PART ELEVEN

The Welford-on-Avon Line - 1680 to 1870

(including a branch line to Canada)

Updated January 2024

This is the first of two sections of this family line

Whilst primarily set up as the Welford-on-Avon Line, this line now

contains many references to the Collett families of the hamlet of Admington.

The original details in this family line were supplied by Bob Collett (Ref. 11R34)

of Cheshire via Stephen Collett of Solihull and are marked #1.

This was developed further by Brian Collett and marked #2.

Further contributions received from Desmond Hancox (Ref. 11R40) of Australia are

marked #3, with the associated photographs having been kindly supplied by his cousin

Anita Jeffrey (Ref. 11R47). Additional information marked #4 has been provided by

Desmond’s sister, the late Dawn Wood (Ref. 11R42).

The new information added for the June 2010 update was generously provided

by Daniel Richard Sylvester (see Ref. 11Q61) in Canada and is marked #7.

Other contributors have been:

Yvonne the wife of John Collett (Ref. 11R35), the additional details being marked #5; and

Les Bradshaw (see Ref. 11P25) whose contributions are denoted by #6

The December 2010 update included new information received from Paul Boreham of

Arkell in Canada (marked #8), whose mother is Gwen Boreham nee Collett (Ref. 11R19),

and Doreen North whose late husband Tony North was the grandson of

Florence Gertrude Ann Hall Collett (Ref. 11P12), the new details being marked #9

In February 2011 new material was gratefully received from Linda and Paul Collett of

Wolstanton, whose grandfather was Cecil John Collett (Ref. 11P69), about whom

nothing was previously written. That new information is denoted by #10

Other additional information was kindly supplied by Joan Fay Robertson nee Collett

(Ref. 11R33) in Canada over many years, as denoted by #11. Since 2020, that same reference has represented Wendy K Crossland nee Collett (Ref. 11S14) who took over the role of family historian from Joan, just prior to her passing in early 2021.

And it was Wendy who generously provided new details for the June 2021 update

New information and photographs inserted during June 2012 were

gratefully received from Linda Phelpstead and are identified by #12,

while other details have been supplied by Bob Collett and Doreen North

The information marked #13 was kindly provided by Pauline Every

from Port Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia

The bulk of the information for the January 2014 version of this family line

has been very generously provided by Jennie Cordner who has been helping

and supporting webmaster Brian Collett for many years, denoted by #14

Ian McCallum is a military researcher and, in the autumn of 2014, he made contact

with the news that he has the medals and death plaques for the brothers

Frederick Collett (Ref. 11P47) and Edmund Collett (Ref. 11P52). The new details provided by Ian are denoted with the nomenclature #15

In 2021, Richard Alan Collett provided new information which added to the brief notes for Albert Collett (Ref. 11P36).

This work affected Part 45 – The Worcestershire Connection, in which Albert was shown married to Minnie Dyer when, in fact his wife was Gertrude Annie Dyer, Minnie being the wife of Albert John Collett (Ref. 45q1).

The new details kindly supplied by Michael are referenced #16

To date no connection has been made to any other of the Collett family lines.

However, it has should be noted that Mary Collett (Ref. 4G2),

who was born in 1616, married John Holtham at Welford-on-Avon

This is detailed in Part 4 – The Great Western Line

	Today Welford-on-Avon lies just a few miles west of Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire. In the very early records, the village was listed as being in the County of Gloucestershire. The aforementioned Admington in Warwickshire completes a triangle, being equal distant from Stratford and Welford.
11J1	This family line starts with THOMAS COLLETT who is believed to have been born around 1686 at Welford-on-Avon, often spelt as Whelford-on-Avon. He married Mary Holtham (or Holtam or Holtom) on 15^th July 1711 at Welford-on-Avon, where Mary is believed to have been born in 1690. Mary was obviously with-child on their wedding day, since their first child was born towards the end of that same year. Just over two years later Thomas and Mary produced a son who was born in 1714 who was given the name Thomas Collett and he, like his father, also married a girl by the name of Mary Holtham.								#1 #2 #1
	His place of birth, like that of the first four children of the family was Weston-on-Avon which is the village closest to Welford-on-Avon. Thomas’ and Mary’s fifth and sixth children were both baptised after the family had moved to Welford-on-Avon. It seems rather curious that the baptism record for the couple’s last children listed the child’s name as Elizabeth Holtam or Collett, even though the parents were confirmed as Thomas Collett and Mary Holtam.								#1 #2
	It would be logical that further children were born into the family during the 1720s, where there is a ten-year gap between the fourth and fifth child. His youngest child was only five years old when Thomas Collett died on 24^th January 1739 at Welford-on-Avon but, to date, no record has been found of the death of his wife Mary.								#1
	11K1		Susannah Collett			Born in 1711 at Weston-on-Avon			#1
	11K2		Thomas Collett			Born in 1714 at Weston-on-Avon			#1
	11K3		Ann Collett			Born in 1717 at Weston-on-Avon			#1
	11K4		Anthony Collett			Born in 1720 at Weston-on-Avon			#1
	11K5		Mary Collett			Born in 1730 at Welford-on-Avon			#1
	11K6		Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1733 at Welford-on-Avon			#2
11K1	Susannah Collett was baptised at Weston-on-Avon on 7^th December 1711. She later married Edwards Wells on 26^th December 1732 at Welford-on-Avon.								#1 #2
11K2	What happened next is very interesting in that THOMAS COLLETT, who was born at Weston-on-Avon in 1714, married Mary Holtham (or Holtam or Holtom) of Welford-on-Avon, who was presumably his cousin by marriage, she being the niece of his mother Mary Collett nee Holtham (above).								#1
	Thomas and Mary were married on 28^th October 1735 at Welford-on-Avon, having already produced their first children some seven months before they were married. Mary is understood to have died in August 1772 at Welford-on-Avon but, to date, no record has been found of Thomas’ death. There is yet a further reference to the Holtom name later in this family line.								#2 #1
	11L1		Ann Collett	Baptised on 21.03.1735 at Welford					#1
	11L2		Richard Collett	Baptised on 30.04 1738 at Welford					#1
	11L3		Thomas Collett	Baptised on 22.02.1739 at Welford					#2
	11L4		Mary Collett	Baptised on 23.05.1742 at Welford					#1
	11L5		John Collett	Baptised on 13.02.1745 at Welford					#2
11K3	Ann Collett was baptised at Weston-on-Avon on 26^th May 1717 and it was there that she married Richard Pacey on 1^st January 1744.								#2
11K4	Anthony Collett was baptised at Weston-on-Avon on 12^th December 1720 and he married Anne Brain of Quinton at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton on 16^th February 1747. It was also there that their children were baptised, their only known son being named after his grandfather.								#1 #2
	It may be of interest to note that, over many years, there had been previous occasions when the Collett name had been linked with that of the Brain family, although all of them had taken place in Gloucestershire. The earliest recorded event took place at Little Rissington in 1717 when Mary Collett married Thomas Brain, followed in 1828 when Henry Collett (Ref.33L2) married Margaret Brain at Upper Slaughter, again in 1881 when Hannah Reeson Collett (Ref. 37O4) was in service with retired farmer William Brain of Oxford.								#2
	11L6		Mary Collett	Baptised on 02.04 1749 at Quinton					#1
	11L7		Anne Collett	Baptised on 28.06.1752 at Quinton					#2
	11L8		Thomas Collett	Baptised on 18.05.1755 at Quinton					#1
11K5	Mary Collett was baptised on 30^th December 1730 at Welford-on-Avon where she died just over a year later on 13^th February 1732.								#1
11K6	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Welford-on-Avon on 13^th September 1733, the youngest and last child of Thomas Collett and his wife Mary Holtham.								#2
11L2	Richard Collett was born in 1738 at Quinton south of Stratford-on-Avon, but was baptised on 30^th April 1738 at Welford-on-Avon. Richard married Mary Freeman on 3^rd August 1773 at Willersey some miles south of Welford-on-Avon near Broadway, Willersey being the place where Mary was born in 1752. Shortly after the wedding the couple produced what would have been a honeymoon baby in the form of son Robert Collett who was also born at Willersey, as was their second son.								#1 #2
	11M1		Robert Collett	Baptised on 27.05.1774 at Willersey					#2
	11M2		Edward Collett	Baptised on 30.11.1776 at Willersey					#1
11L4	Mary Collett was baptised on 23^rd May 1742 at Welford-on-Avon, where she died a few months later on 13^th August 1742.								#1
11L5	John Collett was baptised on 13^th February 1745 at Welford-on-Avon. This is the family line of John Collett of Australia who, in 2004, was living at Mount Albert in Victoria and with whom contact has been made in an attempt to extend this line into the 21^st Century. Although not proved to be this particular John Collett, there was the marriage of a John Collett to an Elizabeth Butler recorded at Mickleton on 17^th October 1778.								#2
11L8	Thomas Collett was baptised at Quinton on 18^th May 1755 and he later married Anna. It seems very likely that they lived at Welford-on-Avon where their son John was baptised and where their son Richard was married in 1819 and raised his own family, as did their eldest son Thomas.								#2
	11M3		Thomas Collett	Date of birth unknown					#1
	11M4		William Collett	Date of birth unknown					#2
	11M5		John Collett	Born in 1793 at Welford-on-Avon					#2
11M1	Robert Collett was baptised at Willersey on 27^th May 1774, the parish register confirming him as the son of Richard and Mary Collett. He was 23 when he married Ann Hughes at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton on 31^st October 1797. Ann had been born at Quinton on 1^st September 1776, the daughter of George Hughes and Anne Rogers. See later connections between the Collett family and the Hughes and Rogers families.								#9 #2 #1
	The couple settled in the hamlet of Admington, close by the village of Quinton where all of their children were baptised, since there was no church in Admington at that time. Robert, who was a blacksmith in 1841, died at Admington in 1848 and was buried in the grounds of the parish church of St Swithun’s in Quinton on 25^th April 1848, at the age of 71. Presumably it was his wife who gave his age as being 71, which was actually her age at that time. Ann died less than three years later in 1851, when she was buried with her husband on 23^rd February 1851.								#1 #3 #9
	The inclusion of Robert’s son Thomas, who was born in 1812, is the result of an entry on the website www.familysearch.org. However, already included under the family of William and Ann Collett is their son Thomas who, according to the IGI, was also baptised at Quinton on the same day. The family search website also acknowledges the IGI record, so it is possible both are correct.								#1 #2
	11N1		Richard Collett	Baptised on 18.03.1798 at Quinton					#2
	11N2		Mary Collett	Baptised on 13.10.1799 at Quinton					#2
	11N3		Nancy Collett	Baptised on 13.10.1800 at Quinton					#2
	11N4		Robert Collett	Baptised on 05.04.1801 at Quinton					#2
	11N5		Ann Collett	Baptised on 25.12.1802 at Quinton					#2
	11N6		John Collett	Baptised on 14.10.1804 at Quinton					#1
	11N7		Peggy Collett	Baptised on 03.08.1806 at Quinton					#2
	11N8		Rachel Collett	Baptised on 19.09.1808 at Quinton					#2
	11N9		Elizabeth Collett	Baptised on 11.09.1810 at Quinton					#2
	11N10		Thomas Collett	Baptised on 25.10.1812 at Quinton					#1
	11N11		GEORGE COLLETT	Baptised on 09.04.1817 at Quinton					#2
	11N12		William Joshua Collett	Baptised on 28.11.1819 at Quinton					#2
	11N13		Maria Collett	Baptised on 30.12.1821 at Quinton					#2
	11N14		Sarah Collett twin	Baptised on 12.10.1823 at Quinton					#2
	11N15		Elizabeth Collett twin	Baptised on 19.10.1823 at Quinton					#2
11M3	Thomas Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Elizabeth just before the turn of the century and their two children listed below were born and baptised at Welford-on-Avon.								#2
	11N16		Thomas Collett	Baptised on 29.09.1800 at Welford					#2
	11N17		Mary Collett	Born circa 1803 at Welford-on-Avon					#2
11M4	William Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Ann and their son was born at Admington and baptised at Quinton. Although the birth of their son has been included here, since the initial compilation of this family line and was obtained from the IGI, more recent information suggests that the Thomas Collett baptised at Quinton on 25^th October 1812 was the son of Robert and Ann (above). However, the same source for the new information, the website www.familysearch.org, also confirms the IGI entry, which states that Thomas’ parents were William and Ann Collett.								#2
	11N18		Thomas Collett	Baptised on 25.10.1812 at Quinton					#1
11M5	John Collett was baptised at Welford on 14^th January 1793, the son of Thomas and Anna Collett.								#2
11N1	Richard Collett was born at Admington and baptised at the parish church of St Swithun’s in Quinton on 18^th March 1798, the son of Robert and Ann Collett. It was also at Quinton that Richard later married Hannah Fletcher on 7^th June 1819, Hannah coming from Preston-on-Stour, just two miles north of Quinton. Their marriage produced ten children who were all baptised at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton.								#2 #9
	By the time of the first national census in June 1841 the family was living at Admington Farm Fields. Richard Collett, with a rounded age of 40, was a farm worker, while his wife Hannah’s rounded age was 45. Still living with the couple were six of their ten children. Missing from the family was Richard’s eldest daughter Martha aged 20, who was living nearby in the same registration area, and daughter Eliza who, at the age of 14, was also working as a domestic servant by then. However, it seems more than likely that the other absent child, Richard’s son John, who would have been 16, may have not survived beyond childhood.								#2 #9
	The children who were still living with their parents were Robert Collett who was 20, Richard Collett who was 15, George Collett who was 11, Elizabeth Collett who was seven, William Collett who was five, and Jane Collett who was two years old. For whatever reason, their daughter Ann, aged nine, was living close by at the home of elderly Ann Savage on the day of the census, perhaps to ease the over-crowding in the farmer worker’s cottage. It is understood that Admington Farm Fields was very likely later referred to as Admington Grounds.								#2
	Over the next ten years many of the children left the family home, so by 1851 Richard was 51, Hannah was 54, and on that occasion the children still living with them were Richard who was 28, Ann who was 19, and William who was 14. It was six years later during the second quarter of 1857 that Hannah Collett nee Fletcher died, so by the time of the census in 1861 widower Richard, at the age of 64, had moved to Upper Admington where he was living on his own, and from where he was working as a carter, possibly on a local farm.								#2 #11
	According to the next census in 1871, Richard Collett aged 73 and a former agricultural labourer, was living at The Milking Pail beer house at 5 Sheep Street in Mickleton with his youngest son William with his wife Ann, and with them Richard’s first three grandchildren. It was just two years later that Richard Collett died at Mickleton in 1873.								#2 #11
	11O1		Robert Collett					Born in 1819 at Admington	#2
	11O2		Martha Collett					Born in 1820 at Admington	#2
	11O3		Richard Collett					Born in 1821 at Admington	#2
	11O4		John Collett					Born in 1823 at Admington	#2
	11O5		Eliza Collett					Born in 1826 at Admington	#2
	11O6		George Collett					Born in 1829 at Admington	#2
	11O7		Ann Collett					Born in 1831 at Admington	#2
	11O8		Elizabeth Collett					Born in 1833 at Admington	#2
	11O9		William Collett					Born in 1835 at Admington	#2
	11O10		Jane Collett					Born in 1838 at Admington	#2
11N4	Robert Collett was born at Admington in 1800 and was baptised at Quinton on 5^th April 1801, the fourth child of Robert Collet and Ann Hughes. There is a mystery surrounding Robert’s early adult years, but it seems very likely that he married (1) Mary when he was 21 years of age. Their marriage is known to have produced at least one child who was born at Welford-on-Avon in 1822, although there may have been others.								#2
	It seems likely that Mary died during the birth of a subsequent child since, it is established that, almost ten years later, Robert at the age of 32, married (2) Mary Hughes at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton on 26^th October 1832. That Mary was born at Ilmington in 1812, so could not have been the Mary that presented Robert with his daughter Ann Collett in 1822. The second marriage produced a further eleven children for Robert and all of them were born at Admington and baptised at Quinton. The family did suffer the loss of one of the twins born in 1846. It should also be noted that Robert’s father, Robert Collett senior, married Ann Hughes at Quinton parish church in 1797 so, it is likely that Mary Hughes may have been her niece.								#2
	By the time of the Quinton census in June 1841, Robert’s rounded age was 35 and Mary’s was 30. The only children listed were them at that time were Daniel Collett who was eight, Rachel Collett who was six, Dinah Collett who was four, and Sena Collett who was two years old, the whole family living in the village of Admington, where the children were all born. Three other persons were living at the same address and they were Thomas Neal aged 30, Mary Timms aged 14, and Lydia Hughes who was 12, the latter being the base-born daughter of Robert’s wife Mary Hughes. It was the record of her baptism, at the parish church in Quinton on 7^th June 1829, that confirmed she was the daughter of Mary Hughes.								#2
	The enlarged family was recorded at Admington Lane within the parish of Quinton in the Shipston-on-Stour census registration district in 1851. Head of the household was agricultural labourer Robert, who was 50 and from Admington. Living there with him was his wife Mary who was 41, and their eight children, Daniel Collett who was 17 and another agricultural labourer, possibly working alongside his father, Dinah Collett who was 13, Sena who was 11, John Collett who was nine, Mark Collett who was seven, Ann Collett who was five, Joe who was two and Jane who was just three months old. Not with the family that day, but living nearby, was their daughter Rachel Collett who was 16. Also, on that census day, Mary’s daughter Lydia Hughes, aged 22 and from Admington, was a servant at the Halford (Shipton-on-Stour) home of widow Ann Fincher, aged 63 and from Stratford-on-Avon.								#2
	Ten years later in 1861, the family was still residing in Admington village, near Quinton where Robert Collett was 61 and continuing to work as an agricultural labourer. His wife Mary Collett from Ilmington was 49 and the children still living with them at Admington on that occasion were Daniel Collett who was 28 and another agricultural labourer – most likely working alongside his father, Rachel Collett who was 25 and a cook, Sena Collett who was 21 with no stated occupation, Joseph Collett who was 12 and a labourer’s boy, and George Collett who was eight years old.								#2
	According to the next census, conducted in 1871, the family was living in Admington where agricultural labourer Robert Collett was 70 and his wife Mary was 61. Working with their father, also as agricultural labourers, were Robert’s three unmarried sons Mark, aged 26, Joseph who was 22 and George who was 17. Supporting their mother were unmarried daughters Sarah (sic) Collett who was 31 and Ann Collett who was 24, both of them described as a labourer’s daughter. Also living with the family that day was the couple’s granddaughter Mary J Collett who was under one year old and the base-born daughter of Robert’s unmarried daughter Ann Collett, aforesaid. It was just under two years later that Robert Collett died when he was 72 years of age, his death recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 275) during the second quarter of 1873, and after he was buried in the grounds of St Swithun’s Church in Quinton on 5^th February 1873. An alternative date for his burial was 4^th May 1873, after his death was recorded.								#3
	That loss for the family was confirmed in the 1881 Census, when Mary Collett was a widow aged 71 living at Lower Admington with her two unmarried children Selina (sic) Collett, who was 40 and caring for her elderly mother, and George Collett who was 27 and employed as a carrier. In addition to her two children, Mary had taken in a lodger, 23-year-old Walter Hughes, an agricultural labourer, who was very likely her nephew or at least related in some other way to Mary’s Hughes family. All four members of the household were described as having been born at Admington. On the day of that national census, there were twenty-four people with the surname of Hughes living in the village of Admington, of which twenty-one of them had been born there.								#2
	After a further ten years, the widow Mary Collett was still living within the area of Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire. It was recorded in the census of 1891 that Mary was 82 and an inmate in an institution in Shipston, where she was employed as a general domestic servant. On that occasion she was listed as the only member of the Collett family residing in Shipston. However, it was later that same year that the death of Mary Collett nee Hughes was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour register office (Ref. 6d 400) during the final three months of 1891 when she was 83.								#2
	11O11		Ann Collett			Born in 1821 at Welford-on-Avon			#2
	The following are the children of Robert Collett by his second wife Mary Hughes:								#2
	11O12		Daniel Collett			Born in 1832 at Admington			#2
	11O13		Rachel Collett			Born in 1834 at Admington			#2
	11O14		Dinah Collett			Born in 1836 at Admington			#2
	11O15		Sena Collett			Born in 1839 at Admington			#2
	11O16		John Collett			Born in 1841 at Admington			#2
	11O17		Mark Collett			Born in 1844 at Admington			#2
	11O18		Martha Ann Collett twin			Born in 1846 at Admington			#2
	11O19		Ann Collett twin			Born in 1846 at Admington			#2
	11O20		Joseph Collett			Born in 1848 at Admington			#2
	11O21		Jane Collett			Born in 1850 at Admington			#2
	11O22		George Collett			Born in 1853 at Admington			#3
11N6	John Collett was born at Admington and was baptised at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton on 14^th October 1804, the sixth child of Robert Collett and Ann Hughes. It is possible, although not proved, that it may have been this John Collett who married Ann Webster at nearby Alderminster, just north-east of Admington, on 28^th February 1824. That partnership may not have endured, since no children for a John and Ann Collett have been unearthed.								#1 #2
	What may have happened is the subject of conjecture, in that Ann possibly died during childbirth, leaving John with the opportunity to be married for a second time later on. Once again though, no record of that second marriage has so far been found. However, it was the census in 1851 which reveals John Collett and his wife Lettie were recorded at Chipping Campden where, living with them was their niece Rachel Collett, aged 16 and from Admington, the eldest daughter of John’s older brother Robert Collett by his second wife Mary Hughes (above). It was in a property and shop on the High Street in the town that John Collett from Admington was a grocer who gave his age as being 42 – five years younger than his real age. He may have given that inaccurate information due to his wife Lettie Collett from Willersey being only 39. In addition to their niece Rachel, the only other person living at the address was John and Lettie’s daughter, Jane Collett, who was one-year-old and born at Chipping Campden.								#2
	The earlier census for Chipping Campden, completed in 1841, also include John Collett and Letty Collett as residing at the High Street home of the large Griffiths family. Every member of the household had been born within the county of Gloucestershire, apart that is from John Collett, who was born outside the county in Warwickshire. Tragically for Lettie Collett, her older husband died in 1859, with the death of John Collett recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 351) during the last three months of that year. Just over one year later, his widow was still managing the grocer’s shop on the High Street in Chipping Campden in 1861.								#2
	Also, prior to John’s passing, he had presented Lettie with two more daughters, both of them born at Chipping Campden. The full details therefore in the census return for 1861 recorded the family of four as Letticia Collett from Willersey who was a widow of 49 and a grocer, Jane Collett who was 11, Ellen Collett who was eight and Mary Ann Collett who was five. The birth of all three daughters was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour, Jane in 1850, Ellen (Ref. 6d 495) during in Quarter 1 in 1853 and Mary Ann in 1856. What happened to Lettie’s second daughter is not known since, by 1871, Lettie Collett had given up being a grocer in Chipping Campden and instead had retired to Broadway, where she was living with her younger married sister Mary and her husband John Neal. John Neal from Mickleton was 59, Mary Neal was 54 and Lettice Collett was 59, the sisters confirming their place of birth as Willersey.								#2
	11O23		Jane Collett			Born in 1850 at Chipping Campden			#2
	11O24		Ellen Collett			Born in 1853 at Chipping Campden			#2
	11O25		Mary Ann Collett			Born in 1856 at Chipping Campden			#2
11N9	Elizabeth Collett was born at Admington in 1806 according to later census records. However, within the Gloucestershire IGI there are two entries for the baptism of Elizabeth the daughter of Robert and Ann at Quinton parish church. The first took place on 11^th September 1810, and the second a year later on 11^th October 1811. In addition to those two entries, there is an unreliable pedigree on the internet that gives her date of baptism as 19^th September 1809. It seems very unlikely that Robert and Ann would have had two consecutive daughters named Elizabeth, unless the first had died while still an infant, particularly since a further Elizabeth was born into the family in 1823. From the similarity in the dates, it has therefore been assumed that the two IGI entries relate to the same child, the actual date not clearly written in the original parish register.								#2
	On 9^th November 1829, Elizabeth married John Gilkes by banns, John having been born at Great Rollright in Oxfordshire in 1803. Their wedding certificate carried the mark of her father Robert Collett. The marriage produced ten children for Elizabeth and John, all of whom were born at Great Rollright between 1831 and 1852. They were Thomas Gilkes (1831-before 1844), John Gilkes (1833-1919), Henry Gilkes (see below), George Gilkes (1837-1910), Mary Gilkes (1840-1900), Catherine Gilkes (1842-1932) who may also have been known as Teresa, Thomas Gilkes (1844-1895), Joseph Gilkes (1847-1869), Ann Gilkes (see below), and Martin Gilkes (1852-1932).								#5
	Elizabeth and John spent the whole of their married life together at Rollright, where John Gilkes died between January and March in 1881. By the time of that year’s census, Elizabeth was described as a widow aged 75 and born at Admington. The only member of her family still living with her at Great Rollright was her daughter Teresa (Catherine) who was a spinster at 38. Curiously, there was a visitor staying with Elizabeth and Teresa, and she was spinster Eliza Ann Holtom aged 33 and from Long Compton in Warwickshire. See earlier references to the Holtom name and its connection to the Collett family. There was no reference to Elizabeth in the 1891 Census, so it must be assumed that she had died sometime after the census of 1881.								#2
	During the summer of 2012, Pauline Every from Port Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, made contact with information regarding Henry Gilkes (1835-1917), her great great grandfather. Henry married Amanda Eden with whom he had a number of children, one of which was Rose Gilkes who was born at Great Rollright in 1866. She later married printer’s compositor Sidney Court from Mile End in London with whom she had at least three sons who were all born in London. They were Stanley Court (born in 1897), Frank Court (born in 1904), and Eric Court (born in 1906). Following the premature death of her husband, Rose took the family to live in Newport, South Wales, where they were recorded in 1911. It was Frank Court, the grandfather of Pauline Every, who was married at Newport in 1924, who emigrated to Australia in 1927 two years after his unmarried younger brother Eric had moved there in 1925. Frank’s daughter, Pauline’s mother, was born in Wales and travelled to Australia with her mother to be reunited with her father in 1929.								#13
	11O26		Ann Winifred Gilkes				Born in 1849 at Great Rollright		#2
11N10	Thomas Collett was born at Admington in 1812 and was baptised at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton on 25^th October 1812, the tenth child of blacksmith Robert Collett and his wife Ann Hughes. While the IGI gives the father’s name as William Collett, Thomas was living with Robert and Ann Collett in 1841. He later married Elizabeth who was born at Great Wolford near Moreton-in-Marsh in 1808, although the date does not coincide with her age in the census returns, when she may have said she was younger than her actual age. It would also appear that the marriage may have taken place during the early half of the 1840s, when both Thomas and Elizabeth were into their thirties, particularly since their only known child was born around 1846.								#2
	At the time of the Admington census in 1851, Thomas Collett was 37 and his occupation was that of a blacksmith. Living in the village with him was his wife Elizabeth from Woolford who was also 37 (sic), and their son Josiah who was four years old and born at Admington. In the same census return, and listed next to the Collett family entry, was that of county magistrate Corbett H Corbett of Admington Hall, whose kitchen maid was Elizabeth Collett aged 19 and from Ilmington – see Appendix for more details.								#2
	Ten years later, in 1861, the Collett family was still living at Admington within the parish of Quinton, by which time Thomas was 47, Elizabeth was 47 (sic), and their son Josiah Collett was 14. It was the same situation again in 1871, except that William and Elizabeth were then both 57 and Josiah was 24. It was during the following decade that Thomas Collett died, leaving his widow Elizabeth and his son Josiah still living in Admington in 1881. According to the census that year, Elizabeth Collett of Great Wolford, near Moreton-in-Marsh, was a widow and a grazier at the age of 57. Living with her at Upper Admington was her unmarried son Josiah Collett whose occupation was that of a blacksmith, like his father before him. He was 34 years old and his place of birth was confirmed as Admington.								#2
	11O27		Josiah Collett				Born in 1846 at Admington		#2
11N11	GEORGE COLLETT was born at Admington and baptised on 9^th April 1817 at nearby Quinton. He later married Maria Jennings at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton on 20^th November 1843. Maria, who was recorded as of Snowshill, was born in 1821 at Snowshill near Broadway, and was the daughter of Thomas Jennings an agricultural labourer who was also born at Snowshill in 1798. George’s and Maria’s first four children were born at Admington, but baptised at Quinton, following which the family appears to have moved the five miles south to Chipping Campden, where their next four children were born. Her absence from all of the census records may indicate that the couple’s eldest daughter suffered an infant death.								#2
	The move took place around 1850, since by March 1851 the family was living at Back Ends in Chipping Campden. Back End still exists as a road today, although the area and the old property there has since been the subject of redevelopment. The census that year recorded George Collett from Admington as a blacksmith at the age of 33, while his wife Maria was 27. Ten years later in 1861 the family was still living in Chipping Campden, but had moved from Back Ends to Cow Fair. Cow Fair is now known as Upper High Street and the terrace cottage ‘The Old Bakehouse’ is reputed to be the former home of the Collett family.								#1
	At that time in April 1861, George gave his age as 40, rather than 43, Maria was 38, and their children still living with them were Robert Collett 12, Walter Collett who was nine, Mark Collett who was six, George Collett who was three, and Charles Collett who was one year old. By that time George’s eldest son John had already left the family home and was living and working in the Rugby area at the age of 16. It would appear that sometime after 1861 another family move took place and, on that occasion, it was just two miles north to Mickleton where the couple’s last two children were baptised. It may be of interest that the two children gave their place of birth as Admington within later census records.								#2
	Also within the next ten years some of the older children had left the family home, so by 1871 the family living at The Butts in Mickleton was reduced to just George, who was 53, Maria who was 47, Walter 19, George 13, Charles 11, and the couple’s two youngest children Sarah, who was seven, and Thomas who was under one year old. Sometime during the next ten years George and Maria moved even further north, that time to Staffordshire, to where their sons Walter and Mark had also moved sometime earlier.								#2
	According to the Census of 1881, George aged 64, was an inn keeper and blacksmith from Admington ‘in Gloucestershire’. He was ‘head of the house’ at The Swan Inn on Small Lane in Eccleshall which lies eight miles north-west of Stafford. Living with him was his wife Lydia aged 60, their daughter Sarah who was 17 and their son Thomas who was 11, all three described as having been born at Admington. Was the reference to George’s wife as Lydia just a transcribing error? A thorough search of the 1881 Census has revealed no Maria of the right age who was born in Gloucestershire. Furthermore, there is no appropriate Lydia Collett in any of the other census records.								#2
	Ten years later, at the time of the next census in 1891, George had retired and was by that time residing alone at Cornwallis Street in Stoke-on-Trent. George Collett from Admington was a widower of 74 who was described as a retired blacksmith. It was at 8 Cornwallis Street that his son Henry George Collett had been living up to 1889. George’s wife Maria had already passed away earlier that same year in 1891 when the couple had been living at Wolstanton near Newcastle-under-Lyme. It was five years later that George Collett died at Stoke-on-Trent during 1896.								#2 #1
	11O28		John Collett		Born in 1844 at Admington				#2
	11O29		Jane Collett		Born in 1845 at Admington				#1
	11O30		Louisa Collett		Born in 1847 at Admington				#2
	11O31		Robert Collett		Born in 1849 at Admington				#1
	11O32		Walter Collett		Born on1851 at Chipping Campden				#2
	11O33		Mark Collett		Born in 1854 at Chipping Campden				#2
	11O34		HENRY GEORGE COLLETT		Born in 1857 at Chipping Campden				#2
	11O35		Charles Collett		Born in 1859 at Chipping Campden				#2
	11O36		Sarah Ann Collett		Born in 1863 at Mickleton				#2
	11O37		Thomas Collett		Born in 1869 at Mickleton				#2
11N12	William Joshua Collett was born at Admington in 1819 and was baptised at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton on 28^th November 1819. By 1851, William had married Caroline Downes who was born in 1827 at Pebworth less than five miles from Admington. The married of William and Caroline, which was registered at Evesham during the first quarter of 1848, very likely took place at nearby Pebworth.								#2 #3 #9
	The 1851 Census confirmed that William aged 29, and Caroline aged 25, were living in the Evesham, Broadway and Weston Subedge registration district. Shortly after the census day they settled in Admington where their ten children were born, although they were all baptised at the parish church of St Swithun’s in nearby Quinton. In 1855 William was working as a groom, as stated at the baptism of his son Jabez. Five years later the family at Admington comprised William aged 41, Caroline of Pebworth aged 35, and their first five children Alfred Collett who was eight, Louisa J Collett who was seven, Jabeth (Jabez) who was five, Hannah Collett who was three, and ‘Zilla’ Collett who was two years old.								#2
	A further five children were born into the family over the following decade, although by 1871 the four oldest children had left the family home which, by then was living at Ilmington Road in Admington. William Collett aged 50 from Admington, was an agricultural labourer William, his wife Caroline from Pebworth was 44, and with them were ‘Zilla’ Collett who was 12, Selina who was nine, Richard who was eight, John who was five, and Josiah who was three years old. All of the children had been born at Admington, although no trace has so far been found of daughter Edwina who may have died while still a child. Son Jabey (Jabez) Collett who was 15 and his sister Hannah Collett who was 13, were both living and working separately within the same registration district not far from their parents and the rest of their family.								#2
	Just over seven years later William died at Admington on 18^th December 1878. By the time of the 1881 Census, Caroline Collett aged 55, was listed as a widow and was head of the household. Living with her at Lower Admington were her three youngest sons Richard Collett, who was 18 and an apprentice blacksmith following in the family tradition, and farm labourers John Collett who was 15, and Josiah Collett who was 13, all three boys having been born at Admington. Also living with the family at that time was Caroline’s five years old granddaughter Lucy Hannah Collett (Ref. 11P77) who was also born at Admington and was the base-born daughter of Caroline’s eldest daughter Louisa Jane.								#3 #2
	According to the next census in 1891, widow Caroline Collett aged 64 and from Pebworth, was living at Admington, where she was described as living on her own children. Still living with her was her granddaughter Lucy Collett who was 15. Living in the two adjacent properties were Daniel and Sarah Collett (Ref. 11O12), and his cousin George Collett (Ref. 11O6) and his wife Emma Collett nee Rogers.								#2
	Ten years later in 1901 Caroline was 74 and still had her granddaughter Lucy living with her. On that occasion they were no longer living at Admington, but had moved to nearby Ilmington. Lucy H Collett of Admington was 25 and was working as a charwoman. Also living with Caroline and Lucy were two children, Mabel Collett who was five and of Admington, and William Collett who was two years old and of Ilmington, who were the base-born offspring of unmarried Lucy H Collett. A few years later in 1904 Lucy was married and left her grandmother’s home. Sadly, within a year, Caroline Collett nee Downes died at the age of 78 and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin at Ilmington on 11^th February 1905.								#2 #3
	11O38		Alfred Collett				Born in 1852 at Admington		#2
	11O39		Louisa Jane Collett				Born in 1854 at Admington		#2
	11O40		Jabez Collett				Born in 1855 at Admington		#2
	11O41		Hannah Collett				Born in 1857 at Admington		#2
	11O42		Zillah Collett				Born in 1859 at Admington		#2
	11O43		Selena Collett				Born in 1861 at Admington		#2
	11O44		Richard Collett				Born in 1863 at Admington		#2
	11O45		Edwina Collett				Born in 1864 at Admington		#2
	11O46		Christopher John Collett				Born in 1865 at Admington		#2
	11O47		Josiah Collett				Born in 1867 at Admington		#1
11N13	Maria Collett was born at Admington, but was baptised at the parish church of St Swithun’s in Quinton on 30^th December 1821, the daughter of Robert Collett and Ann Hughes. although the IGI incorrectly gave her father’s name as Richard. However, at the time of her marriage to John Such at St Swithun’s Church on 17^th April 1843, she was confirmed as the daughter of Robert Collett. The marriage produced four children for Maria and John, and they were George Such born later on in 1843, Hannah Such born in 1845, Robert Such born in 1847, and Sarah Ann Such born in 1850.								#2 #9
	Maria Such nee Collett died during the same quarter of 1850, most likely during the birth of her daughter Sarah. It is interesting to note that after Maria's death, John Such married again, on that occasion to Lucy Hughes. Lucy Hughes was the mother of Ann Hughes, Ann being her illegitimate daughter, who later married Josiah Collett (Ref. 11O27). After Josiah died, Ann then married William Collett (Ref. 11O9), following the death of his first wife Rose Ann Hall. Ann Collett nee Hughes is curiously named as Ann Such within an old family tree held by the family.								#9
11N14	Sarah Collett was born at Admington and may have been a twin sister to Elizabeth Collett, since both of them were baptised at Quinton one week apart. Sarah was baptised first on 12^th October 1823, while Elizabeth was baptised on 19^th October 1823, both confirmed as the daughters of Robert Collett and Ann Hughes.								#2
	Sarah gave birth to a base-born daughter in 1845, and when the child was baptised at Quinton parish church the following year, it was just the name of Sarah Collett that was entered in the parish records as being the child’s mother. Sometime thereafter, and before the next census in 1851, Sarah Collett married William Mason who then appears to have adopted the child. The Admington census of 1851 confirmed that Sarah Mason was 26, as was her husband William, who was working as an agricultural labourer. Living with the couple were two children, Ann Collett Mason, who was six years old, and Leah Mason, who was only three months old, perhaps suggesting that Sarah had only married William within the previous twelve months. Also living at Admington, and just two dwellings away from the Mason family, was George Collett and his wife Emma Rogers.								#2
	11O48	Ann Collett (later Ann Collett Mason)			Baptised on 14.06.1846 at Quinton				#2
11N17	Mary Collett was born at Welford-on-Avon around 1803 and it was there that she married William Gibbs on 24^th January 1825.								#2
11O1	Robert Collett was born at Admington in 1819 and was baptised at Quinton on 2^nd November 1819, the eldest child of Richard Collett and his wife Hannah Fletcher. As an adult, his rounded age in the 1841 Census was stated as being 20, rather than 21, in which he was recorded as living with his family at Admington Farm Fields within the parish of Quinton. It is possible, although not proved, that this Robert Collett died in 1849, when his death was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour. That would then account for his absence from the 1851 census and all later census returns. His brother Richard (below) was living within the Shipston registration district in 1851.								#2 #9
11O2	Martha Collett was born at Admington in 1820 and was baptised at Quinton on 29^th October 1820, the eldest daughter of Richard and Hannah Collett. Like her brother Robert (above), her rounded age in the census of 1841 was recorded as 20, and at that time she had already left the family home in Admington, but was living not that far away within the Quinton area.								#2
11O3	Richard Collett was born at Admington in 1821 and was baptised at Quinton on 20^th January 1822, the son of farm worker Richard Collett and his wife Hannah Fletcher. In 1841 he was living at the family home at Admington Farm Fields when his rounded age was stated as being 15, rather than his actual age of 19.								#2
	By 1851, according to the census that year, Richard Collett was 28 and was still unmarried and was still living at the family home with his parents Richard and Hannah, his sister Ann and his brother William (both below). It was later that same year that Richard emigrated to America, sailing out of Liverpool on board the ship ‘John & Lucy’ and arriving in New York on 17^th November 1851. He was a farm worker and work in England was becoming scarcer due to the gradual introduction of farm machinery. So perhaps it was the opportunity to purchase his own land which attracted him to America, something he would not have been able to achieve had he stayed in England.								#9
	From New York Richard very likely travelled up the Hudson River to Albany and from there via the Erie Canal, completed in 1825, to Macedon on the canal side only a few miles from Farmington. On reaching Macedon he would have put up in a local inn or lodging house, after which he soon acquired some land at Farmington in Ontario County, New York State, which he had to clear himself and on which he built a log cabin. Some years later he replaced the log cabin with a grander residence, which was still there in 2012.								#9
	It was during 1854, three years after arriving in America, that he married Sarah Randall who, at 18, was considerably younger than Richard who was 33, having been born at Great Wolford in Warwickshire, England in 1836, the daughter of Edward and Jane Randall. Sarah Randall had also sailed to America with her family in a party of twenty-five in 1851 on board the ship ‘Gondar’ which sailed into New York on 29^th October, three weeks before Richard. Tragically, her father died during the sea voyage.								#9
	At the earlier time of the Great Britain census in 1851 Sarah Randall aged 14, was living with her family at Great. Wolford. Her father Edward was 60, her mother Jane was 58, and her three siblings were William 23, and Ann who was 12. Also living with the family was grandson George Randall who was four years old. By that time Sarah’s three older brothers John, George and Thomas had already emigrated to America three years earlier and had settled in Farmington during 1848.								#9 #2
	The US Census of 1870 simply placed the family in New York State under the name of Collet which, at that time comprised Richard Collet from England, who was 48, his wife Sarah, also from England, who was 34, and their four children, who were Alfred Collet aged 14, Mary J Collet aged 13, Hiram Collet who was six, and Lettie Collet who was four.								#2
	In a letter dated 4^th February 1872 Richard informed his father that he had just purchased another 35 acres of land, adjoining his existing plot, making a total holding of 69 acres. He added that his sister Eliza must be thinking he doesn’t mean to send her money (perhaps he had borrowed some from her) but he writes that he would have done, had he not bought the land, and that she should be sure to have it soon. He then went on to say he had two horses, four cows, and a yearling, and that he uses the horses to plough and can plough two acres in a day. He also said he has a mowing machine and can easily cut ten acres of grass in a day or wheat. He also said that labour costs were very high, and that they have to pay twenty shillings a day in harvest time and a man can earn 40 pounds in English money in a year.								#9
	A map dated 1874, shows the extent of the farm of Richard Collett at Farmington as Lot 52, alongside which runs Collett Road, which is still there to this day. That same year Richard sent another letter to his father in England in which he said he had five cows, three horses, and twenty acres of wheat, but that they had had twelve inches of snow on 26^th April. By May the weather was good and he had put in five acres of barley, sixteen acres of oats, one acre of potatoes, and eleven acres of Indian corn.								#9
	During their life together, Sarah presented Richard with five children, as was validated by the Farmington census of 1875 when once again the family surname was recorded with a single t. Richard Collet was 52, Sarah Collet was 39, Alfred Collet was 19, Hiram Collet was 11, Lettie Collet was nine, and the family’s latest addition was named as Sydnia L Collet who was not yet one year old. Their daughter Mary had already left the family home by then, and was married later that same year.								#2
	Five years later the family was living at Farmington in Ontario County, New York State, which lies south-east of Rochester on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, and 100km west of Syracuse. According to the census return for 1880 Richard Collett was aged 58 and a married man from England, whose occupation was that of a farmer. Rather strangely his wife Sarah Collett aged 44 and also married and from England, not described as his wife, but was simply listed as ‘other’.								#9
	That was also the description given to the couple’s eldest child, Alfred Collett, who was 24 and a married farm labourer, although there was no reference to his wife. The other members of the household were Hiram Collett aged 16 and a farm labourer, Lettie Collett who was 13, and Sidney Collett who was five years old, and all of the children were confirmed as born in New York State.								#9
	Sadly, during 1890, the Buffalo to Geneva Railroad cut through his land and around that time the railroad company paid a John Young of Farmington $1,000 to secure a right of way for the route, and in that way perhaps Richard received some compensation for the loss of his land. That was relayed to his family back in England via a letter sent by Richard’s daughter Mary Jane, in which she also mentioned her younger brothers Hiram and Sidney as earning 5 dollars a day, which was apparently good pay.								#9
	Unfortunately the census of 1890 has not survived, so the next record of the family at Farmington was in 1900 where they were listed as Richard, Sarah, Fred, Hiram, Lettie and Sidney, the missing child again being the couple’s married daughter Mary Jane. It was just three years after that when Richard Collett died and was buried at South Farmington Cemetery on Shortsville Road in 1903. Seven years later he was reunited with his wife, when Sarah died in 1910 and was buried there with him. A single headstone marks the combined grave of Richard and Sarah, which carries the following inscription “Richard Collett 1821 – 1903, Sarah Randall his wife 1837 – 1910”.								#9
	In the same cemetery are the graves of Richard’s and Sarah’s son Hiram and his wife Cora, who were buried there in the 1920s. Also a single commemorative stone for Lloyd L Collett junior and his wife Donna J Goff who are still alive in 2010. The inscription on the stone indicates that the couple were married on 25^th March 1955 and that they were born on 20^th November 1936, and 5^th March 1936 respectively. Lloyd L Collett senior was the youngest son of Richard’s and Sarah’s son Sidney Collett and his wife Harriet, with the aforementioned Lloyd L Collett junior being their great grandson (Ref. 11R3).								#2
	11P1		Alfred Collett				Born in 1856 at Farmington		#9
	11P2		Mary Jane Collett				Born in 1858 at Farmington		#9
	11P3		Hiram K Collett				Born in 1863 at Farmington		#9
	11P4		Lettie Collett				Born in 1866 at Farmington		#9
	11P5		Sidney L Collett				Born in 1874 at Farmington		#9
11O4	John Collett was baptised at Quinton on 25^th April 1824 but was not listed as living with his family at Admington Farm Fields in June 1841. He would have been 16 years of age on that occasion and, since all of his three older siblings were still alive and recorded in the census that year, it may be safe to assume that John had died prior to 1841.								#2
11O5	Eliza Collett was born at Admington in 1826 and baptised at Quinton on 19^th November 1826, the daughter of Richard Collett and Hannah Fletcher. By the time of the census in 1841, when she was 14 years old, she had already left the family home at Admington Farm Fields, and had entered into the world of domestic service. On that particular occasion she was a servant at the home of Robert Fletcher, a carpenter, his wife and their four children in Preston-on-Stour. As Eliza’s mother’s maiden-name was also Fletcher, coupled with the fact she was born at Preston, it is very likely that Robert Fletcher may well have been an uncle to Eliza to some other relative.								#2 #9
	In 1851, Eliza Collett aged 26, was employed as the housekeeper for Thomas Slatter aged 30, and an unmarried solicitor living in the Old Stratford area of Stratford-on-Avon. Also working at the same house was Eliza’s younger sister Elizabeth who was 17 and employed there as a housemaid. A third servant at the house was a groom. It was on 4^th April in 1852 that Eliza married her employer Thomas Slatter, the marriage taking place at the parish church in the St Marylebone in London.								#9 #9
	Eliza and Thomas were married after notice of banns, when the bride’s father was named as Richard Collett, whose occupation was that of a land bailiff. The couple’s addresses were simply recorded as St Marylebone, while the witnesses were Thomas Snape and Mary Nelson. With Thomas Slatter being a solicitor, it seems highly likely that Thomas Snape was the attorney Thomas Snape from Warwickshire who was slightly older than Thomas Slatter. Why the couple travelled to London to be married remains a mystery, but it may have been something to do with the stigma attached to a solicitor marrying his housekeeper. However, after they were married the couple returned to Old Stratford, where they continued to live for the next two decades.								#9
	Over the remainder of the 1850s Eliza presented Thomas with three children, so by the time of the census in 1861 the family living at 7 Warwick Road in Old Stratford comprised Thomas Slatter 40, Eliza Slatter 34, John Slatter who was six, Katherine A Slatter who was five, and Florence S Slatter who was two years old. Also living at the house, as a domestic servant to the family, was Eliza’s unmarried sister Ann Collett (below) who was 27, plus a male servant Thomas Burman, who later married Ann Collett.								#9 #9
	On the occasion of the next census in 1871 the Slatter family was still at the same address, but by that time no member of the Collett family was in service with them, although they still employed three servants in a cook, a housemaid, and a groom. Sometime before 1881 the family left Old Stratford and by the time of the census that year they were living at Evesham Road in Salford Priors, midway between Stratford-on-Avon and Evesham. However, still living in their house at 7 Warwick Road in Old Stratford was their son John with his wife Mary, and their young daughter Marianne Katherine Slatter. John aged 26, was a solicitor employing a cook and a housemaid. It was the same situation ten years later in 1891, and again in 1901, when John and Marianne were still living at 7 Warwick Road in Old Stratford with two servants.								#9 #9
	While Eliza and Thomas were still living at 7 Warwick Road, Eliza received a letter from her brother Richard Collett at Farmington in America. The letter dated 4^th February 1872 referred to the loan of some money which had been used to purchase some land. It may have been two years after that, when their son John was married, that the couple left Stratford and moved to Salford Priors.								#9
	According to the census in 1881 Thomas Slatter aged 60, was a solicitor who had been born at Salford Priors. His wife Eliza Slatter was 56 and from Admington, and their two unmarried daughters were Katherine Ann Slatter aged 25, and Florence Sarah Slatter who was 22, both of them born at Stratford-on-Avon. The family was still supported by three servants, a cook, a housemaid, and a groom.								#2
	It was just over three years later that Eliza Slatter nee Collett aged 57, died at Salford Priors during the June quarter of 1884, and was followed shortly after by her husband Thomas, who died there on 1^st September 1884, at the age of 64. According to his obituary he was very well thought of and was also generous with money, especially to the church. He was obviously a very successful lawyer as his probate record shows that he left a sum of £20,002 16 Shillings and 2 Pence.								#9 #9
	Thomas Slatter, who at the time of his passing was referred to as Thomas Slatter of Salford Priors, was born there on 1^st July 1820. He was very likely the son of farmer John Slatter and Elizabeth Brands who were married at Honington, near Shipston-on-Stour, on 3^rd November 1814, where Elizabeth was born. In 1851 widower John Slatter aged 61, was farming 200 acres of land at Salford Priors, midway between Alcester and Evesham, where he employed six men, two boys, and two labourers. In addition to his son Thomas, John also had an older son, Henry Brands Slatter, who was born in 1816, whose daughter Mary Hannah Maria Slatter, born in 1848, married her cousin John Slatter, who was born in 1854, the aforementioned son of Thomas Slatter above.								#9
11O6	George Collett was born at Admington on 4^th March 1829 and was baptised at Quinton on 19^th April 1829, the son of Richard and Hannah Collett. His age was recorded as 11 years at the time of the 1841 Census, when he was living with his family in Admington Farm Fields. Nine years later George married Emma Rogers at Quinton parish church on 17^th December 1850. Emma was born at Admington in 1824, and was baptised at Quinton on 27^th June 1824, the daughter of Richard and Martha Rogers. The witnesses at their wedding were George’s sister Ann Collett (below) and Jacob Cox.								#2
	Just over three months later, the census in 1851, recorded George aged 22, and his wife Emma aged 25, living at the Admington home of Emma’s widowed mother Martha Rogers. George was working as a groom, while Emma was pregnant with the couple’s first child which was born later that same year. All three occupants were noted as having been born at Admington. Living next door to Martha Rogers was her son Richard Rogers aged 38, who was a game keeper, with his family, and next to him was the family of William Mason aged 26, and his wife Sarah, also 26 and from Admington. Living with them was Sarah’s daughter Ann Collett Mason (Ref. 11O45) who was six years old and of Admington, and William’s and Sarah’s daughter Leah Mason who was three months old. Sarah was very likely Sarah Collett (Ref. 11N14). And living next door to them was the family of carpenter John Rogers aged 64, who was Martha Rogers’ brother-in-law.								#2
	During the following two years Emma presented George with their second son who was born at Admington and baptised at Quinton. However, it would appear that he did not survive, since no further record of him has been found to date. According to the census in 1861, George Collett of Admington was described as being 32, while he was working away from home, and was recorded as a coachman, employed by Corbett Holland Corbett, County Magistrate at his home at Arlington House in the East Ward of Cheltenham St Mary.								#2
	Six years earlier, in 1855, Corbett Holland Corbett, of Admington Hall (described as near Stratford-on-Avon), held the office of High Sheriff of Gloucestershire, and was therefore the principal law enforcer in the county. He was also listed in the Warwickshire Poll Book of 1865 as Corbett Holland Corbett of Ilmington and Compton Scorpion.								#2
	At that same time in 1861 when George Collett was working in Cheltenham, his wife Emma Collett aged 35 and a dressmaker, was living at Admington was their son John Collett who was 10 years old. Interestingly, a space had been provided on the census form above Emma’s name for her husband’s details, presumably because it was known that he was working away from the family home on that occasion. By 1871 son John had left home and George and Emma were living in the village of Western Subedge in Gloucestershire, where George was still a coachman. At that same time, John Collett aged 20, was living and working at Campden (Chipping Campden), and it was during the following years that he became a married man. By 1881 he was living in Lancashire.								#2
	However, in census of 1881, George Collett of Admington was recorded as being aged 57, a transcription error perhaps for 52, when his occupation was still that of a domestic coachman. Living with him at Cross Cottage in Blaisdon, within the Westbury-on-Severn area on the edge of the Forest of Dean, was his wife Emma Collett of Admington who was 55. By 1891 the couple were once again living at Admington where George was 62 and was still working as a domestic coachman, perhaps even for the Corbett family. His wife Emma was 66, and living next door to the couple was George’s cousin Daniel Collett (below) with his wife, and in the next dwelling was the widow Caroline Collett (Ref. 11N12) and her granddaughter Lucy Collett.								#2
	It was almost exactly three years later that George Collett died at Willcote Grounds on 4^th March 1894, his sixty-fifth birthday. Willcote Grounds is likely to have been in Admington, since it was at Admington Grounds in the village that his parents were living in 1851. Certainly it was at the parish church in Quinton that George was buried on 8^th March 1894 and where a headstone marks his grave. A memorial card found by Doreen North reads as follows: “In Loving Memory of George Collett who died at Willcote Grounds March 4^th 1894 on his birthday aged 65 years and was interred at Quinton Church March 8^th – Thy Will Be Done”. Following the death of her husband, his widow Emma left Admington and by March 1901 she was living at the Shipston-on-Stour Union Workhouse where she died during the following three months. Sadly, in the census of 1901, she was described as a pauper and a dressmaker from Admington, who was 75.								#9
	11P6		John Collett				Born in 1851 at Farmington		#2
	11P7		Richard Collett				Born in 1853 at Farmington		#2
11O7	Ann Collett was born at Admington in 1831 and was baptised at Quinton on 2^nd October 1831, the daughter of Richard and Hannah Collett. She was nine years old in June census of 1841, but on that occasion was not living with her family at Admington Farm Fields, but was staying at the Admington home of Ann Savage aged 70. However, she was back with her family at Farm Fields in Admington in 1851, when she was 19, but with no stated occupation. Just over three months prior to the census in 1851, Ann was one of the witnesses at the Quinton wedding of her brother George Collett (above) and Emma Rogers which took place in December 1850.								#2
	Following the marriage of her older sister Eliza Collett (above) to Thomas Slatter in 1853, Ann was employed as a servant at their home at 7 Warwick Road in Old Stratford at the time of the census in 1861, when unmarried Ann Collett was stated as being 27, rather than 29. Also working for Eliza and Thomas was bachelor Thomas Burman who was 24 and also a house servant like Ann. Their close working relationship, over the following six years, led to Ann Collett marrying Thomas Burman at Leamington Priors on 19^th December 1867. Thomas Henry Burman was born at Snitterfield, just north of Stratford-on-Avon, where he was baptised on 7^th May 1836, the son of Sarah Burman. However, in the census of 1851, Thomas Henry Burman aged 14 and from Snitterfield, was still living in that same village with Thomas aged 49, and Ann Burman who was 36, but at the home of his grandmother Mary Burman who was 70 years of age.								#9 #14
	Once they were married Thomas was offered a better job, when he accepted the post of a gentleman’s servant and, by the time of the census in 1871, the childless couple was living at Wolverton, near Snitterfield, where Thomas was 35, and Ann was 38. Over the years, Thomas had other jobs, and by 1881 he and Ann were living at 48 St. George's Road in Leamington Priors, today known as Leamington Spa, where Thomas was 45 and employed as a coachman, while Ann was 48.								#9
	Living with the couple, at that time, was unmarried Cecilia Mountford, who was 19 and a dressmaker from Harbury in Warwickshire. Cecilia was the daughter of Ann’s sister Elizabeth Collett (below) and her first husband William Mountford. By the time of the next census in 1891 they had moved on again. On that occasion they were living at Garden Terrace, Wellesbourne to the east of Stratford on Avon, where Thomas was an agricultural labourer at 54.								#9
	That was then the most stable period in their lives, since it was at Wellesbourne where they were still living in 1901, when Thomas was employed as a labourer on a farm. It was almost exactly four years later that Ann Burman nee Collett died at Wellesbourne during March 1905, at the age of 73, her death being recorded at Stratford-on-Avon. According to the following census in April 1911 Thomas Burman from Snitterfield was 74 when he was still living alone in Wellesbourne. It was there also that he died three years later during 1914, aged 78.								#9 #2 #9
	During their life together, their marriage produced at least two children, both of whom died in infancy. Sarah Burman was born and died during the last quarter of 1868, while Thirza Caroline Burman was born during the last quarter of 1876 and died during the first three months of the following year. It is therefore possible that they were other children born during the nine years between those two daughters.								#9
11O8	Elizabeth Collett was born at Admington in 1833 and was baptised at Quinton on 15^th September 1833, the daughter of Richard and Hannah Collett. She was seven years of age at the time of the census in 1841 when she was living with her family at Admington Farm Fields. Ten years later, at the age of 17, she was employed as a kitchen maid by bachelor and solicitor Thomas Slatter at his home in Old Stratford, where her older sister Eliza (above) was the housekeeper, the household also being supported by a groom.								#2 #9
	It has not been determined when exactly she left the employment of Thomas Slatter, but it may only have been just over two years after the census day in 1851, since it was during the second quarter of that year when her sister Eliza Collett married Thomas Slatter in London. Three and a half years later, during the last quarter of 1856, Elizabeth Collett was living in the Warwick area when she gave birth to a base-born son Frank Collett.								#2 #9
	Curiously, no record of Elizabeth Collett has been found in the next census of 1861 when she would have been 27. Instead, her son Frank Collett was four years old and described as a visitor at the Warwick home of elderly couple William Bromage aged 60, and his wife Elizabeth aged 70, and their son James Bromage who was 32.								#2
	It was during the third quarter of that same year, when Elizabeth Collett married William Mountford in Birmingham. He was a widower with a son, Thomas Mountford, following the 1857 death of his wife Mary Sheila Brown, whom he had married in 1846. According to the census six months earlier, William Mountford aged 37, was a widower and a carpenter, living at Mill Street in Harbury, with his son Thomas who was 10. Once they were married, Elizabeth and William appear to have continued to live at Mill Street, since it was there that Elizabeth Mountford was still living in 1871, although by that time she was a widow.								#9
	Sadly, for Elizabeth, her husband had died around the time of their ninth wedding anniversary in December 1870, at the age of 48. The census listed Elizabeth Mountford as a widow aged 32 and a milliner who had been born at Admington. Living with her were her two children; her base-born son Frank Collett (recorded as Frank Mountford) who was 14, and her daughter Cecilia Mountford who was seven years old. In addition to her own children, Elizabeth was also looking after a baby by the name of Edith Ann Gallaway. Living very close to Elizabeth in 1871, was Henry Verney who, had been widowed himself, following the death of wife Elizabeth Verney during the previous year, just like Elizabeth with her very recent loss. The census at that time listed Henry Verney aged 33, living at Farm Street in Harbury with his four children; Mary Verney who was 10, Caroline Verney who was eight, Jessie Verney who was seven, and Harry Verney who was five years old.								#9
	It is interesting that ten years earlier, the census in 1861 listed the family of Henry Verney as living in the West Ham and Plaistow area of London. Head of the household Henry Verney from Harbury was 23, his wife Elizabeth was 25, and their two children that day were Alice G Verney who was approaching two years of age, and Mary Sophia Verney who was only six months old. The information regarding the youngest of the two daughters will be more significant later on, at the time of the death of Henry Verney (see below).								#14
	It was therefore possibly inevitable that Elizabeth Mountford, nee Collett, formed a relationship with Henry Verney later that same year and, during the following year, the first of their two daughters was born. No marriage record for the couple has been found to date, but by 1881 their combined families were living together at Mill Street in Harbury, where Henry Verney of Harbury was 43 and a machinist. His ‘wife’ Elizabeth Verney from Admington was 45 (sic), and living with the couple was Henry’s son Harry Verney who was 15, and his and Elizabeth’s two daughters Amy Mountford Verney who was eight, and Lilley Verney, who was six, both of them having been born at Harbury.								#2
	Also, on the occasion of the census in 1881, Elizabeth’s eldest daughter Cecilia Mountford was living with Elizabeth’s married sister Ann Burman nee Collett (above) and her husband, coachman Thomas Burman, at 48 St Georges Road in Leamington Priors. Cecilia was described as being 19 and a dressmaker from Harbury, who was a visitor at their home. Seven years after that, Cecilia Mountford married Alfred Samuel Taylor at St Pancras in London during 1888. He was a travelling sorter for the Post Office, so very likely worked on the mail trains.								#2 #9
	No record of her son Frank has been located in 1881, although the next census in 1891 revealed that labourer Frank Collett aged 32 and an invalid, was living at Harbury with his mother. He was described as the son-in-law of Henry Verney who was the owner of a threshing machine at the age of 53. His wife Elizabeth Verney from Admington was 55, and the only other person living at the family home was Harry Verney who was curiously 23 and from Plaistow in Essex, rather than 25 and from Harbury. By 1891 Elizabeth’s daughter, Amy Verney was one of three domestic servants working at the home of retired Colonel Henry Pratt and his wife, at 36 Clarence Square in Leamington. The couple employed a cook and a parlour maid, while Amy was the housemaid.								#2 #9
	In March 1901, Henry Verney and his wife Elizabeth were living at 28 Mill Street in Harbury. Henry, from Harbury, was 63, and was still described as the owner of a threshing machine, while his wife from Admington was 65. Still living at Harbury with them was Henry’s son Harry Verney from Plaistow who was 35 and a ‘labourer working for his father’, and Elizabeth’s son Frank Collett who was 40 (sic) and described as Henry’s step-son, and as having fits since childhood.								#2 #9
	Elizabeth Verney nee Collett died at Harbury during 1909 aged 74 so, by the time of the Harbury census of 1911, widower Henry Verney aged 73, was still living there, with just his son Harry Ernest Verney aged 45, for company. And by that time Amy Verney aged 28, was working at The Western Hospital in Fulham, London, where she was employed as a housemaid. Also living nearby in Harbury was another of his sons, widower Albert Edwin Verney of Harbury who was 48, who had living with him his three children, Victor Albert 19, Beatrice Maud Mary 17, and Doris Verney who was 10 years old. It was in 1922 that Henry Verney died at the age of 84.								#2
	Other members of the Collett family were living in Harbury around that time, but they were members of an apparent unconnected branch of the family from Murcott in Oxfordshire, as detailed in Part 46 – The Charlton-on-Otmoor (Oxon) Area Line. In addition to Elizabeth Mountford Verney Collett, the details of another Elizabeth Collett of Admington and Ilmington, whose origins have yet to be determined, can be found in the Appendix at the end of this file for completeness.								#2
	The birth of the aforementioned Mary Sophia Verney of Plaistow, the second child of Henry and Elizabeth Verney was recorded at West Ham (Ref. 4a 21) during the last three months of 1860. Tragically she was under ten years of age when her mother died and it was during 1891 that she married William Sumner at Chorley in Cheshire, when her father was confirmed as Henry Verney. Upon the death of Henry Verney at Hatton, just north of Warwick, in 1922, administration of his estate of £670 17 Shillings and 2 Pence was granted to Mary Sophia Sumner.								#14
	Jessie Elizabeth Verney, born around 1864 at Plaistow in East London and another daughter of Henry and Elizabeth, was married in 1885 to (1) Alfred Whitlock, the grandfather of David Whitlock of Coventry. Once married, the couple lived in Radford Senmele, where Jessie presented Alfred with six children. Previously, at the age of 16, Jessie had worked as a servant with Maria Blakemore at 2 Euston Place in Leamington Spa, David’s home town. Following the death of Jessie Whitlock in 1921, her husband married (2) Jane Allibone, who was about thirty years his junior.								#15
	11P8		Francis Collett				Born in 1856 Warwickshire		#2
11O9	William Collett, who was born at Admington in late 1835 and was baptised at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton on 7^th February 1836, the youngest son of Richard Collett and Hannah Fletcher. He was recorded as being five years old in the census of 1841 for the parish of Quinton, when he was living at Admington Farm Fields with his family.								#2
	Ten years later he was one of only three children still living there with his parents at the age of 14. It was just over eight years late that William, the son of Richard Collett, was working in Leamington where he married (1) Ann Hall at Leamington Prior (Leamington Spa) on 13^th June 1859. William was described as a labourer of Cross Street in Leamington, while his bride gave her address as Rosefield Street in the town. The witnesses at the wedding ceremony were William Hall, Ann’s brother, and Sarah Hall, his wife, while both they, and the bride and groom, signed the register in their own hand.								#2 #9
	Ann Hall was born at Little Wolford in 1838 and was the daughter of the late Edward Hall and Ann Pargeter. She was baptised at the church of St Mary the Virgin in Ilmington on 6^th November 1836. Following the death of her father, her brother William Hall had taken over the family carpentry business at Campden Road in Ilmington. It is therefore curious why Ann and William were not married at Ilmington.								#2 #9
	Once they were married the couple initially settled in Admington where their first child was born just nine months after they were married. By the time of the census in 1861 the family living at Admington comprised agricultural labourer William aged 25, his wife Ann who was 24, and their son Francis who was just one year old, having been baptised at Quinton not long after he was born.								#2
	Over the next ten years a further four children were added to the family, and the first of them was James who born after the family had moved to Atherstone midway between Tamworth and Nuneaton. However, a few years later and before the end of the 1860s, the family moved to the village of Mickleton where all of the remaining children were born, and where they were living at the time of the census in 1871.								#9
	Up until the move to Mickleton William’s occupation had been that of a carrier, transporting produce and passengers to Stratford-on-Avon and Evesham, but the move to Mickleton was the result of him appointed the landlord of The Milking Pail beer-house at 5 Sheep Street. In 1871 he and his family were confirmed as living there when, rather curiously, he gave his age as 31, rather than 36. Also, rather curiously, his wife was recorded in error as Rose A Collett of Ilmington said she was 30, and their three sons were Francis, who was 11, James who was seven, and baby Albert who was nine months old. Also living with the family was William’s widowed father, 73-years old Richard Collett.								#9 #2
	Two years later Ann presented William with their fourth child, their first daughter, and four years after that she discovered she was once again with-child, except she was expecting twins. On that occasion she gave birth to a fourth son, Edward, and a second daughter Agnes, both of whom were born at Mickleton, although sadly neither of them survived the ordeal.								#9
	According to the next census in 1881, William was still a publican and a carrier in Mickleton, where he was living with his wife Ann and their two youngest children. The census confirmed that William was 42 and from Admington, Ann was 41 and from Ilmington, and their children were Albert who was 10, and Florence who was seven, both of them born at Mickleton, and both attending the school in Mickleton. The household also included two visitors, Alfred W. Taplin aged 31 and a timber hauler from Campden, and his wife Ellen.								#2
	Although not specifically mentioned by name, the establishment where William was the landlord was the beer-house known as The Milking Pail, in Sheep Street, which today is Lawson Square in Mickleton. Within the family, the story is that William’s wife Ann insisted on serving each pint of beer with a piece of bread, which she thought would help to prevent the customers getting too drunk. Pictured here is the same property in 1900 and 2000.								#9
	The couple’s eldest son Francis had already left home by 1881 and was working as a footman in Devon, while son James was working as a groom in Worcestershire. The family continued to live in Mickleton until around 1887, when they moved to Admington. The move was confirmed by a school book belonging to daughter Florence, on the front of which was written “Florence Gertrude Ann Hall Collett, Admington Grounds, Quinton – 16^th April 1887”. However, just three years after that, tragedy struck the family when, on 1^st February 1890, William’s wife Ann passed away, following which she was buried in the churchyard in Quinton, where a headstone marks her grave. The cause of death was gout and influenza.								#2 #9
	One year later William married (2) Ann Collett on 24^th March 1891. She was the widow of Josiah Collett (Ref. 11O27), William’s cousin, and was formerly Ann Hughes. Ann was the illegitimate daughter of Lucy Hughes who married shoemaker John Such when Ann was around two years old, and from whence she was also known within the family, as Ann Such. In the census that year, William was 54 years of age and was living at Admington with new wife Ann, who was 42, and his daughter Florence G A H Collett who was 17. During the following year Ann presented William with their only child, son Thomas William Collett. This is a photograph of farmer William Collett around the end of the century, relaxing in a hammock on the farm, while smoking his pipe.								#9
	The birth of their son was registered during the second quarter of 1891, indicating that Ann Collett was well advanced in her pregnancy on the day of the census in early April 1891. Six years later in 1897 William Collett purchased four cottages in Admington, one being Cider Mill Cottage which was later bought by his son Fred in 1918. By the time of the next census in March 1901 the family still living at Admington was made up of William who was 64, his wife Ann who was 52 and their son Thomas W Collett who was nine years old. All three of them had been born at Admington and were residing in a property simply described as Farm House, from where William was a farmer with his own account.								#2 #12
	It was the same situation at Admington ten years later in April 1911, when William Collett, a retired farmer, was 76, his wife Ann Collett was 64, and their son Thomas Collett was 19. It was during the next year that William Collett died of heart failure on 10^th April 1912, at the age of 77, when the ownership of the four cottages at Admington passed to his widow Ann. The Will of William Collett was made ten years earlier during 1902 and was proved in Gloucester but not until 25^th June 1918. The Will confirmed that William was a farmer of Admington, and that his personal effects valued at £448 10 Shillings passed to his widow Ann. The document also included the name of his youngest son Thomas (William Thomas). It seems likely that Ann either died later that same year or sometime after 1918. It is also of interest that William’s third son bought the aforementioned Cider Mill Cottage at auction in Stratford-on-Avon on 1^st February 1918 for the sum of £430.								#2 #9 #12
	It is now known that the widow Ann Collett, the second wife of William Collett and the base-born daughter of Lucy Hughes, had a half-sister Jane Such who was born following the marriage of Lucy Hughes and John Such when Ann was two years old. When Jane Such was married some years later, she had a daughter Gertrude, and it was Gertrude who later married Thomas Henry Cockbill who was a sewage worker in 1911. So, when the death of widow Ann Collett was recorded at the Sewerage Works in Milcote, midway between Welford-on-Avon and Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, on 14^th March 1935, she was living with her half-sister’s daughter Gertrude Cockbill and her husband Thomas Henry Cockbill. That situation was confirmed at Gloucester when probate of the personal effects of Ann Collett, amounting to £377, was resolved on 27^th March 1935 in favour of Gertrude Cockbill, the wife of Thomas Henry Cockbill.								#9
	11P9		Francis Richard Edward Hall Collett					Born in 1860 at Admington	#2
	11P10		James Collett					Born in 1864 at Atherstone	#2
	11P11		Albert Frederick William Collett					Born in 1870 at Mickleton	#2
	11P12		Florence Gertrude Ann Hall Collett					Born in 1873 at Mickleton	#2
	11P13		Edward Shirley Collett twin					Born in 1877 at Mickleton	#9
	11P14		Agnes Beatrice Collett twin					Born in 1877 at Mickleton	#9
	The following is the only child of William Collett and his second wife Ann:
	11P15		William Thomas Collett					Born in 1891 at Admington	#9
11O10	Jane Collett was born at Admington in 1838 and was baptised at Quinton on 30^th December 1838, the youngest child of farm worker Richard Collett and his wife Hannah Fletcher. On the occasion of the first national census on the sixth of June in 1841, Jane Collett was living with her family at Admington Farm Fields when she was listed as being two years old. Sadly, it was four years later, that the death of Jane Collett was recorded during the last three months of 1845 when she was seven years of age.								#2 #9
11O11	Ann Collett was born at Welford-on-Avon and was baptised there on 15^th January 1822, the only known child of Robert Collett and his first wife Mary. Sometime after she was born her mother died and, when she was just ten years of age, her father married Mary Hughes in 1832. Ann’s rounded age in the 1841 Census was 20, when she was recorded as living in the Alcester & Stratford-on-Avon census registration district, but not with any member of her father’s new family.								#2
11O12	Daniel Collett, who was born at Admington in late 1832 and was baptised at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton on 19^th May 1833, the eldest children of agricultural labourer Robert Collett and his second wife Mary Hughes. He was eight years old in the June census of Admington in 1841 when he was one of four children still living with his parents at Admington, in the parish of Quinton, at that time. He was working as an agricultural labourer in 1851, when he was 17 and still living at Admington Lane with his family, as he was again in 1861 at the age of 28. It was two years later that the marriage of Daniel Collett and Sarah Ann Bayliss was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 537) during the first three months of 1863. Sarah Ann was born during 1836 at Aston Magna, just north of Moreton-in-Marsh, the daughter of George Bayliss and Fanny Hulls.								#2 #2 #14
	By the time of the Admington census of 1871, the marriage had produced two children for Daniel and Sarah. Daniel was 34 and an agricultural labourer, Sarah was 33 and their children were Jane Collett who was five and William Collett who was two years old. Both of the children had been born at Admington, as was the couple’s third child, but all of them were baptised at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton. Ten years later in 1881, Daniel Collett, an agricultural labourer from Admington, and his wife Sarah from Aston Magna, were both listed as 48, when they were living at Lower Admington. Living there with them were their sons William H Collett, who was 12 and who had already started work as an agricultural labourer with his father, and Dan Collett who was six years old, both boys confirmed as having been born at Admington. By that time in her life, the couple’s only daughter Ellen Jane Collett was working away from home and was in domestic service at a house in nearby Stratford-on-Avon at the age of 15.								#2
	In 1891 Daniel Collett, aged 57, was an agricultural labourer still living at Admington with his wife Sarah A Collett who was 55 years of age. Living in the adjacent dwellings on either side of their property were other members of the Collett family. On one side was Daniel’s older cousin George (Ref. 11O6) and his wife Emma Collett nee Rogers, while on the other side was Daniel’s aunt Caroline Collett (Ref. 11N12) and her granddaughter Lucy Collett. Eight years later, the death of Daniel Collett was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 434) during the first quarter og 1898.								#2
	His passing was confirmed by the census return in 1901 when, Sarah A Collett was described as a widow who had living with her in Admington her eldest son William H Collett and his family at their home in Admington. Curiously on that occasion Sarah was recorded as being 67 years old and from Admington, rather than 64 and from Aston Magna. During the next decade her son William took his family from Admington to live in nearby Stratford-on-Avon, where Sarah also joined them. According to the census in April 1911 Sarah Ann Collett, aged 73 and from Aston Magna, was living there with her son William Henry Collett, his wife Ellen Collett, and their four children.								#2
	11P16		Ella Jane Collett				Born in 1865 at Admington		#2
	11P17		William Henry Collett				Born in 1868 at Admington		#2
	11P18		Daniel Collett				Born in 1874 at Admington		#2
11O13	Rachel Collett was born at Admington in 1834 and was baptised at Quinton on 22^nd March 1835. She was six years of age in the 1841 census when she was living with her family, but by 1851, perhaps for reasons of overcrowding, sixteen-year-old Rachel was not living with them, but was living nearby. On that census day, Rachel Collett from Admington was a niece staying at the Chipping Campden home of her uncle John Collett and his family residing at the High Street. With no stated occupation, it is likely that Rachel was helping her aunt Lettie Collett with her one-year-old daughter Jane, who had been born at Chipping Campden. Ten years later she was unmarried at the age of 25 and, by then, had returned to the family home in Admington from where she was employed as a domestic cook. Although no record of her has been discovered in the census conducted in 1871, just four years afterwards, the body of unmarried Rachel Collett was buried at the parish church in Quinton on 5^th May 1875.								#2
11O14	Dinah Collett was born at Admington in 1836 and was baptised at Quinton on 22^nd January 1837. By June 1841 she was four years old and was living with her family in Admington, as she was ten years later when she was still attending the local school at the age of 13, when the family’s home was on Admington Lane. Six years later she married Thomas Tomlinson at Pebworth on 8^th April 1857. According to the census in 1871, Dinah was referred to as Diana Tomlinson, aged 33, when she was living with her husband Thomas Tomlinson, aged 34, at Pebworth with their four children, Joseph Tomlinson who was 11, William Tomlinson who was nine, Caleb Tomlinson who was six, and Jane Tomlinson who was four years old.								#2
	Ten years later Dinah and Thomas were both 44 and were still living at Pebworth, where Thomas was born and was working as an agricultural labourer at that time. Dinah was confirmed as having been born at Admington and all three of their children, Joseph 21, William 19 and Caleb 16, had been born at Pebworth and were also employed as agricultural labourers. The family’s address was simply ‘cottage’ Pebworth. Dinah’s daughter Jane was missing from the family home in 1881, by which time she was already working as a domestic servant at 3 Russell Terrace in Leamington at the home of the Thorburn family, when she was 14 years of age.								#2
	Jane Tomlinson was 26 when she married Lewis Clifton at St Mark’s Church in Birmingham on 16^th September 1893. Her father was confirmed as Thomas Tomlinson, while Lewis was described as being 24 and born at Mickleton, the son of William Clifton. Lewis was a dairy farm labourer at Chapel Lane in Kings Norton and his marriage to Jane produced three children with only one of them, surviving, Lewis Frederick Clifton.								#2
11O15	Sena Collett was born at Admington in 1839, her birth recorded as Sena at Shipton-on-Stour (Ref. xi 36) during the first three months of that year. She was the third daughter and fourth children of Robert Collett and his second wife Mary Hughes. When she was baptised at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton on 10^th February 1839 her name was recorded as Senah (sic), giving rise to the thought she may have been Sara or Sarah Collett. The later census returns also recorded her name in many different ways, adding to the uncertainty. At the age of two years, Siena (sic) Collett was living with her family at Admington within the parish of Quinton. However, ten years later, with the family still residing in Admington, the couple’s fourth child was recorded as Sena Collett, who was 11 years old. It was similar in 1861, when Seanah (sic) Collett was 21 and a single lady, having no occupation, still living with her family in Admington. Throwing the cat-among-the-pigeons, was the next Quinton census in 1871, which listing her as unmarried Sarah (sic) Collett aged 31, a labourer’s daughter, one of only five adult children again living with parents Robert and Mary Collett at Admington. Following the death of her father early in 1873 at Admington, widowed where Mary and her daughter Selina (sic) Collett, aged 40 and still with no job of work, were living at Admington in 1881. Just under four years later, the death of Sena Collett at Admington was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 151) during the first quarter of 1885, at the age of 45. It was also at St Withun’s Church in Quinton, where she was buried on 17^th January 1885. From those two records, together with the registration of her birth, it can safely be assumed that she was Sena Collett, misheard and incorrectly recorded by the various census enumerators over the years.								#2
11O16	John Collett was born at Admington in 1841, his birth recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. xi 15) during the third quarter of that year. He was nine years old in the Admington census of 1851, when he was listed with his parents Robert Collett and Mary Hughes and other members of his family at Admington Lane. Nearly ten years later, on Christmas Day, John Collett married Harriet Cook Waters on 25^th December 1860 at the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Ilmington, the event recorded at Shipston-on-Stour, when the groom’s father was confirmed as Robert Collett. Harriet was born on 25^th May 1840 in the hamlet of Honington, just north of Shipston-on-Stour, the daughter of Thomas Cook. Harriet was six months into the nine-month pregnancy for the couple’s first child who, it seems, was likely born at the home of Harriet’s parents in Ilmington. Although Harriet was born at Honington, it is possible her family settled in Ilmington when she was very young, as that where she said she born in all of the later census returns. The births of all of their children were recorded at Shipston-on-Stour, the majority having been born in Admington and baptised at the parish Church of St Swithun’s in nearby Quinton.								#2
	Three months after their wedding day, the young couple was recorded in the Ilmington census of 1861, with the first of their eight known children. John Collett from Admington was 19 and an agricultural labourer, his wife Harriet Collett from Ilmington was 20, and their daughter Mary Collett had only just been born. By the time of the census in 1871, the family had increased to five children. Ag-lab John Collett from Admington was 29 and Harriet was 30, when her place of birth was also recorded (in error) as Admington, instead of Ilmington. The children at that time were Mary A Collett from Admington who was 10, George Collett who was eight and from Shipston-on-Stour (sic), Emma Collett who was five, Kate Collett who was three, and William Collett who was still under one year old. Nine years later, the family suffered the loser of their eldest child, Mary being only 19 years of age when she died. According to the census undertaken in the following year, John Collett aged 40 and born at Admington, was an agricultural labourer. He was the head of the house at Lower Admington, where he was living with his wife Harriet, who was 41 and born at Ilmington, together with their eight surviving children.								#2
	The eight children living with the couple at Lower Admington were George Collett aged 18 and from Shipston-on-Stour, who was an agricultural labourer, Emma Collett who was 15, Kate Collett who was 13, William Collett (named as Tom) who was 11, John Collett who was eight, Mark Collett who was five, Eliza Collett who was three, and Annie Collett who was seven months old. With the exception of eldest son George, all the remaining children were described as having been born at Admington. Eighteen months after the census day in 1881, Harriet was expecting the birth of the couple’s last child, who was born towards the end of the following year.								#2
	The next census in 1891, recorded the family as John Collett who was 49 and a general labourer, with Harriet also listed with the same age as her husband. Living with them at Admington on that occasion were their sons Thomas Collett aged 21 and a general labourer, John Collett aged 18 and another general labourer, Mark Collett aged 15 and still at school, as was James Collett who was eight years old. On that same day, the couple’s two daughters were recorded as Eliza Collett who was 13, and Annie Collett who was 10, both of them scholars. By the time of the census in March 1901 John and Harriet were still living at Admington, where John of Admington was 58, and was employed as an ordinary agricultural labour, while his wife Harriet, from Ilmington was 59. By that time, all of their children were then living elsewhere.								#2
	Ten years later, John and Harriet were both listed in the Admington census of 1911 as being seventy years of age. Once again John’s place of birth was confirmed as Admington, when he was continuing to work as a labourer on a local farm. Harriet’s place of birth was confirmed as Ilmington. Just over six years after that day, the death of John Collett at Admington was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour register office (Ref. 6d 134) during the last three months of 1917, when he was 76 years of age. His widow left Admington after that sad event when, two years later, the death of Harriet Collett aged 79 was recorded at Stratford-on-Avon register office (Ref. ) during the fourth quarter of 1919.								#2
	11P19		Mary Ann Collett			Born in 1861 at Ilmington			#2
	11P20		George Collett			Born in 1863 at Admington			#2
	11P21		Emma Collett			Born in 1865 at Admington			#2
	11P22		Kate Collett			Born in 1867 at Admington			#2
	11P23		William (Tom) Collett			Born in 1870 at Admington			#2
	11P24		John Collett			Born in 1873 at Admington			#2
	11P25		Mark Collett			Born in 1875 at Admington			#2
	11P26		Eliza Collett			Born in 1877 at Admington			#2
	11P27		Annie Collett			Born in 1880 at Admington			#2
	11P28		James Collett			Born in 1882 at Admington			#2
11O17	Mark Collett was born at Admington in 1844, his birth recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. xi 421) during the first quarter of the year. He was seven years of age in the census of 1851, when he and his family were recorded at Admington Lane. At the time of the 1861 Census, he was 16 and ten years later in 1871 he was not married but was still living in Admington with his parents at the age of 26 when he was an agricultural labourer. It was on 2^nd May 1872 at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-on-Avon that Mark Collett married Mary Mason who was born in 1850 at Long Marston just three miles to the north-west of Admington. Mark was confirmed as the son of Robert Collett and Marys father was named as John Mason. Sometime after they were married Mark and Mary moved to Hatton to the west of the town of Warwick, where Mark took up employment as a cowman and where Mary was a dairy maid.								#2
	According to the 1881 Census Mark Collett was 37 and his wife Mary was 31 when they were living at Georges Farm in Hatton, not far from Leek Wootton where Mark’s brother Joseph (below) was living at that time. The marriage had not so far produced any children and the only person living with Mark and Mary was Mary’s younger brother Frederick Mason aged 14, who was working as a farm servant. After a further decade, the childless couple was residing at Ditchford Friary midway between Stretton-on-Fosse and Tidmington within the Shipston-on-Stour census registration district. On the census day in 1891 Mark Collett was 47 and a farmer and an inn keeper, when Mary was 42.								#2
	The 1901 Census placed Mark and Mary as living at Stretton-on-Fosse where Mark aged 56, was a farmer from Admington and Mary was 51. Ten years later in April 1911, Mark and Mary were still living at Stretton-on-Fosse where Mark of Admington was 67 and still a farmer, while Mary Collett from Long Marston was 61. It was ten years later that Mark Collett passed away at the age of 77, his death recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 708) during the third quarter of 1921.								#14
11O18	Martha Ann Collett was born at Admington in 1846, one half of a pair of twin sisters whose birth was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. xi 411) during the second quarter of the year. However, unlike her twin sister, Martha was never recorded with her large family, so very likely did not survive, although no record of her death or burial has been found to date.								#2
11O19	Ann Collett was born at Admington in 1846, her birth, like that of her twin sister Martha (above) recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. xi 411) during the second quarter of the year. She was five years of age at the time of the Admington census in 1851 when she was living there with her family on Admington Lane. In 1861 Ann Collett from Admington was 14 years old and a house servant at the Lower Quinton home of the Dutton family. Around nine years later she discovered she was with-child, the embarrassment of which resulted in Ann fleeing to Shipton Solers, near Cheltenham, where her daughter was born. Shortly thereafter, she and her baby returned to her parents’ home in Admington, with the birth of her daughter recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 621) during the first three months of 1871.								#2
	The Admington census that year revealed unmarried Ann Collett, aged 24 and a labourer’s daughter, together with her daughter Mary J Collett, who was only a few weeks old, were staying with Ann’s parents Robert and Mary Collett. It was later that same year that Mary Jane Collett was baptised at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton on 8^th October 1871, the baptism record confirming that she was the daughter of Ann Collett. It is possible that baby Mary may have been taken into the family of Ann’s married brother Joseph (below) in the Warwick area, since it the death of Mary Jane Collett was recorded at Warwick (Ref. 6d 348) during the second quarter of 1874.								#2
	11P29		Mary Jane Collett				Born in 1871 at Admington		#2
11O20	Joseph Collett was born at Admington in 1848, the ninth child of Robert Collett and Mary Hughes, whose birth was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. xi 369) during the last three months of the year. He and his family were living on Admington Lane in the village in 1851, when he was two years of age. It was the same situation in 1861 when he was 12 years old, except by then, he had left school and was already working as a labourer’s boy with his father and old brothers. Joseph Collett was again still living at the family home in Admington in 1871, by which time he was 22, unmarried and employed as an agricultural labourer. Amongst his siblings, living there with him that day, was Joseph’s older brother Mark and his older unmarried sister Ann with her base-born daughter Jane. It was just after that census day that the brothers Mark and Joseph Collett left the family home in Admington to travel north to eventually settle close to the county town of Warwick.								#2 #2 #2
	It was towards the end of the following year when the marriage of Joseph Collett and Ann Neal was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 1103) during the final quarter of 1872. The wedding ceremony took at Quinton parish church on 18^th November 1872, where the groom’s father was confirmed as Robert Collett, while the bride’s father was named as Thomas Neal. Ann Neal was born at Quinton, the eldest child of Thomas and Harriet Neal, with her birth recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. xi 380) during the third quarter of 1848. By the time she was 12 she was already working as a servant housemaid at the Upper Meon Hill, Quinton, home of John and Charlotte Smith. Ten years later, and shortly before she met her future husband, Ann was 22 and a domestic servant in Quinton, at the home of elderly couple William and Mary Fisher.								#14 #2
	It is of particular interest that the surname Neal had other links to this Collett family. In the Admington, Quinton census of 1841, Thomas Neal was living with Joseph’s parents, Thomas being around the same age as Joseph’s mother Mary. It is therefore highly likely that he was the father of Joseph’s wife. Furthermore, in the Broadway census of 1871, Joseph’s widowed aunt Lettice Collett from Willersey was named as the sister-in-law of John Neal through his wife Mary Neal, also of Willersey. Letticia Collett was previously married to John Collett (Ref. 11N6).								#2
	Joseph’s brother Mark was also married during the early 1870s, when he and his wife set up home in Hatton near Warwick, while Joseph and Ann made their home in Barford, midway between Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick, where the couple’s first two children were born. By 1876 the family had moved again, on that occasion to Leamington, where their third child was born. A couple of years later found the family living at Kenilworth where another child was born. By early 1881, around the time of the birth of their fifth child, the family were recorded at Leek Wootton where Joseph was the storekeeper and baker of the village Cooperative Stores. Leek Wootton is only a very short distance from Hatton, where Joseph’s brother Mark was still living at the start of the 1880s.								#2
	The birth of the couple’s fifth child took place in the days just before the census day in 1881 and, on the census return, was simply recorded as ‘infant Collett unnamed’ although it is known that the child was later named Mary. The full family was listed as Joseph who was 31, Ann who was 32 and described as a storekeeper’s wife, Ernest who was seven, Louisa J Collett who was six, George R Collett who was four and Joseph who was one year old. One more child was born at Leek Wootton before Joseph stopped managing the shop and moved to the village of Charlton to the west of Evesham, where the couple’s last two children were born. According to the next census in 1891 the family comprised Joseph 41 and an agricultural labourer, his wife Ann 42 and from Quinton, and seven of their children. They were Ernest aged 17, George H Collett aged 14 – both working as agricultural labourers, Joseph aged 12 and a plough boy, Mary aged 10, Florence who was six, Albert who was two and Geoffrey who was under one year old. The family was recorded as living at Yessell Lane, Hinton-on-the-Green, in the village of Charlton, within the parish of Cropthorne to the west of Evesham in Worcestershire								#2
	By 1901 Joseph, Ann and three of their children were still living on Yessell Lane (on The Green) in Charlton, where Joseph was confirmed as being 51 and a market gardener from Admington, while Ann from Upper Quinton was 52. The children were daughter Mary Collett aged 20 and born at Leek Wootton who had no occupation, and sons Albert Collett who was 12 and Geoffrey Collett who was 10, both born at Charlton. Just prior to that census day, the couple’s son Joseph became a married man and he and his wife were living close by in Charlton. It may be of interest to note that another Collett family was also working in the market garden business in 1901, but at Badsey also near Evesham. They were William Collett of Willersey, and his wife Charlotte Collett of Badsey, the details for whom can be found in the appendix to Part 57 – The Bakers of Abbots Morton in Worcestershire Line.								#2
	Six years after the census in March 1901, the death of Joseph Collett was recorded at Pershore register office (Ref. 6c 175) during the second quarter of 1907, which confirmed he was 58 and a market gardener and resident of Charlton. Upon his passing the family’s market gardening business was taken over by his two youngest sons, as confirmed by the next census in 1911. According to the census return that year, Ann Collett of Upper Quinton was 62 and a widow living at Yessell Lane in Charlton near Evesham. It also stated that she had given birth to nine children, eight of which were still alive in 1911. Four of them were unmarried and still living with Ann on that day and they were Ernest who was 37, Mary who was 30, Albert who was 22 and Geoffrey who was 20, it being Albert and Geoffrey who were described as market gardeners.								#2
	11P30		Ernest Collett				Born in 1873 at Barford		#2
	11P31		Louisa J Collett				Born in 1874 at Barford		#2
	11P32		George Robert Collett				Born in 1876 at Leamington		#2
	11P33		Joseph Collett				Born in 1879 at Kenilworth		#2
	11P34		Mary Collett				Born in 1881 at Leek Wootton		#2
	11P35		Florence Collett				Born in 1885 at Leek Wootton		#2
	11P36		Albert Collett				Born in 1888 at Charlton		#2
	11P37		Geoffrey Collett				Born in 1890 at Charlton		#2
11O21	Jane Collett was born at Admington in 1850, her birth recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. xi 386) during the fourth quarter of that year. She was under one year old in the census of 1851 when she was living at Admington Lane with her family, although no record of her has been found after that day.								#2
11O22	George Collett was born at Admington in 1853 and his birth was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 488) during the second quarter of the year. He was eight years old in the census of 1861 and ten years later George was still living with his parents in Admington and was listed as being 17 years old. By the time of the census of 1881, he was a carrier at the age of 27, when he was still living at the family home in Lower Admington with his widowed mother and older sister (Sena) Selina Collett (above).								#2
	Five years later, on 8^th February 1886, George Collett married Agnes Skey at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton. The parish register confirmed that they were both 31 and that Agnes’ father was James Skey, while George’s father was confirmed as Robert Collett. One of the witnesses to the signing of the register was George’s oldest brother Daniel Collett (above). The birth of Agnes Skey was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 25) during the last three months of 1854. No further record of George and Agnes after that time has so far been found.								#2 #3 #2
11O23	Jane Collett was born at Chipping Campden in 1850, the first of the three daughters of John Collett and his second wife Letticia (Lettie). Her birth was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. xi 599) during in the first three months of that year. She was one year old in the Chipping Campden census of 1851 when living on the High Street where her father managed a grocer’s shop. Tragically her father died in 1859, leaving Jane, aged 11, and her two younger sisters still living at the High Street in Chipping Campden where their mother was continuing to run the grocer’s shop but, from where her mother moved shortly thereafter.								#2
	None of the sisters were still living with their widowed mother in 1871 and, on that census day, Jane Collett from Chipping Campden was 21 and working as a domestic servant at the Chipping Campden home of the Hiran family. During the following years, both Jane and her sister Mary (below) moved to London, where they were recorded in the following census returns. By the time of the census in 1881, Jane was living and working in London. It was at 34 Parkhurst Road in Islington that Jane Collett from Chipping Campden was 31 and employed as a domestic servant at the home of draper’s assistant William S Rush. Two other people lodging with the Rush family were also from Chipping Campden and they were father and son Samuel J Oberon, aged 46, and Gilbert M Oberon who was 18.								#2
	Although no record of the birth has so far been discovered, it seems highly likely that unmarried Jane Collett gave birth to a son around 1875, whose whereabouts in 1881 have not been found. However, in 1891 mother and son were reunited and staying with Jane’s unmarried sister Mary Ann Collett, head of the household, at Clevedon Place within the London parish of St George Hanover Square. Jane Collett was 41 and described as the sister and assistant to the housekeeper-in-charge Mary Ann Collett. Jane’s son Frank Collett was 16 years of age and a locksmith’s apprentice who had been born in London and described as the nephew of Mary Ann Collett. A visitor at the home was Emily Wilkins who was 28 and from Kent.								#2
	11P38		Frank Collett – not confirmed				Born in 1874 at London		#2
11O25	Mary Ann Collett was also born at Chipping Campden, the youngest of the three daughters of John and Letticia Collett, her birth also recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 538) during the first quarter of 1856. She was five years old in the Chipping Campden census on 1861, by which time her father had died and Mary and her two older sisters were recorded at the grocer’s shop on the High Street, run by her widowed mother. After her mother moved to Broadway, Mary A Collett from Chipping Campden secured work at Handsworth in Birmingham where she was recorded in 1871 at the age of 15 as a domestic servant in a large boarding house run by elderly Caroline Thomas.								#2
	Eight years later, a certain Mary Ann Collett, who was 22 and the daughter of John Collett, married William Young at Bidford-on-Avon on 13^th October 1879, William being 24 and the son of William Young. Whether she was the son of John and Letticia Collett has not been confirmed and, in the following census returns, Mary Ann Collett from Chipping Campden said she was a single lady. In 1981, Mary A Collett was 25 and a housemaid living-in and working at Thrale Hall on Mitcham Road within the Streatham and Morden area of South London.								#2
	During the following years, Mary was joined by her older sister Jane (above) and by 1891, the older sister was working for the younger sibling at what may have been a grand house within the parish of St George Hanover Square. Mary A Collett was 35 and the head of the household at Clevedon Place, where she was working as ‘the housekeeper-in-charge’, a position in which she was being assisted by her sister. Also at the same dwelling was Mary’s nephew Frank Collett of London who was 16. Over the following decade, Mary stopped being a paid housekeeper instead, she became a shop-keeper, as confirmed by the contents of the census return in 1901. At that time in her life Mary A Collett from Chipping Campden was 45 and the shopkeeper of a general store on Northumberland Street in the St Marylebone area of London.								#2
11O26	Ann Winifred Gilkes was born at Great Rollright in 1849. She married Valentine Pinfold who was born at Enstone in 1846. During his life Valentine was a shepherd and a farm labourer, who was not listed with his wife at the time of the 1881 Census. According to the census return, Ann Pinfold was 31 was a visitor at the Spelsbury home of shepherd William Leech and his family. Accompanying Ann were two of her children, Joseph Pinfold who was four years old, and Mary Elizabeth Pinfold (see below) who was just eleven months old, both children having been born at Chipping Norton. Twenty years later, Ann aged 51 and from Great Rollright, and Valentine aged 54 and from Enstone, were living at Chipping Norton with their children including 20 years old Mary E Pinfold who was working as a domestic cook. Valentine Pinfold died during 1914.								#5 #2
	Mary Elizabeth Pinfold was born at Chipping Norton in May 1880. She was 11 months old on 3^rd April 1881 and twenty years later at the age of 20 she was still living with her parents at Chipping Norton where she was working as a domestic cook. She later married James Reader who was a bricklayer and builder. He was born at Ravensthorpe in Northamptonshire in 1878 and was the son of agricultural labourer James Reader and his wife Fanny, both of whom were born at Ravensthorpe. In March 1901, James Reader of Ravensthorpe was 22 and a bricklayer and was living in Rugby where other members of his family were also living at that time. Ten years later the couple were married and living in Coventry where James was 32 and Mary Elizabeth Reader of Chipping Norton was 30. In her later life Mary was employed as a dressmaker and at the time of the death of her husband in 1938 the couple was still living in Coventry. They are known to have had one child, while Mary outlived her husband by thirty years when she died in 1968.								#2 #5
11O27	Josiah Collett was born at Admington in 1846, the only known child of blacksmith Thomas Collett and his wife Elizabeth. With no church at Admington at that time, Josiah was baptised at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton on 21^st February 1847, the parish record confirming that his parents were Thomas and Elizabeth Collett. Like his father, and his grandfather before him, Josiah was also a blacksmith. Josiah was four years old in the Admington census of 1851, when he was living there with his parents. Over the following decades he was recorded as still living with his parents in Admington when, in 1861 he was 14, and was 24 in 1871. Shortly after 1871 his father died, at which point Josiah continued with the family business alone, as a blacksmith. He was still a bachelor at the time of the census in 1881, when he was 34 and was living at Upper Admington with his elderly widowed mother.								#2
	Just a few months later the marriage of Josiah Collett and Ann Hughes was recorded at Birmingham (Ref. 6d 79) during the third quarter of 1881, when the witnesses were Edward John Powell and Lizzie Richmond Scampton. Ann Hughes was the base-born daughter of Lucy Hughes who was born in 1848. Sadly, their marriage last just eight years, when Josiah Collett died during 1889, following which his widow Ann Collett married William Collett (Ref. 11O9), who was Josiah’s cousin. For the continuing story of the life of Ann Collett nee Hughes, go to Ref. 11O9.								#14 #2
11O28	John Collett was born at Admington in 1844 and was baptised at St Swithun’s parish church in Quinton on 5^th May 1844, the first child born to George Collett and Maria Jennings. Sometime after he was born his family left Admington, when they moved to Chipping Campden, where they were living in 1851. John was six years old at that time, when he and his family were living at Back Ends in Chipping Campden.								#1 #2
	During the next ten years John’s family left Back Ends, when they moved to a new address in Chipping Campden at Cow Fair. However, on leaving school he became a blacksmith and initially learned the trade with his father in the family business, before leaving Chipping Campden just prior to April 1861. By the time of the census that month, John Collett, aged 16, was no longer living at his parents’ home in Cow Fair; instead, he was living and working in the Rugby area of Warwickshire. It was after that when he moved northwards, again, and on that occasion the move took him into Staffordshire. And it was there that he met his future wife Elizabeth, who is now known to be Elizabeth Hammond.								#2
	The marriage of John Collett and Elizabeth was recorded at Stafford (Ref. 6b 1) and was conducted at Ellenhall in the Church of St Mary on 23^rd March 1869. The parish register confirmed that John Collett was the son of George Collett, while Elizabeth was the daughter of William Hammond, both being residents of Ellenhall. Elizabeth was born on 29^th August 1833 and was therefore around ten years older than John, a fact that was somewhat confused in the next two census returns, when both she and John gave conflicting ages and places of birth. Once married, the couple made their home in Ellenhall where their children were born and baptised, and where John and Elizabeth spent the rest of their lives together.								#2
	At the time of the Ellenhall census in 1871, John Collett from ‘Gloucester Campden’ was 26 and was working as a blacksmith, employing two boys, one of which was his younger brother Mark Collett. His wife Elizabeth was 30 and from Haughton, three miles south of Ellenhall. By then they had already started a family, because with them was the first of their five known children, Annie M Collett, who was one year old.								#8
	In addition to their daughter, John and Elizabeth had four other people living with them in 1871. The first two of them were Fanny Hammond, who was 10 years old from Ellenhall, and Elizabeth Hammond also from Ellenhall who was eight years old. The sisters were described as the nieces of John Collett, and were very likely the nieces of his wife. The other two residents, were Mark Collett aged 16 from ‘Gloucester Campden’ and Edward Tomlinson, also 16 but from Little Haywood in Staffordshire. Both boys were described as blacksmith’s apprentices.								#8
	Living almost adjacent to the Collett household was possibly Elizabeth’s parents, William and Mary Ann Hammond. William from Yarnfield in Staffordshire was 66 and an agricultural labourer, while his wife was 64 and from High Offley in Staffordshire, and they were more than likely the grandparents to the nieces Fanny and Elizabeth Hammond.								#8
	Over the remainder of that decade a further four children were added to the Collett family. So, by 1881 the family comprised John Collett aged 40 (sic) and a blacksmith from Admington, Elizabeth Collett aged 48 (sic) of Ranton, which is midway between Haughton and Ellenhall, and their children Annie M Collett 11, Rosa G Collett who was eight, John A Collett who was seven, Francis E Collett who was five, and Fanny E Collett who was two years old. Also living with the family was niece Elizabeth Hammond, aged 18 of Ellenhall, and the aforementioned Edward Tomlinson, who was 25, and a servant and a blacksmith from Gayton in Staffordshire, who was continuing to work for John Collett.								#2
	The Ellenhall census in 1891 again recorded the Collett family residing there, when blacksmith John Collett was 47, and his wife Elizabeth Collett was 57 (sic). The children still living there with them were their sons John H Collett who was 17, and Francis E Collett who was 15, together with their daughter Fanny E Collett who was 12. Also living with the family that day were Elizabeth’s father Charles Hammond who was 71, Edward Tomlinson who was 36, and Samuel Archer who was only six years old. All three of them were described as visitors.								#2
	Ten years later, in March 1901, John Collett was 57 and was described as a farmer and blacksmith whose place of birth was Chipping Campden, rather than at Admington. Similarly, Elizabeth who was 67 (sic) stated she was born at Long Compton, which is just one mile south of Ranton and one mile north of Haughton. Still living with them was their son Francis Collett, aged 25, who was a blacksmith like his father, and their unmarried daughter Elizabeth Collett who was 23. Their son John, who was 27 by then, had left the family home to be married, and was working as a general farm labourer at Kings Norton to the south of Birmingham.								#2
	Just less than five years later Elizabeth Collett nee Hammond passed away at Ellenhall on 30^th January 1906, following which she was buried there where a memorial headstone marks her grave. Subsequently in the next census of 1911, John Collett was 66 and a widower who was still living at Ellenhall with his daughter Elizabeth Collett who was acting as his housekeeper. John survived his wife by eight years and was 75 when he died at Ellenhall on 10^th March 1919. His name also appears on the memorial stone with that of his wife.								#14 #2 #14
	11P39		Annie Maria Collett					Born in 1870 at Ellenhall	#2
	11P40		Rosa Gertrude Collett					Born in 1872 at Ellenhall	#2
	11P41		John Harvey Collett					Born in 1874 at Ellenhall	#2
	11P42		Francis Edwin Collett					Born in 1875 at Ellenhall	#2
	11P43		Fanny Elizabeth Collett					Born in 1878 at Ellenhall	#2
11O29	Jane Collett was born at Admington and was baptised at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton on 5^th November 1845, the second child, and eldest daughter of George Collett and Maria Jennings. No further record of Jane living with her family has been found in any later census returns, so it may be correct to assume that she died prior to the census in 1851.								#1
11O30	Louisa Collett was born at Admington in 1846 and was later baptised at Quinton on 11^th July 1847. By the time of the census of 1851 Louisa and her family had moved to Chipping Campden and were living at Back Ends. Ten years later in 1861 she was the oldest child at fourteen still living with her parents at Chipping Campden. On that occasion the family was living at Cow Fair in the town. Five and a half years later she and her family had moved to Mickleton where Louisa married George Unitt on 10^th September 1866.								#2 #1
	George was a labourer born at Marston in 1840 and, in 1881, he and Louisa and their five children were living at 24 North Street in Ruston, Birmingham. The two oldest children, Annie L Unitt who was 11, and Lily J Unitt who was nine, had been born at Northfield in Worcestershire midway between Bromsgrove and Birmingham, while the other three children had been born in Birmingham. They were Fanny M Unitt who was seven, Ada Unitt who was five, and Clara R Unitt who was one year old.								#2
11O31	Robert Collett was born at Admington and was baptised at Quinton on 3^rd June 1849. Not long after he was born the family left Admington and moved south to Chipping Campden where in March 1851 they were living at Back Ends in the town. By the time of the census in 1861 Robert had already left school and, at the age of 12, was an apprenticed shoemaker, while he was still living with his family in Chipping Campden, although at that time they were living at Cow Fair in the town. During the next ten years Robert left the family home and in 1871, when he was 22, he was living in the Kings Norton & Edgbaston area of Birmingham.								#1
	Five years after that Robert Collett married Agnes Catherine Connolly in Manchester (Ref. 8d 491) during the final three months of 1876 with witnesses Philip Coploa, John Kilroy and Angelina Brown. Agnes had been born at Manchester in 1854. According to the census in 1881 Robt Collett from Admington was 32 and a cordwainer, Agnes C Collett from Manchester was 26, and their first known child was Joseph who was five months old. That day the family of three was living in a cottage adjacent to Gate House in the village of Ranton, to the west of Stafford, where young Joseph had been born. That accommodation may have been a very temporary home for the family since, by the time of the birth of the couple’s next two children, the family was residing in Birmingham and not long after that the family returned to Manchester where seven more children were added to the family.								#14 #14
	By 1891 the family was living at 63 Sanderson Street in Harpurhey, North Manchester, where Robert Collett from Admington was 40 and his occupation was that of a boot-maker. His wife Agnes Catherine Collett was 36, and by that time she had presented her husband with six children. George was eight-years-old, Frederick was five, Frank was four, and Leo was just nine months old. Curiously the three missing children were all patients in the nearby hospital within the Prestwich & Newton Heath area of North Manchester. The two youngest were Robert Henry Collett who was seven, and Agnes Collett who was two years old. Both children survived whatever illness or ailment they had been admitted for, and were back with their family not long after.								#2
	However, the third of the three children was the couple’s eldest son Joseph Collett who was ten years old and from Ranton in Staffordshire. However, with no apparent record of the same Joseph Collett in 1901, it might appear that he did not survive whatever ordeal he was going through in hospital.								#14
	The final three children of Robert and Agnes were added to the family during the first half of the next decade. However, before the end of the century Agnes Catherine Collett became a widow, following the death of her husband Robert at the age of 47 during the second quarter of 1898, which was recorded at Prestwich in Lancashire (Ref. 8d 215). By the time of the census conducted in March 1901 the family living at 39 Lilley Street in Newton Heath, North Manchester, comprised Agnes Collett who was 46, Robert H Collett who was 17, Frederick who was 15, Frank who was 14, Agnes who was 12, Leo who was 10, Marie T Collett who was eight, Edmund who was six, and Wilfred who was five. Sadly, just over a year later, Agnes suffered the death of her youngest daughter Marie Theresa Collett at the age of 10.								#2 #14
	From the census return it was evident that it was just the three oldest sons who were in employment and therefore supporting their family financially. Robert was a warehouse maker-up, Frederick was a dye works opener, while Frank was a commercial clerk. No record of her eldest surviving son George has so far been found in the census of 1901 or 1911, when he would have been 18 and 28, and when he may have been in Ireland.								#2
	By April 1911 the family’s home was at 21 Bradburn Street, Cheetham Hill in Manchester, but by then all four of Agnes’ older sons had left to make their own way in the world, although living nearby were her sons Robert Henry, who was 27 and married, and Frank who was 24 and unmarried. The rest of the family was made up of Agnes 56, her daughter Agnes who was 22, Leo who was 20, Edmund who was 16, and Wilfred who was 15.								#2
	Twenty years after the census in 1911 the death of Agnes C Collett at the age of 76 was recorded at the Manchester North register office (Ref. 8d 843) during the first quarter of 1931. Having already suffered the loss of first her husband and then her youngest daughter, Agnes also lost three of her seven sons during the First World War. All of that, on top of losing her first-born son who did not survive beyond infancy.								#14
	11P44		Joseph Collett				Born in 1881 at Ranton, Staffs.		#14
	11P45		George Collett				Born in 1882 at Birmingham		#2
	11P46		Robert Henry Collett				Born in 1883 at Birmingham		#2
	11P47		Frederick Collett				Born in 1885 at Manchester		#2
	11P48		Frank Collett				Born in 1887 at Manchester		#2
	11P49		Agnes Collett				Born in 1888 at Manchester		#2
	11P50		Leo Collett				Born in 1890 at Manchester		#2
	11P51		Marie Theresa Collett				Born in 1892 at Manchester		#2
	11P52		Edmund Collett				Born in 1894 at Manchester		#2
	11P53		Wilfred Collett				Born in 1895 at Manchester		#2
11O32	Walter Collett was born at Back Ends in Chipping Campden on 21^st October 1851 shortly after his parents had moved there from Admington. By 1861 he was nine years old and was living with his family at Cow Fair in Chipping Campden. During the next decade Walter’s family left Chipping Campden and moved to The Butts in Mickleton where they were living in 1871, when unmarried Walter was recorded as being 19. Later that same year Walter married Eliza Jane Green at Shipston-on-Stour on 19^th November 1871. Eliza, sometimes referred to as Elizabeth, was born at Benson near Wallingford in Oxfordshire in June 1850 and was the daughter of Edmund Green and Alice Cooke of Swyncombe, near Benson. It may be interesting to note that the parents of Alice Cooke were John Cooke and Charlotte Kearsey, there being other connections between the Kearsey and Collett families.								#1 #2
	Shortly after they were married, Walter and Eliza moved to Stoke-on-Trent where their three surviving children were all born. Sadly, the couple’s first-born child died while he was still an infant, and a further tragedy struck the family seven years later during the last quarter of 1879 when Eliza died during the birth of the couple’s fourth child. That happened in the final quarter of that year and left Walter as a widower with three young children to look after, as well as needing to continue with his work as a blacksmith to support them.								#2
	As a result of the situation, Walter moved the twelve miles south of Stoke-on-Trent, when he and his children went to live with his father George Collett at The Swan Inn in Eccleshall, where his father was the publican and also a blacksmith, like Walter. That was confirmed by the 1881 Census in which blacksmith Walter was listed as living with at The Swan Inn on Small Lane with his daughters Alice who was eight and Gertrude who was two, and his son Walter who was six years old, all of them confirmed as having been born at Stoke-on-Trent.								#2
	Curiously, Walter gave his place of birth as Admington rather than Chipping Campden, which may suggest that he was born right around the time his parents moved from Admington to Chipping Campden. In addition to that, his age was recorded as 43 rather than 29, but that must surely have been an error in transcription. It seems likely that Walter’s time living with his father may have only been a temporary measure, since it was four years later that his daughter Gertrude died at Stoke-on-Trent in 1885 at the age of seven. It was also at Stoke that Walter was living in 1890 when he passed away. Walter’s only surviving daughter Alice and son Walter were the only members of his family that have so far been positively identified in the census of 1901.								#2
	11P54		John E Collett	Born in 1872; died in 1872					#2
	11P55		Alice Marie Collett	Born in 1873 at Stoke-on-Trent					#2
	11P56		Walter Collett	Born in 1875 at Stoke-on-Trent					#2
	11P57		Gertrude Collett	Born in 1879 at Stoke-on-Trent					#2
11O33	Mark Collett was born at Chipping Campden in 1854. That may have taken place at either ‘Back Ends’ or ‘Cow Fair’ in the town, since it was at those two addresses that his parents were living in 1851 and 1861 respectively. In the 1861 Census for Chipping Campden, Mark was listed as being six years of age, but ten years later according to the 1871 Census, he had left Gloucestershire and was living in Staffordshire where he was listed as being sixteen years old and from Chipping Campden. The photograph of Mark Collett was kindly provided by Paul Boreham of Arkell in Canada.								#1 #2 #8
	It would therefore appear that, on leaving school and perhaps just prior to April 1871, Mark had moved to Ellenhall in Staffordshire to live with his eldest brother John Collett (above). John was a blacksmith and, in the census of 1871, Mark Collett aged 16, was working with his brother as an apprentice blacksmith. Working alongside him was Edward Tomlinson from Little Haywood, also 16, who was listed as a servant in the Collett household, although he too was working with the Collett brothers as an apprentice blacksmith.								#8
	It was while Mark Collett was living and working in Staffordshire with his brother that he met, and later married Sarah Williams around 1874. Sarah was born at Slindon, just north of Eccleshall in 1852, the daughter of Joseph and Sarah Williams of Eccleshall. Having served his apprenticeship with his brother, Mark eventually became a fully-fledged blacksmith, so following in the footsteps of his father George and his older brothers John and Walter, as confirmed by the census of 1881, when Mark and his two brothers were all living and plying their trade in Eccleshall.								#2
	The census that year listed Mark Collett as 29 of Chipping Campden and a blacksmith, while Sarah his wife was also 29, their two daughters were Nelly aged five, and Ada who was two, and their son Thomas was three years old. All three of the children had been born at Burslem, north of Stoke-on-Trent and, on that census day, Sarah was pregnant with the couple’s fourth child. Living with the family was Sarah’s widowed mother Sarah Williams aged 56 a retired farmer, and her younger sister Jane Williams who was 17 and a dressmaker from Eccleshall who was listed as sister-in-law to head of the house Mark Collett.								#2
	It was towards the end of June, later that same year, that Sarah presented Mark with a second son Albert. However, there are conflicting views as to where he was born, bearing in mind the family had been living at Eccleshall less than two months earlier. The census returns for 1891 and 1901 state that the birth had taken place back at Burslem, while death certificate for Albert Collett gave his place of birth as Slindon to the north of Eccleshall, where the couple’s next child was born.								#2 #8
	The move to Slindon seems to have coincided with Mark ceasing to be a blacksmith, and becoming a farmer, and that may have been as a result of him taking over the farm previously run by his father-in-law Joseph Williams, following the death of his widow, Sarah Williams, in the mid-1880s. And it was within the Slindon area that the family appear to have lived for many years thereafter. The census in 1891 listed the family as Mark and Sarah Collett who were both 37, together with four of their five children. Ellen, the absent oldest child, had already left the family home and was working as a domestic servant in the nearby village of Aspley.								#2 #8
	The couple’s four other children were Thomas who was 13, Ada who was 12, Albert who was nine and Charles who was four years old. Not long after that it would appear that Mark took over Manor House Farm at Mill Meece, less than half a mile from Slindon, and it was there that the couple’s last child was born. This photograph of Manor House Farm was taken in April 2015 when Mark’s great granddaughter Joan Fay Robertson (nee Collett) visited England from Canada.								#2
	The 1901 census for Mill Meece listed Mark Collett of Chipping Norton as a farmer of 47, his wife Sarah from Slindon who was also 47, and their sons Thomas 23, Albert 19, and Charles 14 all of whom were described farmer’s sons, together with daughters Ada who was 22, and Annie who was six. The census also confirmed that the couple’s three eldest surviving children were all born at Burslem, while Charles was born after the family had moved to Slindon, and Annie’s place of birth was given as Mill Meece.								#2
	By April 1911 all of the children of Mark and Sarah had left the family home at Manor House Farm, when Mark and Sarah where both still living there at the age of fifty-seven. Living nearby in the village of Slindon was their married son Thomas and his family, and separately living there, their daughter Annie Elizabeth Collett. It is unclear from the census returns of 1911 as to what had happened to the three other children of Mark and Sarah, since no record has been found for Ada, Albert and Charles, nor is anything known about their lives after that time.								#2
	Mark Collett died on 18^th August 1916, when a funeral card used on that occasion referred to him as Mark Collett of Mill Meece. He was 62 and was buried at Cotes Heath Church on 25^th August 1916, where a headstone marks the grave. Just over a year later his wife Sarah was a patient at Stafford County Mental Hospital when she died on 8^th October 1917 at the age of 63. The 1917 Will of widow Sarah Collett of Mill Meece near Eccleshall was proved in London on 8^th December 1917 when her entire estate of £1,598 1 Shilling and 3 Pence was left to her eldest son, who was described as Thomas Collett, farmer.								#8 #2
	11P58		Ellen Collett				Born in 1875 at Burslem		#2
	11P59		Thomas Collett				Born in 1877 at Burslem		#7
	11P60		Ada Collett				Born in 1878 at Burslem		#2
	11P61		Albert Collett				Born in 1881 at Burslem		#2
	11P62		Charles Collett				Born in 1886 at Slindon		#2
	11P63		Annie Elizabeth Collett				Born in 1894 at Mill Meece		#2
11O34	HENRY GEORGE COLLETT, who was referred to as George, was born at Chipping Campden in 1857 and he followed in the family tradition by being a blacksmith. In April 1861 three years old George and his family were living at Cow Fair in Chipping Campden. It was during the following few years that George’s parents left Chipping Campden and moved a couple of miles to the north to settle in Mickleton. And it was at The Butts in Mickleton that the family was living in 1871 when George was 13. However, the family did not stay very long at Mickleton before eventually moving to Staffordshire where most of the family was living in 1881.								#1 #2 #1
	According to the Census of 1881 George was a servant and a blacksmith at 23 who had been born at ‘Camden’ in Gloucestershire, as in Chipping Campden. At the time of the census, he was single and was working for blacksmith Thomas Porter and was living at his home at Tittensor midway between Stone and Stoke-on-Trent. Three years later George married Alice Salt of Wolstanton on 13^th June 1884 at St Peter’s Church in Stoke-on-Trent. George’s older brother Walter Collett (above) was one of the witnesses at the wedding ceremony, and his signature also appears on the couple’s marriage certificate. Three years earlier 24-years old Alice Salt was working as a servant and cook at Groundslow Farm in Stone. The census record also revealed she had been born at Whitmore, south-west of Stoke-on-Trent.								#2 #1 #2
	The early years of their married life was spent living at 8 Cornwallis Street in Stoke-on-Trent where their first three children were born, and where Henry’s widowed father George Collett was living in 1891. It was around two years earlier during 1889 that the family moved to Brook Street in Burslem. The census of 1891 confirmed that the family was living at Brook Street in Burslem and comprised George aged 33, Alice aged 34, and their children, Henry who was six, Gertrude who was five, Alice who was two, and baby Ada who was not yet one year old. Also living with the family at that time was George’s youngest brother Thomas (below) who was twenty-one.								#1 #2
	During the next ten years the family continued to live in Burslem, although their seventh and last child was born at Wolstanton. However, in April 1901 the whole family, with the exception of eldest daughter Gertrude, was living at St Paul’s Street in Burslem. In addition to the couple’s six children, the house also had a boarder in William H Miller, while Gertrude at that time was 15 living and working in nearby Tunstall where she was a domestic servant. It was as Henry George Collett of Chipping Campden that he was recorded in the Burslem census of 1911. At that time six of his seven children were still living with him and his wife in Burslem. Only daughter Gertrude had left home and she was living and working in Wolstanton. Henry George was 53, his wife Alice was 54, and their children were Henry George 27, Alice 22, Ada 20, Edgar Thomas 18, Cecil John 14, and Sydney Charles who was 12.								#1 #2
	Upon his retirement George was presented with a long service medal by the Stoke-on-Trent Gas Department for his thirty-nine years continuous employment with them as a blacksmith. It is believed that George and Alice both died while they were still living at Burslem just north of Stoke-on-Trent, where they are also understood to have been buried. Their address from 1912 may well have been 34 Ellgreave Street in Burslem. That was the address given by their son Edgar when he joined the army, and was also the address to which their granddaughter Alice-Lyn Collett was sent to live following the breakdown of her mother when she received the sad news that her husband Henry George Collett, the couple’s eldest son, died near Poelcapelle in 1917.								#1 #2
	11P64		HENRY GEORGE COLLETT				Born in 1884 at Stoke-on-Trent		#1
	11P65		Gertrude Collett				Born in 1886 at Stoke-on-Trent		#1
	11P66		Alice Collett				Born in 1888 at Stoke-on-Trent		#1
	11P67		Ada Collett				Born in 1890 at Burslem		#1
	11P68		Edgar Thomas Collett				Born in 1893 at Burslem		#1
	11P69		Cecil John Collett				Born in 1896 at Burslem		#1
	11P70		Sidney Charles Collett				Born in 1899 at Burslem		#1
11O35	Charles Collett was born at Chipping Campden in 1859 and most likely when his parents George Collett and Maria Jennings were residing at Cow Fair in Chipping Campden. It was certain there that the family was recorded at the end of March in 1861, when Charles was one year old. Shortly after that his family left Chipping Campden and moved north to nearby Mickleton. By 1871 part of his family was living at The Butts in Mickleton where Charles was confirmed as being eleven years old and attending school, having been born at Chipping Campden.								#2 #1
	Unlike most of the other members of his family, Charles appears not to have moved to Staffordshire during the 1870s and in 1881 he was still living at Mickleton in Gloucestershire to where his family had moved when they left Chipping Campden when he was still an infant. According to that year’s census for Mickleton, Charles aged 22 and of Campden, was a shoe maker and a lodger at the home of retired boot maker and local preacher Thomas Smith aged 83 and of Mickleton, and his wife Hannah 71 of Pilerton Priors in Warwickshire. So perhaps, it can be assumed that the older man had been coaching Charles in the craft of making quality boots and shoes.								#2
	Nine months later, the marriage of Charles Collett and the much older Jane Manners was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 681) during the first three month of 1882. Jane was the daughter of cabinet maker John and Mary Manners of Old Gate Street in Morpeth, with her birth registered at Morpeth in Northumberland (Ref. xxv 327) at the start of 1850, who was baptised at Morpeth on 3^rd February 1850. Just prior to their wedding day, 31-year-old Jane was employed as a domestic servant and housemaid at a large house in Weston Subedge, just north-west of Chipping Campden. After they were married, they settled at Mickleton, within the Shipston-on-Stour registration district, where their sons were born and where Charles continued to work as a boot and shoe maker. That situation was confirmed in the next census of 1891, when Charles, Jane, and their two sons, were still living in Mickleton. The census details that year confirmed that Charles Collett was 33 and a shoemaker, that Jane Collett was 40, and that their sons were John M Collett who was seven, and Arthur Collett who was six years old.								#2
	According to the next census in 1901 the family was still living at Mickleton village with the Parish of St Lawrence’s Church, where Charles Collett from Campden was 42 and a boot and shoe maker, his wife Jane from Morpeth was 51, and their Mickleton born sons were 17 and 16 respectively, who were both working as market gardeners. Just over six years after that day, the death of Charles Collett aged 49 was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour register office (Ref. 6d 329) during the third quarter of 1907. Less than three years later, the census conducted in April 1911, revealed that Jane Collett was a widow aged 61, who was a market gardener with a smallholding. On that day, she was still living in Mickleton with her unmarried sons John M Collett who was 27 and Arthur Collett who was 26, when they were both working with Jane as market gardeners.								#2 #14
	Although not yet proved, it would appear Jane lived a long life, most likely with her eldest son taking over the family’s market garden in Mickleton when it became too much for her to continue with, as confirmed within his military records. The later death of Jane Collett, who was born in 1850, was recorded at Worcestershire register office (Ref. 6c 234) in 1932, when she was 82.								#2
	11P71		John Manners Collett				Born in 1883 at Mickleton		#2
	11P72		Arthur Collett				Born in 1885 at Mickleton		#2
11O36	Sarah Ann Collett was baptised on 3^rd July 1863 at St Lawrence’s Church in Mickleton where her family was living in April 1871 and where she was recorded as being aged seven years. On that occasion Sarah and her family were living at The Butts in Mickleton but around 1880 virtually the whole family moved to Staffordshire. By 1881 Sarah was 17 and was living with her family at The Swan Inn on Small Street in Eccleshall where her father was the publican and local blacksmith. However, Sarah’s place of birth, like that of her younger brother Thomas (below) was stated as being Admington rather than Mickleton.								#2 #1 #2
	Less than eighteen months later Sarah Ann Collett married Alfred Beech in front of witnesses Edward Currie and Martha Jane Worthington, the event recorded at Stoke-on-Trent (Ref. 6b 339) during the third quarter of 1882. The marriage produced six children before the end of the century, although only four survived, by which time the family was residing in Moor Street in Worcester. Alfred Beech was 38 and a blacksmith from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Sarah Ann Beech was 37 and from Mickleton and their four children were Alfred Beech who was 16 and working with his father as a blacksmith, Francis Beech who was 14 and an errand boy, Mable Beech who was 12 – all born at Stoke, and Ethel Beech who was nine years old and born in Worcester. After a further decade just four members of the family were recorded living at 99 St George’s Lane North in Worcester and they were shoeing smith Alfred aged 48, Sarah Ann who was 47, Mabel who was 22 and Ethel who was 19. One of the two children who had died was the eldest, Sarah Ann Beech, who was eight years old in 1891 who died in Worcester.								#14
	Alfred and Sarah continued to live in Worcester for the rest of their lives. The death of Sarah A Beech was recorded at the register office there (Ref. 6a 190) during the first quarter of 1931 when she was 67. It was one year later that her husband Alfred Beech died at the age of 69 when his death was recorded at Worcester register office (Ref. 6c 179) during the first three months of 1932.								#14
11O37	Thomas Collett was baptised on 5^th September 1869 at Mickleton, the son of George Collett and Maria Jennings. He and his family were living at The Butts in Mickleton in April 1871 when he was seven months old. By the time of the census of 1881 the family had left Gloucestershire and was living at The Swan Inn on Small Street in Eccleshall where Thomas was 11. Like his sister Sarah (above) his place of birth was recorded as having been Admington. It seems very likely that over the next ten years Thomas moved in with his older married brother George (above) since, in the 1891 Census, he was 21 and was staying with the family at their home in the Burslem & Wolstanton registration district of Staffordshire.								#2 #1 #2
11O38	Alfred Collett was born at Admington in 1852 and was baptised at Quinton on 20^th June 1852. In the Admington census of 1861, Alfred was eight years old, and was living there with his family. At some time in his life, he moved from Gloucestershire to live in Birmingham, most likely for work reasons. It was while there that he met and married Caroline Gray who was born at Harborne just to the south of Birmingham in 1856. Details of their wedding were recorded at Birmingham (Ref. 6d 92) during the second quarter of 1878 when the witnesses were Edward Chamberlain and Emma Smith. According to the census in 1881 Alfred aged 28, was an F L packer, and he and his wife Caroline aged 24, were living at Ada Terrace in Osler Street in Birmingham, the property described as ‘house 1’ in Ada Terrace. With them was their son Arthur who had been born at Edgbaston, who was two years old.								#2 #14 #2
	On the day of the census in 1881 Caroline may well have been pregnant with Alfred’s second child, since their daughter was born later that same year or early in the following year. The new arrival was confirmed in the next census in 1891 when the family of four was still living within the Kings Norton & Edgbaston registration district. Alfred Collett was 38, Caroline was 33, Arthur Collett was 12, and Ada M Collett was nine years of age.								#2
	The 1901 Census for Birmingham recorded the family residing at 53 Hyde Road in the Parish of St John where Alf Collett was 48 and a general packer who had been born at Admington. Living there with him was his wife Caroline Collett who was 45 and from Bricklane in Worcestershire, their son Arthur Collett who was 21 and a domestic groom who had been born in Birmingham, and their daughter Ada M Collett who was 18 and a warehouse girl also born in Birmingham. According to the next census in 1911 Alfred and Caroline were living with their married daughter at 222 Park Road in Warley within the Bearwood district of Birmingham, while by then their son Arthur was serving with the military and was based in Kent. Alfred was 58 and Caroline was 54.								#2 #14 #2
	11P73		Arthur Collett				Born in 1879 at Edgbaston		#2
	11P74		Ada May Collett				Born in 1882 at Edgbaston		#2
11O39	Louisa Jane Collett was born at Admington in 1854 and her birth was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 512) during the first quarter of 1854. She was baptised at Quinton on 19^th March 1854, and was seven years old in the Admington census of 1861. When she was only twenty-one years old, she produced a baby daughter even though she was still unmarried.								#2 #3
	Her base-born daughter Lucy was placed in the care of Louisa’s mother Caroline Collett where she lived until she eventually married in 1904, but not before having two base-born children of her own. Almost two years to the day after the birth of her illegitimate daughter, Louisa married agricultural carter Samuel Keeley at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton on 17^th November 1877. Samuel was born at nearby Ilmington in 1851 and was a widower and the son of Samuel Keeley. Louisa Jane Collett was a spinster and the daughter of William Collett.								#2 #3 #2
	According to the 1881 Census, Louisa, at the age of 27 had produced three children for Samuel, they being Elizabeth Ruth Keeley who was five, and William Keeley who was two, both born at Ilmington, and ten months old Sarah Jane Keeley born at Admington. At that time the family was living at Lower Farm Cottage in Quinton. Her daughter Elizabeth Ruth later married Samuel Wells when the witnesses at the wedding ceremony were her sister Sarah Jane and her father Samuel.								#2 #3
	Louisa Jane Keeley nee Collett died when she was residing in the Stratford-upon-Avon area, her death recorded at Stratford register office (Ref. 6d 373) during the last three months of 1905 when she was 53.								#14
	11P75		Lucy Hannah Collett				Born in 1875 at Admington		#2
11O40	Jabez Collett was born at Admington and baptised at Quinton on 23^rd December 1855 when his parents were named as William Collett, a groom, and his wife Caroline. He was five years old at the time of the Admington census of 1861, but was incorrectly recorded as Jabeth Collett, and was named as Jabey Collett who was 15 in 1871. It is understood that he later married Jane at Quinton although rather strangely neither Jabez nor Jane has been located in the census of 1881 or any census record after that time.								#2
11O41	Hannah Collett was born at Admington in 1857 and baptised at Quinton on 30^th August 1857. In the next two national censuses for Admington she was aged three years and 13 years. For the first of these she was living with her family, while for the second she had left school and was working as a servant at the home of William Harwood and his family.								#2
	During the following decade Hannah left Warwickshire and headed for London where she may have been paid a little more. According to the next census in 1881 Hannah Collett from Admington was 22 when she was a housemaid at the girls’ school of professor of singing Mary Eliza Probart at 1 Grosvenor Villa in Brixton Rise within the London Borough of Lambeth.								#14
11O42	Zillah Collett was born at Admington in 1859 and was baptised at Quinton on 19^th June 1859. In the census of 1861, she was recorded as Zilla Collett aged two years, and was 12 years old in 1871. It was in 1880 at Quinton parish church, that Zillah Collett aged 21, married (1) farm labourer Joseph Aston. Joseph was the son of Richard Aston and was born at nearby Ilmington in 1857. In the national census the following year the couple was listed as living at Campden Street in Ilmington, Zillah was 22 and Joseph was 23. There were no children born to the couple at that time.								#2 #3 #2
	Tragically, Joseph died in 1892 and six years later his widow Zillah married (2) John Alcock at the Ilmington parish church of St Mary the Virgin. John (pictured right) was a carter born in 1860 and was the son of pearl button cutter Joseph Alcock of Birmingham. The witnesses at the wedding were Richard Aston (Zillah’s previous father-in-law) and William Collett. That William Collett may have been Zillah’s cousin William Henry Collett, since her father William Collett had died in 1878.								#3
	Zillah’s first marriage produced two daughters, Zillah Aston born in 1888 and Selina Aston born in 1890, both girls having been born at Ilmington. In the 1901 Census Zillah and John were listed as living at Ilmington with stepdaughters Zillah and Selina and John’s grandson Harry Alcock (pictured right) who was born in 1897. Harry was the base-born son of John Alcock junior and Emma Cockbill.								#3
	By April 1911, the family was still living in Ilmington where John Alcock was 62, his wife Zillah Alcock was 52, and Zillah’s two daughters were listed as Zillah Aston aged 23 and Selina Aston aged 21. Selina Aston went on to marry John Hawtin at Ilmington on 22^nd August 1912. John was the son of William and Sarah Hawtin who was born at Whichford in Warwickshire. John Hawtin was a farrier and Corporal TS/6013 with the Eighth Horsed Transport Unit of the Army Service Corp. Tragically he died during the Great War when he was 33 and was buried at the Cairo War Memorial Cemetery grave reference D.230. His death, recorded on 23^rd December 1915, probably happened during the failed attempt by the ASC to seize control of Constantinople/Istanbul from the combined German and Turkish forces.								#2
11O43	Selena Collett was born at Admington in 1861 but after 7^th April. Ten years later in 1871 she was nine years old. By the time Selena had reached twenty years of age she had left the family home in Admington and had moved to Birmingham where her brother Alfred was living. The 1881 Census confirmed she was 21 and had been born at Admington and that she was working as a general servant at the home of silversmith Charles Marcus of Dublin and his wife Rose from Bristol. The household at 20 York Road in Edgbaston comprised Charles and Rose and their three sons, and Rose’s brother Fred Blankensis who was also a silversmith. They were supported by three general servants of whom Selena was the youngest. It would appear that Selena never married and in 1901 she was still living in Birmingham. No record of Selena has so far been found in the census of 1911, although it is known that she died in 1947.								#2 #3
11O44	Richard Collett was born at Admington in 1863 and was baptised at Quinton on 1^st May 1864 in a joint ceremony with his sister Edwina. He was confirmed as being eight years old in the census of 1871. By 1881 he was an apprenticed blacksmith aged 18, when he was living at the Lower Admington home of his mother, the widow Caroline Collett. Curiously no record of Richard has so far been found in the next three census returns in 1891, 1901 and 1911.								#2
11O45	Edwina Collett was born at Admington in 1864 and baptised at Quinton on 1^st May 1864 in a joint ceremony with her brother Richard. However, no trace of her has been found in any subsequent census record so it might be assumed that she had suffered an infant death.								#2
11O46	Christopher John Collett was born at Admington in 1865, but was baptised as John Collett in a joint ceremony with his younger brother Josiah (below) on 5^th June 1870 at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton. However, it was as Christopher Collett that the birth was also registered with Shipston-on-Stour registrar during the second quarter of 1865, between 1^st April and 30^th June. As John Collett, he was only five years old in 1871, but ten years later, at the age of 15, he had already left school and was employed as a farm labourer, while still living with his widowed mother at her home in Lower Admington.								#2
	From the genealogical research into this line of the Collett family, the son of William Joshua Collett and Caroline Downes was only ever known as John Collett and, for that reason, it made it more difficult to identify him in the later census records. However, it is now known, that once he was married, he reverted to using his registered birth name of Christopher, thanks to information received from Doreen North of Bushy Heath in Hertfordshire. It was therefore as Christopher Collett that he was listed in the census of 1891, as Christopher John Collett of Admington in the census of 1901, and as Christopher J Collett of Shipston-on-Stour in the census of 1911.								#2
	After 1881, John Collett left Admington, when he made the move south to London. It was there, around ten years later, during the first quarter of 1891, that he married Ada Stone using the name Christopher Collett. Ada was the eldest child of master boot-maker George Stone, who was born at Edgware in Middlesex on 6^th October 1843, and his wife Sarah Johnson, from Elstree, who were married at Hendon during the first three months of 1867. It was also at Edgware that their daughter Ada was born, together with her seven younger siblings.								#2
	By the time of the census on fifth of April in 1891, Christopher Collett and his wife Ada were living at 4 Star Cottage in Hendon. Ada was 21 and from Edgware, while her husband’s place of birth was recorded as Over Maston, which may have been a misinterpretation of Lower Admington. At that time in his life Christopher Collett was 25, and was described as a groom, and ‘whip to hounds’, which would have been a continuation of his earlier work as a farm labourer.								#2
	During the next ten years Ada’s father died, and it may have been that sad event, which resulted in Christopher and Ada taking in her widowed mother and younger siblings. Certainly, by the time of the census in 1901, the farm at which the Colletts were living, was also home to three member of Ada’s Stone family. According to the census return, the five of them were residing in the Neasden-cum-Kingsbury area of Kingsbury & Hendon registration district of Middlesex. The name of their place of residence is almost unreadable, but it is believed to be Fryent Farm, particularly since there is a Fryent Country Park in Kingsbury today.								#2
	On that occasion Christopher John Collett aged 35 and from Admington, was a huntsman and groom, who was also an employer, rather than an employee. Living with him was his wife Ada Collett aged 31 and from Edgware, the widow Sarah Stone aged 54 from Elstree, and her two youngest children, Cecily Stone, who was 20 and working as a book-keeper, and James Henry Stone, who was 18 and working as a clerk. Both of the Stone children were confirmed as also being born at Edgware.								#2
	It was a similar situation ten years later in April 1911, except that by then Christopher had given up farming and was a licenced victualler managing The Wellington Inn on the Hatton Road in Bedfont, Middlesex. On that occasion he was listed as Christopher J Collett aged 45, who was born at Shipston-on-Stour, which more or less confirms him as John Collett of Admington. Still living with him, and helping him operate the inn, was his wife of twenty-one years, Ada Collett aged 41 of Edgware, who was described as ‘assisting with the business’. Also still living with the couple was Ada’s mother Sarah Stone who was 64. By then Ada’s two youngest siblings had been replaced by another of her unmarried sisters, that being Mabel Louise Stone aged 24 from Edgware, who had no stated occupation.								#2
11O47	Josiah Collett was born at Admington in 1867 and was the youngest child of William and Caroline Collett. He was later baptised at Quinton on 5^th June 1870 in a joint ceremony with his older brother John (above). The census in 1871 listed Josiah Collett as being three years old, when he was living with his family at Ilmington Road in Admington.								#1 #2
	By 1881 he was 13 and had joined his brother John as a farm labourer, while living at the Lower Admington home of his widowed mother. Ten years later and Josiah had left Admington and had made his way to Birmingham where, in 1891 he was 23 and was living in the Lady Wood district of the city. During the third quarter of 1894 Josiah Collett married Sarah Hooper who was born at Dudley Port in 1858. The marriage was recorded at Birmingham (Ref. 6d 131) when the witnesses were Arthur Houghton and Ada Elizabeth Gardner. It was during the following year that Sarah gave birth to the couple’s only known child, their daughter Daisy, who was born while the couple was living in Birmingham.								#2 #14 #2
	It was also in Birmingham that Josiah and Sarah were living in March 1901, with their daughter. Josiah Collett aged 34 and of Admington, was working as an iron casement maker, while his wife was 42 and Daisy was five years old. Their address at that time was 5 Khartoum Place in the Rotton Park district of the city. According to the later census of 1911, Josiah from Admington was 43, his wife Sarah was 52, and daughter Daisy was 15. By that time the family was living in the West Bromwich area of the Midlands.								#2
	11P76		Daisy Collett				Born in 1895 at Birmingham		#2
11P1	Alfred Collett, who was known as Fred, was born at Farmington in New York State on 29^th March 1856. He was the eldest child of Richard Collett and Sarah Randall. In both the census returns for 1870 and 1875 he was listed with his family as Alfred Collet, aged 14 and 19 respectively, and for the second of them the family was confirmed as living at Farmington, compared to simply New York State in the first. By the time of the US Census on 1^st June 1880, Alfred Collett from New York was 24 and a married man, when he was working with his father and younger brother Hiram on the family’s farm at Farmington in Ontario County.								#9 #2
	It is established that he had married Jennie Pratt on 24^th September 1879, while the census return in 1880, which did acknowledge that he was married, simply recorded him as ‘other’ rather than ‘son’. Where his wife might have been on that occasion has not been discovered, but she was presumably with their daughter Theda Collett who would have been only a few days old. It is also possible that her absence from the census may have been due to her actually giving birth to her daughter around that time, which was close to nine months after she had married Alfred.								#9 #2
	Unfortunately, the census of 1890 did not survive, but in 1892 under the name of Collet, like it had been in 1870 and 1875, the four members of the family were recorded at Farmington. They were Fred Collet, who was 35, Jennie F Collet, who was 36, Theda M Collet, who was 12, and Clara J Collet who was two years old. It was two years later that Jennie presented Alfred with their third daughter, who sadly died when she was two years old. There is also the possibility that other children were born into the family considering the number of years between each of the births of their three known daughters.								#2
	By 1900 only the younger of their two surviving daughters was living at Farmington with Alfred and Jennie, following the very recent marriage of the couple’s eldest daughter. According to the census that year Alfred Collett aged 44 and from New York, was a farmer at Farmington, his wife Jennie F Collett also from New York was 46, and their daughter Clara J Collett was 11. Supporting the family was widower and servant Charles Bumpus, who was 46 and a farm labourer from Massachusetts, while also recorded with them as a boarder was Nathan Redfield from New York, who was 65 and a farmer. It may be of interest that Clara P Bumpus aged 55, was living with Clara Jeffrey Allyn nee Collett at Macedon in Wayne County during 1930.								#9 #2
	It was a similar situation ten years later in 1910. The family was still residing in Farmington, when Fred Collett was 54, Jennie F Collett was 55, and Clara J Collett was 20. Curiously the previously named boarder Nathan Redfield was then described as Nathan Collett, a widower of 75, who was still living with the Collett family, but there is a possibility that his surname was recorded in error. Whoever Nathan was, he certainly made an impact on the Collett family, because Alfred’s daughter Theda named her first child Nathan Redfield Walker in 1902.								#9 #2
	The only person living with Alfred and Jennie in 1920 was Jennie’s brother Albert A Pratt who was 61, when Alfred was 63 and Jennie was 65. It was later that same year that Jennie Collett nee Pratt died at Farmington and was buried at South Farmington Cemetery, while her husband survived her by eight years, when Alfred Collett passed away during 1928, following which he was buried with his wife at South Farmington Cemetery.								#9
	11Q1		Theda M Collett				Born in 1880 at Farmington		#9
	11Q2		Clara Jeffrey Collett				Born in 1889 at Farmington		#9
	11Q3		Sarah Collett				Born in 1894; died in 1896		#9
11P2	Mary Jane Collett was born at Farmington in Ontario County on 20^th February 1858, the eldest daughter of Richard and Sarah Collett. In 1871 she was recorded in the census that year as Mary J Collett aged 13, when she was living in New York States with her family. By the time of the census in 1875, when her family was recorded as living at Farmington, Mary had already left home to become a married lady when she was still in her teenage years. In was during September 1875 Mary had married William M Wells, the son of Joseph Wells, farmer and owner of a grist-mill, a saw-mill, and a barrel making factory at Lot 44 in Farmington. Over the first seven years of their marriage, up to 1882, the couple had four children, and they were Ida May Wells, who was born on 7^th June 1876, Benjamin Wells born in 1878, daughter Jessie Wells born in 1880, and Frank Wells who was born in 1882.								#9
	Ten years after they were married Mary Jane wrote a letter on 5^th March 1885 to her Aunt Ann in Admington, who was Ann Collett nee Hall, the wife of Mary Jane’s uncle William Collett (Ref. 11O9), her father’s younger brother. In that letter she wrote that their farm comprised a holding of 120 acres, which included a saw-mill and a grist-mill, possibly taken over from William’s father. She went on to say that they made 25,000 flour barrels and 7,000 apple barrels, and employed nine men in the cooper shop, but sometimes up to fifteen. She continued to say that her husband cuts the staves and the headings for the barrels and that he was more interested in working with machinery than farming, as a result of which it her father, Richard Collett, who undertook most of the work on their farm.								#9
	It was during January 1888 that William Wells died as the result of a tragic accident at work. At the time of his death it was reported that he was a well-known barrel maker in the town of Manchester, to the east of Farmington. It appears from his obituary, that he was using a buzz-saw when the ladder on which he was standing became dislodged and he fell against the saw, which was instantly thrown against his head inflicting severe wounds. He died four days later. He was a highly respected member of the community, and left a wife, four children, three sisters and an aging father. After the tragic accident William’s father Joseph Wells sold off the saw-mill and cooperage.								#9
	Following the death of her husband Mary Jane and her children were still living in Manchester at the time of the census in 1890. In another letter written at the start of that year to her Aunt Ann Collett in England, Mary Jane hinted that she was thinking of getting married again during the autumn of 1890 to a gentleman who lives in the next state to the west. She added that her folks cannot bear to have her move away and that it may not happen anyway. Whether her aunt ever read the letter is not known, but sadly in February 1890 Ann Collett nee Hall passed away. In any event it was later that same year at Farmington that Mary Jane Well was married to Louis (Lewis) Leix on 16th October 1890 by the Presbyterian minister, the Reverend J C Lenhard of Shortsville. Lewis was the son of German-born Ludwig Leix and Katherine Khunley and was a farmer at Mayville in Michigan, to where Mary Jane and her Wells family moved after the wedding. The Leix family was well known in Mayville and there is now a road named after them.								#9 #9
	That second marriage for Mary Jane lasted only seven years, when Mary Jane Leix, aged just 40 years, the daughter of Richard Collett, died during 1897, the cause of death being a burst blood vessel. However, nothing more is known about the last few years in the life of Mary Jane Leix nee Collett, except that her mother Sarah Collett stated in the census of 1900 that she had given birth to five children, of which only four were still alive. As those four can be positively identified, the missing child was therefore confirmed her daughter Mary Jane.								#9
	Lewis Leix was born in 1854 and it was on 16^th October 1879 at Fremont, Tuscola County, that he first married May Wilcox, as confirmed in the Fremont census in 1880. Lewis Leix was a farmer of 26, and his wife May was 24. Tragically it was shortly after that when May Leix died. Three years after the death of his second wife Lewis was recorded in the census of 1900, while five years after that, at the age of 50 and on 3^rd May 1905, he was married for a third time, to spinster Lizzie Eichemeyr who was 42. That wedding took place at Bay City in Michigan when he confirmed that he had been twice married before, and that he was the son of Ludwig Leix and Catherine Kunely. Lizzie’s parents were confirmed as Edward Eichemeyr and Sabina Deneke. It was as Lewis and Eichmur Leix that they were curiously recorded in the Fremont census of 1910, and they were still there in 1920, when even more curiously they were listed in that year’s census as Lewis and Louis Leix when they were 65 and 56. It was just four years later that Lewis Leix died at Fremont during 1924, where he was buried.								#9 #2
	What is of particular interest is that it was less than three years after Mary Jane Wells married Lewis Leix, that her eldest daughter Ida May Wells became with-child and was quickly married to Adolph Leix on 14^th August 1893 in Fremont, Tuscola County in Michigan. Just one month later their son Theodore Leix was born on 19^th September 1893 when Adolph was 21 and Ida was only 17. Adolph was the son of Ludwig and Katherine Leix and the younger brother of Lewis Leix. On the day of their wedding Adolph was recorded as a farmer, while Ida was described as a dressmaker.								#9
	Mary Jane’s second child, Benjamin Wells was born on 28^th December 1877 and, according to the census in 1900, he was living with William Petty and his family. William’s wife Mary was Benjamin’s aunt. Benjamin was described as a servant and a farm labourer, and also living there was his grandfather Joseph Wells whose farm and sawmills at Farmington were recorded as Lot 44. His whereabouts during the next twenty years is not known, but by the time of the census in 1920, Benjamin Wells aged 42 and with no occupation was living with his sister Ida May Leix in Bay City, Michigan. It was shortly after that when he died on 6^th March 1920 and was buried two days later at the Shortsville & Manchester Cemetery. The cause of death was stated on his death certificate as ‘insanity, becoming more imbecile in the last three months of his life’.								#9
	Mary Jane’s third child, Jessie Wells was born in 1880 and following the death of her father in the mid-1880s, she appears not to have gone with her mother to Michigan when she would have been around eleven years old. Instead, at the age of 12, she was living at Farmington with her grandparents Richard and Sarah Collett and their unmarried son Hiram Collett at the time of the New York State census of 1892. Jessie later married Charles P Loomis during 1900 and at the time of the census that year the pair of them were living in Farmington with Charles’ parents. Charles’ occupation was that of a farm labourer, very likely working on his father’s farm.								#9
	By 1920 the family had moved to Schenectady City in New York State where Charles was a machinist for General Electric. Their sole surviving daughter Marion Loomis aged 17, was still living with them. Furthermore, Jessie and Charles were still living in Schenectady in 1930, but later returned to Farmington, where Jessie died on 8^th February 1960 and Charles died 11^th May 1968. They were both buried in South Farmington Cemetery. Marion Loomis married Edwin L Clark and in 1930 they were living at Haddonfield, Camden in New Jersey, whereas her deceased sister Doris Loomis, who had been born during August 1903, was only five months old when she died on 15^th January 1904.								#9
	The last child of Mary Jane Wells was Frank Wells and he was born in 1882. After the death of his father just a few years later, Frank very likely travelled with his mother and sister to Michigan around 1890/91. Certainly, he was in Michigan ten years later when he was living with his married sister Ida May Leix and her husband Adolph Leix at Sherman Street in Bay City, East Side, at the time of the 1900 census. By that time in his life Frank Wells was 18, but had no stated occupation. Adolph Leix was teamster (a truck driver) and with him and his wife Ida May were their two sons Theodore Leix, who was six, and William Leix who was just two months old. It was eleven years later that Adolph Leix died of an appendicitis on 14^th July 1911 and was buried at Elm Lawn Cemetery in Bay City.								#9
	No record of the family has been found in 1910 but by 1920 Ida May was still living in Bay City, then aged 44 and widowed. Her occupation was given as ‘milk station’. Her two sons, Theodore Leix aged 24, and William Leix aged 17, were both described as milk bottlers. Her daughter Ruth Leix was 15 and a bookkeeper in a clothes store. Also living with them was Ida May’s aunt Rhoby Wells, her father’s sister, who was 65, together with Ida May’s unmarried brother Benjamin Wells (above).								#9
	Later that year, on 22^nd December 1920, Ida May Leix married Andrew J Rumph at Hampton Township in Bay City. Andrew was 51 and a farmer who had been born in Canada who had emigrated to America in 1878. His father was from England and his mother from Canada. By 1930 Ida M Rumph was still a resident of Bay City, where she was recorded as being married and head of the household at the age of 54. The only people living there with her were her daughter Ruth and a boarder John Auch who was a labourer in the dairy. Living in the adjacent dwelling was Ida May’s son William Leix, the owner of a dairy, with his wife Esther and their two sons Robert N Leix, who was five, and Theodore Leix who was four. Also living next door to Ida May, but on the other side, was her other son Theodore Leix aged 27, the owner of a gas station, with his wife Gertrude.								#9
	At that same time in 1930 the husband of Ida May Rumph was living in Watertown, a suburb of Bay City. Andrew Rumph stated that he was married and was head of the household. Living with him was his sister Mary J Freeland and her husband Albert, along with Andrew’s aunt Mary J Mallion who was 88. So it seems likely that the marriage of Ida May and Andrew had not lasted many years before they decided to live apart from each other. It was less than six years later that Andrew Rumph died at Watertown 1^st February 1936.								#9
	Following the death of her estranged husband, Ida May had reverted to her previous married name by the time of the census in 1940 when, as Ida Leix, she was living at Block 44, Tuscola Road in Bay City. Also by that time, the boarder at her home in 1930, John Auch, was then her son-in-law married to her daughter Ruth, both of whom were employed in the dairy. On Thursday 4^th March 1965 Ida May Leix fell and broke hip and shoulder and was admitted into the Bay City General Hospital where she died, then buried at Elm Lawn Cemetery in Bay City on 6^th March 1965.								#9
11P3	Hiram K Collett was born at Farmington in Ontario County on 26^th September 1863. He was the second known son of farmer Richard Collett from Admington in England and his English born wife Sarah Randall. Hiram Collett was six years of age in 1870 and was 11 in the Farmington census of 1875. He was 16 years old in the US Census of 1880 when he was a farm labourer living with his family at Farmington, south-east of the town of Rochester. Like his father Richard and his older brother Alfred, Hiram was also a farmer and was later recorded as having the farm holding referred to as Lot 70, not far from his father whose land at Farmington was Lot 52. As Hiram Collett he was 19 in 1892.								#9 #2 #2
	Hiram helped his parents run their farm right up until he married the widow Cora B de Rieu (nee Brulee) in 1899, when he was 33. Cora had been born in Holland during 1868, and she brought with into the marriage the two children from her previous marriage to the late John de Rieu. They were Myrtle de Rieu, who was born in 1887, and Lena de Rieu, who was born in 1889. At the time of the census in 1900 farmer Hiram Collett aged 37, and his wife Cora aged 32, were recorded as having been married for one year, when they had Leona (Lena N de Rieu) aged 11, living with them at Farmington. Two doors away, Cora’s daughter Myrtle was living with her maternal grandparents Isaac and Magdelena Brulee. Ten years later, and following the death of her grandparents, Myrtle and her sister Lena were both living with Hiram and Cora, when they were both recorded with the Collett surname.								#9 #2
	On that occasion in 1910 Hiram Collett was 47, Cora Collett was 43, Myrtle S Collett was 22, and Leona N Collett was also 22. Five years later the Farmington census in 1915 stated that Hiram Collett was 51, and after a further five years it was just Hiram aged 56, and Cora aged 51, who were living at Farmington in 1920. Despite Cora being a few years younger than Hiram, they never had any children of their own, while they lived out their lives together at Farmington. And it was there three years later that Hiram K Collett died and was buried at South Farmington Cemetery in 1923, where a gravestone marks the plot with the simple inscription “Hiram K Collett 1863 – 1923”. His wife Cora died five years later and was also buried at South Farmington Cemetery, where a separate gravestone simply reads “Cora B Collett 1868 – 1928”.								#2 #9
11P4	Lettie Collett was born at Farmington in Ontario County on 19^th June 1866, the second daughter and fourth known child of Richard and Sarah Collett. Lettie Collett was four years old in 1870 and was nine in 1875. By the time of the next census in 1880 she was 13 when she and her family were still residing in Farmington. Seven years later Lettie married John Whittaker in 1887 when she was just 21 years old. John was born in England and had emigrated to America in 1874, while his marriage to Lettie produced just one child, Edna Whittaker, who was born during November 1892.								#9 #2
	By the time of the census in 1900, the family of three was still living in Farmington, where John Whittaker was 44 and his wife Lettie was 33. The census that year also confirmed that they had been married for thirteen years and that John was a farmer. It was eleven years after that when Lettie Whittaker nee Collett died at Farmington during 1911, following which she was buried at South Farmington Cemetery. In 1920, her widowed husband John was living with his daughter Edna Whittaker at the home of De Witt van Noy, her future husband.								#9
	Edna Whittaker later married De Witt van Noy and by 1930 they were living in Canandaigua, the nearest large town to Farmington. De Witt was a dairy farmer in partnership with his father-in-law John Whittaker who was still living with them, and who died in 1936 when he was reunited with his wife. The marriage provided the couple with just one son, De Witt Edwin van Noy, who was born on 4^th March 1935. De Witt van Noy died in 1948 and was followed by Edna who passed away during 1952, following which they were both buried in South Farmington Cemetery. Their son De Witt Edwin van Noy married Sarah Randall and they have two daughters, Judy Ann van Noy (born in 1961 who married John Wint), and Kay Lorie van Noy (born in 1967).								#9
	Lettie Whittaker nee Collett was a great letter writer, and copies of three letters that she sent to family back in England are still held by the family. In the first, dated 15^th March 1881, Lettie wrote to ‘dear Aunt and Uncle’ to say she will be 15 in June. School is now out but will begin again in May. She explained that there are two terms in each school year, each of sixteen weeks. She continued to tell them about the price they were getting for wheat and eggs, and that they were making maple syrup.								#9
	In a later letter sent from Manchester, near Farmington, in 1885 to her ‘dear Aunt’ she reported that father was sorry to hear of the death of his sister. That was most probably Eliza Slatter nee Collett (Ref. 11O5) who died in 1884. Lettie added that she will be going home that same afternoon, which perhaps indicated that she was living away from home at that time and was possibly working as a domestic servant elsewhere. The last of the three letters was dated 7^th January 1886 and was again sent to her Aunt and Uncle from Manchester in which she said she was living with a Quaker woman of 80, for whom she may have been a housemaid. She wrote in the letter that she wanted to go home for the winter, but that the woman wanted her to stay with her as she was ‘pretty weak and bent’. However, she added that she does manage to go home every Sunday.								#9
11P5	Sidney Collett was born at Farmington in Ontario County on 8^th July 1874, and it was there that he was living with his family in 1875 when he was recorded as Sydnia L Collett who was still under one year old. He was the youngest child of Richard Collett and Sarah Randall from England, and was five years old in the Farmington census of 1880, and was 18 in 1892. For the first twenty-five years of his life his continued to life and work at the family’s farm, up until he became a married man. It was on 14^th March 1900 that he married Harriet Chilson, who was known as Hattie, and who came from the Pumpkin Hook area of Farmington. At the time of the Farmington census in 1900, Sidney Collett aged 26, and his wife Harriet G Collett aged 22, were living with his parents, and it was three years later that Sidney’s father died, and two years after that the first of the couple’s children was born, who was named after his grandfather.								#9 #2
	Following the death of his father, Sidney and Hattie continued to live with Sidney’s mother and to manage the farm for her. That they did for the next seven years and, upon the death of his mother in 1910, Sidney inherited the farm where he and his family lived until his own death thirty-seven years later. According to the Farmington census of 1910 it was just Sidney Collett, who was 35, and Harriet G Collett, who was 32, living on the farm with their two children. Richard S Collett was five, and Helen E Collett was three years of age. The couple’s last child was added to the family within the next twelve months, and in 1915 Sidney Collett was 40 when his three children were aged eleven, eight, and four years respectively.								#9 #2
	Five years later, according to the Farmington census of 1920 the family comprised farmer Sidney Collett who was 45, Harriet G Collett who was 41, their son Richard S Collett aged 16, who was employed on a work-train for the steam railroad, Helen E Collett, who was 12, and Lloyd L Collett who was eight years old and listed as Loyde L Collett. In 1925 Sidney Collett of Farmington was 50, while his sons Richard and Loyde were 21 and 16, and his absent daughter Helen was married by then. With the passing of a further five years, it was only Lloyd who was still living at the family home with his parents, his older brother Richard being married by then.								#9 #2
	Having been Sidney L Collett in the census of 1875, and with no middle initial at any other time, in the Farmington census of 1930 he was named as Sidney J Collett when he was 55. The census enumerator also noted his wife’s name as Harriet J Collett, who was 51, while their son was named as Loyde L Collett who was 19. The next census in 1940 recorded that the couple were still living in the same house where they had been residing in 1935. Sidney Collett was 65 and Harriet was 61. Living with them at that time were their three grandchildren, Jeanette Kipp, who was 13, Alton Kipp, who was 11 and actually William Alton Kipp, and Francis Kipp who was nine years old, the children of their daughter Helen.								#2
	It was seven years later that Sidney Collett died at Farmington on 15^th March 1947 at the age of 72, and for a few years his widow Hattie continued to live there. Keeping her company was her married daughter Helen with her children, and that arrangement continued until around 1955 when the farm was sold out of the Collett family. After the farm was sold Hattie took up employment as live-in carer for sick people, which she did until the 1970s. She lived for the last few years of her life with her grandson William Alton Kipp – who was known as Bill, prior to her death on 10^th December 1979, aged 101. Following her passing she was buried at South Farmington Cemetery, where she was laid to rest with her husband.								#9
	11Q4		Richard S Collett				Born in 1903 at Farmington		#9
	11Q5		Helen Emogene Collett				Born in 1907 at Farmington		#9
	11Q6		Lloyd Lester Collett				Born in 1911 at Farmington		#9
11P6	John Collett was born at Admington after thirtieth of March in 1851 and was baptised at Quinton shortly after on 1^st June 1851. He was the eldest child of George Collett and Emma Rogers. He later married Maria who was born at Southam near Cheltenham in 1848. By the time John was ten years old, the census of 1861 placed him living with his mother Emma at Admington. At that time his father was working away from home in Cheltenham, where he was a coachman for the County Magistrate of Gloucestershire.								#2
	Ten years later in 1871 John Collett of Admington was a footman in the household of the Vicar of Campden, the Reverend Charles E Kennaway. He was 20 years old, unmarried, and was one of six servants living at the Vicarage House in Campden. It was during 1879 that John married Maria Pullam, who was born at Southam near Cheltenham in 1848. Following their marriage at Cheltenham, the couple moved north to Lancashire where John started a new job on the railway. According to the census in 1881, the childless couple were living at 141 Morton Street in Gorton, to the east Manchester, where John Collett, aged 29, was a railway guard, and his wife Maria was 32.								#2
	During the follow two years John suffered with a terrible illness, as a result of which the couple returned to live in Cheltenham, and it was there that he died on 7^th November 1883. The memorial card produced by his wife read as follows: ‘In Loving Remembrance of John the dearly beloved husband of Maria Collett who, after patiently enduring a long and painful illness, peacefully entered into rest of Nov. 7^th 1883, age 32’. The card also carried the following: ‘Who fell asleep in Jesus, rejoicing in the realisation of his Saviour’s redeeming grace, whose rod and staff were his great comfort in passing through the valley of the shadow of death’. In order to survive and make ends meet, his widow Maria took up the post of parlour maid at Hayes Lodge, Sydenham Road in Cheltenham, where she was working at the time of the 1891 and 1901 censuses. She died at Cheltenham during the third quarter of 1905, aged 57.								#9
11P7	Richard Collett was born at Admington in 1852 and was baptised at Quinton 29^th August 1852, the second son of George Collett and Emma Rogers. However, his absence from the family in the census of 1861, and his non-appearance in all later census returns, very likely indicates that he suffered an infant or childhood death.								#2
11P8	Francis Collett, who was known as Frank, was born in Warwick during the last quarter of 1856, the base-born son of Elizabeth Collett of Admington. At the time of the census in 1861, Frank Collett was four years old and was described as a visitor at the Warwick home of William Bromage in Northouse Street. Following the marriage of his mother to William Mountford later that year it would appear that Frank returned to live with his mother and her husband at Harbury. It was at Harbury that he was living with his mother in 1871, but by which time William Mountford had been dead for just three months. The census return that year recorded him as the son of Elizabeth Mountford, head of the household, with ditto marks under her surname alongside that of Frank’s name, which may have been an enumerator’s error. On that occasion as Frank Mountford aged 14, he was simply described as an invalid.								#9
	No record of him has been found in 1881, but ten years later in the Harbury census of 1891 he was listed as Frank Collett aged 32 and a labourer. He was also recorded as an invalid and described as the son-in-law of Henry Verney aged 53, his wife being Elizabeth Verney from Admington who was 55 and Frank’s mother. After a further ten years the March census of 1901 included Frank Collett aged 40 (sic), as the step-son of Henry Verney, having ‘fits since childhood’ while he was still living at Harbury with his mother Elizabeth Verney and his stepfather. Apart from those four census records, no other details are known regarding the life of Frank Collett, except that he died at Warwick during the first quarter of 1912.								#2 #9
11P9	Francis Richard Edward Hall Collett, who was known as Frank, was the eldest child of William Collett and Ann Hall. He was born at Admington and was baptised at St Swithun’s Church in Quinton on 5^th March 1860. He was one year old in the Admington census the following year. In 1871, at the age of 11, he was living with his family at The Milking Pail beer-house on Sheep Street in Mickleton, where his father was the inn keeper. By the time of the next census in 1881 Frank had left the family home at The Milking Pail and was working as a footman at the home of ‘M D’ James A Huxley at 9 Higher Terrace in Tor-Moham in Devon, which is a parish of Torquay.								#2
	Widower James Huxley was aged 46 and was of Newport in Shropshire. He must have been a wealthy man owning his own horse-drawn carriage since, in addition to footman Francis Collett, the other occupants of the house were: coachman George Stoneman and his wife and son, and servant girl and housemaid Mary Northey. It was two years later that Francis married Jane Treeby Paige at Newton Abbot in 1883. Jane was born at Modbury in Devon, and after two years she presented Frank with a son Francis James P Collett while they were living in Torquay. To avoid any confusion with his father, he was known as Frankie.								#2 #9
	Ten years later, the census of 1891 placed Francis, recorded as Frank Collett from Admington, as living in the Wandsworth & Streatham area of London, when he was 31. At that time in his life he was a servant at the home of Edmund Colthorpe at Streatham Lodge, while Frank’s wife Jane aged 33, and their five years old son were living nearby at 58 Colmer Road in Streatham.								#2 #9
	After a further ten years Frank Collett aged 41 from Admington, was living at 21 Beale Street in West Ham with his wife Jane Collett aged 42 and from Modbury, although by that time their son Frank was not living with them. He would have been 15, so his absence from any census record in 1901 may indicate that he had already joined the army and was serving abroad. On that occasion Frank Collett was the manager of an off licence, having his own account.								#2
	Over the following years the couple made the short move to Plaistow, where they were living within the West Ham registration district when the next census was conducted in April 1911. Frank Collett from Admington was then 51, while his wife Jane Collett from Modbury was 53. Also living nearby within the same area of Plaistow was their son Frank, who was married by then, with a child of his own. Francis Richard Edward Hall Collett, aka Frank Collett, died while he was still living in West Ham, where his death was registered during the first quarter of 1914. He was 53, and his wife Jane survived him by a further fourteen years when she died in 1928 at the age of 70.								#2 #9
	11Q7		Francis James P Collett				Born in 1885 at Torquay		#2
11P10	James Collett was born at Atherstone in 1864, where he was baptised on 24^th July 1864, the son of William and Ann Collett. He was seven years old at the time of the census in 1871, when he was living with his family at Mickleton. Upon leaving school, James secured work as a domestic groom with the Middlemore family of Birmingham, at their home in Bristol Road, Northfield near Kings Norton in Selly Oak. That was confirmed by the census in 1881, which described James Collett as a servant and domestic groom aged 16 and from Atherstone-on-Stour.								#2
	Also working for the Middlemore family as a domestic housemaid at that time was Sarah Evans aged 26, from Chirbury near Montgomery in Wales. Although she was ten years older than James, it was Sarah Evans that he married some years later, although no record of the marriage has been found to date. Once they were married the couple made their initial home in Quinton. The Quinton census in 1891, recorded James Collett as a farmer employing one farm servant, living there with his wife Sarah. They did not stay in Quinton very long, and that may have resulted from a farming disaster, since by 1897 when their son was born, the couple was living at Woodford, near Thrapston in Northamptonshire. However, they were not there very long, because by March 1901 the family was living at Hitcham in Buckinghamshire.								#9
	According to the census in 1901, James Collett aged 36 and of Atherstone-on-Stour, and his wife Sarah Collett aged 40 and from Chirbury in Shropshire, which is just across the boundary into England from Montgomery in Wales, were living at Hitcham in Buckinghamshire, which is Hitcham St Mary in Burnham near Slough. James’ occupation was stated as being that of a night watchman, a major change from the farmer he was only ten years earlier. Living with the couple was their son Shirley Collett who was four years old, whose place of birth was confirmed as Woodford.								#2
	During the next few years the family of three moved the short distance from Hitcham St Mary to Cedar Lodge in the Dropmore area of Burnham near Slough, where they were living in April 1911. James Collett of Atherstone aged 46, was still employed as a night watchman, his wife Sarah Collett was 48, and their son Shirley Collett was 14.								#2 #9
	And it was at Cedar Lodge that James and Sarah remained for the rest of their life. However, the couple may have been visiting relatives in Gloucestershire or Warwickshire twenty-one years later, since the death of James Collett of The Cedars in Dropmore, Burnham was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold register office (Ref. 6a 387) on 28^th July 1932. Probate of his personal effects valued at £139 6 Shillings 9 Pence was granted to Shirley Evans Collett, a railway employee, when the place of his passing was named as 20 Admington, Shipston-on-Stour. It is therefore possible that James was visiting his stepmother Ann Collett who died in 1935 at Milcote in Warwickshire, midway between Welford-on-Avon and Stratford-upon-Avon.								#14 #9
	11Q8		Shirley Evans Collett				Born in 1896 at Woodford		#2
11P11	Albert Frederick William Collett, who was more usually known as Fred or Frederick, was born at Mickleton on 7^th June 1870, the birth being registered by his mother on 28^th June. He was three months old when he was baptised at the Church of St Lawrence in Mickleton on 4^th September 1870, the third child of William Collett by his first wife Ann Hall. It was as Albert Collett that he was nine months old in the Mickleton census of 1871, and was 10 years old and was still living in Mickleton with his family in 1881. On both occasions the family was living at The Milking Pail on Sheep Street which was specifically named as 5 Sheep Street in 1871.								#2 #12 #9
	However, like many members of this family line, Albert later sought work in Staffordshire and was living in Walsall at the time of the census in 1891, by which time he was recorded as Frederick Collett from Mickleton. He was 21 and a railway labourer who was a lodger at the home of 25-years old Walter Lloyd and his wife Elizabeth at 64 Oxford Street in Walsall. It may have been while he was in the Walsall area that he met his future wife Eliza Atkins.								#9
	It was over three years later that Fred married Eliza by banns at the Church of St. Michael in Rushall on 25^th December 1894. By that time Fred’s occupation had changed to that of a gas stoker, while his father’s occupation was recorded as a farmer. His address on that occasion was Ryecroft in Rushall, north-east of Walsall. Eliza’s father was described as a contractor and the witnesses were John Hewitt, the husband of Eliza’s sister Mary Ann, and Ida Mason.								#12
	Eliza was born at James Street in Rushall on 4^th May 1874, the fourth child of James Atkins and his wife Sarah Beetlestone. However, in 1881 and 1891 the Atkins family was living at 5 Brewer’s Cottages in Rushall from where Eliza, at the age of 17, was the employed as a brace-maker, most probably making leather braces with her sister Mary Ann who was a harness stitcher.								#12
	Once they were married Fred and Eliza settled in Walsall where their first two children were born. Shortly after the birth of the second child the family moved to Admington Farm Fields, which was where they were living in March 1901. The census that month confirmed that Fred was a farmer, perhaps even taking over from his brother James (above). Once again he referred to himself as Frederick Collett, as he had ten years earlier. At that time, he was 29 years of age and his place of birth was confirmed as Mickleton.								#2
	His wife Eliza Collett was 27 and their two children at that time were five years old Frederick and two years old Florence, both confirmed as having been born at Walsall. Also living and working with the family was a lad named Frank Taplin who was 16 and a servant and a cowman from nearby Newbold. It may be significant that twenty years earlier Alfred and Ellen Taplin had been living with Fred’s parents at The Milking Pail in Mickleton, so Frank could have been their son.								#2
	During the following year Eliza gave birth to the couple’s second daughter while they were still living at Admington. Over the next five years a further two more children were added to the family after they had settled in Mickleton, where the family was residing in April 1911. At the time of the birth of his daughter Annie in 1904, Fred Collett’s occupation was that of a labourer, although three years later his occupation was recorded at the birth of his son Henry as being that of a haulier.								#2 #9
	In the census of 1911, Albert once again referred to himself as Frederick Collett of Mickleton, when he was 40 and a self-employed haulier living with his family at a ‘private house’ in Mickleton, which may have been Hidcote Cottage in Sheep Street. Eliza Collett from Walsall was 36, and their children by then were Frederick Collett aged 15, who was a gardener working in a private garden, Florence Collett aged 11, both born at Walsall, Ethel Collett who was eight and born at Quinton, Annie Collett who was six, and Henry Collett who was three years old, both of them after the family had settled in Mickleton, Henry being the only one not attending school. Whilst she was very likely baptised as Sarah Ann, it would appear that the couple’s younger daughter never used her first name, and was known as Annie, and later as Nan.								#2
	One more child was born into the family after 1911, and that was another son, Arthur George Collett who was also born while the family was still living in Mickleton. When the child’s birth was registered during 1916 Fred’s occupation was stated as being that of a gardener. It was also in 1916 that Eliza’ father died on March 13^th when he left an estate valued at £8,609 4 Shilling and 7 Pence which would equate to around £450,000 in 2012 using the Retail Price Index, or a massive £2.4 Million using the Average Earnings Index.								#9 #12
	An account dated 29^th June 1916 included an advance of £200 paid from the estate to Eliza Collett for the purchase of a house at Mickleton where the family lived until Eliza’s premature death. Her father’s Will was proved on 19^th May 1917, and in 1918 Frederick Collett bought Cider Mill Cottage in Admington for £430 at auction held in Stratford-on-Avon on 1^st February 1918. That dwelling, together with three other cottages, had been purchased by Fred’s father in 1897 and upon his death they had been passed onto his second wife Ann.								#12
	Just three years after the birth of her last child Eliza Collett nee Atkins died on 16^th March 1919 at the age of 44. Her granddaughter Dorothy said that she had died of influenza during the massive world-wide epidemic of 1919, but her death certificate gave the cause of death as a cerebral haemorrhage. Her eldest daughter Florence who, along with her sister Ethel was in domestic service, was called home to take charge of the household and, in particular, to care for her brother Arthur who was only three years old.								#12
	Eliza died without making a Will, so administration of her estate was granted to Frederick under a bond jointly with Francis James Paige Collett (his nephew) of Stratford-on-Avon, a poultry dealer, on 18^th January 1922. The estate was valued at £338 7 Shillings and 8 Pence, made up of a freehold messuage and premises situate at Mickleton in the County of Gloucester in the occupation of the deceased at the time of her death, worth £200 or £9 per annum if rented, plus £52 12 Shillings and 9 Pence in the Stratford-on-Avon branch of Lloyds Bank, plus the balance due as one of the children of James Atkins at £85 14 Shillings and 11 Pence. Shortly after her death the family moved into Cider Mill Cottage in Admington.								#12
	It was nineteen years later that Albert Frederick William Collett died on 6^th February 1938, his death being registered at the North Cotswold district registrar’s office on the following day by his son A G Collett of Ilmington, who had been present at the death. However, by that time in his life he was staying at the home of his married daughter Florence Bennett at Hidcote Boyce in Gloucestershire. He was 67 years old and had been working as a roadman, and the cause of death was: Syncope (loss of consciousness), Heart failure, and. Chronic nephritis and dropsy. Following his death Albert Frederick William Collett was buried in the parish churchyard at Quinton. Attending the funeral were Bob and Lorna North (Mr & Mrs R North – see Obituary below), Lorna Collett North nee Craven being the eldest daughter of Albert’s sister Florence Gertrude Ann Hall Craven nee Collett.								#12
	The following obituary was published in the local newspaper that same month: ”Mr A .F Collett in his 67^th year after failing health for over 12 months. Native of Mickleton and at one time farmed at Admington Grounds. Afterwards employed by Warwickshire and Gloucestershire County Councils and had lived in Admington for over 30 years. Survived by 3 sons and 3 daughters. Wife died 1919. Funeral at Quinton on Wednesday. Mourners Mr & Mrs Fred Collett - son and daughter-in-law, Mr & Mrs Henry Collett - son and daughter-in-law, Mr Arthur Collett – son, Mr & Mrs J Bennett - daughter [Florence] and son-in-law, Mrs W Bailey – daughter [Ethel], Mr & Mrs Charles Clifford - daughter [Sarah Ann] and son-in-law, Mr F Collett – nephew [Francis James Paige Collett, the son of his brother Francis], Mr & Mrs R. North - nephew and niece [Lorna Collett Craven, the daughter of his sister Florence]. Frederick’s estate was administered by Slatter, Son & Slatter of Stratford-upon-Avon [Frederick & John Slatter Jnr were cousins]. Frederick William Collett & Francis James Paige Collett were executors.”								#12
	11Q9		Frederick William Collett				Born in 1895 at Walsall		#9
	11Q10		Florence Gertrude Collett				Born in 1899 at Walsall		#9
	11Q11		Ethel May Collett				Born in 1902 at Admington		#9
	11Q12		Sarah Ann Collett				Born in 1904 at Mickleton		#9
	11Q13		Henry James Collett				Born in 1907 at Mickleton		#9
	11Q14		Arthur George Collett				Born in 1916 at Mickleton		#9