PART SEVEN

The Short Australia Line - 1820 to 1850

Updated May 2010

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 in 1822 at Leonard Stanley in Gloucestershire, England.
	7N1	GEORGE EDWIN COLLETT	Born in 1822
7N1	GEORGE EDWIN COLLETT was born in 1822 and was baptised at Leonard Stanley on 20.04.1822. This entry is a new addition, discovered and inserted in December 2001 – see footnote.
	George Edwin Collett married (1) Agnes Keane in 1848/49 at St Giles Camberwell in London, and the marriage certificate confirmed that George’s occupation was that of an ‘upholder’. This was perhaps an indication that he was a member of The Worshipful Company of Upholders, an upholder being the archaic name for an upholsterer.
	The two children of this marriage were both born in London; the first child was born at York Place in Battersea, and the second at The Terrace in Kennington, although both of them were baptised at the Church of St Mark in Kennington.
	In the spring of 1854 the family set sail for Australia on board the sailing ship Stebonheath and arrived at Melbourne in August that same year.
	Strangely the ship’s indent only listed George Collett who was thirty-three years old and his two children George Collett and Alice Collett. It therefore seems very likely that his wife Agnes had died prior to his departure from England, possible during or as a result of the failed birth of a third child.
	What is known for sure, is that George was married for a second time during 1861 at Dunedin in Australia, his new bride being (2) Alice William–Jones, and their only child William Henry Collett was born at Inglewood in Victoria. On the child’s birth certificate, George referred to himself as ‘of Cheltenham’ – see footnote.
	Soon after the birth of William Henry, the family went to live in New Zealand where they managed a hotel at Naseby in central New Zealand. George must have eventually returned to Australia, because it was there that his death was recorded in 1903 at the age of eighty-one.
	From being an upholder in England prior to 1854, to running a hotel in New Zealand, at the time of his passing in 1903 he was a grocer, according to the information detailed on his death certificate.
	7O1	George William Collett	Born on 30.03.1849
	7O2	EVELYN ALICE COLLETT	Born on 12.08.1850
	7O3	William Henry Collett	Born in 1861 Inglewood, Victoria
7O1	George William Collett was born at York Place in Battersea, London on 30.03.1849. This might indicate that his parents were born during 1848, rather than as previously documented in 1849, although this cannot be ruled out but would mean that Agnes was with-child on her wedding day.
	Just like his sister Evelyn (below), George William Collett was baptised at St Mark’s Church in Kennington, London. This took place on 01.07.1849 and confirmed that his parents were George Edwin Collett and his wife Agnes.
	Following his voyage to Australia with his father and sister in 1854, nothing further has so far been discovered about what happened to George William Collett.
7O2	EVELYN ALICE COLLETT was born at Kennington in London on 12.08.1850, and it was there at St Mark’s Church that she was baptised on 01.09.1850, the daughter of George Edwin Collett and his wife Agnes.
	In 1854 Evelyn accompanied her widowed father and brother George (above) to Australia. It was there that she married Henry Pullen at Fitzroy in Melbourne during 1870. All of their ten children were born in Australia.
	The only other known fact about this family is that Henry Pullen died in 1934.
	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 George Edwin Collett (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 known son William Henry Collett (Ref. 7O3)
Furthermore it is very likely that the reference to Cheltenham by George Edwin Collet at that time, was made 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 Collett was not George Collett (Ref. 1N63) of Leonard Stanley. This gentleman married Harriet Frape of Eastington near Stroud and ended up later in his life living 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 further connection to this family tree has been found.