PART SIXTY-ONE

The Worcestershire to Utah Line

January 2012

Whilst this is a new line to the Collett Family History website, the vast majority of the details were previously contained in error in Part 5 – The Tewkesbury Line. It was only the discovery of the adult baptism record for William Collett (Ref. 5M20), which was kindly provided by Darcey Slaughter from Columbia in Missouri, that has enabled this error to be corrected. This vital information, received in December 2011, revealed that he was the son of Thomas Collett by his wife Mary Vellender, rather than the son of Henry Collett and his wife Sarah Woodford.

In addition to this Darcey has also supplied other details which have helped to build a more accurate picture of William Collett (Ref. 61M1) and his family.

Over the preceding six years there have been many other contributors of information for this family line and they are Mark R Collett, LuRae Mortensen nee Collett, Clive Long, Janice Evans, and David Young Thomas, (Ref. 61Q1) of Utah, whose great great grandfather was Reuben Collett (Ref.61O4) of Pendock in Worcestershire and Smithfield of Cache County in Utah.

61J1	Richard Collett may have been born in Gloucestershire around 1700. Certainly in 1725 he was living in Lower Slaughter when his son William was born.
	61K1	William Collett		Born in 1725 at Lower Slaughter
61K1	William Collett was born at Lower Slaughter in 1725, and all that is known about him at this time is that he married Elizabeth, with whom he had a son Thomas who was born at Charlton Abbots.
	61L1	Thomas Collett		Born in 1752 at Charlton Abbots
61L1	Thomas Collett was born at Charlton Abbots in October 1752, the son of William and Elizabeth Collett. He married Mary Vellender at Charlton Abbots on 3^rd November 1778. Mary was believed to have been born at Charlton Abbots around 1756, and would have been carrying Thomas’ child on their wedding day.
	The notice of banns and the date of their wedding day were noted in the parish register at Charlton Abbots as follows “Banns of marriage between Thomas Collett bachelor and Mary Vellender spinster both of this parish were published in this church on 11^th & 18^th days of October and the 1^st day of November 1778. The said Thomas Collett & Mary Vellender were married in this church this third day of November 1778 by me J W Bedwell, Curate. The marriage was solemnised between us [the marks of Thomas and Mary] in the presence of Thomas Crook and Thomas Redes”.
	The parish records also show that they had at least four children at Charlton Abbots, with their first child born within six months of the date of their marriage. It almost seems likely that other children may have been born to the couple in the seven years between their third and fourth child listed below.
	It is understood that Thomas Collett may have died at Charleston near Weymouth.
	61M1	Naomi Collett		Born in 1779 at Charlton Abbots
	61M2	William Collett		Born in 1781 at Charlton Abbots
	61M3	Thomas Collett		Born in 1783 at Charlton Abbots
	61M4	Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1790 at Charlton Abbots
61M1	Naomi Collett was born at Charlton Abbots in 1779, where she was baptised on 25^th April 1779, the eldest child of Thomas Collett and Mary Vellender. It was on 12^th May 1804 when Naomi was twenty-five that she married John Cummins at Charlton Abbots.
61M2	William Collett [previously Ref. 5M20] was born at Charlton Abbots, to the east of Cheltenham, on 30^th January 1781, the son of Thomas Collett and his wife Mary Vellender. Within the parish register for Charlton Abbots the first baptism recorded in 1781 was that of William Collett, which was notated as follows “1781 Feb 18^th Wm son of Thos & Mary Collett”.
	William was 24 when he married Elizabeth Bromage on 7^th October 1805 at Tirley, five miles south-west of Tewkesbury. However, Elizabeth was ten years older than William, having been baptised on 1^st December 1770. She was the daughter of John Bromage and Elizabeth Jackman and had been baptised at the Church of St John the Baptist in Eldersfield on the border between Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, which is only two miles from Tirley and seven miles from Tewkesbury.
	Both of the couple’s first two daughters’ baptisms were recorded at Tirley in Gloucestershire, the first under the names of William and Betty Collett and the second with William and Elizabeth. It would appear that the family then moved to Corse, just south of Eldersfield, where their son was born, before settling in Pendock, just north of Eldersfield, where their later two daughters were born. The baptisms for both son Daniel and daughter Ann have been found amongst the records for the parish of Eldersfield.
	Elizabeth Collett nee Bromage was around seventy years old when she died at Frogsmarsh near Eldersfield on 24^th May 1841, after which she was buried at the Church of St John the Baptist in Eldersfield on 27^th May 1841. It was almost twenty years later that William passed away.
	Regardless of whether or not William was baptised when he was only three weeks old in February 1781, his actual baptism certificate, which validates his place and date of birth as Charlton Abbots and 30^th January 1781, also shows that he was the subject of an adult baptism and confirmation service carried out by his son-in-law Thomas Oakey, the husband of his daughter Ann, at Eldersfield on 25^th May 1840. It was a year after that when his wife died, following which the census conducted on 6^th June 1841 placed widower and agricultural labourer William Collett, age 60, living at Frogsmarsh within the parish of Eldersfield. Living in the same dwelling with him was his daughter Ann Oakey with her husband Thomas and their four young children, all confirmed as having been born within the county of Gloucestershire.
	Ten years later in 1851 William Collett, age 70, was still working as a farm labourer. On that occasion he was a lodger at the home of Joseph and Fanny Poole, in the house right next door to his daughter Ann Oakey, whose family had been increased by three more children, that very likely being the reason why William had moved out.
	After a further ten years the census in 1861 revealed that William was a patient living in the Upton-upon-Severn Union Workhouse, where he was described as having been born as Charlton Abbots, formerly an agricultural labourer, although his age was recorded in error as 83, rather than his actual age of 80.
	It was just over two years later that William Collett died in the same Union Workhouse in Upton-upon-Severn on 8^th May 1863, aged 77, following which he was buried with his wife at Eldersfield two days later when his age was recorded as 87, both dates being incorrect, since he was around 82 years of age. The death certificate confirmed that he was a farm labourer, that he had died of natural decay, and that the informant was C G Rolls, who was Charles George Rolls, the Master of the Workhouse.
	61N1	Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1805 at Tirley
	61N2	Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1806 at Tirley
	61N3	Daniel Collett		Born in 1807 at Corse
	61N4	Amy Collett		Born in 1810 at Pendock
	61N5	Ann Collett		Born in 1812 at Pendock
61M3	Thomas Collett was born at Charlton Abbots in 1783, and was baptised there on 1^st June 1783, the son of Thomas and Mary Collett. At the moment that is all that is known about him.
61M4	Elizabeth Collett was born at Charlton Abbots in 1790 and baptised there on 17^th October 1790, the last known child of Thomas Collett and his wife Mary Vellender.
61N1	Elizabeth Collett was born in at Tirley in Gloucestershire shortly after her parents William Collett and Elizabeth Bromage were married there on 7^th October 1805. It was also at Tirley that she was baptised on 22^nd December 1805, but sadly she died not long after that.
61N2	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Tirley near Tewkesbury on 10^th December 1806, the second child of William Collett and his wife Elizabeth Bromage. She was named after her late sister who had died in infancy earlier that year. She later married Robert Ruck at Redmarley D’Abitot near Ledbury in Worcestershire on 2^nd April 1825. He was the son of John and Hannah Ruck and was baptised at Whittington in Gloucestershire on 15^th July 1804.
	By the time of the first national census in June 1841 Robert and Elizabeth Ruck were living in the Newent & Redmarley registration district of Worcestershire, and by which time they had four children. Robert and Elizabeth were both 35, while their children were John Ruck, who was 12, Charles Ruck, who was six, Thomas Ruck, who was four, and George Ruck who was not yet one year old.
	By then the Ruck family had given up being members of the United Brethren and instead were part of the Church of Latter Day Saints. It was on 9^th March 1840 that Robert Ruck, age 36, and Elizabeth Ruck, age 34, as residents of Redmarley, were baptised at Frogsmarsh by Church Elder Wilford Woodruff. Around five years later it was Robert himself who blessed and baptised his own children.
	In 1851 the family was still living in the Redmarley area when Robert Ruck was 46 and his wife Elizabeth was 45. Three more children had been added to their family by then, so the family comprised John who was 19, Charles who was 16, Thomas who was 13, and George who was 10, plus the new arrivals Michael Ruck, who was eight, Wilfred Ruck, who was five, and daughter Sarah Ruck who was two years old.
	The family was still living at Redmarley in 1861 where Elizabeth and Robert were both recorded as being 54, and the only children still living there with them were Richard Ruck, age 19, Wilfred Ruck, age 15, and Sarah Ann Ruck who was 13. Just after that time the family must have been discussing the prospect of emigrating to America, and the opportunity arose for that to happen three years later in 1864. The big question remains, why did Elizabeth make the crossing alone, and ahead of her family.
	It was as a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints that Elizabeth sailed out of London on board the ship Hudson on 3^rd June 1864, bound for New York. That journey was the vessel’s maiden voyage, and on board were 863 Mormon Saints from the British Isles, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland, all presided over by Church Elder John M. Kay. The crossing was unusually slow, taking forty-six days, but the kindness of the Captain Isaiah Pratt did much to alleviate the fatigue of the travellers. However, during the long sea journey there was an outbreak of measles among the children, resulting in the death of nine of them who were buried at sea. The journey also witnessed the birth of three children on the way to New York, where the ship arrived on 19^th July 1864.
	From New York the large group of Mormons were then taken overland by raileoad to the small township of Wyoming near Nebraska City in Nebraska where they join the William Hyde Company church train on 9^th August. Just over one month later the train of 62 ox-drawn wagons had advanced to Julesburg in Wyoming, where they arrived on 12^th September. After Julesberg, which today is Laramie, the route took then through Fort Hadek and Rattlesnak Pass. It camped on the North Platte, following which the train then crossed the Plate River on Saturday 1^st October and camped at Sage Creek. The following day, Sunday 2^nd October, it was cold and snowing, so that night they camped at Pine Grove.
	On Monday 3^rd October they crossed Bridgers Pass, and by Friday 7^th they had reached the head of Bitter Creek, where the Stage Coach bound for Salt Lake City passed them. On Saturday 8^th they camped at Green River and on the following day the wagon train arrived at Blacks Fork where they set up camp for the night, during which there was a storm. However, by that time, Elizabeth Ruck nee Collett must have been suffering after the long hard trek, since it was on Monday 10^th October 1864 that she died just a few miles short of the state boundary between Wyoming and Utah. She was one of just 47 people who died during the terrible conditions they must have endured on that fateful overland journey.
	Eventually the sad news of her passing was reported back to her family back in England, although it was not until 1870 that her husband and her daughter set sail from Liverpool bound for New York, where they arrived on 22^nd September 1870 on board the two-masted, single-funnelled, ship Idaho. By that time Sarah Ann Ruck was married to Stephen Cannon, so the ship’s passenger list recorded the three of them as Robert Ruck from Great Britain, age 59, Stephen Cannon, age 35, and his wife Sarah Cannon who was 22. Once they had crossed the Atlantic the three of them travelled luxury class on the newly opened Union Pacific Railroad to Wyoming where Sarah Ann is believed to have formally recorded the death of her mother. It is also understood that it was Stephen Cannon who financed they journey from England.
	Within the General Voyage Notes for the ship the Idaho, Robert Ruck was mentioned as being a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints for thirty years and that that he had been baptised by Wilford Woodruff. It was around thirteen years after he arrived in America that he died at there, at Smithfield in Cache County, Utah on 1^st January 1883. There is a mystery surrounding his daughter Sarah Ann Ruck since, for the sea voyage she was recorded as the wife of Stephen Cannon, but she was later married Austin Merrill, when Stephen was married to another lady.
	Little is known about the children of Robert and Elizabeth Ruck, except that two of them are known to have settled in America, where they died but without producing any children of their own. However, the vast majority of the information relating to the Ruck family has been generously provided by Robert John Brown in England. He is descended from Thomas Ruck [1837-1895] the son of Robert and Elizabeth Collett who was born at Redmarley D’Abitot and who died at Little Marcle near Ledbury. He had married Sarah Davies and their son, John Ruck [1874-1927] of Herefordshire, was married to Priscilla Harriet Gibbons, whose daughter was Blanche Mary Ruck [1915-1978], the mother of Robert John Brown by her husband Kenneth Samuel Brown [1913-1995].
61N3	Daniel Collett was born at Corse on 12^th December 1807 and was baptised at Eldersfield on 10^th January 1808, the only son of William and Elizabeth Collett. The Eldersfield Parish Record included the surname as Collot, as they had for Daniel’s sister Ann (below). At some time in his life he lived at Tirley, and was perhaps even born there like his older sister Elizabeth (above), but it was at Corse that he married (1) Esther Jones on 14^th April 1833. Esther was born at Bullingham in Herefordshire on 10^th October 1814 and was baptised at St Martin’s Church in Bullingham in Hereford.
	Shortly after they were married Daniel and Esther were living at Pendock in Worcestershire where their first and fourth children were born. In between times the family was living at Wellington in Hereford and Beckerton in Worcestershire, where the couple’s second and third children were born.
	Sometime after the birth of their fourth child in 1839 the family sailed to America, and it was there at Nauvoo in Hancock County in Illinois that their next two children were born, although the first of these, their daughter Fanny, also died there not long after she was born.
	Their next two children were born in the state of Iowa but within a couple of years the family eventually settled in Utah. Their first Utah home was at Mill Creek near Salt Lake City where daughter Julia was born and then shortly after they moved to Lehi in Utah, where their last two children were born.
	Daniel and Esther were both baptised into the Church of Latter Day Saints on 6^th April 1840 and this was followed six years later by a marriage blessing on 2^nd February 1846.
	Esther was 43 at the time of her death on 4^th June 1857, following which she was buried two days later at Lehi. Later that same year at Lehi, Daniel married (2) Mary Foulks who was born at Totternhoe in Bedfordshire, England on 9^th July 1826 and with whom he had a daughter who was born during the following year.
	When Mary Collett nee Foulks died at Plain City in Weber County, Utah on 31^st August 1859 and was buried at Smithfield in Cache County Daniel married (3) Elizabeth Gordon on 23^rd October 1859. Elizabeth was born on 3^rd May 1823 at Bridge of Weir in Renfrewshire in Scotland and she and Daniel were married at Plain City, and during the following year she gave birth to a son at Smithfield.
	While still married to Elizabeth (who later died on 17^th October 1869) Daniel then aged 56 married (4) thirty-four years old Elizabeth Ward at Salt Lake City on 6^th February 1864. Elizabeth was born at Preston in Lancashire England on 15^th November 1830 and that marriage produced another two sons for Daniel, both of them being born at Smithfield. Elizabeth Collett nee Gordon died at Raymond in Alberta Canada on 25^th December 1910, perhaps suggesting that she had separated from her husband Daniel some years earlier.
	A fifth and final marriage took place on 4^th October 1880 at Smithfield, when Daniel married (5) Martha Drury Noble who was born at Wyberton in Lincolnshire England around 1811. And it was at Smithfield that Martha died eight years later in 1888.
	Daniel Collett survived for a further six years after the death of Martha when he too died at Smithfield on 8^th June 1894, where he was buried there two days later on 10^th June 1894.
	61O1	Sylvester Collett				Born on 31.12.1833 at Pendock
	61O2	Sylvanus Collett				Born on 03.05.1835 at Wellington
	61O3	Rhoda Sylvia Collett				Born on 20.04.1837 at Beckerton
	61O4	Reuben Collett				Born on 19.07.1839 at Pendock
	61O5	Fanny Marie Collett				Born on 22.11.1841 at Nauvoo
	61O6	Daniel Collett				Born on 22.11.1843 at Nauvoo
	61O7	Mary Ann Collett				Born on 03.09.1846 at Sugar Creek
	61O8	Elizabeth Matilda Collett				Born on 27.02.1849 at Council Bluffs
	61O9	Julia Ann Collett				Born on 27.09.1851 at Millcreek
	61O10	Charles Albert Capper Collett				Born on 28.12.1853 at Lehi, Utah
	61O11	James Jones Collett				Born on 24.04.1856 at Lehi, Utah
	The following is the child of Daniel Collett by his second wife Mary Foulks:
	61O12	Eliza Ann Collett				Born on 03.08.1858 at Lehi, Utah
	The following are the children of Daniel Collett by his third wife Elizabeth Gordon:
	61O13	William Gordon Collett				Born on 11.11.1860 at Smithfield
	61O14	Thomas Ward Collett				Born on 08.05.1865 at Smithfield
	61O15	Daniel Ward Collett				Born on 04.07.1866 at Smithfield
61N4	Amy Collett was born at Pendock in 1810, where she was baptised as Amey Collot on 6^th January 1811, the daughter of William Collot and his wife Elizabeth. Tragically Amy only survived for a few years, when she died in 1815.
61N5	Ann Collett was born at Pendock on 12^th January 1812, but was baptised at Eldersfield on the 23^rd January 1812, when her parents were recorded in the parish register as Wm and Elizabeth Collot. She married Thomas Oakey at St Nicholas’ Church in Gloucester on 30^th September 1836, although by then Ann had already given birth to a base-born daughter in Gloucester. It is also possible that Ann was already pregnant with the couple’s second child, who was born less than eight months later at Frogsmarsh in the parish of Eldersfield. Thomas Oakey was born at Eldersfield on 20^th September 1813, the son of Thomas Oakey and his wife Sarah Pritchard.
	Thomas Oakey may have been a lay-preacher because, on 25^th May 1840 at Eldersfield, it was son-in-law Thomas Oakey who conducted the adult baptism and confirmation ceremony for Ann’s father William Collett. One year later Ann’s mother died, at which time Ann and her family moved into his home, presumably to look after him. This was confirmed by the Frogsmarsh in Eldersfield census carried out on 6^th June 1841, when head of the household William Collett had living with him his son-in-law Thomas Oakey and his wife Ann.
	By that time in her life Ann had presented her husband with four children. Both Thomas and Ann had a rounded age of 25, while their children were Ann Oakey, who was five, Charles Oakey, who was four, Jane Oakey, who was two, and baby Heber Thomas Oakey who was only four months old.
	Ten years later in 1851 the family was still living at Frogsmarsh within the parish of Eldersfield, when Thomas Oakey was 37, his wife Ann was 39, and their children were recorded as Jane Oakey, age 11, Heber Oakey, age 10, Moroni Oakey who was seven, Rhoda Oakey who was five, and Reuben Oakey who was three years old.
	Two more children were added to the family over the next three years, but shortly after 1854 Ann Oakey and her family emigrated to America, either with her brother Daniel (above), or after he was settled there. Prior to leaving England Thomas and Ann had suffered the loss of two of their young children, with James dying on the day he was born, and Walter surviving for just one month in 1854.
	The American census in 1880 identified Thomas Oakey, age 66, a farmer from England, living at Paris in Bear Lake County with his wife Ann, also 66 and from England, who was described as keeping house. Living not far away in Paris was their eldest son Charles Oakey, also a farmer, with his large family.
	And it was there in America, at Paris in Bear Lake, Idaho, that first Thomas Oakey died on 15^th April 1890, and was followed two years later by his wife Ann Oakey nee Collett who also died there on 14^th April 1892, where she was buried three days later.
	61O16	Ann Collett Oakey				Born in 1836 at Gloucester
	61O17	Charles Oakey				Born in 1837 at Frogsmarsh
	61O18	Jane Oakey				Born in 1839 at Frogsmarsh
	61O19	Heber Thomas Oakey				Born in 1841 at Frogsmarsh
	61O20	Joseph Moroni Oakey				Born in 1843 at Frogsmarsh
	61O21	Rhoda Rebecca Oakey				Born in 1845 at Frogsmarsh
	61O22	Reuben Hyrum Oakey				Born in 1847 at Frogsmarsh
	61O23	James William Oakey				Born in 1849 at Frogsmarsh
	61O24	Sarah Ann Oakey				Born in 1852 at Frogsmarsh
	61O25	Walter John Oakey				Born in 1854 at Frogsmarsh
61O1	Sylvester Collett was born at Pendock in Worcestershire on 31^st December 1833, the first child born to Daniel Collett and his first wife Esther Jones, but tragically he died that very same day.
61O2	Sylvanus Collett was born at Wellington in Herefordshire on 3^rd March 1835, the eldest surviving son of Daniel and Esther Collett. When he was around five years old his family emigrated to America and it was there at Lehi in Utah that he married (1) Lydia Karren on 19^th February 1853. Lydia was born at Liverpool on 29^th December 1838, the daughter of Thomas Karren and Ann Radcliffe.
	The marriage produced five children for the couple, the first two having been born at Lehi, the next two at Smithfield and the last at Logan in Cache County in Utah. Sadly Lydia died at Logan on 15^th November 1865, just one month after the birth of their last child.
	It would appear that Sylvanus Collett was also married to (2) Phoebe Lodina Merrill in 1864, and prior to the death of his first wife, with that second marriage producing a further four children for Sylvanus. The first child was born at Logan, while the others were born at Smithfield.
	Phoebe Lodina Merrill was born at Elbe in Genesee County in New York state on 15^th August 1832. She was the first of three members of the Merrill family who were married to members of the Collett family, the other two being her older brother Philemon Christopher Merrill, who married Sylvanus’ sister Rhoda Sylvia Collett (below), and Elthurah Roseltha Merrill who married Sylvanus’ brother Reuben Collett (below).
	Whether Phoebe died around the time of the birth of her fourth children is not known, but it is established that on 2^nd December 1872 Sylvanus married (3) Elizabeth Frances Praetor. It is also known that Sylvanus took three further wives although the date of each of the marriages is not known. They were (4) Sarah Ellen Gee, (5) Jane Lawrence, and (6) Phoebe Jackson.
	61P1	Sylvanus Collett					Born on 23.01.1856 at Lehi, Utah
	61P2	Esther Ann Collett					Born on 03.02.1858 at Lehi, Utah
	61P3	Lydia Isabel Collett					Born on 25.04.1861 at Smithfield
	61P4	Sylvester Collett					Born on 23.07.1863 at Smithfield
	61P5	Thomas Karren Collett					Born on 19.10.1865 at Logan
	The following are the children of Sylvanus Collett by his second wife Phoebe Lodina Merrill:
	61P6	Samuel Merrill Collett					Born on 16.12.1865 at Logan
	61P7	Daniel Francello Collett					Born on 20.07.1867 at Smithfield
	61P8	Marion Merrill Collett					Born on 21.04.1870 at Smithfield
	61P9	Mary Merrill Collett					Born on 21.04.1870 at Smithfield
61O3	Rhoda Sylvia Collett was born at Beckerton in Worcestershire on 20^th April 1837 and emigrated to America with her parents Daniel and Esther Collett in 1840. It would appear that Rhoda was a child bride when, at the age of twelve years and one month, she married (1) John Sunderland Eldredge on 24^th May 1849.
	John Eldredge was aged 28 at that time, having been born at Sennett in Cayuga County in New York on 30^th April 1821. However, their first child was not born until she was seventeen and half years of age. That event may have taken place at American Fork in Utah, where the last two of their four children were also born.
	Their children were Ira Eldredge, who was born on 3^rd October 1854, Esther Ann Eldredge, who was born on 3^rd May 1860, Daniel Eldredge, who was born on 1^st March 1862, and Horace Eldredge who was born on 5^th February 1865.
	Over eight years after the birth of her last child, and possibly following the death of her first husband, Rhoda married (2) Philemon Christopher Merrill on 9^th October 1873 at Salt Lake City. Philemon was born at Byron in Geness County in New York on 12^th November 1820 and was the older brother of Phoebe Lodina Merrill, who married Rhoda’s brother Sylvanus Collett (above).
	That second marriage for Rhoda produced another son who was born at Bennington in Bear Lake County, who curiously carried the Collett surname. Rhoda Sylvia Merrill nee Collett died on 28^th November 1929 at St David in Cochise County in Arizona.
	61P10	Adrian Collett					Born on 03.11.1876 at Bennington
61O4	Reuben Collett was born at Pendock in Worcestershire on 19^th July 1839, the son of Daniel and Esther Collett. He travelled to America with his parents when he was around one year old and was baptised there when he was eleven years old on 1^st May 1850.
	Fifteen years later Reuben married Elthurah Roseltha Merrill on 17^th January 1861. Elthurah was born at Nauvoo, Hancock County in Illinois on 13^th September 1842 and was baptised on 25^th December 1853. It also seems likely that she was related to siblings Philemon Christopher Merrill and Phoebe Lodina Merrill who married Reuben’s brother Sylvanus Collett (above) and his sister Rhoda Sylvia Collett (above).
	Over the next twenty-seven years Elthurah presented Reuben with twelve children, the first six of which were born at Smithfield in Cache County in Utah. The family then seem to have moved to Idaho, where their next child was born, before returning to Utah and Escalante where the following child was born.
	Four years later, and during 1882, the family was living in Arizona and it was at Leti in Maricopa County that the next three children were born. Around 1887 Reuben and Elthurah returned once more to Utah and their last child was born at Vernal in Uintah County.
	Elthurah Collett nee Merrill died on 13^th July 1915 at Smithfield in Cache County in Utah where she was buried two days later. It was also at Smithfield that Reuben Collett died on 21^st January 1920 and where he was buried on 25^th January 1920 and it was also there that his father had died twenty-six years earlier.
	61P11	Phoebe Theresa Collett				Born on 24.07.1862 at Smithfield
	61P12	Reuben Samuel Collett				Born on 26.05.1864 at Smithfield
	61P13	Sylvester Daniel Collett (twin)				Born on 15.12.1866 at Smithfield
	61P14	Sylvanus Collett (twin)				Born on 15.12.1866 at Smithfield
	61P15	Julia Ann Collett				Born on 20.02.1869 at Smithfield
	61P16	Adelbert Teancum Collett				Born on 03.11.1872 at Smithfield
	61P17	Charles Merrill Collett				Born on 06.06.1875 at Bennington
	61P18	Princetta Collett				Born on 11.01.1878 at Escalante
	61P19	Orrin Collett				Born on 16.07.1882 at Leti, Arizona
	61P20	Roseltha M Collett				Born on 29.04.1884 at Leti, Arizona
	61P21	Clarence James Collett				Born on 05.05.1886 at Leti, Arizona
	61P22	George Collett				Born on 15.09.1888 at Vernal, Utah
61O5	Fanny (Fannie) Marie Collett was the daughter of Daniel and Esther Collett who was born at Nauvoo in Hancock County in Illinois on 22^nd November 1841. Sadly she died shortly after she was born in late 1841 or during the early months of 1842.
61O6	Daniel Collett was the son of Daniel and Esther Collett and was born at Nauvoo in Hancock County on 22^nd November 1843, but died there within the next few months.
61O7	Mary Ann Collett was born at Sugar Creek in County Lee in Iowa on 3^rd September 1846 and was baptised as an adult on 26^th May 1878. She was the daughter of Daniel and Esther Collett and had not reached her eighteenth birthday when she married (1) William Wamsley (or Walmsley) on 1^st May 1864 at Vernal. William was thirteen years older than Mary Ann having been born at Preston in Lancashire in England on 13^th April 1834.
	The marriage of Mary Ann and William resulted in the birth of eleven children and the many different places of birth suggested that they were a travelling family. Esther Ann Walmsley was the first born on 4^th September 1865 at Bear Lake, then came Lydia Theresa Walmsley at Bloomington on 3^rd June 1867, and the next three were born at Smithfield. They were Marinda Walmsley, who was born on 30^th January 1870, Francis Walmsley, who was born on 11^th April 1872, and William Thomas Walmsley, who was born on 6^th April 1873.
	During the next couple of years the family returned to Bloomington where the next three children were born, Jane Vilate Walmsley on 14^th October 1876, Daniel Heber Walmsley on 14^th February 1878, and Albert Walmsley who was born on 8^th April 1880. The last three children, Myrtle Walmsley, who was born on 23^rd June 1882, Maude Walmsley, who was born on 20^th August 1884, and Mary Eliza Walmsley who was born on 2^nd December 1887, were born at Preston, St David Cochise, and Vernal respectively.
	Sometime during her life, possibly following the death of her husband, Mary Ann married for a second time when she wed (2) Ralph Merrill who was very likely related to Phoebe and Philemon Merrill (above) who also married members of the Collett family.
	It is even possible that Ralph Merrill was in fact Ralph Teancum Merrill who earlier had married Mary Ann’s sister Elizabeth Matilda Collett (below). What is known is that Mary Ann Merrill nee Collett died at Price in Carbon County in Utah on 15^th November 1929 and was buried at Maeser Fairview Cemetery in Vernal.
61O8	Elizabeth Matilda Collett was born at Council Bluffs in Pottawattamie County in Iowa on 27^th February 1849, the daughter of Daniel and Esther Collett. She was twenty years old when she married Ralph Teancum Merrill at Salt Lake City on 24^th May 1869. Ralph was also born at Council Bluffs on 13^th June 1849.
	The marriage produce five children for Elizabeth and Ralph and all of them were born at Smithfield. They were Nora Matilda Merrill, who was born on 23^rd April 1870, Ralph Teancum Merrill, who was born on 22^nd June 1872, Lydia Merrill, who was born on 27^th December 1875, Julia Merrill, who was born on 29^th December 1877, and Alice Olive Merrill who was born on 31^st December 1882.
	Although Elizabeth lived to a grand age, it is possible that Ralph later married Elizabeth’s older sister Mary Ann (above), following the likely death of her own husband. Elizabeth was living at Smithfield in Cache County at the age of 95 when she died on 30^th May 1944, and was buried there two days later.
61O9	Julia Ann Collett was born at Millcreek in Salt Lake on 27^th September 1851 and was baptised in June 1862, the daughter of Daniel and Esther Collett. Ten years later she married James Cantwell at Salt Lake City on 15^th January 1872 with whom she had nine children, all of which were born at Smithfield.
	James was from England, having been born in Liverpool on 28^th February 1843 and his and Julia’s children were Daniel James Cantwell, born on 12^th October 1872, William Hamer Cantwell, born on 17^th March 1874, Elthura Cantwell, born on born 1^st January 1875, Francis Reuben Cantwell, born on 6^th December 1878, Stephen Cantwell, born on 21^st January 1882, Julia Cantwell, born on 3^rd February 1885, Leonora Cantwell, born on 24^th August 1886, Esther Cantwell, born on 20^th August 1888, and Milo Cantwell, who was born on 15^th July 1890.
	Like her sister Elizabeth (above) Julia was also living at Smithfield when she died on 21^st April 1934.
61O10	Charles Albert Capper Collett was born at Lehi in Utah on 28^th December 1853, the son of Daniel and Esther Collett. When nearly twenty-three years of age he married Hannah Ann Merrill at Salt Lake City on 28^th October 1876. Hannah was born at Farmington in Davis County in Utah on 24^th January 1860 and was another member of the united Collett and Merrill families – see earlier references above.
	Hannah presented Charles with eleven children during the first twenty-seven years of their life together, and all of them were born at various locations across Utah and Idaho again suggesting a wandering life-style. Sometime around the turn of the century Charles and Hannah left Utah and moved to Canada, and it was there at Magrath in Alberta that their last child was born.
	And at the time of his death, Charles Albert Capper was still living in Canada, and it was at Taber in Alberta that he died on 17^th December 1922 and where he was buried three days after.
	61P23	Mary Jane Collett	Born on 12.09.1877 at Smithfield, Utah
	61P24	Melissa Collett	Born on 24.10.1879 at Smithfield, Utah
	61P25	Charles Capper Collett	Born on 06.06.1882 at Bennington, Idaho
	61P26	Maude Collett	Born on 27.11.1884 at Bennington, Idaho
	61P27	Philemon Merrill Collett	Born on 03.05.1886 at Bennington, Idaho
	61P28	Lenora Collett	Born on 08.10.1889 at Bennington, Idaho
	61P29	Harriet Amelia Collett	Born on 16.03.1892 at Smithfield, Utah
	61P30	David Reuben Collett	Born on 08.10.1894 at Meadowville, Utah
	61P31	Ralph Demar Collett	Born on 10.04.1897 at Meadowville, Utah
	61P32	Lola Collett	Date and place of birth unknown
	61P33	Morgan Collett	Born on 23.06.1904 at Magrath, Alberta
61O11	James Jones Collett was born at Lehi on 24^th April 1856, the son of Daniel and Esther Collett, and was just over one year old when his mother died. He later married (1) Mariett Tidwell on 28^th December 1877, the same day that his younger sister Eliza (below) was also married.
	Mariett was born at Ogden in Weber, Utah on 23^rd August 1858 and was later baptised on 16^th May 1867. The couple’s first four children were born while James and Mariett were living at Smithfield in Cache County, while their last child Julia was born after the family had moved to Bennington in Bear Park County in Idaho. After nearly ten years of married life together Mariett died at Smithfield on 25^th February 1887 and it was there that she was buried.
	Nine years after the death of his wife James married (2) Jane Wardrop on 25^th July 1896 at Bennington and their first child born at Bennington during the following year was named after his first wife. Jane was born at Salt Lake City on 7^th April 1859 and was baptised there on 15^th April 1859.
	Of James’ and Jane’s two other children, the second of these was born at Logan in Cache County, whereas it has not been determined yet where their daughter Alice Blanche Collett was born, or when that event took place.
	James and Jane appear to have moved to Canada, like his brother Charles (above), once their children had grown up. And it was at Raymond in Alberta that James died on 12^th May 1924 and where he was buried four days later.
	Jane Collett nee Wardrop survived for another twenty-seven years and also died at Raymond on 6^th June 1951, where she was buried with her husband.
	61P34	James Tidwell Collett					Born on 30.09.1878 at Smithfield
	61P35	Sadie Sophronia Collett					Born on 15.04.1880 at Smithfield
	61P36	Elmer T Collett twin					Born on 04.11.1882 at Smithfield
	61P37	Elsie Collett twin					Born on 04.11.1882 at Smithfield
	61P38	Julia Collett					Born on 02.10.1884 at Bennington
	The following are the children of James Jones Collett and his second wife Jane Wardrop:
	61P39	Marriette Collett					Born on 22.04.1897 at Bennington
	61P40	Alice Blanche Collett					Date and place of birth unknown
	61P41	Ralph W Collett					Born on 21.05.1902 at Logan
61O12	Eliza Ann Collett was born at Lehi in Utah on 3^rd September 1858 and was baptised on 29^th December 1867 was the only child of Daniel Collett and his second wife Mary Foulks. Ten years after she was baptised Eliza married Robert John Jones at Smithfield on 17^th December 1877, with whom she had nine children.
	Robert was born at Kaysville in Davis County in Utah on 31^st July 1854. Their first six children were both while the couple were living at Smithfield but around 1888 the family moved to Dayton in Franklin County in Idaho where the last three children were born.
	And they were Mary Ann Jones, born on 7^th September 1878, Charles Jones, born on 22^nd August 1880, Robert Roy Jones, born on 25^th November 1881, Sylvester Jones, born on 20^th September 1883, Daniel Reuben Jones, born on 29^th January 1886, Lenora Lillian Jones, born on 4^th November 1887, George Leslie Jones, born on 10^th November 1889, Delila Jane Jones, born on 6^th February 1892, and Vessa Maud Jones, who was born on 1^st December 1900.
	Eliza Jones nee Collett died at American Falls in Power County in Idaho on 11^th June 1929, but was buried at Dayton in Franklin County on 14^th June 1929.
61O13	William Gordon Collett was born at Smithfield on 11^th November 1860, the eldest child from the third marriage of Daniel Collett to Elizabeth Gordon. He undertook an adult baptised on 19^th August 1884 and less than four years after that he married Ada Rich on 23^rd May 1888, but tragically died later that same year.
61O14	Thomas Ward Collett was born at Smithfield on 8^th May 1865 and was baptised ten years later on 18^th July 1875, the son of Daniel and Elizabeth Collett. After a further eleven years he married Ida Amelia Anderson on 11^th November 1886.
61O15	Daniel Ward Collett was born at Smithfield on 4^th July 1866 and was baptised there just eight days later on 12^th July 1866. He was the last child born to Daniel Collett by his third wife Elizabeth Gordon. He married Sarah Lottie Phillips on 7^th March 1891 at Preston in Franklin County in Idaho. She was born at Bright City in Box Elder County in Utah on 25^th November 1872.
	During their married life Sarah presented Daniel with thirteen children, although it might appear that not all of them survived beyond infant with two daughters having the same name. Only the details of four of the thirteen are known for sure. For the others the place and date have not been determined.
	Daniel ward Collett was living at Hagerman in County Gooding, Idaho when he died on 28^th September 1932 and was buried at Dayton in Franklin County on 2^nd October 1932.
	61P42	Edna Collett			Born on 18.12.1892 at Dayton, Idaho
	61P43	Lottie Lewella Collett			Born on 26.11.1894 at Henry, Idaho
	61P44	Sarah Collett			Date/place of birth unknown
	61P45	Daniel Phillips Collett			Date/place of birth unknown
	61P46	Elizabeth Collett			Born on 11.11.1902 at Basalt, Idaho
	61P47	William Phillips Collett			Date/place of birth unknown
	61P48	Mable Collett			Date/place of birth unknown
	61P49	Ralph Thomas Collett			Date/place of birth unknown
	61P50	Elverta Collett			Date/place of birth unknown
	61P51	Barbara Opal Collett			Date/place of birth unknown
	61P52	Berniece Collett			Born on 05.09.1916 at Weston, Idaho
	61P53	Berniece Collett			Date/place of birth unknown
	61P54	Alton Ward Collett			Date/place of birth unknown
61O16	Ann Collett Oakey was born at Gloucester in 1836, the base-born daughter of Ann Collett. Her mother married her father Thomas Oakey at Gloucester, after she was born, on 30^th September 1836. By the time her brother Charles (below) was born eight months later the Oakey family was living in the parish of Eldersfield in the hamlet of Frogsmarsh. And it was there that Ann Oakey was recorded with her family in the census of 1841, when she was five years old.
	Sometime during the later part of the 1840s, Ann and her brother Charles sailed to America, where their family joined them a few years later. It was when Ann Oakey was around sixteen years of age and living with her family at Nauvoo in Hancock County, Illinois that she married Charles Price on 6^th October 1851. The couple had only been married for fourteen years when Ann Collett Price nee Oakey died at Marriott-Slaterville in Weber County, Utah during February 1865.
61O17	Charles Oakey was born at Frogsmarsh on 25^th May 1837, the eldest son of Thomas and Ann Oakey. Charles was four years old in the Frogsmarsh census of 1841, but was absent from his family which was still living there in 1851. It seems likely that Charles and his sister Ann (above) travelled to America in advance of the rest of their family, and that this was the reason for both their absence from the family in 1851.
	The surviving members of the family eventually sailed across the Atlantic Ocean during the mid-1850s to be reunited with Charles and Ann, who may well been living with their uncle Daniel Collett (Ref. 61N3) who settled there around 1840.
	According to the 1880 census Charles Oakey, from England, was 43 and a farmer living near to his parents at Paris in Bear Lake County, Idaho. Living there with him was his wife Mary Ann Oakey, age 36 and also from England, and their six children. They were Charles L Oakey, age 17, Elthura R Oakey, age 15, William T Oakey, age 13, Reuben H Oakey, who was six, Joseph H Oakey, who was four, and Mary Ann Oakey who was one year old. The two eldest children had been born in Utah, while the four younger children had all been born after the family’s arrival in Idaho.
	Not much else in currently known about Charles Oakey except that he died on 16^th May 1903 at Paris in Bear Lake County, Idaho, and was buried in the City Cemetery there three days later.
61O18	Jane Oakey was born at Frogsmarsh on 8^th April 1839, the daughter of Thomas and Ann Oakey. In the census of 1841 Jane Oakey was two years old, and in the next census of Frogsmarsh in 1851 she was still living there with her family at the age of 11. Four year later her parents took the family to America, where Jane Oakey died on 1^st July 1863 at Draper in Salt Lake County, where she was also buried three days after. It may be of interest that a Jane Oakey Ennis died on 24^th June 1863.
61O19	Heber Thomas Oakey was born at Frogsmarsh on 30^th January 1841, the son of Thomas and Ann Oakey. He was four months old in the June census at Frogsmarsh later that same year, where he was still living with his family in 1851 when he was 10. Following his family’s emigration to America in the mid-1850s, Heber married Jane from England who was four years old.
	Their marriage produced a number of children which, by the time of the 1880 census, numbered six living with the couple at Bennington in Bear Lake County, Idaho, where Heber T Oakey was a farmer from England at the age of 37 (sic). His wife Jane, also from England, was 41, while their children were Ida Jane Oakey, age 16, Edward T Oakey, age 12, George L Oakey, age 10, Sophia M Oakey, who was seven, Reuben H Oakey, who was three, and Ernest C Oakey who was six months old. Only the eldest of their children had been born in Utah, with all the later children born in Idaho.
	It was at Paris in Bear Lake County, Idaho, that Heber Thomas Oakey died on 10^th May 1920, following which he was buried at Bennington in Bear Lake.
61O20	Joseph Moroni Oakey was born at Frogsmarsh on 9^th August 1843, the son of Thomas and Ann Oakey. There is some confusion over his name which may have been Joseph or Lorenzo, or both. In the Frogsmarsh census of 1851 he was simply listed living there with his family as Moroni Collett aged seven years. Four year after that he and his family sailed to America to start a new life.
	Once living in Idaho in America Joseph married a local girl towards the end of the 1860s. This was confirmed by the 1880 census for Liberty, Richardson in Nebraska, where they and their family was living at that time. Joseph Oakey (Okee) was 36 and a farmer from England, while his wife Mary Okee was 26 and from Iowa. Their eldest child was Annie Okee had been also been born in Iowa, and she was 10 years old, meaning that her mother had been a young teenage bride when she married Joseph.
	Of their other two children at that time, Ellen Okee was eight and had been born in Iowa, while the last child, John Okee, was only eight months old and had been born after the family had settled in Nebraska. There were two single men living with the family, who were labourers, perhaps helping Joseph on the farmstead, and they were the brothers Daniel and Albert Stewart from Iowa, whose parents were from Kentucky.
	The only other known fact about Joseph Lorenzo Oakey is that he died on 31^st July 1931.
61O21	Rhoda Rebecca Oakey was born at Frogsmarsh on 28^th October 1845, the daughter of Thomas and Ann Oakey. She was five years old in the Grogsmarsh census of 1851, and around the time that Rhoda was ten years old her parents took the family to America, and shortly after their arrival Rhoda Rebecca Collett died on 10^th November 1856 at the age of 11.
61O22	Reuben Hyrum Oakey was born at Frogsmarsh on 20^th August 1847, the son of Thomas and Ann Oakey and was three years old in the census of 1851. He was nearly seven old when his family left England for America, where he died on 28^th December 1876 at the age of 29. However, prior to his death he had married Sarah Jane Nate.
61O23	James William Oakey was born at Frogsmarsh on 27^th May 1849, the son son of Thomas and Ann Oakey. One internet record indicates that he died on the same day that he was born. However, knowing that his farming family emigrated to America around the time that James was six years old, it is possible that he did survive and travelled with them.
	The reasoning behind this assumption is that a James Oakey from England was recorded in the US Census of 1880 with his English wife and their four children. They and their family were living at Second Ward, Ogden in Weber County, Utah, where James Oakey was 32 and a teamster on a farm, his wife Sarah E Oakey was 30, their daughter Ada R Oakey and Daisy E Oakey were seven and five, while their sons were K Oakey, who was two, and Walter M Oakey who was eight months. All four children had been born in Utah.
	Other members of the Collett and Oakey families had connections with Ogden and Weber County, so this also perhaps confirms that James did not suffer an infant death.
61O24	Sarah Ann Oakey was born at Frogsmarsh on 9^th May 1852, the youngest daughter of Thomas and Ann Oakey. When she was only a few years old her parents emigrated to America, where in her later life Sarah was married three times.
	She first married (1) William Sterrett at Salt Lake City on 16^th June 1867, then (2) Albert Humburg at Montpelier in Bear Lake County on 16^th August 1879, and finally (3) Stephen Bedford Ludlum at Paris in Bear Lake on 24^th December 1887. The first marriage produced four Sterret children, the second produced four Humburg children, and the third marriage produced two Ludlum children. In addition to those ten children, Sarah also had two Oakey children born in 1875 and 1879, possibly after the death of her first husband and before she married the second.
	Sarah Ann Ludlum live a long life and died just five years short of a century on 2^nd July 1947 at Liberty in Bear Lake County, Idaho. She was buried three days later at Paris in Bear Lake.
61O25	Walter John Oakey was born at Frogsmarsh on 27^th June 1854, the last child of Thomas Oakey and his wife Ann Collett. He was only one month old when he died there on 25^th July 1854.
61P1	Sylvanus Collett was born at Lehi in Utah on 23^rd January 1856, the eldest child of Sylvanus Collett and his first wife Lydia Karren. It was also at Lehi that Sylvanus junior died two years later in 1858.
61P2	Esther Ann Collett was born at Lehi on 3^rd February 1858 and was there baptised on 26^th June 1867, the eldest daughter of Sylvanus and Lydia Collett. It would appear that she died at Kirtland, San Juan in New Mexico on 14^th March 1946 although she was buried four days after at Mesa in Maricopa County in Arizona.
61P3	Lydia Isabel Collett was born at Smithfield in Cache County, Utah on 25^th April 1861, the daughter of Sylvanus and Lydia Collett. She ten years old when she was baptised on 18^th September 1871. It was while she was living at Salt Lake City that she died on 9^th March 1937, and was buried at Smithfield three days later.
61P4	Sylvester Collett was born at Smithfield on 23^rd July 1863, the eldest surviving son of Sylvanus and Lydia Collett. Very little else is known about him except that he died on 24^th November 1938
61P5	Thomas Karren Collett was born at Logan in Cache County, Utah on 19^th October 1865, the last son of Lydia Collett nee Karren, who died shortly after he was born. During the previous year his father Sylvanus Collett had taken a second wife, who presumably took over looking after her husband’s son. The only other detail known about him is that Thomas Karren Collett died on 23^rd December 1931 at the age of 66.
61P10	Adrian Collett was born at Bennington in Bear Lake County on 3^rd November 1876. Rather oddly he was the only son of twice married Rhoda Sylvia Collett and her second husband Philomen Christopher Merrill, so why he was not Adrian Merrill remains a mystery.
61P11	Phoebe Theresa Collett was born at Smithfield in Cache County, Utah on 24^th July 1862. She was the first child of Reuben Collett by his wife Elthurah Roseltha Merrill, but sadly she died on 16^th January 1863 when she was less than six months old.
61P12	Reuben Samuel Collett was born on 26^th May 1864 at Smithfield and was baptised on 16^th May 1875, the eldest son of Reuben and Elthurah Collett. Just over fifteen years later he married (1) Flora Elsie Colton at Logan on 20^th November 1890. Flora was just passed her eighteenth birthday when she married Reuben who was aged twenty-six. Although Flora had been born at Provo in Utah on 7^th June 1872, she was baptised just two years prior to her wedding day on 16^th December 1888.
	All of the couple’s eight children were born at Vernal in Uintah County in Utah. Although Reuben’s wife survived him by eight years (see details below), he was also married to (2) Gertrude Asolia Pomeroy, who was born at Salt Lake on 2^nd February 1864. It is not known at this time whether Reuben had any children with Gertrude.
	Reuben Samuel Collett died at Salt Lake City on 20^th September 1946 and was buried there on 23^rd September 1946 at the Wasatch Lawn Cemetery. His first wife Flora died at San Francisco on 28^th January 1954, and was also buried at Wasatch Lawn Cemetery in Salt Lake City.
	61Q1	Gertrude Collett					Born on 09.07.1892 at Vernal
	61Q2	Elsie Collett					Born on 11.02.1894 at Vernal
	61Q3	Reuben Sterling Collett					Born on 13.05.1895 at Vernal
	61Q4	Marie Collett					Born on 04.10.1896 at Vernal
	61Q5	Karl Warren Collett					Born on 29.03.1898 at Vernal
	61Q6	Merle Collett					Born on 21.06.1899 at Vernal
	61Q7	Flora Collett					Born on 19.02.1902 at Vernal
	61Q8	Cora Collett					Born on 19.02.1902 at Vernal
61P13	Sylvester Daniel Collett was one half of a set of twins who were born at Smithfield on 15^th December 1866, the son of Reuben and Elthurah Collett. He was baptised in a joint ceremony with his brother Sylvanus (below) on 4^th August 1878, but died in Mexico eleven years later on 5^th May 1889.
61P14	Sylvanus Collett was one half of a set of twins who born at Smithfield on 15^th December 1866, the son of Reuben and Elthurah Collett. He was also baptised on 4^th August 1878 with his brother Sylvester (above).
	On 2^nd June 1886 he married (1) Sarah Elizabeth Simkins at Leti in Maricopa County in Arizona. Sarah was born at Beaver City in Utah on 12^th October 1865 but was not baptised until after she was married. That event took place on 1^st October 1889 between the birth of the couple’s first and second child.
	Sarah presented her husband with a total of five children prior to her death on 27^th February 1902, when her youngest child was just one month old. She died at Vernal (Naples) and was buried at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Vernal.
	Two years later Sylvanus married (2) Ethelwynne Stringham at Salt Lake City on 20^th January 1904 with whom he had a further five children, all of whom were born at Vernal, as were all by one of the children from Sylvanus’ first marriage. Ethelwynne was ten years younger than her husband, having been born at Salt Lake City on 25^th July 1876.
	The exact order of the birth of the children from Sylvanus’ second marriage is not known, so the list below is only an approximation, although the names and the one date are confirmed.
	Sylvanus was living at Vernal when he died on 29^th April 1932 and was buried at Vernal City Cemetery three days later.
	61Q9	Wiley Sylvanus Collett					Born on 08.05.1888 at Maeser
	61Q10	Annie Elthora Collett					Born on 05.06.1891 at Leti
	61Q11	Orin Collett					Born on 03.10.1893 at Vernal
	61Q12	Alice Collett					Date of birth unknown at Vernal
	61Q13	Byron Sylvester Collett					Born on 28.01.1902 at Vernal
	The following are the children of Sylvanus Collett by his second wife Ethelwynne Stringham:
	61Q14	Carl Stringham Collett					Born circa 1904 at Vernal
	61Q15	Howard Samuel Collett					Born circa 1906 at Vernal
	61Q16	Edna Collett					Born circa 1908 at Vernal
	61Q17	Claude Stringham Collett					Born on 29.10.1911 at Vernal
	61Q18	Edith Collett					Born circa 1913 at Vernal
61P15	Julia Ann Collett was born at Smithfield on 20^th February 1869 and was baptised on 4^th August 1878, the daughter of Reuben and Elthurah Collett. She was thirty-six years old when she married Beense William Postma at Vernal on 13^th May 1905. Beense William Postma was born at Warrega, in Freisland in the Netherlands on 7^th September 1875.
	Their marriage produced three children for the couple Elthura Grace Postma, William Andrew Postma who was born on 14^th November 1910 at Ogden in Weber County in Utah, and Sylvanus Julius Postma.
	It would appear that Julia lived all of her life in Utah since it was at Logan in Cache County that she died on 17^th September 1961 aged 92. She was buried at Smithfield three days after.
61P16	Adelbert Teancum Collett was born at Smithfield on 3^rd November 1872, the son of Reuben and Elthurah Collett. He was first baptised at Smithfield three months later on 16^th February 1873, an act curiously repeated after a further ten years on 7^th June 1883. It was then ten years later that Adelbert Collett married Harriet Penelope Goodrich at Vernal on 25^th December 1893.
	Harriet was born at Richville in Morgan County in Utah on 4^th April 1872 and she presented Adelbert with seven children, and all of them born at Vernal.
	At the time of his death on 23^rd March 1959 Adelbert was living at Salt Lake City where he was also buried three days later.
	61Q19	Veda Collett					Date of birth unknown
	61Q20	Mabel Jacqueline Collett					Born on 16.04.1897
	61Q21	Mamie (or Marnie)Collett					Born on 11.04.1899
	61Q22	Ralph Adelbert Collett					Born on 19.07.1901
	61Q23	Wells Frost Collett					Date of birth unknown
	61Q24	Rulon Samuel Collett					Born on 12.12.1905
	61Q25	Owen Milton Collett					Date of birth unknown
61P17	Charles Merrill Collett was born at Bennington in Bear Lake County in Idaho on 6^th June 1875 and was baptised on 17^th July 1883, the son of Reuben and Elthurah Collett. He married (1) Mary Elnora Munk at Salt Lake City on 9^th March 1898, Mary having been born at Mantua in Box Elder, Utah on 30^th August 1877.
	Their marriage produced six children for the couple, one of which their son Charles, is known to have been born at Bennington, where the other children may also have been born. Tragically Charles did not survive to reach his second birthday, when he died on 17^th February 1906.
	Charles lived to the grand age of 94 and died at Salt Lake City on 27^th February 1969, following which he was buried at Smithfield on 3^rd March 1969. Just eleven years before he died he married (2) Fanny (Fannie) Bell Weeks Winn who was thought to have been a similar age to Charles.
	61Q26	Phoebe Viola Collett					Date of birth unknown
	61Q27	Lois Marcella Collett					Date of birth unknown
	61Q28	Charles Lester Collett					Born on 06.08.1904
	61Q29	Farrell Reuben Collett					Date of birth unknown
	61Q30	Ruth Collett					Date of birth unknown
	61Q31	Raeo Collett					Date of birth unknown
61P18	Princetta Collett was born at Escalante in Garfied County in Utah on 11^th January 1878 and was baptised in January 1886, the daughter of Reuben and Elthurah Collett. She married James Albert Bills at Vernal on 12^th August 1897. James was aged 21 years at that time, having been born at Colver Valley in Lincoln Nevada on 19^th April 1876.
	The marriage did not produce any children for Princetta and James and late on in their lives they were living at Meeker in Rio Blanco in Colorado where first James died on 15^th June 1931 followed by his wife who died eight years after on 7^th April 1939. Both of them were buried at Meeker.
61P19	Orrin Collett was born at Leti in Maricopa County in Arizona on 16^th July 1882, the son of Reuben and Elthurah Collett. He was just approaching the age of six and half years when he died at Leti on 22^nd December 1888.
61P20	Roseltha M Collett was born at Leti on 29^th April 1884, the daughter of Reuben Collett and Elthurah Roseltha Merrill. She was baptised when she was ten years old on 5^th May 1894, and it was just over eight years after that when she married Albert Wellington Nielsen at Naples in Uintah County on 28^th August 1912.
	Albert Nielsen was born at Payson in Utah on 22^nd December 1876 and he and Roseltha had seven children, one of which, Kenneth Reuben Nielsen, is known to have been born at Smithfield where he also died. The full list of children is: Roseltha Mae Nielsen; Sarah Veda Nielsen; Albert Peter Nielsen; Kenneth Reuben Nielsen (13.07.1912 – 04.11.1912); Chloris Nielsen; and Donna Lois Nielsen.
	By the time of her death on 18^th October 1969 Roseltha was living at Sandy in Salt Lake although she was buried at Vernal.
61P21	Clarence James Collett was born at Leti on 5^th May 1886, the son of Reuben and Elthurah Collett, and was baptised on 2^nd February 1894 at the age of eight years. He married (1) Margaret Watkins on 5^th February 1907 at Vernal with whom he had nine children although no details of date and place are known at this time.
	Margaret was born at Midway in Wasatch County in Utah on 18^th August 1884 and was baptised on 6^th September 1893. She died at Salt Lake City on 21^st June 1955 and was buried at the Memorial Garden in Sandy on 24^th June 1955.
	It is established that Clarence James Collett married (2) Amanda Peterson Spencer although neither the date or the location are known. What is known is that he died at Bluffdale in Utah on 27^th June 1973 and was buried at Salt Lake City.
	61Q32	Genevieve Margaret Collett					Date of birth unknown
	61Q33	Opal Collett					Date of birth unknown
	61Q34	Leon Clarence Collett					Date of birth unknown
	61Q35	Earl Murray Collett					Date of birth unknown
	61Q36	Elthura Collett					Date of birth unknown
	61Q37	Edward Reuben Collett					Date of birth unknown
	61Q38	A Jay Collett					Date of birth unknown
	61Q39	Luella Collett					Date of birth unknown
	61Q40	Milo James Collett					Date of birth unknown
61P22	George Collett was born at Vernal on 15^th September 1888, the last child born to Reuben Collett and Elthurah Roseltha Merrill. He was nine years old when he was baptised on 15^th July 1897. He later married (1) Leon May Larsen Raleigh, but she may have died without their being any children born to the couple.
	George later married (2) Melvina Duke on 15^th October 1914 at Vernal and the couple initially settled in Logan where their first two children of seven were born. Melvina was born at Vernal on 10^th December 1891 and baptised on 2^nd October 1900.
	The last two children were born while the family was living at Thatcher in Bannock County in Idaho and Salt Lake City. Although nothing is known about three of the children the other four died shortly after they were born.
	Ivan died after fifteen days on 26^th August 1915, Iona died the same day that she was born, as did June, and Clifford survived for almost two months when he died on 9^th March 1925.
	And it was at Salt Lake City that Melvina died on 1^st July 1955 and was buried in the Memorial Gardens there four days later. George Collett survived his wife by twenty-seven, before he too died whilst at Salt Lake City on 6^th November 1982, where he was also buried three days after.
	61Q41	Ivan Collett twin					Born on 11.08.1915 at Logan
	61Q42	Iona Collett twin					Born on 11.08.1915 at Logan
	61Q43	Darwin Clyde Collett					Date/place of birth unknown
	61Q44	Roberta Collett					Date/place of birth unknown
	61Q45	Marva Collett					Date/place of birth unknown
	61Q46	Clifford Lewis Collett					Born on 10.01.1924 at Thatcher
	61Q47	June Collett					Born on 08.03.1928 at Salt Lake
61P34	James Tidwell Collett was born at Smithfield in Cache on 30^th September 1878, the eldest child of James Jones Collett and his first wife Mariett Tidwell. He was aged eleven years by the time he was baptised on 5^th September 1889. Sadly he died when he was only twenty-five years old on 6^th July 1903.
61P35	Sadie Sophronia Collett was born at Smithfield on 15^th April 1880, the daughter of James and Mariett Collett. She lived a long life and died on 16^th May 1957.
61P37	Elsie Collett was one half of a set of twins born on 4^th November 1882 at Smithfield to proud parents James and Mariett Collett. Sadly she only survived for three months and died on 3^rd February 1883. No such record has been found for her twin brother Elmer T Collett, about whom nothing is known at this time.
61P38	Julia Collett was born at Bennington in Bear Park County in Idaho on 2^nd October 1884, the last child of James Jones Collett by his first wife Mariett Tidwell. Julia’s mother died when she was three years old, and it was six years after that when she was baptised on 7^th September 1893, at the age of nine years.
	It seems likely that she never married and that she died in December 1975 aged 91 years.
61P39	Marriette Collett was born at Bennington on 22^nd April 1897, the first child by the second wife of James Jones Collett, Jane Wardrop. Her existence in this family line has been determined through the DNA Study currently being carried out by Barry Collett in the USA, the details of which were kindly provided by Marion O’Shea of Australia whose family feature in Part 12 – The Chipping Norton Line.
	Marriette was baptised on 30^th June 1907 and was named after her father’s first wife who had died before she was born. Marriette died at the age of 84 at Lethbridge in Alberta on 10^th November 1981, and was buried three days after her passing at Raymond in southern Alberta.
61P41	Ralph W Collett was born at Logan in Cache County in Utah on 21^st May 1902, the last child of James Jones Collett and his second wife Jane Wardrop. He was baptised on 18^th September 1910 and, apart from his passing, nothing more is currently known about him or his life. Ralph W Collett died on 25^th January 1981.
5Q3	Ada Collett was born at Tewkesbury in February 1881 and was just two months old at the time of the census on the third of April that year. She was the third child of Charles and Sarah Ann Collett who were living at 18 Spring Gardens in Tewkesbury, where Ada was most likely born.
	Ada was ten years old in 1891 when she was still living with her parents in Tewkesbury. However, ten years later in March 1901, she had moved out of the family home in Tewkesbury having just recently married William Booth. The census that year confirmed that both William and Ada were born at Tewkesbury; William was 25 and a general labourer, while Ada was 20 and a collar factory machinist.
	Over the next decade the marriage produced five children for the couple, and all of them born at Tewkesbury where the family was living in 1911. William Booth was 34, his wife Ada Booth was 30, and their children were Florence 9, Gladys Maud 7, Ethel 5, Cecil 2, and Edith Annie who was just two months old.
61Q1	Gertrude Collett was born at Maeser (Vernal) on 9^th July 1892, but was not baptised until 16^th August 1900. She was the eldest child of Reuben Samuel Collett and his first wife Flora Elsie Colton. Gertrude later married Burke Reese Thomas at Salt Lake City on 22^nd October 1919 with whom she had four children. Burke was born at Pocatello on 10^th February 1892.
	Shortly after they were married the couple were living at Knightsville in Juab County in Utah where their first child was born. Within a few months the family had moved to Salt Lake City where the remaining children were born.
	The four children were Burke Reuben Thomas (16.08.1920 – 20.12.1976), Donald Collett Thomas (01.06.1922 – 08.04.2008), Nancy Thomas (16.08.1923 – 23.01.1951), and Jean Lamar Thomas who was born on 27.05.1925.
	Gertrude and Burke spent most of their life together at Salt Lake City and it was there that Gertrude died on 26^th March 1976. She was buried three days later at Wasatch Lawn Cemetery in Salt Lake City.
	Gertrude’s son Donald married Beth Young at Salt Lake City on 8^th September 1948 and it was their son David Young Thomas who was born at Salt Lake City on 9^th March 1954 who kindly provided all of the details relating to his American family.
	David married Lori Clark at Oakland in California on 21^st May 1977 with whom he has five children - Jared Clark Thomas born at Provo on 22^nd March 1978, Justin David Thomas born on 30^th November 1980, Amy Beth Thomas born on 5^th March 1983, and Sean Michael Thomas who was born on 15^th April 1987, all three of them born at Mesa, and Trevor Matthew Thomas who was born at Santa Rosa on 7^th December 1990.
61Q2	Elsie Collett was born at Vernal on 11^th February 1894 and was baptised on 2^nd August 1902, the second child of Reuben and Flora Collett. She married (1) Maurice Vernon Richardson on 7^th October 1922 at Salt Lake City and the marriage produced one son for the couple, Maurice Vernon junior who was born at Oakland on 3^rd January 1923.
	At the age of fifty-five, and presumably following the death of her husband, Elsie married (2) George B Baldwin in San Francisco on 5^th August 1949. She later died on 16^th April 1984 at Palo Alta in California where she was also buried.
61Q3	Reuben Sterling Collett was born at Vernal on 13^th May 1895 and was baptised in 1903, the eldest son of Reuben and Flora Collett. He married (1) Mary Lulu Griffith with whom he had three children. He later married (2) Willie Maud Thomas nee Binskin at Reno in Washoe County in Nevada on 2^nd November 1946. Willie Maud was born at Banko in Texas on 14^th January 1890.
	Reuben and Mary were living at Roosevelt in Duchesne County in Utah for the birth of their first and third child, but in between times the family lived at Salt Lake City where the second child was born.
	Reuben Stirling Collett died at Waco in McLennan County in Texas on 21^st August 1975 and was buried at Vernal on 25^th August 1975.
	61R1	Sterling Driggs Collett					Born on 08.02.1920
	61R2	Ray Samuel Collett					Born on 20.09.1921
	61R3	Maureen (Maurine) Collett					Born on 20.01.1924
61Q4	Marie Collett was born at Vernal on 4^th October 1896 and was baptised on 4^th June 1905, the daughter of Reuben and Flora Collett. Over thirty-four years later at the age of forty-three she married Hobert Wesley Wheeler at San Francisco on 22^nd November 1939.
	Hobert was born on 6^th April 1902 at Hamden in New Haven in Connecticut. Marie was living at Walnut Grove in California when she died on 22^nd March 1986 and it was there that she was also buried.
61Q5	Karl Warren Collett was born at Vernal on 29^th March 1898 and was baptised on 2th August 1906, the son of Reuben and Flora Collett. He married Dorcas Leah McBride on 7^th June 1927 at Salt Lake City. Dorcas was born at Oakley in Cassio County in Idaho on 25^th January 1904.
	The marriage resulted in the birth of two children for Karl and Dorcas before tragedy struck the family in 1956 when Karl was killed in an air-crash from which his body was not recovered.
	The accident happened on 9^th December 1956 near Hope in Alaska, British Columbia and the list of passengers included the name of Karl Warren Collett of Calgary in Alberta.
	Details of the fatal flight are contained in an appendix at the end of this family line.
	61R4	LuRae Collett					Date of birth unknown
	61R5	Jolene Collett					Date of birth unknown
61Q6	Merle Collett was born at Vernal on 21^st June 1899, the daughter of Reuben and Flora Collett. Sadly she only survived for sixteen months before she died at Vernal on 1^st November 1900, where she was also buried.
61Q7	Flora Collett was one half of a set of twins who was born at Vernal on 19^th February 1902, the daughter of Reuben and Flora Collett. She was baptised with her twin sister Cora (below) in a joint ceremony on 2^nd April 1910.
	She married Lewis Leroy George on 14^th June 1928 and together they had two daughters. The first of these was Coralie George who was born on 27^th January 1932 at Great Falls in Montana and the second was Sally Ann George who was born at Sacramento in California on 14^th September 1941.
61Q8	Cora Collett was one half of a set of twins who was born at Vernal on 19^th February 1902, the last two children born to Reuben Samuel Collett and his first wife Flora Elsie Colton. She was baptised with her twin sister Flora (above) in a joint ceremony on 2^nd April 1910.
	Cora married (1) Clarence Etheridge Johnson at Vernal on 7^th March 1923 and the marriage produced three children for the couple. They were Norma Johnson who was born at Roosevelt on 1^st January 1924, Norman Etheridge Johnson who was born on 13^th July 1927 at Salt Lake City, and Flora Elsie Johnson who was born on 11^th January 1929, after the family had returned to Roosevelt.
	Cora’s husband, who was born at Vernal on 10^th November 1901 and baptised on 2^nd September 1911, sadly died when he was only thirty-one years of age. This happened at Rialto in San Bernardino CA on 20^th January 1932, leaving Cora with their three young children.
	After thirteen years as a widow, Cora married (2) Percy Julius Prinz on 29^th May 1945 at San Francisco. Percy had been born at Cincinnati in Hamilton, Ohio on 28^th October 1887 and was fifteen years old than Cora.
	And it was at San Francisco that Cora Prinz nee Collett died on 17^th September 1977 and where she was buried three days later.
61Q9	Wiley Sylvanus Collett was born at Maeser (Vernal) on 8^th May 1888, the eldest child of Sylvanus Collett and his first wife Sarah Elizabeth Simkins. He was eight years old when he was baptised on 1^st July 1896. It was at Salt Lake City that he died on 7^th May 1962 at the age of 74, following which he was buried four days after at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Vernal.
61Q10	Annie Elthora Collett was born at Leti in Maricopa County in Arizona on 5^th June 1891, the first daughter born to Sylvanus and Sarah Collett. Tragically she died two years later on 27^th June 1893.
61Q11	Orin Collett was born at Vernal on 3^rd October 1893 and was baptised on 27^th September 1901, the son of Sylvanus and Sarah Collett. The only other known fact about Orin is that he died on 12^th January 1963.
61Q13	Byron Sylvester Collett was born at Vernal on 28^th January 1902 and was baptised on 30^th April 1910, the last child of Sylvanus and Sarah Collett. Byron never knew his mother because Sarah Elizabeth Collett nee Simkins died when he was only one month old. He was living at Roosevelt in Duchesne County in Utah when he died on 5^th December 1971. Four days later he was buried at Vernal.
5Q17	Claude Stringham Collett was born at Vernal on 29^th October 1911, one of the children of Sylvanus Collett by his second wife Ethelwynne Stringham. Sadly he only survived for just over three months, when he died on 7^th February 1912.
61R1	Sterling Driggs Collett was born at Roosevelt in Duchesne on 8^th February 1920, the first born child of Reuben Stirling Collett and his wife Mary Lulu Griffith. He later married Kazue Jimbo who was born at Yokohama in Japan on 1^st January 1918. It would appear that this happened after the end of the Second World War and that the couple initially settled in Yokohama where their first daughter was born.
	Within the next few years the family moved to Tokyo where their second daughter was born, and twenty-four years after that happy event Sterling passed away on 30^th July 1974 aged only 54.
	61S1	Margo Collett					Born on 16.02.1947
	61S2	Lora Jean Collett					Born on 07.01.1950
61R2	Ray Samuel Collett was born at Salt Lake City on 20^th September 1921, the second child of Reuben and Mary Lulu Collett. He later married Florence H Boetzer shortly after the end of the Second World War on 22^nd March 1947 at Bakersfield in Kern County, California. Florence was born on 6^th February 1922 and she presented Ray with five children.
	61S3	Cynthia Ray Collett					Born on 16.11.1948
	61S4	Diane Christin Collett					Born on 06.07.1950
	61S5	Stephen Frederick Collett					Born on 29.10.1951
	61S6	Richard Sterling Collett					Born on 31.12.1953
	61S7	Carl Allen Collett					Born on 02.07.1956
61R3	Maureen (Maurine) Collett was born at Roosevelt in Duchesne County Utah on 20^th January 1924, the third and last child of Reuben Stirling Collett and his wife Mary Lulu Griffith. Just three weeks before her eighteenth birthday she married Estele Gilbert Kromman on 27^th December 1941 at Redding in California and three months later she gave birth to the first of their three children.
	The child was born while the couple were still at Redding, but over the next few years the family moved first to Oakland where their second child was born, and then to Milford in Filmore County in Utah where the third child was born.
	They were Lawrence Gilbert Kromman who was born on 24^th March 1942, Carolyn Ann Kromman born on 12^th December 1946, and Kathryn Ellen Kromman who was born on 21^st September 1953.
61R4	LuRae Collett is the daughter of the late Karl Warren Collett, who tragically lost his life on board Flight 810 – see Appendix One, and his wife Dorcas Leah McBride.
	It was as LuRae Mortensen in late 2006 that she kindly provided some details of her English ancestors for the period from 1725 to 1839. This has since been developed further with the help of David Young Thomas (see Ref. 61Q1).
	APPENDIX ONE – TRANS-CANADA AIR LINES FLIGHT 810
	Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810 was a Canadair Northstar on a scheduled flight from Vancouver to Calgary. The plane crashed into Mount Slesse near Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada on 9^th December 1956 after encountering severe icing and turbulence over the mountains. All 62 people on board died, making this one of the worst airline crashes in the world at that date; it still ranks as the sixth worst air disaster in Canadian history today.
	Due to the remoteness and difficulty of the terrain, the crash site was not located until May 1957. Among the victims were five players from the Canadian Football League on their way home from the annual all-star game in Vancouver.
	Flight 810-9 left Vancouver International Airport at 6.10 pm on 9^th December, assigned to fly the Green 1 air lane east to Calgary, Alberta, though the pilots asked for and received clearance for a routing via airways Red 44 and Red 75 instead, which took the aircraft past Cultus Lake and into a weather system called a 'trowal'. The pilot (Capt Alan Jack Clarke of Vancouver) climbed to 19,200ft by 6.55, when he experienced a fire warning indication in No. 2 (the inner port motor), which was then shut down as a precaution - false fire warnings in Northstar aircraft had been noted on numerous previous occasions. They radioed Vancouver Air Traffic Control to notify them of the event “looks like we had a fire”, requested a return flight path on Airway Green 1 back to Vancouver Airport - the flight path with the most favourable terrain for an aircraft losing altitude - but inexplicably made a starboard turn instead of a port one and wound up heading west-southwest a good twelve miles south of Green 1 and straight in to the unforgiving teeth of the border mountains. At 7.10 the plane radioed that they were passing Hope, and was given clearance to descend to 8000 feet. This was the last communication received from the plane. The plane was also being tracked by an American radar installation in Birch Bay, WA throughout most of its flight after turning around, but at 7.11 pm the station lost track of Flight 810 in the vicinity of 8,530 feet. Mount Silvertip just east-northeast of where the plane finally went down moments later. The cause of the crash is given in the official report as being the combination of several factors with the main ones being icing of the wings and fuselage and the loss of No. 2 engine, but many questions remain, including why the aircraft turned away from Green 1 rather than toward it, and reporting to ATC that it “was on Green 1”, and why this was picked up by neither the pilot nor First Officer despite spirit compasses and several radio aids-to-navigation on board which should have made the error rather glaring. As the aircraft flew straight into the third peak of Mount Slesse well in excess of cruising speed - and crashed in remote and dangerously inhospitable territory - very little information could be gleaned from the wreckage itself as to the cause of what was then the worst aircraft calamity in Canadian history. The wreckage and remains of the passengers and crew were left on the mountain at the crash site (though body parts found during the Coroner's inquiry were interred in two common graves on the mountainside), and despite years of erosion and avalanche, remains of the aircraft can be seen to this day. The passenger list included Karl Warren Collett (Ref. 5Q5) of Calgary, Alberta.