PART
TWELVE
The
Oxfordshire Chipping Norton Line - 1560 to 2010
Updated June 2021
This is the family line of Iain Collett (Ref.
12R4) of Derbyshire,
who kindly provided the new information
regarding his family line,
which is depicted by the names in
capital letters
This is also the family line of Sheila
Collett (Ref. 12Q3) of New South Wales, whose
daughter, Marion O’Shea, kindly provided
much of the information relating to her family.
Their line, depicted by the underlined
names, shares a common ancestor with the
line of Iain Collett (above), that being
John Collett (Ref. 12L5) 1780 to 1848
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The Colletts listed in this section
were mostly born or lived within a triangle of rural Oxfordshire defined by
Chipping Norton to the north (the apex), and Burford and Witney (the base
line). The actual starting point still
requires more research, as there are some missing elements, possibly from
outside that defined area. For example,
it must be assumed that Ursely Collett (Ref. 12F1) and Elizabeth Collett
(Ref. 12F2) had a younger brother, let us say Ref. 12F3. If he was born around 1570 and married
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It may be of interest that Part 64 –
The Gloucestershire Upper Swell Line contains details of [a] Susanna Collett
(Ref. 64M4) from Oddington in Gloucestershire who married Thomas Lardner at
Bledington in 1816, that [b] John William Collett (Ref. 12n2) married an Anne
Lardner at Charlbury around 1860, and that [c] the aforesaid Anne Lardner,
born at Churchill in 1838, was the daughter of Thomas Lardner of Churchill
who was born there around 1802. In
addition to them, William George Collett (Ref. 12m6) from Oddington was a
servant to Henry Lardner of Little Compton near Oddington in 1851. |
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Those villages lie within ten miles of
each other, across the county boundary between Gloucestershire and
Oxfordshire. Details of the Oddington
Colletts of Gloucestershire, from 1723 to 1836, can now been found in Part 64 – The Gloucestershire
Upper Swell Line, when previously some of the details were contain in the
appendices at the end of Part 12 and at the end of Part 48 – The Dudley West
Midlands Line. The work of merging all
those three separate sections will be completed with the re-issue of Part 64
in during the second half of 2021. |
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12F1 |
Ursely Collett may have been born around 1563 and may have been the older
sister of Elizabeth Collett (below).
What is known is that she married Thomas Tidmarsh at Chipping Norton
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12F2 |
Elizabeth Collett, whose estimated birth date was around
1565, married John Stapleton or Stapleford on 7th November 1586 at
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12H2 |
Thomas Collett, who may have been born around 1660 or
earlier, married Audrey Hancock at Chipping Norton on 1st October 1682. They couple could therefore be the parents
of the next three Collett men listed below, but further work needs to be
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12I1 |
William Collett, whose date of birth was possibly around
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Baptised on
14.11.1710 at Ascott |
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12J2 |
William
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Baptised on
20.01.1712 at Enstone |
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12I2 |
Richard
Collett, whose date of birth was around 1685, may have been the
grandson of |
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12J3 |
Richard
Collett
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Baptised on
18.01.1712 at Ascott |
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Matthew
Collett
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Baptised on
05.10.1715 at Ascott |
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12J5 |
Thomas Collett
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Baptised on
14.03.1717 at Ascott |
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12J6 |
Joseph Collett
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Baptised on
15.05.1720 at Ascott |
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12I3 |
Robert Collett, whose date of birth was around 1700,
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Baptised on
31.03.1745 at Charlbury |
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12J3 |
Richard
Collett was
baptised at Ascott on 18th January 1712, the son of Richard and
Mary Collett. No other details have
been discovered at this time, except the burial at Ascott of a Richard
Collett on 18th December 1756, who may have been his father. |
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12K1 |
Thomas Collett
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Born in 1743
at Ascott |
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Born in 1745
at Ascott |
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12J5 |
Thomas Collett was baptised at Holy Trinity Church
in Ascott on 14th March 1717, the son of Richard and Mary Collett. He married Ann Gilks in 1751 at St Mary’s
Church in Charlbury, where their children were also baptised. It would be reasonable to assume that their
son Thomas was their first-born child, which may indicate that Thomas married
Ann when he was in his early thirties, while she may have been much younger. Although not proved, it is possible that
further children were born to Thomas and Ann and that one of them, born after
1753, may have been the father of John Collett (Ref. 12L8) who married Mary
at Charlbury around 1797. Thomas
Collett died in 1770 and was buried at Charlbury on 11th March
1770, while Ann lived on as a widow until she died twenty-six years later and
was buried with her husband at St Mary’s Church in Charlbury on 9th
March 1796. |
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12K3 |
Thomas Collett
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Baptised on
06.05.1753 at Charlbury |
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unknown Collett - not
confirmed
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Born circa 1754
at Charlbury |
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12K5 |
Ann
Collett
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Baptised on
04.07.1756 at Charlbury |
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12J6 |
Joseph Collett was baptised at Ascott on 15th
May 1720, the son of Richard and Mary Collett. It was also at Ascott where he married Ann around
1740-1743, and where all of their children were baptised. Ann Collett was buried at Ascott on 16th
September 1765, only a few months after the death of their son Matthew Collett,
and just one month before the death of two months old daughter Sarah Collett. The Ascott parish burial record stated that
she was ‘Ann, the wife of Joseph Collett’ who was also buried there on 30th
April 1779. |
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12K6 |
Thomas
Collett
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Baptised on
02.10.1743 at Ascott |
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Richard
Collett
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Baptised on 27.10.1745
at Ascott |
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Jane
Collett
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Baptised on 19.04.1747
at Ascott |
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Ann Collett
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Baptised on 15.05.1749
at Ascott |
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Matthew Collett
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Baptised on 25.12.1750
at Ascott |
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Mary
Collett
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Baptised on
15.10.1752 at Ascott |
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Joseph Collett
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Baptised on
05.05.1755 at Ascott |
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Elizabeth Collett
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Baptised on
09.04.1756 at Ascott |
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Joseph
Collett
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Baptised on
14.05.1758 at Ascott |
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William
Collett
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Baptised on
30.05.1762 at Ascott |
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Sarah Collett
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Baptised on
28.07.1765 at Ascott |
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12K1 |
Thomas Collett was born at Ascott in 1743, the son
of Richard Collett. Sadly, he only
survived for a few weeks, when he was buried at Holy Trinity Church in Ascott
on 5th April 1743. |
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12L1 |
Elizabeth Collett
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Baptised on
14.05.1769 at Chadlington |
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Mary Collett
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Baptised on
08.03.1772 at Chadlington |
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Sarah Collett
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Baptised on
19.03.1775 at Chadlington |
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Hannah Collett
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Baptised on
04.01.1778 at Chadlington |
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Baptised on
02.07.1780 at Chadlington |
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12K3 |
Thomas Collett was baptised at St Mary’s Church in Charlbury
on 6th May 1753, the son of Thomas Collett and his wife Ann Gilks.
He was twenty-seven when he married (1)
Hannah Ward at Charlbury on 9th April 1780. It seems likely that Hannah presented him
with a son during the following year (see note below from Thomas’ burial
record), and that he may have been followed by further children, including
daughter Sarah who was confirmed as having been born into the family at
Charlbury. Hannah Collett nee Ward
died after just seven years of being married to Thomas and was buried at
Charlbury on 3rd November 1787.
Two years later ‘Thomas Collett, a widower’ married (2) Hannah Chapman
on 17th November 1789 at Charlbury. Thomas Collett died towards the end of 1809
and was buried in the churchyard at St Mary’s in Charlbury on 22nd
December 1809. The service was
conducted by the Vicar John Cobb as detailed in the parish register, which
described the deceased as ‘Thomas Collett senior’. Therefore, it would perhaps indicate that
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12L6 |
Thomas Collett –assumed son
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Born circa
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Sarah Collett
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Baptised on
05.08.1784 |
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12K4 |
An
unknown
Collett may have been born
at Charlbury around 1754 and have been the brother of Thomas Collett (above)
and the son of Thomas Collett and his wife Ann Gilks, none of which has been
confirmed to date. Neither has it been
confirmed that he married and had a son John who was very likely born at
Charlbury around 1776.
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John Collett –assumed son
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12K9 |
Ann Collett was baptised at Ascott on 15th
May 1749, the daughter of Joseph and Ann Collett. She was around twenty-two years of age when
she married Thomas Jackson at Ascott on 10th August 1771. The witnesses at the wedding were John
Harris and John Wayne. |
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12K10 |
Matthew Collett was baptised at Ascott on 25th
December 1750, the son of Joseph and Ann Collett. Although he lived longer than his brother Joseph
and sister Elizabeth (below), Matthew died while he was still a teenager and
was buried at Ascott on 14th July 1765. The parish register confirmed that he was ‘the
son of Joseph Collett’. |
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12K12 |
Joseph Collett was baptised at Ascott on 5th
May 1755, the son of Joseph and Ann Collett.
He only lived for a few days and was buried there on 11th
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12K13 |
Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Ascott on 9th
April 1756, the daughter of Joseph and Ann Collett. Just like her brother Joseph (above), Elizabeth
only lived for a short while. She was
buried at Ascott on 13th April 1756 and the parish register verified
that she was ‘the daughter of Joseph Collett’. |
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12K14 |
Joseph Collett was baptised at Ascott on 14th
May 1758 and was named in honour of his brother who had died three years
before he was born. He was the son of
Joseph and Ann Collett and it was also at Ascott where he was buried on 8th
October 1806. It is unclear whether or
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12K16 |
Sarah Collett was baptised at Ascott on 28th
July 1765, the youngest child of Joseph and Ann Collett. Sarah ‘the daughter of Joseph Collett’ was
buried at Ascott on 4th October 1765, less than three months after
her brother Matthew Collett (above) and less than a month after her mother
Ann who may have never recovered after the birth. Could there be a common cause for the three
deaths, such as a serious illness or plague, and was that the same reason for
the deaths of the two other infants Joseph and Elizabeth Collett (above) when
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12L1 |
Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 14th
May 1769, the eldest child of John Collett and his wife Sarah Berry. It was on 27th December 1792 at
Chadlington that she married John Drinkwater who was also from Chadlington. The witnesses at the wedding were James
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12L2 |
Mary Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 8th
March 1772, the daughter of John and Sarah Collett. Mary later married Thomas Dring of Charlbury
at Chadlington on 17th August 1793. The witnesses at the wedding were Mary’s
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12L3 |
Sarah Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 19th
March 1775, the daughter of John and Sarah Collett. She married James Keary (or Kearsy) on 18th
September 1798 and the witnesses were Sarah’s brother-in-law Thomas Dring (above)
and Martha Berry, a possible relative through her mother Sarah Berry. The parish records relating to Sarah’s son
Henry Collett appear to indicate that he was initially base-born, that is she
was not married at the time of his birth.
The Chadlington baptism record of 6th December 1807 stated
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It may be worth noting here that William Collett (in Part
64) who was born during 1801, married Elizabeth Kearsy (or Keary) at
Chadlington in 1835, so could this be a case of the same family name being misspelt
in one of the parish records. What is
known is that Elizabeth, who was born in 1801 and who died in 1859, was the
daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Kearsey, the five times great uncle and
aunt of Don Cameron of Belmont in New South Wales whose family details can be
found in Part 62 – The Trowbridge to New Zealand Line. It is also interesting that Edwin Collett (in Part 64), the son of Elizabeth Kearsy
and William Collett, attended the school at Stow-on-the-Wold in 1841 that was
owned and managed by John and Frances Kearsey, as did his sister Mary Collett
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Henry Collett (later Kearsy)
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12L4 |
Hannah Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 4th
January 1778, another child of John and Sarah Collett. She lived to be just four years old before
she was buried at Chadlington on 1st March 1782. The parish burial register recorded that
she was ‘the daughter of John and Sarah Collett’. |
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All
of the couple’s children were baptised at Chadlington, and it was there that
John’s wife Mary was buried on 16th April 1834, aged 50. Just over seven years later, the first
census of 1841 recorded widower John Collett as living at Mill End in
Chadlington. John, like the four
children still living there with him, was recorded as being born within the
county (of Oxfordshire) with a rounded age of 60, and the occupation of a
cooper. Living with him, and very
likely performing the role of housekeeper, was his daughter Mary Ann Collett
who had a rounded age of 20. The three
other children were his sons Charles Collett, aged 20, who was also a cooper,
Mark Collett, aged 15, who was a carpenter, and Jabel Collett, who was also
15, but employed as a tailor. John
Collett died seven years later at the age of 65 (sic), and was buried at Chadlington
on 21st November 1848.
However, his quoted age at the time of his passing does not correspond
to that of his birth or baptism, so it may have been a genuine mistake by a
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12M2 |
Mary Collett
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Born in 1804
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Caroline Collett
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Born in 1805
at Chadlington |
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12M4 |
John Collett
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Born in 1806
at Chadlington |
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12M5 |
William Collett
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Born in 1808
at Chadlington |
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12M6 |
John Collett
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Born in 1810
at Chadlington |
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12M7 |
Frederick
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Born circa
1811-1812 at Chadlington |
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12M8 |
Mary Ann Collett
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Born circa
1815-1816 at Chadlington |
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12M9 |
Charles Collett
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Born in 1817
at Chadlington |
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12M10 |
James Collett
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Born in 1820
at Chadlington |
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12M11 |
Mark Collett
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Born in 1823
at Chadlington |
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12M12 |
Jabel Collett
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Born in 1825
at Chadlington |
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12L6 |
Thomas
Collett
was possibly born at Charlbury around 1782, the son of Thomas Collett and his
wife Hannah Ward. No actual date of
birth or baptism record has so far been found and his existence is based
purely on the fact that his father was referred to as ‘Thomas Collett senior’
at the time of his death at Charlbury in 1809.
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12L7 |
Sarah Collett was baptised at Charlbury on 5th
August 1784 and was the daughter of Thomas and Hannah Collett. Tragedy hit the family when Sarah was only
three years old, when her mother died, possibly in childbirth. Although her father married for a second
time just over two years after the death of his wife, there may have been an
adverse effect on little Sarah, which caused problems for her in subsequent
years. What is known is, that she
later gave birth to a base-born daughter Hannah Collett, named in honour of
her late mother, who was buried at Charlbury on 31st August
1809. The parish burial record
confirmed that Hannah was ‘the illegitimate daughter of Sarah Collett of
Charlbury’. However, neither the age
of the child at the time of her death, or the date of her birth are known,
but it seems likely that it would have been between 1804 and 1809. Furthermore, it has not been established
whether Sarah was ever married or what happened to her after 1809, when it
must be assumed that she was still a spinster living in Charlbury at that
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Hannah Collett
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12L8 |
John Collett, who may have been born at Charlbury
around 1776, married Mary at Charlbury around 1796 and he may have been the
cousin of Sarah Collett (above). This is only an assumption and is not
based on any factual information, but is needed to provide the parents for
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Thomas
Collett
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Baptised on
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23.12.1798 at Charlbury |
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12M1 |
Henry Collett was base-born at Chadlington in the
years prior to the marriage of his mother Sarah Collett to James Keary (or
Kearsy) on 18th September 1798.
It is not known if James was his father or not, but Henry was later
baptised Henry Keary (or Kearsy) on 6th December 1807 at Chadlington,
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12M2 |
Mary Collett may have been born at Chadlington in
1804, but no birth or baptism record has been found for her to date. However, her burial record of 17th
December 1806 at Chadlington confirmed that her parents were John and Mary
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12M3 |
Caroline
Collett was
born at Chadlington and was baptised there at St Nicholas Church on 12th
May 1805, the daughter of John and Mary Collett.
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12M5 |
William Collett was born in 1804 according to his
burial record below, but was not baptised until 5th June 1808. That event took place at Chadlington where
he married Harriet Smith on 20th January 1847. At that time William’s occupation was that
of a carpenter, as it was seven years later at the birth of his second son,
and later still at the time of the marriage of his first-born son James in
1878. The witnesses at wedding of
William and Harriet were, Jabel Collett (below) - William’s youngest brother,
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The
couple’s second son Francis William Collett was baptised at Chadlington,
although no record has so far been found of the birth or baptism of their
first son James Collett, even though he was listed with the family in the
census records. The 1861 census
recorded the family at
Bull Hill in Chadlington as William Collett, aged 54 and a carpenter
of Chadlington, his wife Harriet Collett also born at Chadlington who was 44,
and their two Chadlington born sons James Collett who was eight, and Francis
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Ten
years later the family was still together and was still living at Chadlington
where William was 66 and
a master carpenter, Harriet was 56, James was 19, and Francis was 16. William Collett died five years later and
was buried at Chadlington on 18th August 1876, aged 72. The note in the parish register stated that
William had died as the result of a fall from the top of the house that he
was building at that time. Four years
after that, according to the 1881 Census for Chadlington, Harriet Collett was a 66 years
old widow, an annuitant, when
she was living very near and perhaps adjacent to her married son James and
his family. Just three years
later, in May 1884, Harriet passed away at the age of 70 and was buried with
her husband on 10th May 1884 in the graveyard of St Nicholas
Church at Chadlington. |
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James Collett
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Born in 1852
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Francis William Collett
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Born in 1854
at Chadlington |
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their son and his wife were settled in Australia, John and Mary followed not
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12N3 |
Joseph Collett
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Born in 1833
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12M7 |
Frederick
Collett was born at
Chadlington around 1811, the son of John Collett and Mary Hucking. He is known to have married Ann Price of
Glympton around Christmas time in 1835 and, according to the 1838 baptism
record for his daughter Caroline Collett, Frederick’s early occupation was that
of a tailor of Chadlington. The
couple’s wedding banns were recorded in the register at St Nicholas Church in
Chadlington on the three occasions of 29th November, and the 6th
and 13th December 1835. It
is very likely that the marriage ceremony was conducted at Glympton. |
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The
Chipping Norton, Witney & Woodstock registration district census in 1841
included Frederick Collett with a rounded age of 25, his wife Ann was 31, and
their only child at that time was Caroline who was three years old. By the time of the marriage of the couple’s
only known daughter in 1859, Frederick was recorded as an inn keeper and, a
few years later for the marriage of his son William in 1867, his occupation
was stated as being that of a publican.
In between those two events the family was recorded in 1861 as living on Bull Hill in Chadlington,
at which time it comprised Frederick, aged 49, Ann who was 51 and from
Wilsford in Wiltshire, and their two sons Frederick who was 18, and William
who was 15. It was during the next
decade that Frederick‘s wife may have died and during those same ten years,
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So,
for the next census of Chadlington conducted in 1871, Frederick Collett was
60 years old and the only occupant of a dwelling on Bull Hill in the village,
from where he was still working as a tailor.
Curiously his status was still that of a married man, as it was ten
years later, while his place of birth was confirmed as Chadlington. It was a similar situation ten years later when
the census return for 1881 described Frederick Collett from Chadlington as
being married, aged 70 years, and living alone in a dwelling immediately next
door to the Sandy Arms Inn at Chadlington.
Once again, his occupation was that of a tailor although, it is
understood that during some of the intervening years he had also been the
landlord of the Sandy Arms Inn. However,
his single status was reaffirmed by the census in 1891 when Frederick Collett
from Chadlington was 80 years of age and a widower, who was a tailor living
alone at Mill End in Chadlington. Just
over six years later the parish records for Chadlington confirmed that
Frederick Collett died during 1897, aged 86, and that he was buried in the
churchyard of St Nicholas Church on 9th October 1897. His death was recorded at Chipping Norton
(Ref. 3a 525) during the last quarter of 1897. |
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Caroline Collett
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Born in 1837
at Chadlington |
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Frederick Henry Collett
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Born in 1843
at Chadlington |
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12N6 |
William
Price Collett
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Born in 1845
at Chadlington |
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12M8 |
Mary Ann Collett was born at Chadlington around 1816 and
was the seventh child of John Collett and Mary Huckings. She had a rounded age of 20 in the June
census of 1841, by which time her mother had already passed away in 1834,
when she was recorded living with her widowed father at Mill End in
Chadlington. With no stated occupation,
it seems more than likely she was acting as the housekeeper for her father
and her three younger brothers. Three
years later Mary Ann was married, and four and a half years after that her
father died. Mary Ann Collett married
Thomas Hill at Chadlington on 10th March 1844, when she was
recorded as the daughter of John Collett.
Thomas Hill was a carpenter, while his father’s occupation was that of
a wheelwright. The witnesses at the
wedding were William Collett (above) - Mary Ann’s older brother, and Mary
Hill, who was possibly Thomas’ mother.
The next census
in 1851 recorded the family as Thomas Hill 36 and a carpenter, Mary Ann Hill
37, Mary Hill who was six, Fanny Hill who was four, and David
Hill who was one year old. All
members of the household had been born in Chadlington. |
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Son, David may not have survived
since in 1861, just four members of the family were still living at
Chadlington, and they were Thomas and Mary Ann, both 46, and daughters Mary
and Fanny, 16 and 14 years respectively.
According to the census in 1871, Thomas and Mary Ann were both 55 and
had been born at Chadlington, where they were still living with their unmarried
daughter Mary who was 26. Living with
the family, was Mary Ann’s youngest brother Jabel Collett (below), a
confirmed bachelor of 45 years. Jabel was still living with the couple at
Chadlington in 1881, when builder Thomas Hill was 65, as was his wife, Mary
Ann Hill. It was exactly the same situation in 1891, when
the three of them were again residing in Chadlington, at Green End, at the
ages of 77 and 66. Mary Ann Hill, nee
Collett, was 84 when she died at Chadlington, her death recorded at Chipping
Norton register office (Ref. 3a 23) during the first quarter of 1899. |
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12M9 |
Charles Collett was born around 1816 and was baptised
at Chadlington on 29th June 1817.
In the census of 1841 Charles had a rounded age of 20 while still
living at the family home in Mill End in Chadlington. By that time in his life his mother had
passed away seven years earlier, and his occupation was that of a cooper,
like his widowed father, with whom he was living with his sister Mary Ann
(above), and his brothers Mark and Jabel (below). Just over five years later Charles Collett,
then described as a farmer, married Judy Fletcher of Chadlington at St
Nicholas Church in Chadlington on 14th November 1846. The witnesses at the wedding were his
brother Jabel Collett, and Ann Hill, who was possibly the sister of Thomas
Hill who married Charles’ sister Mary Ann Collett. Charles’ father was recorded as being ‘ |
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The
census of 1851 confirmed that Charles was 32 and a married farmer of 21 acres, who was born at
Chadlington, where he was still living with his wife and their first two
children. They were Elizabeth Collett
who was three, and James Collett who was one year, although their mother was
absent from the family home that day.
Like his father John Collett, Charles Collett was initially a cooper
by trade but, from 1852 onwards he was recorded as a farmer, or a labourer,
on the baptism records for his children.
All of the children were born at Chadlington and baptised at St
Nicholas Church in the village. By
1861 the family living at Chadlington comprised Charles Collett who was 45
and a farmer of 74 acres
employing one man and one boy, his wife Judith Hope Collett aged 36
and born at Ramsden - midway between Witney and Charlbury, and their seven
children. They were Elizabeth Ann
Collett who was 13, James Collett who was 11, Arthur Collett who was nine,
George Collett who was seven, |
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Also,
just like the reference in the 1861 Census, from 1862 onwards Charles’ wife
was listed in their children’s baptism records as being Judith Hope
Collett. It has not been determined
whether Judith Hope Collett was the same Judy Fletcher that Charles had married
in 1846. The alternative solution
could be that Charles may have been married twice, although no records of the
death of Judy, nor his marriage to Judith, have been found. So, the greater likelihood is that they
were one and the same person. What is
interesting is the second Christian name of their daughter Fanny, which was
Judy’s maiden name. Was it a tribute
to a death in Judy/Judith’s family? or was it as a result of the passing of
Judy. Either way the baptism record
confirmed the children’s father was Charles Collett. |
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More
children were born into the family during the next decade so, by 1871, the
family residing at Chadlington was made up of farmer Charles Collett from Chadlington who was 56, his wife Judith
H Collett from Ramsden
who was 44, and eleven of their thirteen children. Only the couple’s eldest sons James and
Arthur had already left the family home by then, more likely to ease the
overcrowding in their home. The
children listed with Charles and Judy were Elizabeth A Collett 22, George Collett
16, John S Collett 14, Amelia M Collett 13, Caroline W Collett 11, Charles Collett
who was nine, Lewis E Collett (Louis) who was seven, Fanny F Collett and
Susan K Collett who were both aged four years, Frances Collett who was two,
and one-year-old Frederick Collett who sadly died at the end of the following
year. |
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There
is further evidence of the family in the census of 1881. On that occasion Charles Collett was
recorded as being married and was 63 years of age, who had been born at
Chadlington. His occupation was that
of a farmer of 76 acres employing one boy, while still living at Chadlington. However, Charles’ wife Judy was missing
from the census record. Living with
Charles was his son Arthur Collett, aged 29 and a farmer’s son and an
assistant on the farm, his son Lewis E Collett, aged 17 and a scholar, the
twins Fanny and Susan, both 14, and Frank Collett who was 12 who had been
baptised as Francis. All of the
children were confirmed as having been born at Chadlington. |
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A
search for the wife of Charles Collett in 1881 has been conducted, but
without success. However, ten years, she
was again recorded at West
End in Chadlington with the family in the census of 1891. Charles Collett was 75 and still working as a farmer,
his wife Jude Collett was 62, and just two sons and two daughters were still
living with them. Arthur Collett was
36 and a farmer’s son, as
was Charles Collett who was 29, while the twins Fanny and Susie
Collett were 23, both
described as farmer’s daughters, with all four children and their
father confirmed as having been born at Chadlington. Living close by at Mill End in Chadlington
was Charles’ older brother Frederick Collett, who was 80 years of age. |
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It is very odd, that the death of
Judith Hope Collett has not been identified in any form, anywhere in England
during the 1890s. Having lost his
wife, widowed Charles Collett aged 85, had retired from farming and was
residing at Park Street in nearby Charlbury, where he was living on his own means at Charlbury. Living there with him was his eldest
daughter Elizabeth A O’Grady who was a widow of 53, who had also been born at
Chadlington. However, he only survived
for another twelve months, when he died during April 1902 aged 87, following
which he was buried at St Nicholas Church in Chadlington. |
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Elizabeth Ann Collett
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Born in 1847
at Chadlington |
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12N8 |
James Collett
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Born in 1849
at Chadlington |
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12N9 |
Arthur Collett
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Born in 1851
at Chadlington |
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12N10 |
George Collett
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Born in 1854
at Chadlington |
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12N11 |
John Samuel Collett
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Born in 1856
at Chadlington |
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12N12 |
Amelia Mary Collett
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Born in 1858
at Chadlington |
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12N13 |
Caroline Winifred Collett
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Born in 1859
at Chadlington |
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12N14 |
Charles Collett
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Born in 1861
at Chadlington |
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12N15 |
Lewis Edward Collett
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Born in 1864
at Chadlington |
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12N16 |
Fanny Fletcher Collett twin
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Born in 1866
at Chadlington |
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12N17 |
Susan Kate Collett twin
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Born in 1867
at Chadlington |
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12N18 |
Francis Collett
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Born in 1868
at Chadlington |
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Frederick Collett
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Born in 1870
at Chadlington |
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12M10 |
James
Collett was
born on 7th August 1820 at Chadlington, where he was baptised on
20th August 1820 at St Nicholas Church. The church’s baptism record confirmed his
parents were John and Mary Collett.
However, following the death of his mother in 1834, James was not
living with his widowed father at Mill End in Chadlington in June 1841, nor
has any later record of him been found.
So, he too may have died while he was still a child.
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12M11 |
Mark Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 4th
June 1823, a son of John Collett and Mary Hucking, and was recorded with a
rounded age of 15 years in the census of 1841, when he was living with his
widowed father and four siblings at Mill End in Chadlington. His actual age would have been 18 and, by
that time in his life was he working as a carpenter. Four years later, the marriage of Mark Collett and Rosina Coleman was
recorded at Chipping Norton (Ref. xvi 55) during the third quarter of 1845.
Rosina was born at Salford near
Chipping Norton in 1827, but was recorded in later records and census returns
under a variety of names. The couple’s
only two confirmed children were both baptised at St Nicholas Church in
Chadlington and for the first of them she was named as Rosannah, and for the second,
as Rose Anna. It was at Chadlington, the newly married couple
was living in 1851, by which time Rosina had presented Mark with their first
child. Mark Collett was 28 and a sawyer,
Roseanne Collett was 24, and Angelina Collett was one year old, all three of
them born at Chadlington. Mark’s
occupation was simply described as labourer at the time of the baptism of the
two girls, but was recorded as a carpenter in the subsequent census returns,
and in the parish register for the later wedding of his second daughter Mary
Ann in 1870. |
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The
Chadlington census of 1861 listed the family as Mark Collett who was 38 and a carpenter, Rose
Anna Collett was 34 and
from Salford near Chipping Norton, and their two daughters Angelina Collett
who was 11, and Mary Ann Collett who was nine years old. They had been born at Chadlington, like
their father. By 1871, carpenter Mark Collett
was 47 and Rosa A Collett from Salford was 44 and, with daughter Mary married
by then, it was just the couple’s oldest daughter who was still living with
them. Angelina Collett was 21, while boarding with the family was
75-year-old Jonah Hucking from Chadlington, who was very likely a member of
his mother’s family. After a
further ten years, it was just Mark Collett, aged 58, a carpenter, born at
Chadlington, and his wife Rosina
Collett from Salford aged 54, who were living at Chadlington in 1881. The couple was still living at Chadlington
in 1891, at Brook End, when
carpenter Mark was 67 and Rosanna was 63. However, less than three years later,
Rosanna passed away at the start of 1894 and was buried at Chadlington on 20th
January 1894 at the age of 67. |
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Following
the death of his wife, Mark had left Chadlington and moved to Chipping Norton by
1901, where he was a farm labourer aged 78, who was described as an inmate. It was just over two years later that Mark
Collett, a carpenter of Chipping Norton, died on 18th September
1903. It took five years to settle his
estate which was resolved at Oxford on 18th November 1908, when
administration of his personal effects worth £5 was granted to his eldest
daughter Angelina Susan Derby, a widow.
Tragically, after working all his life, it was at the Chipping Norton
Union Workhouse that he was living when he passed away at the age of 80. |
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Angelina Susan Collett
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Born during 1849
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12N21 |
Mary Ann Collett
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Born during
1852 at Chadlington |
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12M12 |
Jabel Collett was born at Chadlington in 1824 and
was baptised there on 16th February 1825. He was also listed with a rounded age of 15
in the census of 1841, when he was living at Mill End in Chadlington with just
his father and three older siblings. The
census also confirmed that he was already employed as a tailor by then. Five years later he was one of the
witnesses at the marriage of his older brother Charles Collett (above) and
Judy Fletcher in 1846. It is rather curious that in
the Chadlington census of 1851, not long after his father had died, that
Jabel Collett from Chadlington was 26 and described as a tailor’s son, when
his father John Collett had been a cooper. However, in the Chadlington census of 1861,
he was 35 and an unmarried
tailor and draper who had been born at Chadlington. After another ten years, unmarried Jabel
was 45 and still working as a tailor, when he was living with his older married
sister Mary Ann Hill in Chadlington. |
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It
can now safely be said that he never married and, again in 1881, when he was still
working as a tailor aged 56, Jabel Collett was again living at the Chadlington
home of his sister Mary Ann Hill (above) and her carpenter husband Thomas
Hill, with whom he was again living with them at Green End in 1891. At that time in his life, at the age of 66,
he was continuing his work as a tailor.
With the demise of his sister and brother-in-law during the last
decade of the century, by 1901 Jabel Collett was head of the household at
Mill End in Chadlington when he was 76 years of age and once again recorded
as having the occupation of a tailor. Jabel Collett lived his whole life in Chadlington,
where he died and was buried on 17th December 1907, at the age of
84. |
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12M13 |
Hannah
Collett was
the base-born daughter of Sarah Collett and was named after Sarah’s mother
who had died when she was only three years old. Her date of birth is not known but it very
likely took place at Charlbury after 1804, where sadly she died during August
1809. Hannah was buried in the
churchyard of St Mary’s Church at Charlbury on 31st August 1809,
where the parish register described her as ‘Hannah the illegitimate daughter
of Sarah Collett of Charlbury’.
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12N1 |
James Collett was born in 1852 at Enstone in
Oxfordshire and was very likely baptised at St Kenelm’s Church in
Enstone. In the census records for
1861 and 1871 he was living with his family at Bull Hill in Chadlington when he was aged eight
years and 19 years respectively. Neither James or his younger
brother Francis (below) were credited with having a job of work in 1871, when
they were very likely working alongside their father, learning the trade of
carpenters. Certainly, James
was 27 years old and a carpenter when he married Isabella Smith on 26th
December 1878 at Chadlington, where they lived and where all of their
children were baptised. Isabella was
26 years of age at the time of the marriage and was born at Chadlington in
1852. According to other details in
the record of their marriage, James’ father was William Collett, who was also
a carpenter and a witness at the wedding, while Daniel Smith, a labourer, was
Isabella’s father. The second witness
was Sarah Ann Collett who
still remains a mystery, since she cannot have been the wife of James’
brother Francis, as previously thought, because they were not married until
near the end of 1880. |
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James’
father William Collett had married Harriet Smith, so it seems very likely
that Isabella was the niece of her mother-in-law. By the time of the 1881 Census, James
Collett, born at Enstone, was 29 and a carpenter employing two men, while his
wife Isabella, born at Chadlington, was 28 and was pregnant with the couple’s
second child. Living with them at Chadlington, very close to
where James’ widow mother was also living, was his and Isabella’s
daughter Elizabeth Alice Collett who was one-year-old, and Richard Southam of
Steeple Aston in Oxfordshire, a 19-year-old boarder and carpenter’s
apprentice working alongside James.
Ten years later, the family was still living in Chadlington, but at Auburn Lane, where
James Collett was 39 and
a builder, his wife Isabella was 38, when living there with them were the
couple’s four surviving children. Sadly, two of their three eldest
daughters had both died just over two years earlier, leaving Elizabeth
Alice Collett who was eleven, Olive Louisa Collett who was five, James William
C Collett who was two, and Francis Campbell Collett who was under one year
old, the only surviving children. |
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By
March 1901 James, aged 50 and from Enstone, was a carpenter and builder
living in Chadlington with Isabella who was 49. With them on that occasion were their two daughters
Elizabeth A Collett who was 21 and an assistant school mistress, and Olive L
Collett who was 15, together with their two sons James W C Collett who was 12,
and Francis C Collett who was ten years old.
Eight years later, at the time of the wedding of their daughter Olive
Louise Collett in 1909, her father James Collett was recorded as being a
builder. Two years after that, James
and Isabella were still living in Chadlington at the time of the census in 1911,
when builder James
Collett from Enstone was 60, and his wife Isabella from Chadlington was
58. James and Isabella lived long
lives and it was over twenty-five years later, in December 1936 that James
Collett passed away and was buried at Chadlington on 10th December
1936, aged 85. |
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Isabella
lived for almost another three years before she died on 13th September
1939, following which she was buried with her husband at St Nicholas Church
on 18th September 1939, aged 86.
At the time of her passing, Isabella was residing at Grove Cottage in
Chadlington. Her Will was proved in
Oxford on 1st November that same year, during which her eldest son
James William Claude Collett was referred to as a retired bank official and her
youngest son Francis Campbell Collett was described as a bank manager, when
her estate was valued at £882 10 Shillings 5 Pence. |
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12O1 |
Elizabeth Alice Collett
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Born in 1879
at Chadlington |
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12O2 |
Eva Annie Collett
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Born in 1881
at Chadlington |
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12O3 |
Lillian Edith Collett
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Born in 1883
at Chadlington |
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12O4 |
Olive Louise Collett
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Born in 1885
at Chadlington |
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12O5 |
James William Claude Collett
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Born in 1888
at Chadlington |
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12O6 |
Francis Campbell Collett
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Born in 1891
at Chadlington |
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12N2 |
Francis William Collett was born at Chadlington where he was
baptised when around about three months old, on 10th September 1854,
the son of William and Harriet Collett.
He was seven in 1861 and was 16 in 1871 when he was living with his
family at Bull Hill
in Chadlington on both occasions, but with no stated occupation for the latter. While his brother James (above), followed
in his father’s footsteps, and became a carpenter, Francis travelled to
London to seek his fortune. It may
have been in London where he met his future wife, while it was at St Olave
Southwark where the marriage of Francis William Collett from Oxfordshire and (1)
Sarah Trelease from Devon was recorded (Ref. 1d 100) during the last three
months of 1880. Sarah was born at Combe
Martin near Ilfracombe, her birth recorded at nearby Barnstable (Ref. 5b 3)
during the last quarter of 1852, a daughter of William and Sarah Trelease. By 1871, Sarah was 18 and a dressmaker, who
was one of only two children still living at Combe Martin with her widowed
mother. |
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Once
married, Francis and Sarah made their home at 25 New Cross Road in the St
Paul area of Deptford, within the Greenwich registration district of south
London, where they lived for many years.
New Cross Road today forms part of the A2 trunk road. On the day of the census in 1881, Francis W
Collett from Chadlington was 27 and working as a clerk, while Sarah from
Combe Martin was 28. The couple’s good
financial status was perhaps indicated by the fact that they employed a
general domestic servant, unmarried Emma Bencon from Shottisham in Suffolk
who was 43. Staying with the Francis
and Sarah that day, was Sarah’s older unmarried sister Jane Trelease of Combe
Martin, aged 30, who was described as a draper and sister-in-law to head of
the house Francis. Also, on that census day in
1881, Sarah was two months into the pregnancy for her first child, who was
born at Deptford just after the start of October that year. In total, Sarah gave birth to two children
although, only the second one survived. |
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After suffering the loss of their first
child, in the same year he was born,
Sarah presented Francis with another son in 1884, when they were still living
at 25 New Cross Road. That situation
was confirmed in the next Deptford census of 1891, when the family of three was
again living at New Cross Road, where Francis W Collett was 36 and a banker’s
clerk, his wife Sarah Collett was 37, and their son William T Collett was seven
years old. Yet again, the family was
paying for the services of domestic servant, 23-year-old Ada Ashdown from Bromley
in Kent. Less than nine years later, the premature death of
Sarah Collett aged 47 was recorded at Greenwich register office (Ref. 1d 214)
during the first three months of 1900. The following year, widower Francis W
Collett from Chadlington was 47 and a commercial clerk, who was still
residing at New Cross Road in St Paul Deptford. With him that day, was his son William T
Collett who was 17 and
with no stated occupation, whose place of birth was confirmed as New Cross, a
reference to New Cross Road in Deptford.
Staying with father and son that day, were two sisters-in-law from
Combe Martin, they being Elizabeth Trelease, aged 52, and Jane Trelease who
was 49. |
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It seems highly likely that it was through
his late wife’s Trelease family, that Francis was introduced to Rose Melina
Cock who was born at Appledore in Devon during 1870, the second daughter and
fourth child of Robert and Phillipa Cock.
That assumption was reinforced in the census for Exeter in 1891, when
mother and daughter, Phillipa and Rose Cock, were visitors at the home of
William and Margaret Trelease. The eventual
marriage of Francis W Collett and (2) Rose M Cock was recorded at Bideford
register office (Ref. 5b 28) during the third quarter of 1910. That second marriage for Francis, may have
been the reason why, for the next census in 1911, the very recently married
couple was living in the Fulham area of London, rather than Deptford. On that day, bank clerk Francis William
Collett aged 56 and from Chadlington in Oxfordshire, and his new wife Rose
Melina Collett from Appledore, who was 40 years of age, were recorded at
Fulham. Visiting the couple that day
was unmarried 43-year-old Helena Bligh from Altrincham in Cheshire. At that
same time, Francis’ son William was still a bachelor who, interestingly, was still
living at New Cross in St Paul Deptford, at the age of 27. |
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A
few years later, Francis
and Rose left London for the safety of north Devon, as they were recorded
living at Ford Cottages on New Road in Bideford during the Great War. Possibly after the Second World War, the elderly couple returned to
London, where they were living when they both passed away. Francis William Collett died on 11th
November 1949 at the age of 94, with his Will proved in London on 12th
January 1950. Being that much
younger that her husband, his widow Rose Melina Collett died six years later
at 105 Broadhurst Gardens in Hampstead, London on 10th November
1955, when her Will was proved in London on 23rd December
1955. The executor of the Will was
named as civil servant John William Lawrence Shillidy, the value of her
personal estate being £6,422 11 Shillings 10 Pence. |
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Francis William Collett
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Born in 1881 at Deptford |
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12O8 |
William Trelease Collett
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Born in 1884
at Deptford |
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12N3 |
Joseph Collett was born at Glympton in 1833. No trace of him or his parents has been
found in the census of 1841, although by 1851 Joseph, at the age of 17, was
working as a carpenter and living at the home of elderly Elizabeth Smith at
the High Street in Witney. During the
next few years, Joseph moved nearer to London and, during the third quarter of 1855, the
marriage of Joseph Collett and Eliza Ann Sharpe was recorded at Staines (Ref. 3a 34). Eliza was the daughter of |
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Shortly
after they were married Joseph and Eliza boarded the ship ‘Morayshire’ bound
for Australia, where they arrived on 19th January 1856. The record of their entry into the country
completed by the Immigration Board provided the following information. Their journey had been one of assisted
passage costing £5 and both of them could read and write and were of good
health. The parents of carpenter
Joseph were confirmed as John and Mary Collett who were then living at
Norwood (Hill) in Surrey. Eliza’s
parents were named as Jonathan and Anne Sharpe of Thorpe (near Staines) in
Surrey. The same document also stated
that Joseph had an uncle, Lawes Ainslie (his mother’s brother), living at
Kissing Point, while Eliza already had three sisters and a brother living at
Ballaratt in Victoria. |
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Following
the couple’s safe arrival in New South Wales, Joseph’s parents made the same
sea journey to be reunited with their son and his wife. Sadly, it was around the time that Eliza
presented Joseph with the first of their nine children, while they were
residing within the Ryde district of Sydney that Joseph’s father died. Not long after that the family moved to
Ulmarra, known as Colletts Island, near Grafton in the Clarence River region
of Northern Rivers in New South Wales, which was known as the cedar capital
at that time, where their remaining children were born. Once settled in their new life Joseph and
Eliza became established as dairy farmers, a trade continued by subsequent
generations of their family right up to the present day. |
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Joseph
Collett died at his farm at Glympton Park, Coldstream in Ulmarra on 20th
January 1894 at the age of 61. His
death certificate confirmed that his place of birth was Glympton Park in
Oxfordshire, England, and that he was a farmer. It also stated that he had been ill for six
months, and that his father was John Collett, a farmer, and that his mother
was Mary Aynsley. The informant of the
death was named as Joseph’s son Fred Collett of Upper Coldstream in Ulmarra. |
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The
same certificate revealed that the death was registered on 22nd
January 1894, that Joseph was buried at South Grafton on 21st
January by undertaker H H Sanders, that the Church of England minister who
conducted the service was the Rev. W Tait, that Joseph had been a resident of
NSW for 39 years, and had married Eliza Ann Sharpe at Staines in England when
he was 23. And finally, the
certificate confirmed that all nine of his children were still alive at the
time of his death. They were listed on
the document as, Mary Ann 36, Joseph William 33, James 31, Henry 29,
Frederick 26, George Clarence 24, Louisa Caroline Eliza 22, Elizabeth Sarah
Victoria 20, and Rose Violet May who was 12. |
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What
is rather curious is the fact that his Will was proved in London, but not
until 13th September 1910, over sixteen years after his
death. The probate
record confirmed that Joseph Collett of Glympton Park, Coldstream, Ulmarra in
New South Wales, died on 20th January 1894 and that administration
of his (limited) Will was granted to George Frederick Mace, an auctioneer,
the attorney of his two sons Henry Collett and Frederick Collett. The personal effects of Joseph Collett were
estimated to be worth £160 14 Shillings 5 Pence. |
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12O9 |
Mary Ann
Collett
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Born in 1858
at Ryde, Sydney |
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12O10 |
Joseph William Collett
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Born in 1860
at Ulmarra, Grafton |
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12O11 |
James Collett
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Born in 1863
at Coldstream, Ulmarra |
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12O12 |
Henry Collett
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Born in 1865
at Coldstream, Ulmarra |
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12O13 |
Frederick
Collett
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Born in 1867
at Coldstream, Ulmarra |
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12O14 |
George Clarence
Collett
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Born in 1869
at Coldstream, Ulmarra |
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12O15 |
Louisa
Caroline Eliza Collett
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Born in 1871
at Coldstream, Ulmarra |
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12O16 |
Elizabeth
Sarah Victoria Collett
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Born in 1874
at Coldstream, Ulmarra |
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12O17 |
Rose
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Born in 1881
at Coldstream, Ulmarra |
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12N4 |
Caroline Collett was born during 1837 at Chadlington
where she was baptised on 14th January 1838, her parents being
confirmed as Frederick and Ann Collett.
And it was also at St Nicholas Church in Chadlington that she later
married farmer John Hiatt on 30th June 1859. Caroline’s father was recorded at that time
as Frederick Collett, an inn keeper, who was also a witness to the
marriage. John’s father was listed as
Thomas Hiatt, a farmer, and the second witness was his wife Eliza Hiatt who
was born in 1806 and who was living at Pembroke Street in Chipping Norton in
1881. Fifty-eight years earlier Thomas Collett (Ref. 12l11) had married
Sarah Ann Hyatt at Oddington in Gloucestershire in 1801 |
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By
the time of the 1881 Census, Caroline Hiatt was a widow, aged 42, living at
45 Sandy Lane at Aston in Birmingham, when her place of birth was confirmed
as Chadlington. Living with her was
her family comprising her three Enstone born sons, John Hiatt, aged 20
and house painter, Thomas Hiatt, aged 19, who was a chandelier filer,
and Frederick Hiatt, aged 17, a brass caster. With them was her daughter Mary Hiatt,
aged 13 and born at Chadlington, and son William Hiatt, aged 11 from
Chipping Norton. Caroline Hiatt nee
Collett was 52 when she died at 13 Pope Hope Road in Birmingham on 13th
November 1890 when her death was recorded at the Aston register office (Ref.
6d 174) during the last three months of that year. It took nearly a year to settle her estate
which only amounted to £168 8 Shillings.
Probate was granted at Birmingham on 15th October 1891 to
her son John Hiatt, a painter, whose address was also 13 Pope Hope Road. |
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Frederick Henry Collett was born at Chadlington in 1843 and
was eight years old in the Chadlington census of 1851, where he was still living
with his family in 1861, by which time he was 18 and working as a baker. Sometime over the following years he left
Oxfordshire and moved to Birmingham, where he was living in 1871 at the age
of 26 (sic). Six years later it was at
St Bartholomew’s Church in Edgbaston that he married Sarah Ann Sargeant on 13th
September 1877, when his father was confirmed as Frederick Collett and
Sarah’s father was named as Henry William Sargeant. According to the next census in 1881,
Frederick and Sarah were living at 18 Whitmore Street in Birmingham. Frederick H Collett was 38 and a brewer
from Chadlington, while his wife Sarah A Collett, aged 41, was a shopkeeper
and a grocer. Listed with them was
their daughter Ann E Collett from was one year old and born in Birmingham. |
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Ten
years later the family of three was recorded living in the Duddeston &
Aston district of Birmingham where Frederick was 47, Sarah was 51, and their daughter
Ann was 11. By March 1901 Frederick
Henry Collett of Chadlington was a baker at 58, when he was still living in
Birmingham with his wife Sarah Ann who was 61, and his daughter Ann aged 21. Sometime during the next decade, Frederick
gave up being a baker and by the time of the census in 1911 his occupation
was that of a carpenter. Frederick
Henry Collett, aged 68 and from Oxfordshire, was residing at 34 Railway
Terrace in Duddeston-cum-Nechells. His
wife Sarah Ann Collett was 71 and the census return confirmed that she had
given birth to one child who was still living. Frederick Henry Collett was still recorded
as living at 34 Railway Terrace within the Edgbaston Ward of Birmingham in
the Electoral Roll of 1927, when he would have been around 84. Whether he was widower by then is not
known, but with Sarah being slightly older, it is very likely she had passed
away by then. |
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12O18 |
Ann Elizabeth Collett
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Born in 1880
at Birmingham |
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12N6 |
William
Price Collett was
born in 1845 at Chadlington but not baptised there until 24th
February 1861, by which
time the family home was at Bull Hill in Chadlington, where William Collett
was 15 years of age and still attending school on the census day that year. On leaving school he took up the occupation
as a carpenter, and six years later he married 21-year-old Elizabeth Mary Gee
on 12th December 1867 at Chadlington, when he was 22 years of
age. The witnesses at the wedding were
William Bond and Sarah Gee, the bride’s sister, while Elizabeth’s father was
recorded as labourer James Gee.
William Price Collett died of ‘consumption and dropsy’ shortly after
the birth of their second son and was buried at Chadlington on 27th
August 1870, aged 24 years. Just eight
months earlier, at the time of the baptism of his son Frederick, William was
confirmed in the Chadlington church records as being a carpenter. |
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So,
by the time of the Chadlington census of 1871, seven months after the death
of her husband, Elizabeth was a widow at the tender age of 24, caring for her
two young sons, William who was two, and one-year-old Frederick, at the Chadlington home of her
parents James and Mary Gee.
After just over two years as a widow Mrs Elizabeth Collett married
Thomas Souls on 26th October 1872 at Chadlington. She was 26 and Thomas was 27 and a
labourer. As at her first wedding,
Sarah Gee was once again one of the witnesses who was very likely Elizabeth’s
sister, while on that occasion the second witness was Elizabeth’s father James
Gee. According to the next census in
1881, Elizabeth Souls was 34 and the wife of Thomas Souls, aged 36 and a
carter who was born at Sherborne in Gloucestershire. Elizabeth was listed as being born at
Chadlington, as were the two eldest children who had retained their Collett
surname. The family’s third child was
Thomas Souls who was born at Spelsbury.
The family at that time was living at 65 Merriscourt Cottages in
Lyneham in Oxfordshire, a village a few miles to the south-west of Chipping
Norton. |
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12O19 |
William Ernest Collett
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Born in 1868
at Chadlington |
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12O20 |
Frederick
James Collett
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Born in 1869
at Chadlington |
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12O21 |
Thomas
Souls
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Born during
1873 at Spelsbury |
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12N7 |
Elizabeth Ann Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 29th
November 1847, the first-born child of Charles and Judy Collett. She was three years old and 13 years of age
in the Chadlington census returns for 1851 and 1861. She was still living with her family in
1871, when she was 22, but left the family home to be married just over five
years later. It was in Birmingham that
Elizabeth Ann Collett married Patrick O’Grady, the event being recorded at
the Aston register office (Ref. 6d 514) during the fourth quarter of 1876. The witnesses at their wedding were Mary
Ann Feak and John Munton. Once married,
the couple settled in Aston where they were recorded in the census of
1881. Elizabeth A O’Grady from Chadlington
was 33 when she was living at 1 Grafton Road in Aston with her husband
Patrick who was 39 and a carpenter from Ireland. The childless couple was still living at
Aston in 1891, when Patrick was 50 and Elizabeth A O’Grady from Chadlington
was 43. |
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Five years later, at the age of 55,
Patrick O’Grady died, his death recorded at Aston register office (Ref. 6d
55) during the third quarter of 1896.
After a further five years, his widow Elizabeth was living with, and looking after, her
elderly father Charles Collett at Park Street in Charlbury, near Chadlington, on the occasion
of the census in 1901. Elizabeth A
O’Grady from Chadlington was 53 with no stated occupation. Her father passed away exactly one year
later, while nine years after that Elizabeth O’Grady, aged 64 and of
independent means, was a boarder at the Charlbury home of John and Ellen
Stayte on Park Street. Sometime later,
it would seem, Elizabeth went to live with her youngest brother Charles at
Milton-under-Wychwood, and it was there where Elizabeth Ann O’Grady nee
Collett died on 18th November 1925. Her Will was proved at Oxford on 21st
January 1926 when Charles Collett, a farm labourer, and Charles Guy Collett,
a commercial clerk, were named as the joint executors of her estate of £844
12 Shillings. Charles Guy Collett was
Elizabeth’s nephew, being the eldest son of her brother Charles. |
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12N8 |
James Collett was born at Chadlington in 1849, his birth recorded at Chipping
Norton (Ref. xvi 38) during the third quarter of that year. It was at Chadlington that he was baptised
on 5th August 1849 and was one years old in the Chadlington census
of 1851. By the time he was 11 years
old in 1861, James was one of three children still living with their parents
at Chadlington, when he was still attending school. No record of him has been found in the census of 1871, but shortly
thereafter the marriage of James Collett and (1) Fanny Lidbetter was
conducted at St Peter’s Church, Dale End in Birmingham. Both the bride and the groom were 22 years
of age, Charles Collett being the father of the groom and David Lidbetter,
the father of the bride. The
couple settled in Birmingham where their four children were born. However, by the time of the census of 1881
James and his family had left Birmingham and were living at Kemble Road in
Croydon, Surrey. James Collett was
described as being 31 and a carpenter from at Chadlington, while his wife
Fanny was the same age, but had been born at Horsham in Sussex. The couple’s four children were all born at
Birmingham and were George F C Collett who was seven, James P Collett who was
five, Frances E M Collett who was three, and John Collett who was two years
old. Visiting the family at that time
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Fanny Collett nee Lidbetter was born
in 1849, and was baptised at Horsham on 17th June 1849, the
daughter of David and Frances Lidbetter. Her premature death was recorded at Croydon
(Ref. 2a 176) during the final quarter of 1889, when she was only 40 years
old. Just over one year after losing
his wife, widower James Collett was 41 and a builder’s foreman living at
White Horse Lane in Croydon with his four children.
In some cases, their names were not consistent with the census of 1881,
when George Collett was 18, Percy J Collett was 16, Margaret E M Collett was
14, and John N Collett was 13. |
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Shortly
after that census day, the
marriage of James Collett and (2) Sarah Maria Moore from Fundenhall in
Norfolk was recorded at Croydon (Ref. 2a 174) during the second quarter of
1891. By the time of the next
census in 1901, the marriage had produced three children for James and Sarah,
although by then, all of James’s other children had left the family home at White Horse Lane in
Croydon, to make their own way in the world.
James Collett from Chadlington was 51 and his occupation was that of a
carpenter, while living with him, was his new wife Sarah Collett who was 43,
and their three children; William Collett was eight years old, Gladys Collett
was six, and Gladstone Collett was three, all three children having been born
at South Norwood in the Borough of Croydon. |
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Most
of the family was still together and living in the Croydon area ten years
later although, by then, daughter Gladys was working away from home at
Norbury, to the north of Croydon. The
census in April 1911, listed the remainder of the family as James Collett
from Chadlington who was 60 and a carpenter and a joiner, his wife Sarah
Collett from the Norfolk village of Fundenhall who was 53, and their two sons
William Collett who was 18, and Louis Collett who was 13. Upon his son Louis’ discharge from the army
in 1918, James Collett was residing at 226 White Horse Road in West Croydon.
Twelve later, the
death of James Collett was recorded at Croydon register office (Ref. 2a 114)
during the third quarter of 1931, when he was said to be 83. |
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12O22 |
George Frederick Charles
Collett
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Born in 1872 at Birmingham |
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12O23 |
James
Percival Collett
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Born in 1874 at Birmingham |
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12O24 |
Frances Elizabeth Margaret
Collett
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Born in 1876 at Birmingham |
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12O25 |
John Nelson Collett
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Born in 1878
at Birmingham |
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The following
are the three known children of James Collett by his second wife Sarah Maria
Moore: |
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William Albert Ernest Collett
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Born in 1892
at South Norwood |
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12O27 |
Gladys Beatrice Gertrude Amelia
Collett
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Born in 1894
at South Norwood |
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12O28 |
Louis Stanley Gladstone Leopold
Collett
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Born in 1897
at South Norwood |
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12N9 |
Arthur Collett was born at Chadlington towards the
end of 1851, where he was baptised on 25th January 1852, the son
of Charles and Judy Collett, who was nine years old in 1861. By the time he was 19, he was living at the
Chadlington home of saddle maker Richard E Minchin and his family, when
Arthur Collett from Chadlington was a saddler’s apprentice, as
confirmed in the census of 1871. It
may be assumed that he never married since, in both 1881 and 1891, he was a
bachelor still living with his family at Chadlington. In the first of the census returns Arthur of
Chadlington was 29 when he was assisting his father on his 76-acre farm at
Chadlington. It was a similar
situation ten years later, when Arthur Collett aged 36 (sic) and from
Chadlington was a farmer’s son living with his parents and three younger
siblings at Chadlington. |
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Following
the death of his mother during the 1890s, Arthur left the family home and by
March 1901, he was working as farm labourer at Nether Langwith (Holbeck) in
Nottinghamshire where he
was just one of five servants working for the Ghest family from
Lincolnshire. It was therefore likely
that the census enumerator obtained the information about Arthur Collett from
58-year-old William Ghest, as he was correctly described as having
been born at Chadlington in Oxfordshire, but who was only 41 years of age,
rather than 49. In the next Nottinghamshire
census in 1911, once again his age was incorrectly recorded. Arthur Collett from Chadlington was again
described as a farm servant, but at the home of Sam Booth and his wife Ann
Eliza in Chilwell, south-west of Nottingham.
He was the eldest of the three farm servants and was recorded as being
52, instead of 59. It was seven years
later that the death of Arthur Collett was recorded at Worksop register
office (Ref. 7b 3) during the first three months of 1918, when he was said to
be 65 years old. Workshop lies just
north of Holbeck, where he was in 1901. |
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At
the end of the next decade John was no longer a stationmaster. Instead, the census in 1891 described him
as John S Collett, aged 32, single and a railway clerk, a boarder at Somerset Cottages, Howell Road in Leigh,
Malvern Link, Worcestershire, the home of railway clerk Charles J
Widdows. It was six
years later when John married Elizabeth Chadbon from Steeple Barton
which is midway between Chipping Norton and Bicester. The event was recorded at Woodstock during
the second quarter of 1897. Once
married the couple settled at Bridgnorth in Shropshire where their son Frank
was born and where John continued to work as a stationmaster as confirmed by
the census for Bridgnorth in 1901.
John S Collett from Chadlington was 43, Elizabeth Collett was 32, and
their son was just one year old when the family was living at 3 Dale
Millicent Terrace, 1 Victoria Road in Bridgnorth St Leonard. Elizabeth was possibly expecting the
couple’s second child on the day of the census as their daughter was born
later that same year, and she was followed by the birth of two further
children. |
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Whether
John lived long enough to see his last child is not known since it was that
same year on Wednesday 30th August 1905 that John Samuel Collett died
at the age of 47. That was the end of
nine years as the stationmaster at Bridgnorth, where he was buried on 2nd
September, when his address was given as 3 Victoria Road. Administration of his personal estate of
£704 3 Shillings 8 Pence was granted to Elizabeth Collett, widow, at
Shrewsbury on 6th December 1905.
The following notice was published in the Bridgnorth Journal on
Saturday 2nd September 1905.
“The painfully sudden death of
Mr John Samuel Collett, G.W.R. Station Master, which took place at his
residence in Victoria Road on Wednesday last, was a great shock to all those
who knew him, and expressions of sympathy for the widow and her three young
children were expressed on every hand.
Mr Collett had been unwell and had had medical advice, but the end
came quite suddenly. During the nine
years Mr Collett has held the post of Station Master here, he has made many
friends, his courtesy and consideration for the travelling public, and the
trader, being prominent features in his conduct, whilst his duties were ever
discharged in a business-like manner.” |
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By
April 1911 Elizabeth Collett, aged 42, was still living at Bridgnorth with
her three youngest children, Sybil Collett who was nine, Muriel Collett who
was seven and May Collett who was five and possibly born after the death of
father. At that same time in April
1911 Elizabeth’s son Frank Collett, from Bridgnorth, who was eleven years old,
was recorded at an orphanage in Wolverhampton. Historical Note: The railway station at Bromyard only opened
on 22nd October 1877, following the laying of the track from
Worcester, as part of the Worcester to Leominster |
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12O29 |
Frank Chadbon Collett
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Born in 1899
at Bridgnorth, Salop |
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12O30 |
Sybil
Collett
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Born in 1901
at Bridgnorth, Salop |
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12O31 |
Muriel
Collett
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Born in 1903
at Bridgnorth, Salop |
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12O32 |
May
Collett
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Born in 1905
at Bridgnorth, Salop |
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12N12 |
Amelia Mary Collett, who was referred to as Minnie, was
born at Chadlington in 1858 and was 13 by April 1871. She was still unmarried in 1881 at the age
of 23. On the occasion of the census
that year Minnie was a visitor at the home of her older brother James Collett
(above) in Kemble Road, Croydon. The
census record confirmed that Minnie had been born at Chadlington but listed
no occupation for her at that time.
Minnie never married and appears to have worked in domestic service
for most of her life. In April 1911
unmarried Minnie Collett from Chadlington in Oxfordshire was 50 (sic) when
she was employed as a cook at the home of widow Marian Ridley. The census that month placed Amelia as one
of the three live-in servants of the Ridley family at their dwelling with the
name Abingerm, situated on the Burcott Road in Purley, within the Surrey
parish of Coulsdon in the Croydon registration district. The fact that Minnie said she was younger
than her 53 years was reflected thirty years later when, upon her death in
1941, she was described as being only 79 whereas she would have been nearer
82 or 83. The death of Amelia M
Collett was recorded at the South-Eastern register office in Surrey (Ref. 2a
1554) during the first three months of that year. |
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Caroline Winifred
Collett was born at
Chadlington in 1859 and was baptised there on 12th February 1860. She was 11 years of age in 1871. By the time Caroline was 22 she had moved
to London, where she was working in service at the home of Malcolm Cook who
worked at the London Stock Exchange. Caroline
was simply described as of Oxford and was employed as one of just two
domestic servants in the house at 9 Land Terrace on the Lower Teddington Road
in Hampton Wick. |
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Charles Collett was born at Chadlington early in 1861,
where he was baptised on 30th March 1862, with his birth recorded at Chipping Norton (Ref.
3a 137) during the first three month of 1861. In the census of 1871, Charles was living
with his parents when he was nine years of age, one of eleven children living
with at Chadlington with their parents, Charles and Judith Collett. Ten years later in 1881, he was recorded as
a visitor at the home of Robert Watts in Chipping Norton. At that time Charles was 19 and was not
credited with an occupation. Robert
Watts of Icomb in Gloucestershire was a butcher, and he and his wife and
family were living at premises referred to as ‘Lower Side’ in the High Street
at Chipping Norton, which may have been the name of the butcher’s shop. |
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Charles
Collett, aged 29 and a farmer’s son, was still a bachelor living in the
family home at West End in
Chadlington in 1891, by which time he may have been emotionally attached to
his future wife, who was nearby and a live-in domestic servant at a property
in Cross Lane, Chadlington. Their
wedding banns were recorded in the marriage register for St Nicholas Church
in Chadlington, which listed 10th, 17th and 24th
of September as the three Sundays that the banns were posted at
Chadlington. Rachel was noted as a
spinster from St Ebbes in Oxford and, it seems very likely, that was where
the couple was married. Certainly, the marriage of
Charles Collett and Rachel Hadland was recorded at Oxford register office
(Ref. 3a 53) during the last three months of 1893. |
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Curiously,
in the census returns for 1901 and 1911, the wife of Charles Collett from
Chadlington was named as Lily Collett who, in 1901, said she was born at
Witney, whereas in 1911 her place of birth was given as Chadlington. During the first eight years they were
married, Charles and Lily had five children, with a further three born after
1901. All of the children were born
while Charles and Lily were living at Milton-under-Wychwood, and it was also
there that the family was residing in both 1901 and 1911. In the first of them, Charles Collett from
Chadlington was 39 and a farmer, Lily Collett from Witney was 34, and their
children were Charles Guy Collett who was six, Percy Collett who was five,
May Collett who was three, Daisy who was one year old, and Dorothy who was only
a few months old. |
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Ten
years later, the full family was recorded as Charles Collett, aged 49 and a farm labourer,
Lily Collett aged 42, Guy Collett who was 16 and a plough boy working on the farm, as was his
brother Percy Collett aged 14, May Collett was 13, Daisy Collett was 11,
Dorothy Collett was 10, Ivy Collett was eight, Desmond Collett was seven, and
Marion Collett was four years old.
Charles Collett did in 1930 and was buried at Chadlington on 23rd
April 1930, aged 68. Over five years
earlier Charles’ eldest sister Elizabeth Ann O’Grady nee Collett (above)
passed away and during the proving of her Will at Oxford in January 1926,
Charles Collett, a farm labourer, was named as one of the two executors, the
other being his eldest son Charles Guy Collett. |
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The death of Charles’ wife resolves
the issue of the change of name from Rachel to Lily, in that her death was
recorded at Chipping Norton register office (Ref. 6b 69) during the first
three months of 1947, when she was 81 years old, her name confirmed as Lilian
Rachel Collett, nee Hadland.
Furthermore, the census in 1891, reveals that Lily Rachel Hadland was 25
years of age and an unmarried mother’s helper, employed by the large Edginton
family at Cross Lane in Chadlington. On that occasion, her place of birth was
simply recorded as Gloucestershire. |
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Charles Guy Collett
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Born in 1894
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Percy
Ralph Collett
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Born in 1896
at Milton-under-Wychwood |
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Caroline May Collett
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Born in 1897
at Milton-under-Wychwood |
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Lilian Daisy Collett
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Born in 1899
at Milton-under-Wychwood |
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Dorothy
Cicely Collett
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Born in 1901
at Milton-under-Wychwood |
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Emily Ivy E Collett
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Born in 1902
at Milton-under-Wychwood |
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Desmond Harold Collett
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Born in 1903
at Milton-under-Wychwood |
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Marion
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Born in 1906
at Milton-under-Wychwood |
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12N15 |
Lewis Edward Collett was baptised at Chadlington on 24th
April 1864 and was seven and 17 in the census returns in 1871 and 1881
respectively. It was on 14th
April 1890 when he was a 26-year-old butcher living at Church Street in
Charlbury that he married Amelia Annie Kench in Charlbury. The witnesses at the wedding were Amelia’s
brother and sister Henry Stephen Kench and Ada Louisa Kench. However, it seems rather strange that when
the marriage was recorded at Chipping Norton register office (Ref. 3a 1333)
during the second quarter of 1890 the witnesses were named as John Edwards
and Leah Sarah Sandalls. Amelia Annie
Kench was born at Charlbury in 1871 and her father, Percival Kench, was the
Hotel Keeper of the White Hart Hotel in Dyers Hill at Charlbury and was later
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It
may be of interest that there were two earlier records of Collett and Kench
marriages, and both of them in the same county of Oxfordshire. The first just prior to 1866 when widower
William Collett (Ref. 39N16) of Clanfield married Sarah Kench the daughter of
Mary Ann Kench who had been born at Faringdon in 1833. The second at Witney where in 1868 widower
William Collett (Ref. 46N27) married Sarah Kench, the widow of John Kench,
the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Martin who had been born at Eynsham in
1822. Whilst not a common name, there
are many Kench/Kinch living in Oxfordshire in the latter half of the 1800s,
some as far north as Banbury. |
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Once
married the couple settled in Charlbury, where their two known children were
born. Ten years later the 1901 Census
confirmed that the family was still living at Church Street in Charlbury where Lewis, aged
36, was a butcher, his wife Amelia was 30, and their two children were Daisy
who was 10, and Lewis who was six years old.
Sometime after March 1901, the family left Charlbury when Lewis became
an inn keeper in the Berkshire market town of Wantage. Tragically, it was at Wantage just four
years later, that Lewis Edward Collett died on 11th October
1905. Although not of a significant
value, it would seem that there may have been an issue following his death,
which caused a major delay in the probate process. It was over three years after his passing,
that his Will was proved in Oxford on 28th December 1908, when his
wife Amelia Annie Collett was named as the executor of his estate of £125 10
Shillings. With her youngest child
still only fourteen years old, it was perhaps inevitable that Amelia was
remarried during the following year, when she wed Samuel Herbert Cruely in
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The
next census in 1911 recorded the new family living at the George Hotel in
Shipston-on-Stour, although the surname was incorrectly stated as Coneley,
rather than Cruely. Samuel Herbert was
38, as was his wife Amelia Annie from Charlbury, who was assisting her
husband in his business of managing the hotel. Living with the couple were Amelia’s two
children who were recorded as Daisy Amelia Collett from Charlbury who was 20,
and Lewis Percival Collett who was 16 and also from Charlbury. One other person was included on the census
form with the family, and he was Frank Austin who was 28. Amelia Annie Cruely, formerly Collett nee
Kench, died at Woodstock Road in Witney during 1946, following which probate
of her Will was granted to her son Percy Collett who was a hotel proprietor,
like her second husband. |
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Daisy Amelia Collett
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Born in 1891
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Born in 1894
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12N16 |
Fanny Fletcher Collett was one half of a set of twins born at
Chadlington and baptised there on 8th March 1867. Fanny was four years of age in 1871 and was
14 in 1881 when she was living with her family at Charlbury. It was as Fanny Collett, aged 23, that she
was still living at Charlbury with her family in 1891. She was not married by the end of the
century and, in the census of 1901, when she was 33, she was then living at
Chadlington, where her father was buried in 1902. Fanny never married and died in Oxford
during the first week of April 1911 immediately prior to the census day that
year, her death recorded at Headington register office (Ref. 3a 59). |
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12N17 |
Susan Kate Collett was the other half of a set of twins
born in 1867 and was baptised in a joint ceremony with her twin sister Fanny
(above) on 8th March 1867 at Chadlington. She was aged four years in 1871 and 14 in 1881
when she was living at Charlbury with her family. Ten years later she was still living with
her parents and her twin sister fanny (above) when she was recorded in the
Charlbury census on 1891 as Susie Collett, aged 23. Within the next few months, Susan Collett
married Frederick George Thomas
Dent, the marriage recorded at Chipping Norton register office (Ref. 3a 1352)
during the third quarter of 1891. Susan
Dent lived a very long life and died at Hungerford on 16th August
1968 at the age of 101. Her Will was
proved at Oxford on 17th November 1966 when the joint executors of
her estate of £2,810 were named as Harold Collett Dent, a retired
university teacher, and Norman Horrocks Dent, a retired Lieutenant
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Further research in 2021, revealed
that Harold Collett Dent was born at Scunthorpe on 14th November
1894, the couple’s first-born child of a great many. Harold never married and died in Devon
during the month of January 1995. The
birth of Norman Horrocks Dent was recorded at Auckland register office in
County Durham (Ref. 10a 67) during the third quarter of 1900, although it was
on 11th May that he was born.
He was then baptised at Spennymoor on 8th July 1900, the
son of Frederick G T Dent and Susan Dent.
He married Olive M Hargrave at Blandford in Dorset during 1931. The later death of Norman Horrocks Dent was
recorded at Lewisham in London at the start of 1972. In fact, Frederick and Susan had seven
children living with them at Saffron Waldon in Essex in 1911, when their son
Harold was already living in Bury St Edmunds. The census that year described Susan’s
husband as Frederick George Thomas Dent from Ashbourne in Derbyshire who was
51 and a Wesleyan Methodist Minister.
Susan Dent was 47, but her place of birth was confusingly recorded at
Beenham in Berkshire, while their seven children were born at various
locations around England. |
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12N18 |
Francis Collett was born at Chadlington in 1868 and
was baptised there on 29th November 1868. He was two years old in Chadlington census
of 1871 when he was recorded with his family as Frances Collett. Ten years later he was 12 years old and was
living at Charlbury with his family in 1881 when he was referred to as Frank. On leaving school Francis secured work at
nearby Burford where he was lodging with Charles and Annie Bishop in 1891
when he was working as a butcher’s assistant at the age of 21 under the name
of Francis Collett. Following that
occasion Francis appears to have provided subsequent census enumerators with
an inaccurate age. For example in
March 1901 Frank Collett,
who was born at Chadlington, was living at Wallingford where he was working
as a journeyman butcher, but when his age was recorded as being 25, perhaps
an enumerator error. However, after a
further ten years butcher Francis Collett from Oxfordshire was working in
Leamington, when he was staying at the Blenham Lawrence Hotel on Clements
Street in the town. He was still a
bachelor although, once again, his age was incorrectly recorded as 32, when
in fact he would have been 42. |
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12N19 |
Frederick Collett was born at Chadlington in 1870 and
was baptised there on 27th February 1870, the youngest son of
Charles and Judith Collett. Tragically
Frederick Collett was just two years old when he died, following which he was
buried at Chadlington on 23rd December 1872. |
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12N20 |
Angelina Susan Collett was born at Chadlington during the first three months
of 1850, the birth recorded at Chipping Norton (Ref. xvi 30),
following which she was baptised at Chadlington on 2nd June 1850,
where she later married Thomas Derby on 12th November 1883. At that time, she was listed as a domestic
servant, aged 33, while he was a shopkeeper aged 34, who was living at 114
Holloway Road in London. Angelina’s
father was confirmed as Mark Collett, a carpenter, with Thomas’ father named as
William Derby, who was a publican. The
witnesses at the wedding were James and Maria Coleman. The earlier census of 1881 recorded the age
of Annie Collett as 27 instead of 30 or 31.
However, the census return did confirm that she was born at
Chadlington. It also stated that she
was a cook in domestic service at the St Marylebone School at Hayes in
Middlesex. Interestingly, her future husband
Thomas Derby, aged 31, was a porter at the same establishment. By the time of the census in 1891, the
childless couple was residing in the Islington & Highbury area of London,
where Thomas Derby was 41, as was his wife Angelina Derby from
Chadlington. Following the death of
her father in 1903, it was Angelina Susan Derby who was granted
administration of her father personal effects valued at just £5 in 1908. By that time in her life Angelina was
already a widow, following
the death of Thomas Derby who passing was recorded at Islington register
office (Ref. 1b 113) during the second quarter of 1908, at the age of 58. Just two years later, the death of Angelina
Susan Derby was recorded at Islington on 11th April 1910, when she
was 61. Her Will was proved in London
on 26th April 1910, the main beneficiary being her sister Mary Ann
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12N21 |
Mary Ann Collett was born at Chadlington near the end
of 1851, with her birth
recorded at Chipping Norton (Ref. xvi 29). It was three years later, at Chadlington,
that she was baptised there on 25th December 1854, the second daughter
of Mark Collett and Rosina
Coleman. She married 28-year-old
Beriah Wells, a builder, at Chadlington on 5th December 1870 when
she was 19. He was the son of builder
Benjamin Wells and his address was listed as 99 Great George Street in
Bermondsey, London. The witnesses at
the wedding were Angelina S Collett and carpenter Mark Collett, they being
her older sister (above) and her father.
It seems rather
odd, that no record of Beriah and Mary Ann Wells has been found in any census
return from 1871, through to the death of Beriah Wells in 1901, which
happened on 9th December 1901.
The couple’s home address at that time, was 19 Eckett Street, Dockhead
in Bermondsey. Ten years prior to
that, they were recorded as residing at 25 Spa Mansions, Spa Road in
Bermondsey. The Will of Beriah Wells
was subsequently proved in Surrey on 30th December 1904, which
named his widow Mary Ann Wells as the sole beneficiary. Nine years later, and following the death
of her sister Angelina Susan Derby in 1910, it was Mary Ann Wells who was the
main beneficiary under the terms of her Will. |
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12O1 |
Elizabeth Alice Collett was born at Chadlington, where she
was baptised at St Nicholas Church on 3rd August 1879, the first
child of James Collett by his wife Isabella Smith. She was one year old in the Chadlington
census of 1881 and was 11 years oof age at the time of the Chadlington census
in 1891. Ten years after that she was
an assistant school mistress in Chadlington at the age of 21 and, it was over
three and a half years later, at the age of 25, when she married Gerald
Hastings Watts on 28th December 1904 at Chadlington. Her father, who was a witness at the
wedding, was confirmed as James Collett, a builder. Gerald H Watts, who was 28 and a bailiff
from Hookburgh in Lancashire, was the son of John Watts, an agent. The second witness was Alfred Grimwood, who
was probably Gerald’s best man. |
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In
April 1911, Elizabeth Alice Watts from Chadlington was 31, and her husband
Gerald Hastings Watts was 35 from Cromhall in Gloucestershire, when they were living in Lyneham,
to the west of Chadlington. Gerald was described as a farm
bailiff employed on a garden estate.
By that time in the marriage life the couple already had two children,
John Francis James Watts who was three years old, and Gerald
Wallace Watts who was seven months old.
Staying with the
family that census day, were two members of Gerald’s family, and they were
his widowed mother Martha Watts aged 74, and his unmarried sister Agnes Mary
Watts aged 39 and also from Cromhall. |
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12O2 |
Eva
Annie Collett was born at Chadlington where she was baptised on 18th
October 1881. She was four months
short of her sixth birthday when she died in June 1887. That tragic event for the family, happened
just one month after the death of her younger sister Lillian (below) with
whom she was buried at Chadlington on 18th June 1887.
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Lillian
Edith Collett was born at Chadlington and was baptised there on 27th May
1883. Just prior to her fourth
birthday she was suffering with diphtheria from which she later died. She was buried in the churchyard of St
Nicholas Church in Chadlington on 15th May 1887 and was joined
there by her sister Eva (above) one month later.
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Olive Louise Collett was born at Chadlington and was
baptised there on 28th June 1885.
By 1891 Olive Louise Collett was five years old in the Chadlington
census, and ten years later was 15, when she was still living there with her
family. And it was at St Nicholas
Church in Chadlington that she later married Arthur Alfred Edgington, a 23
years old farmer of Chadlington, on 5th August 1909. He was the son of farmer Henry Bryan. Olive was 24 years old and the daughter of
builder James Collett who was a witness at the wedding. The only other witness was Elizabeth
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12O5 |
James
William Claude Collett was born at Chadlington where he was baptised on 5th
August 1888. By the time of the
Chadlington census of 1891 he was two years old when he was recorded with his
family at Chadlington as James William C Collett. He was still attending school in
Chadlington by the time of the census in 1901 when, as James W C Collett he
was 12 and still living with his parents in Chadlington. Upon leaving school James left Oxfordshire
and moved south to Berkshire, where, in April 1911, he was living and working
in Reading, where he was described as unmarried James W Claude Collett, aged
22 and from Chadlington. Like his brother Francis (below), James worked in a bank and was
described as a retired bank official in the probate papers following the
death of his mother Isabella on 13th September 1939. Also mentioned therein at Oxford on 1st
November 1939 was his brother Francis.
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12O6 |
Francis Campbell Collett was born at Chadlington in 1890 and
it was there he was baptised on 11th January 1891 the youngest
child of James Collett and Isabella Smith.
He was just a few months old in the Chadlington census of 1891, and
ten years later in 1901 he was still living there with his family when he was
10 years old and attending the village school. During the first decade of the new century,
James appears to have sought work in London, since by the time of the census
in 1911 James Collett from Oxfordshire was 20 years old and was living and
working in the Fulham area of the city.
At the time of his wedding, he was listed as being a Private with the
Honourable Artillery Company and his father was named as James Collett, a
builder. Francis married widow Eveline
Vinnie nee Roberts on 11th February 1918 at Chadlington, her first
husband perhaps having been killed during the war. Both of them were 27 years of age and
Eveline’s father was listed as James Roberts, a schoolmaster. The witnesses were John Henry Harvey, and
Gerald Hastings Watts the couple’s brother-in-law through his marriage to
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After
the Great War, Francis followed in his older brother’s footsteps and entered
the world of banking. He and Eveline
resided at Rounds Hill in Kenilworth from where he was employed as the
manager at one of the banks in the town.
While working at the bank, Francis became a good friend of Harold
James Collett (Ref. 15N36). At the
time of the death of his mother in September 1939, Francis was described as a
bank manager when he and his brother James (above) were named as the joint
executors of her Will, which was proved at Oxford on 1st November
that year. Eveline Collett nee Roberts
died at Kenilworth during 1963 when she was around 72 years of age, following
which she was buried in Kenilworth Cemetery.
Francis Campbell Collett was a widower for the next nineteen years and
was still living at Rounds Hill in Kenilworth when he died in 1992 at the age
of 102, after which he was also buried at Kenilworth Cemetery where he was
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Francis William Collett was born on 3rd
October 1881 at 25 New Cross Road in Deptford, within the south-east London
district of Greenwich, the first of the two sons of Francis William Collett
and Sarah Trelease. He was almost four
weeks old when he was baptised at All Saints Church in Deptford on 30th
October 1881. Not long after that day,
Francis William Collett passed away, his death recorded at Greenwich (Ref.
1d), perhaps when in hospital there.
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12O8 |
William
Trelease Collett may also have been born at 25 New Cross Road in Deptford,
where his parents were living in 1881.
He was born on 2nd November 1883 and was baptised at All
Saints Church in Deptford on 11th December 1883, the second child of
Francis William Collett and Sarah Trelease, the first of his two wives. It was simply as William T Collett, aged
seven years, and 17 years, that he was recorded at New Cross Road in Deptford
with his parents in 1891, and
with his widowed father in 1901.
By the time of the next census in 1911 his father, together with his second
wife, was living in Fulham, when William Trelease Collett was still a bachelor
at 27, was a railway
clerk living at New Cross in Deptford, the head of the household being
Elizabeth Trelease, aged 63, his late mother’s unmarried sister, who had been
living with him and his father in 1901.
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He
enlisted with the army during 1916 and, at the age of 32, joined the
Hertfordshire Regiment. His military
record confirmed that William Trelease Collett was living at 143 Waller Road in New Cross,
south-east London and that his next-of-kin was his father Francis William
Collett who, by then was living at Ford Cottages in New Road, Bideford in
Devon. Another record eight years
later, placed William Trelease Collett on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company vessel Malwa sailing out from
the Port of London on 23rd May 1924 to Marseilles in France, when
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Four
years earlier, when he was still residing at 143 Waller Road, he wrote a
letter on 26th April 1920 to the Officer of Infantry Records at
the Royal Observer Corps, which opens “Sir,
I beg to enclose my Certificate of Transfer to Receive (Z) on demobilisation....” which sadly thereafter is written so
poorly it is virtually impossible to read, except that at the end, where it
finishes by saying “probably a clerical
error and I mentioned this in case the alteration is necessary. Thanking you in anticipation, I beg to
remain Sir, your obedient servant W T Collett”. Why William travelled to France in 1924
and what happened to him during the rest of his life is not yet known, except
that he was living in Devon when he passed away in March 1971. The death of William Trelease Collett was
recorded at Barnstable register office (Ref. 7a 811) when he was reputedly 86
years of age. On that occasion his
date of birth was incorrectly recorded as being 1st November 1884,
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12O10 |
Joseph William Collett was born at Ulmarra in the Grafton
district of New South Wales on 11th July 1860, the son of Joseph
Collett and Eliza Ann Sharpe. It was
around 1890 that he married Lucinda Dixon who was born on 26th
October 1869 at Araluen in New South Wales, the daughter of John Alcock Dixon
and Catherine Buckley. All of their
six children were born at Ulmarra (Colletts Island) and it would appear that the
couple’s eldest son was original christened as Joseph William Collett after
his father. However, it was in his
military records from the Great War that he had the name Joseph Wilton
Collett, which was later used on the family headstone (see below), but
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The photo on the right was sent in by
Marion O’Shea (Ref. 12R2). This
clearly shows the New South Wales headstone for Joseph and his wife Lucinda,
together with a memorial to their son Joseph Wilton Collett who perished in
the First World War and was buried in France. The
inscriptions read: “In Loving Memory of Joseph William
Collett who died 23rd May 1931 aged 71 years, a loving husband and
kind father” “Also a tribute to the memory of Pte
Wilton Collett, AIF, who died in the Great War aged 20 years” “Also Lucinda Collett died 22nd
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Victoria
A Collett
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Born in 1895
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Joseph Wilton Collett
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Born in 1897
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Henry
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Born on
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Edna
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Born on 25.01.1902
at Ulmarra |
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William
John Collett
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Born on
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Netta Catherine Collett
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Born in 1907
at Ulmarra |
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James Collett was born at Coldstream, Ulmarra in
the Grafton district of New South Wales in 1863. Bachelor James Collett, aged 23 and a
farmer from Grafton, later married Mary Robertson of Shoalhaven in Newcastle,
New South Wales, who was the daughter of farmer Angus Robertson and his wife
Georgina McPherson. The couple were
married at the Presbyterian Church in Upper Coldstream, New South Wales on 2nd
March 1886. The witnesses at the
wedding were Joseph William Collett, and Louisa Caroline Eliza Collett, they
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The
marriage of James and Mary is known to have produced seven children for the
couple, and all of them were born at Ulmarra in the Grafton district of New South
Wales. Collett family traditions at
that time dictated that the children were addressed and referred to by their
second Christian name. James Collett
suffered a heart attack and was rushed to Runnymede Hospital in Grafton,
where he died on 15th January 1913 at the age of 50. His death certificate confirmed that he was
a grazier, and the son of grazier Joseph Collett and Eliza Ann Sharpe, and
that the informant of his death was his eldest son William George Collett of
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The
death of James Collett was registered at Grafton on 17th January
1913, his body having been buried the previous day at the Church of England
Cemetery at South Grafton by Henry H Sanders who also buried James’ father
there nine years earlier. At the time
of his passing James still had six children who were still living, although
the death certificate also included reference to a deceased female. The named children were Eliza M Collett 25,
William G Collett 24, Elsie Collett 22, Georgina M Collett 21, Raymond
Collett 19, and Olive E Collett who was 14.
It therefore identified the deceased child as Mary Collett, who
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Eliza
Mary Collett
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Born in 1887
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William
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Born in 1889
at Ulmarra |
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Elsie
Collett
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Born in 1890
at Ulmarra |
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Born in 1892
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James
Raymond Collett
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Born in 1894
at Ulmarra |
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Mary
Collett
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Born in 1897
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Olive
Edith Collett
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Born in 1898
at Ulmarra |
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Joseph
Clarence Collett
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Born in 1905
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William Ernest Collett was born in 1868 at Chadlington,
where he was baptised on 30th August 1868. The baptism record at St Nicholas Church in
Chadlington confirmed his parents as William Price Collett and Elizabeth Mary
Collett. The birth of William Ernest Collett was recorded at
Chipping Norton (Ref. 3a 288) during the second quarter of 1868. When he was two years old, he and his
brother Frederick J Collett (below), together with their young mother, were
staying with their maternal grandparent James and Mary Gee at Chadlington. Ten years later, at the age of 12 in 1881,
William was already working as a ploughboy with his brother Frederick, when
they were living with their widowed mother Elizabeth and her second husband
Thomas Soles and their first child Thomas Soles who was eight years old and
from Spelsbury. The family at that
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No
record of William in 1891 has been found, but ten years later, according to
the census in March 1901, William E Collett was 32 when he was a lodger at the Northfield Street
home of the Enderwood family in Worcester, from where he was working
as a railway goods guard. It was also
at Worcester over four years later that William Ernest Collett from
Chadlington married the much younger Alice May Matthews from Worcester. The event was recorded at Worcester
register office (Ref. 6c 515) during the last three months of 1905. Over the next five years Alice gave birth
to three children while the family was still living in Worcester, although
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It
was also in Worcester where the family was still living in April that year,
when William Ernest Collett from Chadlington was 42 and again a railway goods guard employed by the
Great Western Railway. His wife
Alice May Collett was 31, and their two sons were William Ernest Collett who
was four, and Frederick Albert Collett who was three years old. The place of birth for Alice and the two boys was confirmed as
Worcester. Having already
suffered the loss of their daughter nine months earlier, Alice May was seven
months into her fourth pregnancy on the day of the census and gave birth to
her third son just two months later, with a fourth and final son born there
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The birth of their son William Ernest
Collett junior was recorded at Worcester register office (Ref. 6c 303) during
the third quarter of 1906. Apart from
his appearance in the 1911 census, the only other record found is that of his
death at Evesham register office (Vol. 29) in April 1985, at the age of 78. The birth of Frederick Albert Collett was
recorded at Worcester (Ref. 6c 11) during the first three months of
1908. Tragically, he was only eight
years of age, when the death of Frederick A Collett was recorded at Worcester
register office (Ref. 6c 95) during the second quarter of 1916. The birth of Elizabeth Alice Collett was
also recorded at Worcester register office (Ref. 6c 7) during the third
quarter of 1909, while she was only one year old when her death was recorded
at Worcester (Ref. 6c 23) during the third quarter of 1910. |
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William
Ernest Collett
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Born on 6th July 1906 at Worcester |
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Frederick
Albert Collett
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Born in 1908 at Worcester; died in 1916 |
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Elizabeth
Alice Collett
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Born in 1909
at Worcester; died in 1910 |
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Thomas Charles Collett
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Born in 1911
at Worcester |
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John Stanley Collett
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Born in 1914
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12O20 |
Frederick
James Collett was born at Chadlington on 18th October 1869
and was baptised there at St Nicholas Church on 26th December
1869. Just eight months later his
father William Price Collett died and was buried at Chadlington, leaving
Frederick and his older brother William (above) to be looked after by their
widowed mother, at the
Chadlington home of her parents, as confirmed in the census of
1871. In 1881, just like his brother
William (above), he was a ploughboy and was 11 years old, while living with
his widowed mother Elizabeth and her second husband Thomas Soles and their
first child Thomas Soles. The family
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Frederick
married 27-year-old Agnes Emma Burden on 17th April 1900 at
Chadlington. At that time, he was 30
years old and a coalman living at Derby, when he was confirmed as the son of
William Price Collett deceased. Agnes’
father was Daniel Burden, a labourer and a witness at the wedding, as was her
mother Ada Mary Burden, Polly Souls, who was probably Frederick’s younger his
half-sister and possibly a bridesmaid at the wedding, plus two other
witnesses H Burden and A Kilby. Shortly
after they were married Frederick and Agnes were residing in Derby when their
daughter, and first child, was born.
In the census a few weeks later the family was listed as Frederick J
Collett, aged 31 from Chadlington, who was a general labourer, his wife Agnes
E Collett, 28 and also of Chadlington, and their daughter Ada Collett who was
just six weeks old. |
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According
to the census in 1911, Frederick James Collett from Chadlington was 41 and
was still living in the Derby area with his wife Agnes Emma Collett, who was
38 and also born at Chadlington, and their two children, Ada Elizabeth
Collett who was 10, and William Lewis Collett who was four years old. The census also confirmed that the two
children were after the couple moved to Derby. All that is known about Frederick James
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Ada Elizabeth Collett
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Born in 1901
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William
Lewis Collett
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Born in 1906
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12O22 |
George Frederick Charles
Collett was born at
Birmingham on 16th
December 1872, the eldest son of James Collett and Fanny Lidbetter, who was baptised at St
George’s Church in Birmingham on 19th January 1873. Sometime after 1878 the family left
Birmingham when they moved to Kemble Road in Croydon, Surrey, where they were
living at the time of the census in 1881.
At that time George F C Collett was eight years old and had three
younger siblings. However, the
children’s mother died during the following years. By 1891 the four children were still living
in Croydon at White Horse Lane, but with just their widowed father, when
George Collett was 18 and
an accountant’s clerk. Not long
after that George’s father remarried, following which he and his three
siblings all left the family home upon the arrival of two half-siblings. Ten years later, the census in 1901,
revealed that George F Collett from Birmingham was 28 and working as a tram
conductor, when he was a
boarder at the home of the Goodall family at Collier’s Water Lane in Croydon. During the next decade George returned to
his roots when, by 1911 and at the age of 38, he was once again living in the
Birmingham area of the country.
However, the death of George F C Collett was recorded at Staines
register office (Ref. 3a 3) during the third quarter of 1923, when he was 50
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12O23 |
James Percival Collett was born in 1874 at Birmingham,
the second son of James Collett and Fanny Lidbetter. During his life he was referred to as Percy
or James however, his
birth was recorded at Aston as James Percival Collett (Ref. 6d 180) during
the last three months of that year. It
was also under his full name, that his marriage to Mabel Florence Crofts OR
Bertha Lavinia Crouch was recorded at Croydon register office (Ref. 2a 139)
during the third quarter of 1905.
In between those years, he had continued to live with his family,
which moved to White Horse
Land in Croydon from Birmingham near the end of the 1880s. It is still not known, which of the two ladies, Mabel or Bertha, was
his wife, while no record of any children has been found. One clue may be the proving of the Will of
Percival James Collett at Oxford on 28th August 1947, following
his passing on 12th April 1947, when the sole beneficiary was
named as Mabel Collett.
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12O24 |
Frances
Elizabeth Margaret
Collett
was born at Birmingham in
1876, her birth recorded at Aston (Ref. 6d 47) during the second quarter of
the year, the only daughter of James and Fanny Collett. By the time of the census in 1881 Frances’
family had settled in Croydon, where she was three years old when living at
Kemble Road. Rather oddly she was
recorded as Margaret E M Collett, aged 14, in the Croydon census of 1891, by
which time her mother had died and she was living there with her widowed
father and her three brothers. It
would appear that it was Frances who was the first of her family to make the
return journey to Birmingham, since it was there that she was living in March
1901, where she was recorded as Frances Collett, aged 23 from Birmingham, who
was living in the Aston area of the city.
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12O25 |
John
Nelson Collett was born at
Birmingham in 1878, the last of the four children of James Collett of
Chadlington and his wife Fanny. His birth, like those of his
older siblings, was recorded at Aston (Ref. 6d 77) during the second quarter
of the year. John Collett was two
years old in the census of 1881 when he and his family had left Birmingham
and were living at Kemble Road in Croydon.
Tragically, his mother died while he was still very young and so, in
1891, when he was recorded as John N Collett aged 13, he was living at White
Horse Lane in Croydon with his widowed father and his three siblings. Just a few months after the census day,
John’s father remarried and two new children were added to the family. Upon leaving school, John travelled to the
south coast and was a visitor at the Surrey Street, Portsmouth, home of elderly couple Alfred and
Mary Hedgecock in 1901. That
day John N Collett from Birmingham was 23 and working as a barman. No record of John Collett or John Nelson
Collett has been found in the census of 1911.
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12O26 |
William
Albert Ernest Collett was born at South Norwood in Croydon, Surry on 11th
November 1892, where he was baptised on 27th December 1892, the eldest
of the three children of James Collett and Sarah Maria Moore. The birth of William Albert Ernest Collett was recorded at Croydon
register office (Ref. 2a 309) during the last months of 1892. All three children were still alive by the
time of the Croydon census in 1901 when William Collett was eight years old,
his sister Gladys Collett was six and his brother Gladstone (below) was
three. On completing his secondary
education, when William was nearly fifteen years old, he was taken on as an
employee of the London-Brighton South Coast Railway Company on 14th
September 1907 and was based at Forest Hill Station. Two and a half years later William Collett
was 18 when he and his family were still residents of Croydon. The railway employment
record for William Albert Ernest Collett, born on 11th November
1892, also includes a note that on 29th April 1915, he moved to a
new address in Wimbledon.
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Just over
four years after that move to Wimbledon, it was back at Croydon where the
marriage of William Albert Ernest Collett and Edith Ellen Giles was recorded
(Ref. 2a 147) during the third quarter of 1919. Edith had been born at Croydon in 1896, the
daughter of Henry and Louisa Giles of Gloucester Road in Croydon. As far as can be determined William and
Edith only had one child, with the birth of their son recorded at Croydon
register office in 1921, his mother’s maiden name confirmed as Giles. Finally, it has been established that William
Albert Ernest Collett he was living in Brighton when he died at the age of
77, his death recorded at Brighton register office (Ref. 5h 1130)
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Gladys
Beatrice Gertrude Amelia Collett was born at South Norwood on 24th August 1894, the only
daughter of James and Sarah Collett. It
was as Gladys Collett aged six years that she was living with her family in
Croydon in March 1901. Upon leaving
school Gladys became of children’s nurse and, according to the next census in
April 1911, Gladys Beatrice Gertrude Amelia Collett from South Norwood was 17
and employed as a children’s nurse at ‘Ventor’ 10 Roche Road, just off London
Road [A23] in Norbury, south-west London.
Twenty years later, spinster Gladys became a married woman when the marriage of Gladys B
G A Collett and Thomas W Reeves was recorded at the Sussex East
Preston register office (Ref. 2b 81) during the final quarter of 1931. The death of Gladys Beatrice G A Reeves was recorded at Worthing
register office (Ref. 18 57) in Sussex during the summer of 1982.
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12O28 |
Louis
Stanley Leopold Gladstone Collett was born at South Norwood on 29th December
1897, the youngest of the three children of James and Sarah Collett. When his birth was recorded at Croydon register office (Ref. 2a 358)
during the early months of 1898, he was named as Louis Stanley L G Collett.
The census returns for both 1901 and 1911 placed him and his family residing
in Croydon when on the first occasion he was recorded as Gladstone Collett
aged three years and subsequently as Louis Collett who was 13. On leaving school he became a jockey, but
with the arrival of Great War he was a member of the King’s army and as
Private Collett 48290 he served with the 3rd Wiltshire Regiment,
having been posted to Trowbridge on 19th January 1918. However, he was discharged from duty on 13th
November 1918, having spent from 22nd August to 20th
September as a patient in Glover’s Hospital in Sittingbourne. The reason for his discharge was for the
fact he was poorly developed and fragile; chest barely 32 inches when
expanded and, after a few days training, he broke down and had subsequently
only be given light duties. His weight
was a very slight 89 lbs, only 6 stones 5 lbs, a good weight for a jockey but
not a soldier. The military record
also gave his father as his next-of-kin, whose address was stated as being
226 White Horse Road in West Croydon.
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Ten years after he was discharged from the
military, the marriage of Louis Stanley L G Collett and Marie E Powell was recorded
at Reading register office (Ref. 2c 91) during the first three months of
1928. No record of any issue has been
found. The only
other known fact about him is that he was 83 when he died in Gloucestershire,
where the death of Louis Stanley L G Collett was recorded at Gloucester
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12O29 |
Frank
Chadbon Collett was born at the family home at Millicent Terrace in Bridgnorth,
Shropshire on 2nd August 1899, the eldest child of John Samuel
Collett and Elizabeth Chadbon. It was there
also at 3 Victoria Road (formerly Millicent Terrace) in Bridgnorth
St Leonard that he was still living with his parents in 1901 when he was one
year old. Just over four years later
Frank’s father died at 3 Victoria Road in Bridgnorth, so within the census of
1911 Frank was no longer living with his widowed mother and his three
sisters, instead Frank Chadbon Collett from Bridgnorth was 11 years of age
and when he was recorded as an inmate and a schoolboy at The Royal
Orphanage on Penn Road in Wolverhampton.
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Frank
worked as a bank clerk and was thirty-two when he was married by certificate
to Cecilia Mary Wilding at Staines register office in Middlesex on 29th
August 1932. Cecilia was the daughter
of William Snelling and Eliza Emerson. The death of Frank Chadbon Collett was
recorded at Southend register office in Essex (Ref. 4a 836) on 19th
April 1965. His Will was proved at
Ipswich on 27th May 1965 when it was confirmed that he and his
wife had been living at 33 Boston Avenue in Southend-on-Sea, where he passed
away, and that his widow Cecilia Mary Collett was given administration of his
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12O33 |
Charles
Guy Collett was born at Milton-under-Wychwood on 26th August 1894, the
eldest child of Charles Collett and his wife Rachel Hadlands. His birth was recorded at Chipping Norton register office (Ref. 3a
233) during the last three months of 1894, sometime after he was born. It was as Charles Guy Collett that he was
six years old in the Milton census of 1901, at The Green, and was described as Guy Collett
aged 16 and a plough boy,
when he was still living at the family home in Milton-under-Wychwood in
1911. During the First World War
Charles Guy Collett served as a private, service number 42656, with the
Warwickshire Infantry Division of the Worcester Regiment, from which he was eventually
discharged. However, upon the 1925 death
of his aunt Elizabeth Ann O’Grady nee Collett, his father’s eldest sister,
Charles Guy Collett, a commercial clerk, was named as one of the executors of
her Will. The other executor was his
father, Charles Collett senior. What
happened to Charles Guy after that time is not currently known, except that
he may have been living within the Reading and Wokingham area of Berkshire at
the end of his life, where his death was recorded (Ref. 19 0268) during March
1982, at the age of 87.
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12O34 |
Percy Ralph Collett was born in 1896 at
Milton-under-Wychwood, with
his birth recorded at Chipping Norton (Ref. 3a 20) during the second quarter
of the year. By 1901 he was
already attending school, when Percy Collett was five years of age and living
with his family at The
Green in Milton-under-Wychwood.
Ten years later he had finished his education and, at the age of 14, he was working as a plough boy
on a local farm, most likely alongside his father and older brother. It was towards the end of 1921, presumably
after he had seen active service during the First World War, when the
marriage of Percy Collett and Florence M Pullinger was recorded at Chipping Norton
register office (Ref. 3a 115). The birth
of the first of their three children was recorded at the register office in
Abingdon-on-Thames, where Percy’s sister was married four years later and
where two of her children were born.
So, maybe Percy and his family were actually living in Abingdon at
that time in their lives. The births
of the two later children of Percy and Florence were recorded at Chipping
Norton, after the family had travelled back north to that part of the
country. The death of Percival Ralph
Collett was recorded at Chipping Norton register office (Ref. 3a 87) during
the second quarter of 1944, when he was 48.
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Caroline May Collett was born on 31st
December 1897 at Milton-under-Wychwood, her birth recorded at Chipping Norton (Ref. 3a 343),
the eldest daughter of Charles and Rachel Collett. The family was living at The Green in Milton in
1901, where May Collett was three years old and again as May Collett, she was
13 in 1911. Both she and her older brother Percy (above)
appear to have been residing in Abingdon-on-Thames around 1922 to 1932, where
Percy’s son was born in 1922, where Caroline May Collett married Frank G
Bateman during the second quarter of 1926 (Ref. 2c 52), and where the births
of their three children were recorded.
Frank J Bateman was born early in 1927 (Ref. 2c 122), Mary
M Bateman was born
near the end of 1928 (Ref. 2c 60), and Violet E Bateman was born during the second
quarter of 1932 (Ref. 2c 61). In all
three cases, the mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Collett. Abingdon is only eight miles from the city
of Oxford, where the death of Caroline May Bateman was recorded (Ref. 6b 65)
during the summer of 1972, at the age of 74.
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12O36 |
Lilian Daisy
Collett was born at The Green in at Milton-under-Wychwood in
1899, where she was living with her family in 1901 as one-year-old Daisy
Collett. Her birth was recorded at Chipping Norton register
office (Ref. 3a 324) during the third quarter of 1899, and it was at
Milton that she and her family were still living in 1911, when again as Daisy
Collett she was 11 years of age.
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12O37 |
Dorothy Cicely Collett was born at The Green in Milton-under-Wychwood
in 1901, just prior to the day of the census that year, her birth recorded at Chipping
Norton register office (Ref. 3a 324) during the first three months of the
year. She was another daughter
of Charles and Rachel Collett and in the census of 1901 and 1911 she was
recorded were her family as Dorothy Collett, who was 10 years old in the
latter. Just over twenty years after that census day, the
marriage of Dorothy Cicely Collett and Horace Edward S French was recorded at
Oxford register office (Ref. 3a 70) during the last three months of
1931. Horace was younger than Dorothy,
having been born at Oxford St Ebbes on 17th November 1907, the
first-born child of Edward and Clara French, who was living in Abingdon when
he died in 1981. Dorothy presented
Horace with four children, all born within the county of Oxfordshire, but at
a number of locations, when their mother’s maiden name was confirmed as
Collett. They were Dorothy M C French
in 1932 at Headington, Edward M L French in 1938 at Oxford, James C French in
1943 at Witney, and Andrew C French in 1945 also at Witney.
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12O38 |
Emily Ivy E Collett was born on 16th
July 1902 at The Green in Milton-under-Wychwood, where she was Ivy
Collett aged eight years in 1911. It was the recording of her
birth at Chipping Norton (Ref. 3a 363) which revealed her full name as Emily
Ivy Elizabeth Collett. Like her sister
Dorothy (above), Emily was also in her thirties when she was married, the
wedding of Emily I E Collett and John E Slade was recorded at Reading
register office (Ref. 2c 97) during the third quarter of 1939. No issue has been found, likely because of
her advanced years, while the death of Emily Ivy Elizbeth Slade was recorded
at Cheltenham register office (Vol. 22) in January 1992, aged 89.
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Desmond
Harold Collett was born at Milton-under-Wychwood on 3rd December 1903,
the seventh of the eight children of Charles and Rachel Collett, his birth recorded at Chipping
Norton register office (Ref. 3a 222). He was seven years old in the Milton-under-Wychwood
census of 1911. He was almost
thirty-four years old when Desmond H Collett married Mary V Collins at
Brighton where the marriage was recorded (Ref. 2b 508) during the last three
months of 1937. Mary Violet Collins
was born at Brighton on 18th January 1911 when her birth was
recorded at Brighton register office (Ref. 2b 173). The births of their three children were all recorded at Oxford
register office. It was in the
second quarter of 1977 that Desmond Harold Collett died at the age of 73, his
death being recorded at Oxford register office (Ref. 20 2421). Mary survived her husband by thirteen years
and was still living within Oxfordshire when she died at the age of 79, her
passing recorded at Oxford register office (Ref. 20 2668) during the final
three months of 1990.
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Mollie J Collett
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Born in 1938 at Oxford |
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Roger D Collett
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Born in 1940 at Oxford |
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Janet M Collett
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Born in 1942 at Oxford |
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Marion Collett was born at
Milton-under-Wychwood on
6th November 1906, the last child of Charles Collett and
Rachel Hadlands. As with all of her older
siblings, the birth of Marion Collett was recorded at Chipping Norton
register office (Ref. 3a 210) and she was living with her family at Milton-under-Wychwood
in 1911 at the age of four years. All
that is known about Marion is that she never married and may well have lived
all her life in the county of Oxfordshire, since it was at the Oxford
register office (Ref. 20 52) that the death of Marion Collett was recorded
during the spring of 1977, when she was 70 years old.
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Daisy
Amelia Collett was born at Charlbury early in 1891, her birth recorded at Chipping Norton (Ref. 3a 354).
It was also at Charlbury where she was
baptised on 22nd March 1891, the eldest of the two children of
Lewis Edward Collett and Amelia Annie Kench.
She was 10 years old in the Charlbury census of 1901, when living at Church Street,
from where her father was a butcher. Daisy was only 14 when her father passed away
and, four year later her mother married Samuel Herbert Cruely. By 1911, Daisy Amelia Collett from
Charlbury was living at the George Hotel in Shipston-on-Stour, where her
mother and stepfather were managing the establishment. It was also in 1911, that the marriage of Daisy
Amelia Collett and Thomas E Clarke took place at Witney, where it was recorded (Ref. 3a
69) during the last three months of the year. Just over two years later, Thomas and Daisy
sailed to America, arriving at Ellis Island, New York, in 1914. Curiously in 1920, a Daisy Clark from
England, of English parents, was recorded in the New York City centre that
year, as being 25 years old and a single lady in lodgings, who was working as
a pathologist at a hospital.
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12O42 |
Lewis
Percival Collett was born at Charlbury in 1894 where he was baptised on 6th
January 1895, the only son of Lewis Edward Collett and Amelia Annie
Kench. He was six years old in 1901
when he was still living at Charlbury with his family. However, just over four years after that
his father died and after a further four years his mother remarried. Sometime prior to the next census in 1911,
Lewis’ stepfather, Samuel Herbert Cruely, took on the role of manager of the
George Hotel in Shipston-on-Stour where the family was residing in April
1911. Although still recorded as Lewis
Percival Collett, aged 16 and from Charlbury, it was later in his life that
he was known as Percy Collett. It was eighteen years after
that day, when Lewis Percival Collett married Clara Annie Hewer, the wedding
recorded at Witney register office (Ref. 3a 145) during the first quarter of
1929 and three years later their only known child was born. At the time of the death of his
mother at Witney in 1946, Percy was a hotel proprietor and was named as the
sole executor of her Will. What is
known is that Lewis Percival (Percy) Collett died at Witney in 1978.
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Joseph Wilton Collett was born during 1897 at Ulmarra in
the Grafton district of New South Wales and may originally have been
christened Joseph William Collett after his father, his mother being Lucinda
Dixon. Joseph was a farmer and grazier
before he enlisted with the Australian Infantry (AIF) at Brisbane on 31st
August 1915, following the outbreak of the First World War in Europe. It was as Private 4161 Joseph Wilton
Collett of the 9th Battalion AIF, from Ulmarra in New South Wales, that he
left Brisbane with thirteen reinforcements on HMAT Kyarra on 3rd
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Like
many of his comrades, he was exposed to the gas attacks by the enemy forces
at Le Barque near Martinpuich in France between the 14th and 20th
of February in 1917. Such was the
effect that Joseph was taken to the 5th General Hospital at Rouen,
where he died from pneumonia on 6th March 1917, at the age of
20. Following his death, he was buried
at the St Sever Cemetery at Rouen. The
Commonwealth War Graves Commission recorded that the parents of Joseph Wilton
Collett were Joseph William and Lucinda Collett of Ulmarra, Clarence River in
New South Wales. The above picture was
kindly supplied by Marion O’Shea. Upon
the death of his father in 1931, a headstone was erected on the grave which
also included a memorial to Pte Wilton Collett, the son of Joseph William
Collett, who died during the Great War.
The name of his mother was added to the same gravestone twenty-six
years later, when she died in 1957. |
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12P6 |
Netta
Catherine Collett was born at Ulmarra on 17th December 1907, the
youngest of the six children of Joseph William Collett and Lucinda
Dixon. She was twenty-two when she
married Alfred Charles John Joss at Grafton during 1930, the son of Charles
Arthur Joss and Olive Sarah Anne Barnett.
He was born at Southwark in London on 7th July 1900 and
died in 1970. Their marriage produced
four children for the couple, while Netta Catherine Joss nee Collett passed
away on 1st October 1991. Their first-born child was Gladys
Catherine Joss, born 1st February 1931, who
married Claud Darcy Max Cochrane (1926-1961). Next were twins, the first of them was Donald Anthony James Joss, born 25th June 1933, who married Phyllis Patricia
Hadlington on 5th May 1962, and it was Phyllis Patricia Joss, who
was born at Waverley NSW on 7th September 1935, who kindly
provided the details of her Collett/Dixon family. Netta and Alfred’s other twin was Yvonne Ursula Norma Joss (1933-2009), while the last child was Margaret Dolores Hinemoa Joss, born on 7th November 1940, who married Glen McCarthy.
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Georgina May Collett, who was known as May Collett, was
born at Coldstream, Ulmarra on 5th December 1892, the daughter of
James Collett and Mary Robertson. In
1909, at the age of 17, she fell in love with Clarence Herbert Shannon, aged
30, who was employed by May’s father, on his farm. James Collett was not happy with the
arrangement and consequently sent May away to relatives in New Zealand, where
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was not known by the relatives that handed down the story, whether her
father’s objection to the relationship was the age gap between the couple, or
the fact that Clarence was the grandson of a convict. Clarence Herbert Shannon was born at
Brushwood in Grafton, New South Wales in 1879 and was the son of Martha
Prentice and Thomas Shannon. The
passenger records show that a Miss M Collett (Georgina May) was accompanied
by a Miss E Collett on her many trips to and from New Zealand and she may
have been either her younger sister Olive Edith or, more likely, her older
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During
her period of absence, Clarence Shannon was married to another woman during
April of 1912, with whom he had a son around a year later. However, by the time of the birth of the
child, Clarence had already left his wife in December 1912, following which
she served him with divorce papers on the grounds of desertion. On 26th January 1915, May
Collett arrived at Sydney from Wellington at the age of twenty-two, having
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Possibly
on hearing the news of May’s return, the couple was reunited and Clarence
hoped to secure the divorce that his wife had petitioned for, but there
ensued a long and protracted battle over property, which was not resolved
until 1926, when the final divorce settlement was granted. Sometime after her return to Australia in
early 1915, May and Clarence rekindle their romance and during 1916 it was
confirmed when May was living at the home of Clarence Shannon, together with
her brother Raymond Collett. That was
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Over
the next nine years May presented Clarence with four base-born children,
during a period in his life when he was still legally married to his first
wife. Each child was born at a
different location, perhaps indicating a nomadic life-style for the
couple. In addition to the named
children listed below, there is a high expectation within the family that
Georgina May Collett may have given birth to another child while she was in
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was only on 22nd June 1926, and following the dissolution of his
marriage, that May, then aged 34, and Clarence, aged 47, were eventually
married at The Manse (Presbyterian Church) in Glen Innes, New South
Wales. The marriage certificate
confirmed that Clarence was a grazier, and that May was involved in domestic
duties. The document also stated that
Clarence was a divorced petitioner, and that May was a spinster. The couple’s parents were named as Thomas
Shannon and Martha Prentice (deceased), and James Collett (deceased) and Mary
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In
addition to Clarence’s and May’s four base-born children, the couple were
blessed with a further two children, and they were born within the first
three years of their married life together.
All of May’s four base-born children were initially given the Collett
surname. Her eldest son Henry, who was
born prematurely, died when he was only seven days old, and her next son was
subject to formal adoption a few years after he was born. Both of the remaining two children were
taken into the care of other families who raised them, and from which time
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Although
the children were eventually reunited in 1848, that happened after both May
and Clarence had passed away. Clarence
Herbert Shannon died during 1934, and was followed three years later by
Georgina May Shannon, nee Collett, when she died at Casino in New South Wales
on 20th September 1937 at the age of 45. However, some elements of the family were
still in contact with each other in 2008 and, Sarah, the granddaughter of son
Tom, was attending James Cook University in Townsville, while lodging with
Marion O’Shea (her cousin one-step removed), the daughter of Tom’s sister
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Georgina
May Shannon’s death certificate revealed the following information. Firstly, that she was a patient at The
Friendly Society Private Hospital in Casino when she passed, and that her
death was the result of an embolism caused during an hysterectomy operation,
which had been conducted eighteen hours prior to her demise. She was buried at the Church of England
Cemetery in South Grafton on 21st September 1937, where the witnesses
at the burial service were her brother-in-law C R Shannon, who was also the
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The
death certificate also listed the names of only three of her five surviving
children, and they were Clarence H Shannon 12, Martin R Shannon 10, and
Heather M Shannon who was eight years old.
However, by that time, her son Henry had been dead for eighteen years,
her son James had been adopted, and her missing daughter Sheila had been fostered
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Henry Collett
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Born in 1919
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James Thomas Collett
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Born in 1921
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Sheila Collett
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Clarence Henry Collett
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Martin
Rowland Shannon
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Heather
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12P18 |
Thomas
Charles Collett was born at Worcester on 9th June 1911, the
third son of William Ernest Collett and his wife Alice May Matthews, whose
birth was recorded at Worcester register office (Ref. 6c 464) during the
third quarter of that year. The only
other known fact relating to Thomas Charles Collett of Worcester, is that his
death was recorded there (Ref. 5271b) during February 1998, when he was 86.
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12P19 |
John
Stanley Collett was born at Worcester on 10th September 1914,
the last child of William and Alice Collett.
Like his older brother Thomas (above) it seems that John lived out his
life in Worcester, since it was there in March 1978 that his death was
recorded (Ref. 29 142), at the age of 63.
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12P20 |
Ada
Elizabeth Collett was born at Derby on 9th February 1901 and it
was there that she lived for the whole of her life. It was in the census of 1911 that she was
recorded as Ada Elizabeth Collett aged 10 years. She married John Pratley at Derby in 1937
and also died there in February 1971.
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12P21 |
William Lewis Collett was born at Derby on 28th April 1906 and was
four years old in the Derby census of 1911 when he was living there with his
parents and sister Ada (above). Like
his sister Ada, William also lived all his life in Derby where, in 1937, he
married Evelyn Trowbridge, with whom he had two children. William’s occupation was that of a turner
and lathe worker at the Rolls Royce factory in Derby and he died in November
1978.
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12Q7 |
Christine Collett
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Jeffrey
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12P22 |
Reginald William James G Collett was born on 13th
May 1921 at Croydon, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 2a 66) during the
second quarter of 1921, when the mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Giles. He was the only child of William Albert Ernest Collett and Edith Ellen Giles. It was during the third quarter of 1950,
when the marriage of Reginald W J G Collett and Kathleen Wilson was recorded
at the Surrey Mid-Eastern register office (Ref. 5g 102). However, it was earlier that same year when
the birth of their son was recorded at the Surrey North-Western register
office. It looks like Reginald retired
from whatever occupation he had and settled in Somerset towards the end of
his life, and it was there, at the Mendip register office, that his death was
recorded during February 1998, when he was 76.
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12P23 |
John Ralph Collett was born at Abingdon-on-Thames
on 1st May 1922, the eldest of the three children of Percy Ralph
Collett and Florence M Pullinger, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 2c 6),
with his mother’s maiden name confirmed as Pullinger. Just like his youngest sister Bessie
(below), John was also around twenty-eight years of age when the marriage of
John Ralph Collett and Cynthia Holloway was recorded at Chipping Norton
register office (Ref. 6b 100) during the second quarter of 1950. Their only known child, Charles W Collett,
was born in 1953 and tragically died a little while after, his birth and
death both recorded during the second quarter of the year at Middlesbrough
register office (Refs. 1b 117 & 1b 92), when his mother’s maiden name was
confirmed as Holloway. John Ralph
Collett was 78 years old and living at Thanet-with-Dover where his death was
recorded (Ref. 5751a) during the month of March in 2001.
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Charles W Collett
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Doris L Collett was born in 1924, her birth
recorded at Chipping Norton register office (Ref. 3a 3) during the third
quarter of 1924, when her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as
Pullinger.
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Bessie Gertrude Collett was born in 1928 with her
birth also recorded at Chipping Norton (Ref. 3a 129) during the first quarter
of that year, her mother also confirmed as having the maiden name of
Pullinger. It was during the first
three months of 1956, when she was around twenty-eight years old, that the
marriage of Betty G Collett and Thomas C Pratley was recorded at Witney
register office (Ref. 6b 56). The
birth of their only child, Wendy A Pratley, was also recorded at Witney
register office (Ref. 6b 140) during the second quarter of 1957. The later death of Betty Gertrude Pratley
was recorded at Oxford in April 1992 (Vol. 20), when she was 64.
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12P26 |
Mollie J
Collett was born on
31st January 1938, her birth recorded at Oxford register office
(Ref. 3a 151), months of the year, the eldest of the three children of Desmond Harold Collett and Mary Violet Collins. Mollie was almost 21 years of age when her
marriage to David W John was also recorded at Oxford (Ref. 6b 74), during the
second quarter of 1959. Mollie gave
birth to two children during the following ten years, first was Sarah J John in 1962, and then
Rachel Mary John in 1969, the births of both girls recorded at Oxford,
with their mother’s maiden name confirmed as Collett.
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12P27 |
Roger D
Collett was born
in 1940, the only son and one of the three children of Desmond and Mary
Collett. His birth was recorded at
Oxford (Ref. 3a 9) during the second quarter of the year when his mother’s
maiden name was Collins. At the age of
23, the marriage of Roger D Collett and Jean M Morgan was also recorded at
Oxford (Ref. 6b 173) during the third quarter of 1963. The first of the couple’s three daughters
was born in Oxford, while it was at Bicester, to the north of Oxford, that
the other two girls were born. In each
case, the mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Morgan.
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12Q11 |
Lorna F Collett
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Joanne Carol Collett
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Heather Mary Collett
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Janet M
Collett was born
in 1942 and her birth, like those of her two older sisters, was recorded at
Oxford register office (Ref. 3a 148) during the second quarter of that year. She was the last child of Desmond and Mary
Collett. Janet was twenty-one when she
married
the much older Richard Donald Berry at Oxford during the second quarter of 1963 (Ref. 6b
117). Richard was born at Camberwell in London
on 12th May 1925 and he died at Witney on 17th January 2009. Their marriage produced two daughters, the
births of Lisa Jane
Berry and Susanne Louise Berry both recorded at
Oxford in 1966 and 1968, when the mother’s maiden name was confirmed as
Collett. Janet M Berry was at
Aylesbury when she died on 1st October 2000, when she was only 58.
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12P29 |
Nina
Collett was born
at Witney in 1932, the only child of Lewis Percival
Collett and Clara Annie Hewer. Her birth was recorded at Witney (Ref. 3a 106) during the
second quarter of 1932. Towards the
end of 1956, the marriage of Nina Collett and Cornelius A McKenzie was
recorded at Harrow in Middlesex (Ref. 5f 57) during the last three months of
that year.
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12Q1 |
Henry Collett was born at Moree in New South Wales
on 10th October 1919 and survived for just a week when he died 17th
October 1919. His death certificate
conformed that he died at Nurse O’Hara’s Private Hospital in Moree, and that
he had been prematurely born. It would
also appear that his seven days were all spent in the hospital under Doctor
Matthew Harris. The certificate also
stated that his mother was Georgina May Collett and that the informant of the
death was Olive O’Hara, no relation.
Baby Henry Collett was buried at the Presbyterian Cemetery in Moree,
on the same day that he died. |
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12Q2 |
James Thomas Collett, who was referred to as Tom, was born
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Sheila Collett was born at Inverell in New South
Wales on 11th January 1923 and was the base-born daughter of
Georgina May Collett. Following the
marriage of her mother May to her father Clarence Herbert Shannon in 1926,
when she was three years old, Sheila adopted her father’s surname to replace
her mother’s maiden, as did her older brother Tom and younger brother
Clarence Henry. However, as Sheila
Shannon she was taken into the care of another family and was only reunited
with her siblings at a later date. Her
foster parents had tried in previous years to persuade her to meet with her
parents but with little success and Sheila last saw them in 1931. And it was as Sheila Shannon that she later
married Herbert Francis O’Shea at Cairns in Queensland in 1942 with whom she
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She
was eventually reunited with her siblings in 1948 although they had no
knowledge of her existence as they were all too young to remember. The reunion was not a happy event and no
further meetings took place. Sheila
died in 1997 and in the week prior to her passing she expressed a wish that
it would be nice to once again meet up with her brothers and sisters, but
sadly that never happened. Since her
death Sheila’s two children have been in contact with their surviving aunt
and uncle and their cousin, the son of the late Clarence Henry Shannon. |
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Herbert
Patrick O’Shea
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Heather Marion O’Shea
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12Q7 |
Christine
Collett was
born at Derby on 25th January 1941, her birth recorded there (Ref. 7b 11), when her
mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Trowbridge. Twenty-two years later she married Edward G Mould in 1963, the event recorded at Shardlow
register office (Ref. 3a 155) during the third quarter of that year. The couple eventually moved to Bristol,
where Christine was a school teacher. Christine Mould nee Collett died
at Bristol on 1st May 1999, at the age of 58, her passing recorded
at the South Gloucestershire register office (Vol. 3041b).
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Jeffrey Collett was born at Derby on 15th June 1945, his birth recorded at Derby
register office (Ref. 7b 81), when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as
Trowbridge. As a young man
Jeffrey served with the Royal Air Force for several years and was posted to
many places around the world, including Africa and Middle East. Following his military service, he settled
in Derbyshire where he still lives to this day, and where he worked as a
quantity surveyor prior to retirement.
It was on 3rd October 1970 that Jeffrey married (1) Diana
Morris, their marriage recorded
at Repton register office (Ref. 3a 120). Over the following decade, Diana presented
Jeffrey with two children who were both born while the family was living at
Burton-on-Trent. Twenty-five years
later, Jeffrey and Diana were divorced on 1st May 1995 and, four
years later, Jeffrey married (2) Janet Till nee Thomas on 6th
March 1999, their
wedding recorded at South Derbyshire register office (Vol. 397).
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Iain
Collett
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Born in 1975
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12R5 |
Robert Collett
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Born in 1979
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12Q9 |
John R Collett was born in 1950, a few months
before his parents were married in Surrey, his birth recorded at the Surrey
North-Western register (Ref. 5g 112) during the second quarter of 1950, when
his mother’s maiden name was confirmed Wilson. It was around his twenty-fourth birthday
that the marriage of John R Collett and Eleanor M Chatterley was recorded at
Surrey North-Western register office (Ref. 17 5) during the second quarter of
1974. The births of their three
children were all recorded at the Reading & Wokingham register office,
with the mother’s maiden name confirmed as Chatterley. The marriage of the couple’s youngest child
was recorded at Winchester (Vol. 502) during the summer of 2002, when
eighteen-year-old Jessica Rachel Collett married Robert C Waddington.
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12R6 |
Lisa Jayne Collett
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Born in 1978 at Reading & Wokingham |
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Iain Robert Collett
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Born in 1982 at Reading & Wokingham |
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Jessica Rachel Collett
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Joanne Carol Collett was born at Bicester in 1967,
with her birth recorded at the Bicester Ploughley register office (Ref. 6b
153) during the first quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden name was
confirmed as Morgan. The marriage of
Joanne Carol Collett and William M Oliver was recorded at the West
Oxfordshire register office (Vol. 20) during May 1989. Joanne gave birth to two children, the births
of both of them recorded at Oxford register office, when their mother’s
maiden name was Collett. Kate
Elizabeth Oliver was born in November 1991, and Samuel William Oliver in June 1995.
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Heather Marion O’Shea, who is referred to as Marion, was
born at Townsville in Queensland in 1944. Grateful
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12R4 |
Iain Collett
was born at Burton-on-Trent on 10th
September 1975, with his
birth recorded at the East Staffordshire register office (Ref. 30 23), when
his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Morris. Iain qualified as a chartered accountant
and, on 23rd September 2000, he married Catherine Sarah Bould,
their wedding day recorded at the Leicestershire register office (Vol. 605). Nine years later, the couple was residing in
Derbyshire during 2009. It is
interesting to note that prior to their wedding day, Catherine Bould’s
brother, Andrew J Bould,
married Helen L Collett
of Burton-on-Trent, the
event also recorded at the East Staffordshire register office (Vol. 30) during
May in 1993. It is now known that the
birth of Helen Louise Collett at Burton-on-Trent was recorded there (Ref. 9b
2) during the first quarter of 1969, when her mother’s maiden name was
recorded as Scotney and her father was John V Collett (Ref. 1R10). Grateful thanks go to Iain for providing the
new details relating to his family line, the majority of which were
originally gathered by his father Jeffrey from the parish records at
Chadlington.
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DYLAN ALFRED Collett
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12R5 |
Robert
Collett was
born at Burton-on-Trent on 13th July 1979, hand as with his brother Iain (above), his birth
was also recorded at the East Staffordshire register office (Ref. 30 81), his
mother’s maiden name confirmed as Morris. In 2009, bachelor Robert was working as a
town planner in Gosport, Hampshire, where he lives.
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It
may be interesting to note that in the Oxfordshire Census of 6th
June 1841, there appears to be just one Collett family with a Glympton
connection. That
was Rachel Collett (Ref. 39M5) aged 67, the wife of William Collett of
Clanfield. Living there with her, were
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Further information on all of them can
be found in Part 39 – The Clanfield Oxfordshire
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