PART SEVEN

The Short Australia Line - 1820 to 1850

This is the only section of the seventh part of the Collett family

Updated 25^th July 2006

This is the family line of June Tobin of Seaford in Australia

7M1	HENRY COLLETT and Ann were the parents of George Edwin Collett who was born at Leonard Stanley in 1822.
	7N1	GEORGE EDWIN COLLETT	Baptised on 20.04.1822
7N1	GEORGE EDWIN COLLETT was baptised on 20.04.1822 at Leonard Stanley. This entry is a new addition discovered and inserted in December 2001.
	George married (1) Agnes Keane in 1849 at St Giles Camberwell in London. The two children of this marriage were both born in London at York Place, Battersea and at The Terrace in Kennington respectively. In the spring of 1854 the family set sail for Australia aboard the ship Stebonheath and arrived at Melbourne in August that year.
	Strangely the ship’s indent only lists George aged 33 and the two children George (Ref. 7O1) and Alice (Ref. 7O2). It is therefore unclear as to whether his wife Agnes actually accompanied them to Australia, or whether she had died prior to the trip. Either way George married for a second time during 1861 at Dunedin in Australia, his new bride being (2) Alice William–Jones.
	Their only child William Henry Collett (Ref. 7O3) was born at Inglewood in Victoria. Soon after the birth the family went to live in New Zealand where they managed a hotel at Naseby in central New Zealand. George eventually must have returned to Australia because that is where his death was recorded in 1903 at the age of 81.
	His marriage certificate of 1849 referred to him as ‘an upholder’ whereas his death certificate said he was grocer. George referred to himself as “of Cheltenham” on the birth certificate of his youngest son William.
	7O1	George William Collett	Born in 1849 in London
	7O2	EVELYN ALICE COLLETT	Born in 1851
	7O3	William Henry Collett	Born in 1861 Inglewood, Victoria
7O2	EVELYN ALICE COLLETT was born in 1851 at Kennington in London. She married Henry Pullen at Fitzroy in Melbourne in 1870. Henry died in 1934. All of their children were born in Australia.
	7P1	Agnes Alice Pullen	Born in 1871 & Died in 1871
	7P2	Alice Pullen	Born in 1872 & Died in 1872
	7P3	George Henry Pullen	Born in 1873 & Died in 1956
	7P4	Henry Pullen	Born in 1875 & Died in 1945
	7P5	Gertrude Jane Pullen	Born in 1879 & Died in 1949
	7P6	Emma Eliza Pullen	Born in 1882
	7P7	Gilbert Sayers Pullen	Born in 1885 & Died in 1974
	7P8	James Samuel Pullen	Born in 1888 & Died in 1889
	7P9	Annie Pullen	Born in 1889 & Died in 1889
	7P10	Rueben William Pullen	Born in 1892 & Died in 1933
7P6	Emma Eliza Pullen was born in 1882 and married Fred Murray after the turn of the century.
	7Q1	June Murray	Born circa 1910
7Q1	June Murray married Mr Tobin

The original information for Ref. 7N1 above was assembled in 1995 by June Tobin with the help of Margaret Chadd. What was always in question was that George Collett (Ref. 1N60) of Leonard Stanley near Stroud, the son of Thomas Collett and Ann Antill (Ref. 1M41) was not George Edwin Collett who stated that he was “of Cheltenham” on the birth certificate of his youngest son William Henry Collett (Ref. 7O3)

Furthermore it is more likely that the reference to Cheltenham by George Edwin Collet at that time was in regard to the district of Melbourne where he was living, rather than the town in Gloucestershire.

Information discovered in December 2001 conclusively proved that George Edwin was not George (Ref. 1N60) of Leonard Stanley. This gentleman married Harriet Frape of Eastington near Stroud and ended up later in life at Altrincham in Cheshire, where he was a carpenter and joiner.

This then only leaves George Edwin Collett to be the one baptised at Leonard Stanley on 20.04.1822, the son of Henry and Ann Collett and as yet no connection to this family tree has been found.