
	6P15	Albert Edward Collett			Date of birth unknown
	6P16	Frederick John Glover Collett			Date of birth unknown
6O10	Ellen Maria Collett was born on 01.05.1860 at 81 Hutt Road in Petone, the youngest child of English cousins Henry Collett and his wife Elizabeth Collett.
	She married William Henry Greenfield on 14.01.1885 at Wellington Registry Office. Ellen was twenty-four and both of them were listed as residents of ‘Petoni’, where William was a labourer. The marriage produced four children for the couple, including Harold Greenfield and Frederick William Greenfield. Fred was their third child and was born in 1889, and all of them born at Petone.
	For many years Ellen and William lived at 48 Richmond Street in Petone. William Henry Greenfield was a labourer for much of his life but in 1889 when his third child was born his occupation was described as ‘ganger’. It was at their home in Richmond Street that William died on 03.04.1904. He was forty-nine and was buried at Taita Cemetery in the Hutt Valley.
	It was also while she was living at Richmond Street that Ellen died on 22.09.1924 at the age of sixty-four. It is understood that she was buried at the new Taita cemetery in Wellington, although no record to confirm this has yet been found.
	6P17	Hilda Maria Greenfield			Born on 20.08.1886
	6P18	James Henry Greenfield			Born on 14.08.1887
	6P19	Frederick William Greenfield			Born on 24.07.1889
	6P20	Alfred John Greenfield			Born on 30.05.1893
6P1	William Herbert Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Ellen Agnes. The only other known fact about William was that he died in 1972.
6P2	Elsie Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Mr Benje. The farm set up by her father on the eastern side of the Mangaroa Valley was later managed by Elsie and her husband.
6P3	Charles William Collett was born in 1876. He was Private 47622 with the Wellington Regiment of the New Zealand Army and was killed on 25.08.1918 aged 42. He was buried at the Adanac Military Cemetery at Miraumont.
	His death came during the battle for the villages of Miraumont and Pys which started on 24^th August 1918. The cemetery, the name derives from Canada in reverse, contains 3,186 commonwealth burials.
6P4	Ethel Ellen Collett was born in 1882 and she married Mr Bull. They had two children, George Bull and Joyce Ethel who married Mr Smith.
6P5	Ernest James Collett was born in 1884 and he married Miss D Richards.
	6Q1	Ida Jane Collett			Date of birth unknown
	6Q2	Velda Collett			Date of birth unknown
	6Q3	Tui Collett			Date of birth unknown
6P6	HAROLD AARON COLLETT was born in 1886. He married Violet Prince and he died in 1969.
	6Q4	Ernest Collett			Date of birth unknown
	6Q5	EDGAR JAMES COLLETT			Born in 1915
	6Q6	Raymond Hector Collett			Born in 1921
6P7	Elsie Jane Collett was born in 1893. She married A Henson and she died in 1959.
6P8	Henry Charles Collett was married to Annie Mildred Amner. He served with the army during the Boer War and was a captain with the New Zealand Army during the First World War. He later became the Mayor of Waipawa where he lived.
	There are many missing dates and details in the remainder of this line as no other information has been provided by this particular New Zealand family, which is very disappointing following a face-to-face meeting at the Shepton Mallet Collett Reunion in 1996.
	6Q7	Maxwell Amner Collett			Date of birth unknown
	6Q8	Henry William Amner Collett			Born in 1922
6P9	Mabel Elizabeth Collett, known as May, was born in 1878 at Lower Hutt. As a young child she often visited her maiden aunt Jane Collett (Ref. 6O6) where she eventually made her home. She attended Petone School and became a teacher there after attending Welling Girls College.
	She married William Evans in 1901 and lived in the old home until 1950. She was often seen attending the graves of her older relatives. Her marriage to William produced a number of children for Mabel, one of whom was a daughter by the name of Francis Evans who was born around 1913.
	Mabel died in 1973 but her son Terence Evans was still living in a house on the original nine acre Collett estate until his death in 1989. From that time onwards it was Terence’s sister Francis who became the only occupant of the original Collett land holding.
	At some time in her life Francis had married and became Francis Brown. An article published in April 2009 made the following announcement:
	‘The last of the Collett Family who resided at 36 Riddlers Crescent (previously 81 Hutt Road) has died. She was Francis Brown and was aged ninety-six. Her grandparents landed in Wellington in 1840. Mrs. Brown was a third generation Collett and has the distinction of having the first name on the Hutt Valley High School roll when it opened. Her mother was Mabel Evans nee Collett and her brother was Terry Evans, who died in 1989.’
6P10	William Aaron Collett was born in 1879 and he married Miss D Polkwell. Aaron died in 1952.
6P11	Henry Augustus Collett, who was referred to as Harry by the family, married V Glennie. Henry died in 1969.
6P13	Edgar Arnold Collett was referred to as Jack by the family. He married (1) Louise Amy MacMammon around 1910 and in August 1940 was living at Gisborne in Auckland, and a little while later he married (2) G Fannin.
	Edgar died in 1955.
	6Q9	Wilfred Ira Collett			Born in 1912
6P14	Winifred Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Charles Rogers. The couple lived all of the life at Masterton where Winifred died.
6P15	Albert Edward Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Jessie Peebles. The marriage produced no children for the couple.
6P16	Frederick John Glover Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Beatrice Pearl Robinson.
	6Q10	Nola Marion Collett			Date of birth unknown
	6Q11	John Albert Collett			Date of birth unknown
	6Q12	David Frederick Collett			Date of birth unknown
6P17	Hilda Maria Greenfield was born at Petone on 20.08.1886 and very likely while her parents were living at Richmond Street. She married Albert Johnson on 28.08.1907 with whom she had two children, one of which was stillborn in 1916. Hilda she died on 24.03.1969 aged 82 years, while he son Eric Albert Johnson who was born on 04.09.1907 died on 27.07.1991.
6P18	James Henry Greenfield was born at 48 Richmond Street in Petone on 14.08.1887, but sadly he died eleven days later on 25.08.1887.
6P19	Frederick William Greenfield was born at 48 Richmond Street in Petone on 24.07.1889. He married a Mabel Annie Bertaud on 07.04.1915 at St James Church in Newtown, Wellington. At the time of their marriage Frederick’s occupation was that of a painter. The witnesses at the wedding were Frederick’s younger brother Alfred (below), and Mabel’s older brother David Henry Bertaud.
	The marriage produced five children for the couple born between 1916 and 1932 although their second child who was born on 07.05.1918 was stillborn. The surviving children were Harold William (05.07.1916-10.09.2007), Pearl Hazel (06.01.1920-03.12.2009), Ethel Ellen (06.01.1923-27.04.1991), and Frederick John who was born in 1932.
	The couple’s youngest son Frederick John Greenfield married Joan Frances Payne (born in 1941) at Lower Hutt on 15.10.1960. Joan presented her husband with three children, two girls and a boy. At the start of 2010 the couple lived at Palmerston North in New Zealand.
	It was the brother-in-law of Frederick John Greenfield, Ron Payne of Perth in Australia, who kindly provided the information that has enabled this family line to be updated.
6P20	Alfred John Greenfield was born at 48 Richmond Street in Petone on 30.05.1893. He was the youngest son of Ellen Collett and William Greenfield and the only known fact about him is that he died on 22.05.1976.
6Q1	Ida Jane Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Mr Turvey of 13 Simla Terrace at Hawkes Bay.
6Q2	Velda Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Mr Horler.
6Q3	Tui Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Mr McFarlane.
6Q4	Ernest Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Irene Stace with whom he had one daughter. Ernest died in 1951.
	6R1	Dianne Collett			Date of birth unknown
6Q5	EDGAR JAMES COLLETT was born in 1915 and he married Mavis Reid, the marriage producing three children for the couple.
	6R2	BRUCE JAMES COLLETT			Date of birth unknown
	6R3	Bryan Collett			Date of birth unknown
	6R4	Helen Collett			Date of birth unknown
6Q6	Raymond Hector Collett was born in 1921. He later married Joan Margaret Hanson who was known as Peggy. The marriage produced two children for the couple.
	Raymond died in 1989 and was followed nine years later by Peggy who died in 1998.
	6R5	Janis Patricia Collett			Date of birth unknown
	6R6	Clifford Raymond Collett			Date of birth unknown
6Q7	Maxwell Amner Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Noeline Culling. He was a Spitfire Pilot with 485 NZ Squadron of the New Zealand Air Force and joined the Second World War around the time of the D-Day landings.
	6R7	William Noel Collett			Date of birth unknown
	6R8	Rosemary Ann Collett			Date of birth unknown
	6R9	Vivienne Noeline Collett			Date of birth unknown
	6R10	Dianne Mary Collett			Date of birth unknown
6Q8	Henry William Amner Collett was born in 1922. He was a Sergeant 412468 and an observer with 101 Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force and was killed in action during the Second World War.
	He died on 16^th November 1942 and was buried at Tywyn Cemetery – Grave 287, Row 6, Class 2. He was the sole New Zealander killed during the war as listed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
	The name ‘Sgt H W A Collett’ killed in the UK appears immediately above that of ‘Sqn Ldr W I Collett’ also killed in the UK (below), on a memorial stone in New Zealand.
6Q9	Wilfred Ira Collett was born in 1912. He was Pilot Squadron Leader 34232 with 75 Squadron of the Royal Air Force. On 4^th April 1940 the squadron was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Air Force as 75 (NZ) Squadron and was based at Feltwell in Norfolk, England where it was equipped with Wellington Bombers. And as such, it was the first Commonwealth squadron to be formed in Bomber Command.
	Tragically while on a bombing offensive against enemy-occupied territories Wilfred was killed on 04.08.1940 and was buried at St Nicholas Church in Feltwell. Before the war Wilfred had married Doreen Williamson who was listed as his next-of-kin, along with his parents Edgar and Louise Collett of Gisborne in Auckland.
6Q10	Nola Marion Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married James Riddell.
6Q12	David Frederick Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married (1) Maureen Haines. He later married (2) Carol Ashton. David was presented with one child from each of his two wives.
	6R11	Russell Sherilyn Collett			Date of birth unknown
	6R12	Julie Collett			Date of birth unknown
6R1	Dianne Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Mr Pavent.
6R2	BRUCE JAMES COLLETT, whose date of birth is not known, married Alison Willshire in 1965.
	6S1	STEVEN JAMES COLLETT			Born on 24.05.1972
	6S2	Jennifer Alison Collett			Born on 14.10.1974
6R3	Bryan Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Margaret Thomas in 1970.
	6S3	Michael Leslie Collett			Date of birth unknown
	6S4	Catherine Collett			Date of birth unknown
6R4	Helen Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Peter Jackson in 1972 with whom she had two daughters Grace and Fiona.
6R5	Janis Patricia Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Colin Robertson in 1977 and their marriage produced two children for the couple.
	6S5	Tania Rae Robertson			Born in 1978
	6S6	Jason Roy Robertson			Born in 1981
6R6	Clifford Raymond Collett was born in 1951 and was married in 1972.
	6S7	Bradley Collett			Born in 1975
	6S8	Daniella Emma Collett			Born in 1978
6S1	Steven James Collett, who was born on 24.05.1972, married Martha Fenwick.
6S2	JENNIFER ALISON COLLETT, who was born on 14.10.1974, married Martin Gregory. In 2008 Jenny and Martin were living at Botley in Oxford and it was Martin that kindly supplied the new information that has resulted in the update to this family line.
6S5	Tania Rae Robertson was born in 1978. She later married Martyn Bryant in December 2005 and they now have a daughter Nikkita Emma Bryant who was born in 2008. And it was Tania that kindly provided the information relating to her family.
	Appendix – Another Charles Collett
	Charles Collett was a farmer and firewood merchant at Mokotua who was born in 1862 at Invercargill where he was educated. For around twenty years he worked for Messrs McCallum and Company, saw millers. He also had a farm of about 130 acres, but his time and attention were principally devoted to the firewood business. His plant consists of an eight horse-power traction engine for cutting and hauling the fire wood, and a large saw-bench with two saws, one three feet and the other four feet six inches. He used to send from 400 to 500 cords of wood each year to Invercargill. Charles Collett was married to a daughter of Mr W. Hamilton with whom he had seven sons and three daughters. Mrs Collett's brother was Doctor Hamilton who settled at Petone.
	FOOTNOTE
	It is understood that Captain Clive Franklyn Collett R.F.C., Military Cross and Bar was in some way related to this line of the Collett family, but as yet no direct link has been found
	More recent information suggests that his family originated in the Wiltshire area of England. As a result, the initial details relating to his known family, previously contained within Part 6A – The Pilot Line, have been merged into a revamped Part 31 which is now entitled ‘The Wiltshire to New Zealand Line’.
	The detailed military history of Clive Franklyn Collett (Ref. 31O5) can be found in the file of that name on the website, in addition to which there is a brief statement in Notables