PART FIFTEEN

The Kenilworth & Coventry Line - 1700 to 2010

Updated March 2022

This is the family line of Neil Collett (Ref. 15P47) of Ashow near Kenilworth,

his line of descendants denoted by the names in capital letter.

I first met Neil in June 1996 at the Collett Reunion at Shepton Mallet.

It is also the family line of Mal [Malcolm] Collett (Ref. 15R9) who contributed

all of the new photos for February 2012, plus lots of details about his family.

His line is denoted by the names in italics which converges with Neil’s line at 15J4.

		Much of the earlier information contained within this family line has been kindly provided by Neil, and towards the end of 2010 he also provided more details of the Colletts of Warwickshire. While the vast majority of the information has been included in the main family line here, some of the details relate to other families for which no direct link has yet been made. Therefore, those particular details have been included in the Appendices at the end of the file for completeness, and in the hope that they may be connected at some time in the future. Some however, relate to members of the Collett family in Part 33 – The Bourton-on-the-Water Line, thus cementing that fact that the town Bourton has connections with the neighbouring county of Warwickshire
		This line has its origins in Part 1 – The Main Line starting in 1485 with Thomas Collett (Ref. 1D1) and moving forward through the years using Part 14 – The John Kyte Line to Thomas Collett (Ref. 14I5) of Bourton-on-the Water, who starts this part.
		Further information has been received during 2011 which indicates that the earliest Collett resident of Coventry was Richard Colet back in 1434. The details, taken from the Coventry Leet Book, have been kindly provided by Mick Coggins of Rothwell in Northamptonshire who works in Coventry, whose only family line is Part 1 – The Main Gloucestershire Line. The details supplied by Mick can be found in Appendix Five at the end of this family line.
14I5	THOMAS COLLETT was born in the area of Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire. He married Mary Tombe and the union produced four children for the couple and all of them born at Bourton. From their individual records, it is evident that, as the children grew-up, they left Bourton to make their own way in the world. The couple’s two sons made their way north and settled in Coventry, whereas it would appear that the two daughters possibly entered domestic service which took them respectively to the Burford and Banbury areas in the adjacent county of Oxfordshire.
	It would seem that Thomas and his wife spent their whole life together at Bourton-on-the-Water, since it was there that Thomas Collett died in 1739, following which he was buried in the graveyard of the Baptist Chapel in the town. Sixty years later, in 1799, his son Thomas was buried in the grave next to his father.
	15J1		Ann Collett	Born circa 1713
	15J2		Hannah Collett	Born circa 1715
	15J3		Thomas Collett	Born circa 1723
	15J4		WILLIAM COLLETT	Born circa 1729
15J1	Ann Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water around 1713 and it was there that she was baptised on 13^th May 1716, the daughter of Thomas Collett. It was just twenty years later that the archdeacon’s marriage bond permitted the marriage of Ann Collett of Bourton-on-the-Water to William Young of Islip in Oxfordshire to take place at Burford on 13^th June 1736. William was 24 years old and a bachelor, while Ann was 23 and a spinster living within the Parish of Burford. However, no apparent record of the wedding has been located within the Burford parish register or the IGI. William Young was baptised at Islip on 3^rd April 1711, the son of William and Ann Young.
15J2	Hannah Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water around 1715. It would appear that it was through her sister Ann’s marriage to William Young (above) that Hannah formed a relationship with Richard Young who, also being from Islip like William, may well have been his cousin, since both had different parents. So just over eight years after her sister Ann married William Young, Hannah married Richard Young on 22^nd December 1744 at Idbury in Oxfordshire. Once again, the event was approved by the archdeacon’s marriage bond, which stated that Richard was a bachelor and yeoman of Islip, while Hannah from Bourton-on-the-Water was a spinster at the Parish of Swalcliff, which lies south-west of Banbury.
	Richard Young was baptised at Islip on 24^th August 1719, the son of Richard and Mary Young. Unlike her sister’s wedding, which took place in Burford, Hannah and Richard were married in the Oxfordshire village of Idbury, five miles to the north of Burford. But just like her sister’s wedding, no record of it has been found in the parish register or the IGI. Once married, Richard and Hannah returned to Islip where their first child was born, but shortly after that the family moved eight miles due north of Islip and settled in the village of Ardley, where their remaining children were born. The children were Mary Young (baptised on 29^th January 1745 at Islip), Richard Young (baptised in 1748 at Ardley), Hannah Young (baptised in 1753 at Ardley), and Hannah Young (baptised in 1755 at Ardley).
	Hannah Young nee Collett died on 16^th July 1781 at the age of 67. In her Will made on 1^st April 1780 she left the residue of her estate to her brother Thomas Collett (below), Alderman of the City of Coventry, whom she also made executor of the Will. High up on one of the walls inside the Church of St Mary at Ardley there is an interesting coat of arms on the memorial plaque to Richard Young. It would appear to be a shared coat of arms with his wife Hannah. The right-hand side shows the design of the Young family crest, while the left side has the distinctive chevron design of the Collett crest, and includes three flowers or rosettes.
15J3	Thomas Collett was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in 1723, where he was baptised on 24^th January 1724, the son of Thomas Collett. Sometime after completing his schooling in Bourton, Henry eventually left the town when he moved north to settle in Coventry, where he remained for the rest of his life. Thomas Collett was around twenty years of age when he married Elizabeth Rebecca Gibbard at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry on 22^nd February 1744. Elizabeth was baptised as Rebecca Gibbard at Southam in Warwickshire on 18^th August 1719, the daughter of John and Mary Gibbard.
	Thomas was a leather dresser (a currier) and later in his life he was Mayor of Coventry from 1762 to 1763. The name of Thomas Collett, currier, was included in a list of principal inhabitants of the City of Coventry for the year 1791. Thomas Collett died in Coventry during 1799, following which he was buried alongside his father in the grounds of the Baptist Chapel at Bourton-on-the-Water, as instructed within his Will. When his wife Elizabeth died two years later, during the summer of 1801, she was buried inside Southam Church where there is a stone tablet set in the aisle floor at the Church of St James, which states that “Here lyeth the body of Elizabeth Rebecca Collett, wife of Thomas Collett”.
	The Will of Thomas Collett, currier of Coventry, was proved on 8^th April 1801, the death duty abstract of which refers to his wife as Rebecca. Others mentioned were his niece Ann Collett and nephews John Collett and William Collett, his nieces Sarah Smith and Hannah Pettifor, his nephew Henry Collett, and lastly his niece Rachall Lea who was the former Rachel Collett. From those details it can perhaps be deduced that Thomas’ brother William Collett (below), and the father of all of the nephews and nieces named in his Will, had also died by then, together with his wife Ann who was also not mentioned.
	Elizabeth Rebecca Collett also left a Will which was proved on 9^th October 1801, and that named William Gibbard and Thomas Wyatt of Coventry as executors. The estate was divided between William Gibbard and Rebecca Wyatt, the wife of Thomas Wyatt, indicating that the marriage of Thomas Collett and Elizabeth Rebecca Gibbard had produced no surviving children. William Gibbard and Rebecca Wyatt were probably Elizabeth’s nephew and niece, the two children of Elizabeth’s brother John Gibbard and his wife Mary. William Gibbard was baptised at St Michael’s Cathedral on 20^th October 1756, the son of John and Mary, while Rebecca Gibbard was baptised there on 8^th March 1759, the daughter of John and Mary, where she later married Thomas Wyatt on 26^th June 1782.
	During his life Thomas Collett had links with Edward Remington, an apothecary of Coventry. In October 1751 both of their names featured in a conveyance made over to them as trustees by Robert Stone, gent of Hollington in Derby. And four years later, currier Thomas Collett was named in the 1755 Will of Edward Remington, when he received the sum of one hundred pounds. It is possible, although not proved, that Thomas and Elizabeth may have had children. From the wedding date in 1744, there is a probability that children would have been born during the following two decades. It is also likely that if that was proved to be true, that they would have very likely named one of their sons Thomas Collett. The records for St Michael’s Church in Coventry include the baptism of Henrietta Collett in 1768, who was the daughter of Thomas Collett and his wife Mary.
15J4	WILLIAM COLLETT was born around 1729 at Bourton-on-the-Water. Like his brother Thomas (above, William also left the family home in Bourton when he joined his brother in Coventry. It was also in Coventry that William Collett married Ann Mathews of Coventry. William Collett and his wife Ann may have both died before 1799, since neither of them was mentioned in the Will of his brother Thomas Collett who died that year. However, named as beneficiaries under the terms of the Will were seven of their nine children. And it is the order in which they are named in the Will that they are shown below, with daughter Ann Collett assumed to be the eldest child, since she is the first to be mentioned, through to Rachel who is the last.
	15K1		Ann Collett	Date of birth unknown at Coventry
	15K2		William Collett	Date of birth unknown at Coventry
	15K3		John Collett	Born circa 1752 at Coventry
	15K4		Sarah Collett	Born circa 1754 at Coventry
	15K5		Hannah Collett	Born circa 1756 at Coventry
	15K6		Oliver Collett	Born circa 1758 at Coventry
	15K7		Thomas Collett	Born circa 1760 at Coventry
	15K8		HENRY COLLETT	Born circa 1762 at Coventry
	15K9		Rachel Collett	Born circa 1764 at Coventry
15K1	Ann Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the eldest child of William and Ann Collett. She was referred to in the 1801 Will of her uncle Thomas Collett and, since her name was the first of the seven children of William and Ann Collett listed, it might be assumed that she was the oldest. Also, she was obviously not married by that time as she was included as ‘niece Ann Collett’.
15K2	William Collett, who was born at Coventry the son of William and Ann Collett. What is known is that he married Elizabeth Townsend of Coventry at St Michael’s in Coventry on 28^th March 1771, and was named in the Will of his uncle Thomas Collett of Coventry, which was proved in 1801. It was previously thought that, because he had his father’s name, he was the eldest son of William and Ann, although in the Will the name of ‘nephew William Collett’ appears after that of his sister Ann Collett (above) and his brother John Collett (below).
15K3	John Collett was born at Coventry around 1752 and was the son of William and Ann Collett. It was also in Coventry that he married Mary Bostin on 22^nd April 1782 at the West Orchard Baptist Chapel in the Holy Trinity district of Coventry. Just over a year after they were married, John and Mary had a daughter, followed by a son two years later. A second son was added to the family after a further seven years and the Coventry baptism records for all three children confirm the parents as John and Mary Collett.
	It is possible that there were more than just these children, one such child may have been William born at Coventry around 1793. Although no baptism or birth details have been located, his details are included here in the hope that they may be verified at a future date. The family was completed by the beginning of the new century, with the addition of two more daughters for John and Mary.
	John Collett was named as one of the seven beneficiaries under the terms of Will of his uncle Thomas Collett of Coventry. In the document, proved in 1801, he was referred to as ‘nephew John Collett’ and his name followed his sister Ann Collett (above) and before his brother William Collett (below), which may indicate that John was the second child of the family of William and Ann Collett. Rather curiously it was in 1815 when John Collett was baptised at the age of 63. The church record at Vicar Lane Independent Chapel in Coventry confirmed that he was the son of William and Ann Collett, and it is that event which has provided his approximate year of birth.
	15L1		Ann Collett	Born in 1783 at Coventry
	15L2		Thomas Collett	Born in 1785 at Coventry
	15L3		John Collett	Born in 1792 at Coventry
	15L4		William Collett	Born in 1793 at Coventry
	15L5		Rachel Collett	Born in 1798 at Coventry
	15L6		Sarah Collett	Born in 1800 at Coventry
15K4	Sarah Collett, who was born at Coventry around 1754, was the daughter of William and Ann Collett. However, the year of her birth has been based on her assumed age at the time of her marriage in 1775. Sarah married Thomas Smith of Coventry at St Michael’s Cathedral on 11^th November 1775. Sarah was another child of William and Ann Collett to be named in the 1801 Will of her uncle Thomas Collett of Coventry, when she was included as ‘niece Sarah Smith’. The marriage of Sarah and Thomas Smith produced three children for the couple. The first of them was James Smith, who was baptised at Coventry Cathedral in 1786, who married Ann and, who in 1841, was a whitesmith living in Much Street in Coventry with his wife. Their second child was Rosanna Smith who was baptised during 1795, but who died the following year, while the last child was Elizabeth Smith who was baptised at Coventry Cathedral in 1797.
15K5	Hannah Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the daughter of William and Ann Collett. Hannah Collett married Joseph Pettifor of Coventry at St Michael’s Cathedral on 2^nd March 1778, just over two years after her sister Sarah (above) was married there. That event could indicate that Hannah was born at Coventry around 1756. Hannah is known to have presented Joseph with two sons; Thomas Pettifor was baptised at Coventry Cathedral on 7^th March 1780, while Joseph Pettifor was baptised there during the following year. Their son Joseph Pettifor married Elizabeth Lloyd at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry on 29^th March 1801. It was also ten days after that event that the Will of Hannah’s uncle, Thomas Collett of Coventry, was proved and in which ‘niece Hannah Pettifor’ was named as one of the beneficiaries, together with six of her siblings.
15K6	Oliver Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the son of William and Ann Collett. Oliver was probably born in Coventry where the remainder of his sibling seem to have been born, and that is likely to have been at some time during the end of the 1750s. However, it is known that he had died before 1799, because he was one of only two of the nine children of William and Ann not to be mentioned in the 1801 Will of his uncle Thomas Collett of Coventry, the other sibling being his brother Thomas Collett (below).
15K7	Thomas Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the son of William and Ann Collett. Just like his brother Oliver (above), he too was very likely born at Coventry around 1760. What is known is that he later married Ann of Coventry, possibly during the latter couple of years of the 1770s. Although no record of the marriage between Thomas and Ann has so far been found, the couple are known to have had three sons, although yet again, no record of their baptisms has been found. However, it would seem as if Thomas Collett, and perhaps even his wife Ann, had both passed away before the end of the eighteenth century, since neither of them was mentioned within the Will of Thomas’ uncle, Thomas Collett of Coventry, which was proved in 1801.
	15L7		Thomas Collett	Born circa 1780 at Coventry
	15L8		John Collett	Born circa 1782 at Coventry
	15L9		Henry Collett	Born circa 1784 at Coventry
15K8	HENRY COLLETT was born at Coventry around 1762, the son of William and Ann Collett, although an alternative source suggests, perhaps in error, that he was born at Wolston in 1758. He married (1) Esther Mann on 8^th August 1785 at Wolston, which is situated immediately north of Stretton-on-Dunsmore and herein after referred to as simply Stretton. Esther was the daughter of William Mann and Mary Browne and was baptised at Wolston on 17^th May 1762. She died in 1788 the same year that their only child, Esther Collett, was born and died. Therefore, it is highly likely that those two events were linked, that is, that both died during childbirth. In 1838 Henry’s son Oliver married Rachel Mann who may have been related to his late wife’s family.
	Following her death Henry married (2) Sarah Wells on 30^th December 1794 at Stretton. Sarah was fourteen years younger than Henry and was the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Wells. She was born in 1776 and tragically died in early 1805 and just after presenting Henry with their fifth child. It was four years earlier, in April 1801, that the Will of Henry’s uncle Thomas Collett of Coventry, was proved, and in which ‘nephew Henry Collett’ was named as a beneficiary. In the listing of beneficiaries, Henry Collett was named in front of his youngest sister Rachel, which may indicate that Henry was the youngest son of William and Ann Collett.
	Just over a year after the death of his second wife, Henry married (3) Susannah Currell who was eighteen years younger. That took place at St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry on 19^th January 1807. Susannah was born on 10^th June 1780 and was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Currell. Over the next sixteen years Susannah presented her husband with a further eight children, the youngest being thirteen when Henry died. Henry Collett of Stretton was described as a cordwainer (a shoe maker) when he died in 1836. Susannah survived him by ten years when she died in 1846.
	15L10		Esther Collett	Born in 1788 at Wolston
	The following are the children of Henry Collett by his second wife Susannah Currell:
	15L11		Anne Collett	Born in 1795 at Stretton
	15L12		Elizabeth Collett	Born on 04.11.1796 at Stretton
	15L13		Esther Collett	Born on 15.09.1799 at Stretton
	15L14		Sarah Collett	Born on 16.12.1801 at Stretton
	15L15		HENRY COLLETT	Born on 14.12.1804 at Stretton
	15L16		Mary Collett	Born on 16.04.1807 at Stretton
	15L17		Mary Ann Collett	Born on 02.10.1808 at Stretton
	15L18		Thomas Collett	Born on 23.02.1810 at Stretton
	15L19		William Collett	Born in 1813 at Stretton
	15L20		Charlotte Collett	Born in 1815 at Stretton
	15L21		Oliver Collett	Born in 1817 at Stretton
	15L22		Maria Collett	Born in 1819 at Stretton
	15L23		John Collett	Born in 1823 at Stretton
15K9	Rachel Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the youngest child of William and Ann Collett. It was at St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry that Rachel Collett married Thomas Lea on 26^th March 1787. That might indicate that she was born during the middle of the 1860s. Rachel Lee was named as ‘niece Rachall Lea’ in the Will of her uncle Thomas Collett of Coventry, and it is the fact that she was last of the seven children to be named which has given rise to the fact that she may have been the youngest child of William and Ann Collett. Thomas Lea was a weaver and he and Rachel were living at Bonds Hospital in Coventry in both 1841 and 1851. Their marriage produced three children, the first of which, Mary Ann Lea was baptised on 10^th September 1792 at St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry.
	The couple’s second child was Benjamin Lea who was baptised there on 17^th February 1974, while their third child, Charlotte Lea was baptised on 1^st July 1799. Benjamin Lea was a tailor and on 24^th March 1811 he married Mary Burnham at St Lawrence’s Church in Foleshill, Coventry. In 1841 Benjamin and Mary were living in Far Gosford Street in Coventry, and ten years after that, at Primrose Terrace. Over the years from 1812 to 1826, the couple had five children.
15L1	Ann Collett was born at Coventry in 1783 and it was there that she was baptised on 22^nd January 1784 at Holy Trinity Church, the eldest child of John and Mary Collett, formerly Mary Bostin, who were married there in 1782.
	It may also be of interest that, according to the IGI, Ann Wainwright Collett was born on 3^rd December 1782, the daughter of John and Mary Collett. However, she was baptised at the Vicar Lane Independent Chapel in Coventry on 28^th October 1821. Other records show that she never married and that she died in Coventry during 1897. That then brings into question the stated date of her birth, since she would have been 115 years old at the time of her death, and raises a further question, was she the daughter of Ann’s brother John Collett (below) who was married to a Mary, which seem more likely. So, it is with them, that she has been placed.
15L2	Thomas Collett was born at Coventry in 1785, where he was baptised at St Michael’s Cathedral on 8^th May 1786, the eldest son of John and Mary Collett. Thomas married Mary around 1810, and their marriage produced three daughters for the couple, and all of them were born at Coventry. Although no record of Thomas or Mary has been found in the census of 1841, Thomas Collett age 65 was living in the Parish of St John & St Michael in Coventry in 1851, with his unmarried daughter Elizabeth living and working nearby within the same parish with her two children. The baptism records for all three daughters confirmed that Thomas and Mary were their parents.
	15M1		Ann Collett	Born in 1811 at Coventry
	15M2		Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1814 at Coventry
	15M3		Sarah Collett	Born in 1816 at Coventry
15L3	John Collett was born at Coventry in 1792 or 1793 and he was baptised there at the St Michael’s Cathedral on 1^st January 1794, the son of John and Mary Collett. It is believed that that John was married to Mary, possibly Mary Wainwright, and that the marriage produced a daughter for the couple who was baptised in Coventry in 1821. However, the same IGI record on the Family Search website gives her year of birth as 1782, but that may be an error.
	15M4		Ann Wainwright Collett	Baptised on 28.10.1821 at Coventry
15L4	William Collett was born at Coventry around 1793, although no actual birth or baptism record has been found to confirm the year. Why he has been included here it because his grandson was a watch finisher in Coventry, the same occupation as other members of the Collett family detailed later in this family history. He was married to Hannah Linden at St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry on 25^th December 1811, Hannah having been born around 1790. It is now confirmed that William Collett, who died in 1850, and his wife Hannah Lindon had another son prior to son Thomas and daughter Hannah, and he was Oliver Collett who was born at Coventry within the first year of their marriage, but who sadly died and was buried at Holy Trinity in 1816.
	15M5		Oliver Collett	Born in 1812 at Coventry
	15M6		Thomas Collett	Born in 1813 at Coventry
	15M7		Hannah Collett	Born in 1815 at Coventry
15L5	Rachel Collett was born at Coventry in 1798, and was baptised at St Michael’s Cathedral on 7^th August 1798, the fifth child of John and Mary Collett. Rachel married John Willcox at Coventry Cathedral on 12^th February 1816.
15L6	Sarah Collett was born at Coventry in 1800, the last of the six children of John Collett and Mary Bostin, and was baptised at St Michael’s Cathedral on 22^nd July 1800. Sarah was 24 when she married Thomas Mills at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry on 16^th August 1824. Sarah was with-child on the day of her wedding, and less than three months after she gave birth to a son, Thomas William Mills who was baptised at St John’s Church in Coventry on 12^th November 1824.
15L7	Thomas Collett was born at Coventry around 1780, the eldest of the three known sons of Thomas and Ann Collett. On 9^th April 1804 he married Mary Roberts at the Holy Trinity Church in Coventry, but it would appear that she died very shortly after, perhaps even during childbirth. Following the death of his wife, widower Thomas Collett then married Hannah Wheelband at St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry on 25^th November 1805. It has not been determined whether they were any children resulting from either of his marriages. What is known is that Hannah Collett died in 1836 and was buried in the churchyard of St John’s Church in Coventry, where a headstone marks the grave.
15L8	John Collett was born at Coventry around 1782, another of the three sons of Thomas and Ann Collett. John died at Coventry on 29^th August 1852, prior to which he had married Ann, and was a bookseller in the city.
15L9	Henry Collett was born at Coventry around 1784, the youngest of the three known sons of Thomas and Ann Collett. What is interesting is that Henry Collett married Elizabeth Townsend at the Church of St Nicholas in Willoughby on 22^nd June 1815. Elizabeth was born in 1795 and may have been the niece of Elizabeth Townsend who married William Collett, the brother of Henry’s father. Willoughby lies to the south of Rugby in Warwickshire and the earliest Collett found in the church records there, date from 1634 – see Appendix Three for further information on this and other, so far, unrelated Colletts. It was at Willoughby that Henry and Elizabeth settled after they were married, and it was there also that all of their children were born. All of them, with the exception of their daughter Sarah Ann, were baptised at Willoughby, while she was baptised at the Cathedral Church of St Michael in Coventry.
	However, by the time of the census in 1841, with their family complete, Henry and Elizabeth had left Willoughby and instead were living at a dwelling in Great Butchers Row in Coventry. By that time only three of their children were living there with them. The rounded ages of both Henry and Elizabeth were incorrectly recorded in the census return as 47, when there was a difference in their ages of ten years. Their three sons were confirmed as Job Collett aged 22, Joseph Collett aged 17 and Oliver who was 14, all of them confirmed as having been born with the county of Warwickshire. Where the couple’s other children were on that day has still to be discovered, although it seems likely that their daughter Sarah Ann Collett had died by then.
	Ten years later, in 1851, the census that year recorded the family living at Bishop Street in Coventry, where Henry was a tailor as were his sons Job, still living at home, and Joseph who was married by then and also residing in Bishop Street. Once again Henry and his wife Elizabeth were incorrectly recorded as having the same age, that being 58. So perhaps Henry did not want to admit that he was ten years older than his wife. That census day two of the couple’s younger children were living with them, plus two of their unmarried sons. Those four children were Job Collett who was 32, Oliver Collett who was 23, Isaac Collett who was 20 and Mary (Mercy) Collett who was 15. It was just over four years after that when Henry Collett died at Coventry in 1855, following which he was buried at the London Road Cemetery in the city. His death was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 212) during the last quarter of the year.
	15M8		Job Collett	Born in 1819 at Willoughby
	15M9		Henry Collett	Born in 1821 at Willoughby
	15M10		Joseph Collett	Born in 1824 at Willoughby
	15M11		Mary Collett	Born in 1825 at Willoughby
	15M12		Sarah Ann Collett	Born in 1826 at Willoughby
	15M13		Oliver Collett	Born in 1827 at Willoughby
	15M14		John Collett	Born in 1828 at Willoughby
	15M15		Isaac Collett	Born in 1831 at Willoughby
	15M16		Mercy Clarke Collett	Born in 1835 at Willoughby
15L10	Esther Collett was born at Stretton during the first few days of June 1788 and was baptised there on 10^th June 1788. Tragically she died only two months later on 24^th August 1788 at Stretton. Her death seems inextricably linked to that of her mother Esther who also died in 1788.
15L11	Anne Collett was born in 1795 and married Joseph Carter of Coventry in 1818.
15L12	Elizabeth Collett was born at Stretton on 4^th November 1796 and was baptised there on 23^rd January 1797. She was the daughter of Henry Collett and his second wife Sarah. Elizabeth married John Forster of Stretton in 1820. Their son Henry Forster was born in 1821 and he died at Princethorpe in 1840 aged 19. It was also at Princethorpe, just one mile south of Stretton-on-Dunsmore, that Elizabeth Forster nee Collett died in 1870, and was followed by her husband John who also died there, six years later in 1876.
15L13	Esther Collett was born at Stretton on 15^th September 1799 and it was there that she was baptised on 17^th November 1799. In 1823 she married William Hayward from the village of Ladbroke, south of Southam in Warwickshire. They had six children, and all of them born at Leamington: Henry Hayward (1824-1868); Sarah Hayward (1826-1846); Hannah Hayward (1829-1836); John Hayward (1831-1831); William Hayward (1832-); and Charles Hayward (1835-1902). Esther’s youngest child was only five years old when she died at Leamington Priors (Leamington Spa) during 1840, and she was survived by her husband who died thirty years later in 1870.
15L14	Sarah Collett was born at Stretton on 16^th December 1801 and was baptised there on 7^th March 1802, the daughter of Henry and Sarah Collett.
15L15	HENRY COLLETT was born at Stretton on 13^th September 1804 where he was baptised on 14^th December 1804. Sadly, he was the last child of the second marriage of Henry Collett, since his mother Sarah died when he was not yet one year old. Henry married Phoebe Tubbs at St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry in 1840. Phoebe was born in 1802 and was baptised at Baginton in Warwickshire on 2^nd January 1803 the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Tubb or Tubbs. Henry Collett was Clerk to the Parish of Stretton midway between Coventry and Rugby.
	By the time of the census in 1851 their family was complete. Henry was 45, his wife Phoebe was 44, and their two children were Emma who was nine years old, and Henry who was six. At that time the family was residing within the Rugby & Dunchurch registration district. By 1861 the couple’s daughter had left the family home in the Rugby & Dunchurch area, so the census that year just recorded the family as Henry Collett 54, Phoebe Collett 57, and their son Henry who was 15. Henry Collett died in 1870 and was buried at Stretton, and that same year his son Henry became a married man. According to the Rugby & Dunchurch census in the following year, Henry’s widow Phoebe Collett was aged 70 and was living alone. However, five years after that, Phoebe Collett nee Tubbs died in 1876.
	15M17		Emma Collett	Born in 1841 at Stretton
	15M18		HENRY COLLETT	Born in 1844 at Stretton
15L16	Mary Collett was born at Stretton on 16^th April 1807. She was baptised at Stretton on 5^th July 1807 when she was confirmed as the first child of the third marriage of Henry Collett and his new wife Susannah Currell of Coventry. Tragically, Mary died just over a year after she was born, when she passed away at Stretton on 3^rd May 1808.
15L17	Mary Ann Collett was born at Stretton on 2^nd October 1808, was baptised at Stretton on 4^th December 1808, and died there on 9^th February 1815.
15L18	Thomas Collett was born at Stretton on 23^rd February 1810 where he was also baptised on 13^th May 1810 the son of shoemaker Henry Collett and his second wife Susannah Currell. Thomas was married twice during his life, although it is only the details of his second marriage that are currently known. It was at St Bartholomew’s Church in Birmingham that Thomas Collett was married to Mary Ann Dixon on 19^th July 1851. Thomas was 40 and a widower whose father was confirmed as Henry Collett, a shoemaker, while spinster Mary Ann was 37 and the daughter of Joseph Dixon who was a publican. By 1861 he was a widower once again when the census that year placed him living at Chester-le-Street in County Durham when he was 50.
	It was also at Chester-le-Street that he was living in 1871 at the age of 60, and living nearby was his younger brother William (below) with his wife Sarah. Thomas survived for almost another ten years, by which time he and his brother had moved back to Warwickshire and were living at Bubbenhall, just west of Stretton-on-Dunsmore. And it was there, at Bubbenhall, that Thomas Collett died at the age of 70 on 15^th January 1881. The death certificate issued by the Warwickshire sub-district of Kenilworth states he died from bronchitis and was a retired inn keeper. The informant was listed as his brother William Collett who was also of Bubbenhall.
15L19	William Collett was born in 1813 at Stretton and was baptised there on 7^th February 1813, the son of Henry Collett and Susannah Currell. William was a shoemaker, but no record of him has been found in the census in 1841, but by 1851 he was still a bachelor at the age of 36, when he was living at Stretton, within the Rugby & Dunchurch registration district of Warwickshire. Living nearby were his brothers Henry (above) and John (below).
	It was during the 1850s that William Collett married Sarah, although marrying that late in his life produced no children for the couple. However, at some point during that same decade, William’s nephew John Collett, the son of his brother Oliver, was living with William and Sarah, where he was being trained by William in the skills of a shoemaker.
	That situation was confirmed in the census of 1861 when William Collett of Stretton was 46, his wife Sarah Collett from Stretton was 48, and their nephew John Collett from Ladbroke was 16. At that time in his life, shoemaker William was the publican at the White Lion Inn on the London Road in Stretton, while the occupation of his nephew was confirmed as a shoemaker. During the 1860s William and Sarah left Stretton-on-Dunsmore, when they moved north to Chester-le-Street in County Durham, where they were reunited with William’s brother bachelor Thomas Collett (above).
	And it was at Chester-le-Street that the couple were recorded as living at the time of the census in 1871, when William was 56 and Sarah was 58. However, sometime later William and Sarah, and brother Thomas, all left County Durham and returned to Warwickshire, where they all settled in the village of Bubbenhall, near Stretton-on-Dunsmore.
	It was at Bubbenhall that William’s brother, and then his wife, both died during the first three months of 1881, William being the informer of the death on both occasions. So, by the time of the census shortly after Sarah’s passing, William Collett from Stretton was a widower at the age of 66. He was listed as head of a private house in Bubbenhall in which the only other occupant was a lodger, Henry Clarke a retired ribbon manufacturer 55 years and born in Coventry. William’s occupation at that time was given as a retired inn keeper, just like his late brother. Two years later William, then around 57, married (2) Ellen Jones nee Blundell, a widow from Bubbenhall, the wedding taking place there during 1883.
	However, at the time of William’s death five years later on 10^th November 1886, his occupation was given as shoemaker. The full death certificate issued by the Warwickshire sub-district of Rugby states that he was 70 and was born at Stretton, and at the time of his death he was living at the Union Workhouse in Rugby. The cause of death was given as senile decay and the informant was Robert Billington who was Master of the Union Workhouse in Rugby.
15L20	Charlotte Collett was born at Stretton in 1815 and was baptised there on 13^th July 1817, the daughter of Henry and Susannah Collett. Charlotte was around two years old when she died at Stretton on 10^th May 1819.
15L21	Oliver Collett was born at Stretton in 1817 was baptised at Stretton-on-Dunsmore on 16^th April 1818 when his parents were confirmed as Henry and Susannah Collett. During his life, Oliver’s occupation was that of a butler. Oliver married (1) Rachel Mann in 1838, the wedding recorded at Southam (Ref. 16 454d) during the second quarter of that year. The wedding ceremony actually took place at Rachel home village of Burton Dassett on 18^th April 1838, when Oliver’s father was confirmed as Henry Collett and Rachel’s father was named as Thomas Mann. The first of their five known children was born while Oliver and Rachel were living at Wappenbury, to the north-east of Warwick. Almost immediately after the birth, the family left Wappenbury when they settled in the village of Ladbroke, to the south of the town of Southam, where their next four children were born.
	Oliver’s wife Rachel was born in 1813 and was very likely related to Esther Mann who was the first wife of Oliver’s father Henry Collett. By the time of the census in 1841, the couple was confirmed as living at Ladbroke within the Southam registration area to the east of Warwick, and with them was their first child. Oliver Collett and his wife Rachel both had a rounded age of 25, while their daughter Maria was just one year old. Rachel was possibly with-child on the day of the census in June 1841, since later that same year she presented Oliver with their second child. Three further children were added to the family over the following four years before Rachel Collett nee Mann died in 1846.
	Following her death, and during the second quarter of 1848 at Coventry (Ref. 16 434), Oliver married (2) Harriet Newcomb, with whom he had a further six children. At the baptism of all of those children, the mother’s name was confirmed as Harriet, although at her own baptism at Burton Dassett on 3^rd July 1828, she was named as Eleanor Harriet Newcomb, the daughter of John and Eleanor Newcomb. According to the Ladbroke (Southam) census in 1851, Oliver Collett was 32 and a coachman from Stretton, while his wife Eleanor Harriet Collett from Burton Dassett was 22. The children listed with the couple in 1851 were John Collett who was seven and Eleanor Harriet Collett who was five, both of them from Oliver’s first marriage, and Sarah Ann Collett who was two and Caroline Collett who was under one year old, the children from his second marriage to Harriet. Visiting the family that day was Harriet’s younger sister Caroline Newcomb. By that time in his life, Oliver had already suffered the loss of two of his children from the first marriage and, between 1853 and 1856, one of his older children died, plus two from his second marriage.
	Harriet was very likely with-child on the day of the census in 1851, since later that same year their son John Oliver Collett was born. That probably took place at Ladbroke, even though John Oliver Collett later said that he was born at Eathorpe, which is the next village to Wappenbury, where his parents were living ten years earlier. During the remainder of the 1850s, a further two children were born to Oliver and Harriet, but tragically only one of them survived. In addition to that, Oliver’s second wife, died in 1856, and her death may have been linked to the birth of the couple’s last child who also died. Both mother and child died while the family was living at Shipston-on-Stour, and it was there also that they were buried.
	No record of Oliver or the surviving members of the family have been located within the census details for 1861. What Oliver did after the death of his second wife in 1856 and his re-appearance in the census in 1871 is still a mystery, but by that time Oliver Collett, from Stretton-on-Dunmore, was a servant in the Lillington, Leamington Spa, home of John Walker, while some of his children were actually living nearby in the town of Leamington. Widower John Collett was 53 years old and working for Mr Walker as a butler. It is significantly interesting, that one of the other three servants was Marian (Mary Ann) Woodward from Knowle near Alcester in Warwickshire, who was 28, and just over a year later they were married.
	After sixteen years as a widower Oliver Collett married (3) Mary Hannah Woodward at St Martin’s Church in Birmingham on 27^th May 1872. Sadly, for Oliver, his third marriage only last for around three years, although it did produce his twelfth child, since he died at Warwick in 1875, and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s Church in Warwick. Following her short marriage to Oliver, Mary was recorded in the next two census returns as Ann Woodward from Knowle (aged 38 in 1881) and had living with her, birth her daughter Ada (aged eight years) and unmarried younger sister Eliza (aged 30 and also born at Knowle. The three of them were living together in Warwick at The Market Place in 1881 and at Brook Street in 1891, after which dressmaker Mary Hannah Woodward passed away.
	15M19		Maria Collett	Born in 1840 at Wappenbury
	15M20		Ann Collett	Born in 1841 at Ladbroke
	15M21		John Collett	Born in 1843 at Ladbroke
	15M22		Eleanor Harriet Collett	Born in 1845 at Ladbroke
	15M23		Ellen Collett	Born in 1847 at Ladbroke
	The following are the children of Oliver Collett by his second wife Harriet Newcomb:
	15M24		Sarah Ann Collett	Born in 1848 at Ladbroke
	15M25		Caroline Collett	Born in 1850 at Ladbroke
	15M26		John Oliver Collett	Born in 1851 at Ladbroke
	15M27		William Collett	Born in 1852 at Ladbroke
	15M28		Elizabeth Anne Collett	Born in 1854 at Ladbroke
	15M29		Thomas Oliver Collett	Born in 1856 at Shipston-on-Stour
	The following is the only child of Oliver Collett by his third wife Mary Hannah Woodward:
	15M30		Ada Alice Collett	Born in 1873 at Warwick
15L22	Maria Collett was born at Stretton to Henry and Susannah Collett in 1819, just a few months after their daughter Charlotte (above) died. Maria was baptised at Stretton on 7^th November 1819 and was twelve years old when she died at Stretton on 1^st January 1832.
15L23	John Collett was born in 1823 at Stretton where he was baptised on 16^th November 1823. John married (1) Elizabeth Ford who was born in 1818. Their marriage produced four children for the couple, and all of them were born while John and Elizabeth were living in the village of Marton to the north-east of Leamington. However, only two of the children survived to adulthood. In the Marton census of 1851 John Collett was 27, and his wife Elizabeth was 32, but only their youngest son Oliver was listed with them at under one year old, since their first child had died in March in 1850.
	The family was still living at Marton five years later when their daughter was born, but sadly she never reached her first birthday. Sometime following her death in 1856, the family left Marton and moved to the St John district of Coventry, where they were living at the time of the census in 1861. John Collett was 37, his wife Elizabeth Collett was 42, and their two surviving children were their sons Oliver John Collett who was 10, and Arthur Thomas Collett who was eight years old. Ten years after that, the same family group was still living in the St John district of Coventry.
	The census in 1871 described the family as John Collett who was 47, his wife Elizabeth who was 52, and their two sons Oliver Collett who was 20, and Arthur T Collett who was 18. It was just five years later that Elizabeth died in Coventry in 1876.
	Following the death of his wife, John married (2) Ann Golding nee Richards who was born in 1823. According to the next census in 1881, John and Ann Collett were living at 35 Parliament Street in Aston, Birmingham. John was working as a cordwainer (a shoemaker) at 58, while Ann from Foleshill in Coventry was also 58. It may be of interest that the wife of their son Oliver John Collett also came from Foleshill, which might suggest that the wives of both father and son were perhaps related or known to each other.
	By 1881 both of John’s sons were married and had remained living in the Coventry area when he and Ann moved to Birmingham. Their respective census returns revealed that they were both born in the village of Marton, just two miles south of Stretton, in addition to which, the baptism record for John’s deceased son Henry Ford Collett also gave Marton as his place of birth. The time spent in Birmingham seems to have been fairly short because both John and Ann were once again residing within Coventry parish of St John in 1891, where John and Ann were both aged 67. Four years later, at the time of his death at Coventry in 1895, John Collett was described as a master shoemaker. His widow Ann appears to have passed away not long after her husband, since no record of her has been found within the census of 1901.
	15M31		Henry Ford Collett	Born in 1849 at Marton
	15M32		Oliver John Collett	Born in 1850 at Marton
	15M33		Arthur Thomas Collett	Born in 1852 at Marton
	15M34		Sarah Jane Collett	Born in 1855 at Marton
15M1	Ann Collett was born at Coventry in 1811 and was baptised at St John’s Church on 8^th March 1812, the eldest of three daughters of Thomas and Mary Collett.
15M2	Elizabeth Collett was born in 1813 at Coventry where she was baptised at the Church of St John on 8^th May 1814, the middle one of the three daughters of Thomas and Mary Collett. In June 1841 Elizabeth Collett was still living within the Parish of St John the Baptist in Coventry. The full census details show that unmarried Elizabeth Collett was a ‘filler’ (a reference to a silk-filler), living at the home of watchmaker and jeweller Harvey Mind, age 50, and his wife Elizabeth who was 30, on the south side of Sovereign Place within the Parish of St John the Baptist.
	Elizabeth may have been with-child at that time or just after, since at the beginning of the following year, she gave birth to a base-born son. He was followed six years later by the birth of a base-born daughter. In between those two children Elizabeth also had a second son who was also born out of wedlock at Sovereign Place in Coventry.
	By 1851 unmarried Elizabeth Collett, age 34, was a pauper living within the Parish of St Michael in Coventry with her nine years old son Thomas and her daughter Sarah Collett who was three years old. The two children were described as the bastard children of Elizabeth, while she was described as a ribbon trader and a filler, a shortening of ‘silk-filler’ perhaps. Where her son Joseph was on that day has not yet been discovered.
	At that time, the family was living in an ‘institution’ which was very likely the Whitefriars Workhouse, which later became the Coventry Union Workhouse. Around the time that Elizabeth’s first child was born, a commercial silk throwster was contracted to operate a silk mill within the workhouse. That was to provide employment for the inmates, of which Elizabeth, as a silk-filler, was very like just one of many who were paid five pennies each week. What happened to Elizabeth after that time is not known, and it is possible that she may have married, whereas her son Thomas C Collett was still living in Coventry in 1861 at the age of 18. If her daughter Sarah survived beyond infancy, she may have also taken her mother’s married name.
	15N1		Thomas Charles Collett	Born in 1842 at Coventry
	15N2		Joseph Collett	Born in 1845 at Coventry
	15N3		Sarah Collett	Born in 1847 at Coventry
15M3	Sarah Collett was born at Coventry in 1816, where she was baptised at St John’s Church on 8^th March 1812, the youngest of the three daughters of Thomas and Mary Collett.
15M4	Ann Wainwright Collett was born at Coventry, where she was baptised at the Vicar Lane Independent Chapel on 28^th October 1821, which confirmed her parents were John and Mary Collett. It would appear that she never married, and that she died in 1897, although no record of her has been found in any census.
15M6	Thomas Collett was born at Coventry in 1813 and was baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry on 7^th March 1814, the son of William Collett and Hannah Linden. He married Jemima Standbridge on 27^th May 1839 at St Lawrence Church in Foleshill, Coventry. Jemima was the daughter of Thomas and Catherine Standbridge of Kenilworth. By June 1841 both Thomas and Jemima had a rounded age of 25 in the St John & St Michael district census for Coventry that year. Tragically the couple’s first child, born during the previous year, had died by then. However, over the following two decades a further eight children were born to Thomas and Jemima.
	By 1851 Thomas was 37 and Jemima was 35. Living with them within the St Michael & St John district of Coventry were five of their six children born during that period, they being William, who was nine, Rebecca, who was six, Edwin, who was four, John, who was two, and Mark who was under one year old. Missing from the family was their son Alfred who would have been seven years old, had he survived. Ten years later the family living within the St John area of Coventry was complete and comprised Thomas 47, Jemima 45, William 19, Rebecca 16, Edward (Edwin) 14, John, age 12, Ruth, who was five, and Philip who was two years old. Once again, during that decade, the family had lost another of their children to an infant death, when their son Mark had died in the 1850s.
	By the time of the next census in 1871 the couple’s older sons had left the family home in Coventry. The census that year listed the family as Thomas Collett 57, his wife Jemima 54, daughters Rebecca 25 and Ruth 15, and sons John age 21 and Philip who was 12. Thomas Collett died at Coventry three years later in 1874. Therefore, by the time of the census in 1881, 65 years old Jemima from Kenilworth was described as head of the household, a widow, and an annuitant. Living with her at 7 Cow Lane in Coventry were her two unmarried daughters Rebecca Collett, age 35 and dressmaker, and Ruth Collett, age 25 who was a ribbon paper box maker.
	Also living with Jemima and her daughters was her unmarried son Philip Collett who was 22 years old and a watch finisher. All three of Jemima’s children were confirmed as having been born at Coventry, as had all nine of them had over the eighteen years. It was just a short while after the census day in 1881 that Jemima Collett passed away, following which she was buried with her husband in the London Road Cemetery in Coventry. It was also in the same family grave that their daughter Rebecca Jemima Collett and their daughter-in-law Clara Collett were later buried, and where a large headstone marks the plot.
	15N4		Thomas Collett		Born in 1840 at Coventry
	15N5		William Henry Collett		Born in 1841 at Coventry
	15N6		Alfred Collett		Born in 1843 at Coventry
	15N7		Rebecca Jemima Collett		Born in 1844 at Coventry
	15N8		Edwin Collett		Born in 1846 at Coventry
	15N9		John Collett		Born in 1848 at Coventry
	15N10		Mark Collett		Born in 1850 at Coventry
	15N11		Ruth Collett		Born in 1855 at Coventry
	15N12		Philip Collett		Born in 1858 at Coventry
15M7	Hannah Collett was born at Coventry within the Holy Trinity district of the city in 1815. She was the only known daughter of William Collett and Hannah Linden. In 1833 she married John Warring with whom she had two children, including daughter Sarah Ann Warring who was born in 1846. Their son William Warring, who was born at Coventry in 1843, married Harriet Ellen who was born at Colchester in 1847. Their marriage resulted in the birth of four children. Osborne William Warring was born at Ryton-on-Dunsmore in 1869, Bob Warring was also born there in 1871, as was Ellen Warring in 1873, and by 1877 the family was living in Coventry, where Harry Warring was born.
15M8	Job Collett was born at Willoughby in 1819, where he was baptised on 12^th April 1819, the eldest child of Henry Collett and Elizabeth Townsend. The census in 1841 included Job Collett aged 22 still living with his family which, by then, was living in Great Butchers Row in Coventry. After a further ten years, the 1851 Census, described Job as being 32 and unmarried, who was a tailor, working alongside his father, with whom he was still living in Coventry, but at Bishop Street. On the 21^st June 1857 the marriage of Job Collett, aged 38, and Hannah Wilson, aged 31, was conducted at St Michael’s Church in Coventry, when Job’s father was confirmed as Henry Collett and Hannah’s father was named as Joseph Wilson. Hannah Wilson had been born at Wolston near Coventry during 1828. In 1861, when tailor Job from Willoughby was 40, he was living at Warwick Lane in Coventry St Michael with his wife Hannah who was 33, together with their two children, Henry who was three and Kate who was under one year old, both born in Coventry.
	Two more children were added to their family which, on the day of the next census in 1871, was recorded residing in the Holy Trinity area of Coventry. Job’s occupation was still that of a tailor when he said he was only 49, Hannah was 43, Henry was 13, Kate was 10, Richard was eight and Joseph was still only a few months old. By the time of the census in 1881, Job Collett from Willoughby was again a tailor, like his father before him. He was 62 and was living at 53 New Buildings within the Holy Trinity district of Coventry with his wife Hannah who was 52 and from Wolston in Warwickshire. Still living with the couple were their four children. Henry Collett was 22, Kate Collett was 20, Richard Collett was 18, and Joseph Collett was 10 years old.
	Sadly, it was towards the end of the following year, that the death of Hannah Collitt was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 317) during the fourth quarter of 1882, at the age of 55. Nine years after that, Job Collett, a widower aged 72, had returned to the St Michael area of Coventry by 1891, where he was living at St John Street with his two unmarried sons, Henry Collett aged 35 and Joseph Collett who was 20. It was just three years after that when the death of Job Collett was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 286) during the last quarter of 1894, when he was 74.
	15N13		Henry Collett	Born in 1857 at Coventry
	15N14		Kate Collett	Born in 1860 at Coventry
	15N15		Job Richard Collett	Born in 1863 at Coventry
	15N16		Joseph Collett	Born in 1870 at Coventry
15M9	Henry Collett was born at Willoughby in 1821, and was baptised there on 21^st October 1821, the son of Henry Collett and Elizabeth Townsend. In 1841, when his family was living at Great Butchers Row in Coventry, Henry Collett had a rounded age of 20 when he was living at Stoke Green in Coventry, the home of Richard and Sarah Keene and their large family. Seven years later the marriage of Henry Collett and Ann Lewis took place St Bartholomew’s Church in Wednesbury on 25^th June 1848. On the day Henry’s age was recorded incorrectly as 25, when he was confirmed as the son of Henry Collett. It is likely that he lowered his age to align better with Ann’s 24 years, when she was described as the daughter of Thomas Lewis. Ann was baptised at St Lawrence’s Church in Darlaston on 4^th July 1823, the daughter of Thomas and Martha Lewis.
	Upon being married, the couple settled in Wednesbury where their first child was born and where the family was residing on the day of the census in 1851. However, it was with Ann’s widowed mother, Martha Lewis, that the family of three was living at Wood Green in Wednesbury, where Henry Collett from Willoughby was 29 and an agricultural labourer. His wife Ann Collett from Wednesbury was 26 and their daughter Mercy Collett was one year old. During the following decade a further four children were added to their family which was recorded at Hobbs Hole Road in Wednesbury in 1861, where Henry and Ann lived most of their life together. The census return that year listed the family as Henry who was 40 and a blacksmith, Ann who was 37, Mercy who was 12, Sophia who was nine, Henry who was six, Elizabeth who was four and John who was not yet one year old.
	Another two children were born into the family at Wednesbury during the 1860s, where the enlarged family was still living in 1871. Blacksmith Henry was 49, Ann was 44, Mercy was 21, Henry was 16, Elizabeth was 13, John was 10, Mary was six and Thomas was two years old. Unlike all of the couple’s other children, no birth or baptism record for daughter Sophia has been found, and the same applies for her possible childhood death, hence her absence from the family in 1871. An eighth child was added to the family five year later, with the family still residing at Hobbs Hole Road in Wednesbury on the day of the census in 1881. Hobbs Hole was a colliery. Tragically, by that time, the couple’s three eldest children had died some years earlier.
	According to the completed census return that year, head of the household Henry Collett from Willoughby, a blacksmith, whose age was incorrectly recorded as 52. The age of his wife Ann, was also incorrect when she was recorded as being 50 years of age. The four children still living with the couple were listed as Lizzie Collett who was 21, John Collett was 19, Thomas Collett who 12, and Richard Collett who was four years old. Only the last two children were credited with their correct age, which was the same in the next census of 1891, when once again Henry and Ann’s ages were recorded in error.
	That year Henry said he was 73 – a twenty-year jump from ten years earlier, Ann said she was 64, while it was left to sons Thomas and Richard to record their ages more accurately as being 22 and 14 respectively. Father and son Henry and Thomas were both employed as labourers at a boiler yard, while son Richard was working at a nearby tube factory. The problem Henry and Ann had during their life together, regarding knowing their own ages, continued right up to the time of their deaths. When the death of Henry Collett was recorded at West Bromwich during the third quarter of 1898, the informant (possibly his widow Ann) gave his age as being only 72, when he was actually 77. Having lost her husband, Ann Collett, a widow from Wednesbury was a visitor at Gospel Oak Road in nearby Tipton, the home of the Norman family in 1901, where she was 77.
	On the day of the next census in 1911, Ann Collett was 87 when she and her son Thomas were boarders with widow Elizabeth Ann Crouch nee Gadd at her home in Wednesbury. Just under two years after that the death of Ann Collett, nee Lewis, was recorded at West Bromwich register office (Ref. 6b 1108) during the first quarter of 1913 when she was 89.
	15N17		Mercy Collett	Born in 1849 at Wednesbury
	15N18		Sophia Collett	Born in 1852 at Wednesbury
	15N19		Henry Collett	Born in 1855 at Wednesbury
	15N20		Elizabeth Ann Collett	Born in 1857 at Wednesbury
	15N21		John Collett	Born in 1859 at Wednesbury
	15N22		Mary Collett	Born in 1863 at Wednesbury
	15N23		Thomas Collett	Born in 1868 at Wednesbury
	15N24		Richard Henry Collett	Born in 1876 at Wednesbury
15M10	Joseph Collett was born at Willoughby in 1824, and it was there also that he was baptised on 13^th June 1824, the third child of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. When he was around fourteen years old his family left Willoughby when they settled in Coventry, and it was there they were living in June 1841, at Great Butchers Row, but recorded in the census under the name Joseph Collitt aged 17. It was three years later that Joseph Collett married Ann Foxon at St Michael’s Cathedral Church on 21^st April 1844. Joseph’s sister Mary Collett (below) was one of the witnesses at the wedding. It was towards the end of that same year, or at the start of the next year, that the first of their two sons was born, while the couple was residing at Earl Street in Coventry. Ann Foxon was quite a few years older that Joseph, having been born at Burbage within the Hinckley area of Leicestershire in 1814, the daughter of John and Lydia Foxon, and was baptised at Burbage on 5^th June 1814.
	By the time of the census in 1851 Joseph Collett, a tailor, his wife Ann and their first child, were living at Bishop Street in Coventry, the same street where his parents were also living. His father Henry was also a tailor in 1851, as was Joseph’s older brother Job (above), both of Bishop Street, so perhaps all three of them were working together. Joseph Collett from Willoughby was 27, his wife Ann Collett from Burbage was 36, and their son Joseph Collett from Coventry was six years of age. Sadly though, the couple’s missing youngest son John Collett, who was baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry during 1848, had died later that same year.
	It is apparent from the subsequent records that Joseph did not continue to his work as a tailor, but took up other trades over the following years, including being a greengrocer, a cab driver and a fishmonger - which was his stated occupation in the next census return. According to that census in 1861, the three members of the family were recorded living at Silver Street in the Coventry Holy Trinity area of the city. Joseph Collett from Willoughby was 38, his wife Ann was 46 and their son Joseph was 15 years old. Also recorded with the family that day was nine-year-old John Foxon from Burbage, the son of stocking weaver Thomas Foxon and his wife Elizabeth, both of them also born at Burbage. Although not described as the nephew of Joseph Collett, it would be logical for the boy’s father to be Ann’s younger brother.
	After a further ten years, the census in 1871 recorded just Joseph and Ann still living within the Holy Trinity district of Coventry, but by then Joseph’s occupation was that of a greengrocer. He was 47 and Ann was 55 and, to supplement her husband’s income, Ann had taken in a lodger, fourteen-year-old James Mulvaney, who was a shop assistant. However, seven years later, during the first quarter of 1878, Ann Collett nee Foxon died while the couple was still living in Coventry, her death recorded there (Ref. 6d 340) when she was 64. That sad situation was confirmed in the next census of 1881, when widower Joseph Collett from Willoughby was a cab driver at the age of 56. On that day, he was living alone at 10 Little Butchers Row within the Holy Trinity district of Coventry. It was at Great Butchers Row that Joseph Collett had been living with his parents, forty years earlier, in 1841.
	Another change of occupation for Joseph took place during the next decade, together with a change of location. It was most likely his new job, that of a boatman on the Oxford Canal, which resulted in him being recorded at Braunston in Northamptonshire in the spring of 1891. In addition to his occupation as a boatman, the census return also described him as ‘captain’, where it would usually say ‘head of the household’. Furthermore, the address was stated as being ‘Iron Bridges’, and listed with Joseph, who was 67, was Henry Hiams who was 65 and described as a ‘hand’. Braunston lies on the junction between the Grand Union Canal to London, to the south, and the Oxford Canal to Coventry, to the north. At that junction, at that time, there were two cast iron footbridges over the canal, so it is very likely that the narrow-boat skippered by Joseph Collett was moored at that location on the day of the census.
	One story told by Joseph’s great granddaughters, was that Joseph Collett was in fact the owner of a barge, and that on one occasion he had purchased a field of potatoes ‘already sown in the ground’ with the intention of delivering them by barge to market. However, the crop failed and he lost all his money. By March 1901 he had returned to Coventry and Well Street, where Joseph Collett from Willoughby was living at the age of 77, when he was described as being ‘unable to work’. It was after a further four years that Joseph Collett died on 26^th February 1905 at the union workhouse in Coventry, when he was described as a retired fishmonger of Well Street in Coventry. His passing was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 307) during the first quarter of that year, when he was said to be 80 years of age. Administration of his personal estate of £46 8 Shillings was granted in Birmingham on 16^th March 1905 to his son Joseph Collett, another fishmonger.
	15N25		Joseph Collett	Born in 1844 at Coventry
	15N26		John Collett	Born in 1847 at Coventry
15M11	Mary Collett was born at Willoughby in 1825 and was baptised there on 3^rd July 1825, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. By the time of the census in 1841, Mary Collett was 16 when she was still living in Coventry but had already left the family home and was working as a servant at 1 Hat Lane in Coventry, the home of Andrew Tucker, an attorney, and his wife. Just over eight years later Mary Collett married Daventry born George Pearce at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry on 11^th June 1849 (Ref. 16 445). The marriage certificate confirmed she was residing at Well Street in the city, which was curiously where her older brother Joseph (above) was living in 1901 and where he died four years later. George’s father was confirmed as Thomas Pearce.
	Once married, George made a return to Northamptonshire with his wife, and to Long Buckby, near Daventry, where their first child was born, while it was at George’s parents’ home, at Church Street in Daventry, that the family of three was living with Thomas and Mary Pearce on the day of the census in 1851. Their son George Pearce was 23 and a licenced hawker, his wife Mary Pearce was 25, and their daughter Mary Ann Pearce was nine months old. The respective places of birth for George and Mary, being Daventry and Willoughby, both lie very close to each other across the county boundary between Northamptonshire and Warwickshire. So, it is possible the couple knew each other prior to being married in Coventry.
	According to the next census in 1861, the Pearce family was residing at Chapel Lane in Daventry where head of the household George, age 33, was a grocer, Mary his wife was 35, and their two children were Mary Ann who was ten and Henry T Pearce who was five. The census return that year stated in error, that all four members of the family had been born in Daventry. The birth of Henry Tomas Pearce was recorded at Daventry (Ref. 3b 100) during the first quarter of 1856, after which he was baptised there on 26^th May 1856, the son of George and Mary Pearce.
	On completing his education Henry Thomas Pearce entered into domestic service and, in 1871 at the age of 15, he was working as a general servant at the Warwick St Nicholas home of commercial traveller Michael Jealous. On that same day, his parents and his older sister were living in the nearby parish of Warwick St Mary. By that time in his life George Pearce aged 42 and from Daventry was a male nurse. His wife Mary from Willoughby was 45, and their unmarried daughter Mary Ann Pearce from Long Buckby was 20. Presumably during the next decade daughter Mary Ann was very likely married. What is known for sure, is the George suffered the loss of his wife during the 1870s, and was a widower in the Warwick census of 1881.
	At the age of 55, George Pearce from Daventry was a nursing attendant at The Packmores lunatic hospital in Warwick St Nicholas. Perhaps due to the possible variations in the spelling and interpretation of his surname, no record of George has been found in either of the next two census returns. However, in the census of 1911, George Pearce from Daventry was still living in the St Nicholas parish of Warwick when he was described as being 81, instead of being 83.
15M12	Sarah Ann Collett was born at Willoughby in 1826, like all of her siblings, but curiously unlike all of her siblings, she was baptised at St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry, the city where her father was born. The baptism on 4^th August 1826 confirmed that she was the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. She would have been 14 years old in 1841, but she was not listed with her family in that year’s census.
15M13	Oliver Collett was born at Willoughby in 1827, where he was baptised on 11^th March 1827, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. When Oliver was around ten or eleven years old his family moved into Coventry, where they were living at Great Butchers Row in 1841 and where Oliver was 14 years of age. By 1851 the family was living at Bishop Street where Oliver was 23 years and employed as an agricultural labourer. However, he failed to reach his thirtieth birthday, when he died at Coventry during 1857, and was buried at London Road Cemetery.
15M14	John Collett was born at Willoughby in 1828, and it was there also that he was baptised on 31^st August 1828, and where he was died on 13^th October 1828, the son of Henry Collett and Elizabeth Townsend.
15M15	Isaac Collett was born at Willoughby in 1831, the youngest son of Henry Collett and Elizabeth Townsend. His baptism was delayed until he was six years old, when there was a double baptism with his younger sister Mercy (below) at Willoughby on 29^th June 1837. Not long after Mercy was born Isaac’s family moved from Willoughby to Great Butchers Row in the city of Coventry. Around the time that he left school, Isaac and his family were living at Bishop Street in Coventry where, in 1851, Isaac Collett from Willoughby was recorded as being 20 years old. On that census day he working as an agricultural labourer, most likely with his older brother Oliver (above).
	Nearly nine years later, when he was 28 years old, Isaac Collett was married by banns to (1) Caroline Warden, aged 22, at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry on 26^th February 1860. Each of them made the mark of a cross on the wedding register, which also stated that Isaac was a porter of Bishop Street, the son of Henry Collett, a tailor. Caroline also made the mark of a cross, who was residing at Palmer Lane, the daughter of William Warden, a weaver, and his wife Jane. The marriage was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 361) and produced a daughter who was born while the couple was living at Palmer Lane in Coventry. The birth of Jane Elizabeth Collett was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 404) during the last three months of 1860. That was confirmed in the Coventry census of 1861, when Isaac Collett from Willoughby was 29 and a carter, Caroline Collett of Coventry was 23, and their daughter Jane E Collett, also of Coventry, was five months old. The family of three was still residing at Palmer Lane on that day in 1861. Caroline Warden had been born in 1836 but tragically she died eight years later in 1869. The death of Caroline Collett was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6b 305) during the final quarter of 1869, when she was only 33 years of age. The obituary in the Coventry press confirmed that she died on 5^th November and was the wife of Mr Isaac Collett.
	It was just over one year later that widower Isaac Collett married (2) widow Martha Aries, presumably to help look after his daughter Jane, at St John’s Church in Coventry on 18^th December 1870. The marriage certificate inaccurately described Isaac as being a bachelor aged 36, who was a porter residing at Spon Street and the son of Henry Collett, a tailor. Martha was recorded as a spinster aged 41, also of Spon Street, whose father was named as Thomas Aries, a labourer. Isaac again signed the register with the mark of a cross, while Martha signed her name in her own hand. She was the daughter of Thomas Aries and Sophia Blackwell and had been baptised at St John’s Church in Coventry on 19^th February 1829. Once they were married, the couple, together with Isaac’s daughter Jane, lived at Little Park Street in Coventry, where they were recorded in 1871. On that occasion Isaac gave his age as 40, while his wife Martha was 42, and Isaac’s daughter Jane was 11. Living with the family was Martha’s daughter from her previous marriage, Ellen Aries who was 12 and born at Snitterfield near Stratford-on-Avon.
	Nearly five years prior to that census day, Isaac’s daughter Jane Elizabeth Collett was baptised at St Michael’s Church in Coventry on 30^th June 1876, the baptism recorded also confirmed her date of birth as 27^th November 1870. The same record stated her father was Isaac Collett, a labourer of Much Park Street. However, Jane’s mother’s name was incorrectly recorded as Catherine, rather than Caroline. Jane had left the family home at 74 Little Park Street in the St Michael district of Coventry by the time of the census in 1881, when she was 20 years old and was working as a general domestic servant at the nearby home of elderly Thomas Smith on Broad Street in Coventry. On that same day, Isaac said that he was 51 and his wife Martha was 52, the only two occupants at 74 Little Park Street.
	It was also at Little Park Street in Coventry that the pair of them were still living alone on the day of the census in 1891. By that time Martha Collett from Coventry was 62 and Isaac Collett from Willoughby was 59 and a general labourer. According to the census in March 1901 Isaac Collett from Willoughby was 70 years of age and a grocer’s porter when he was living at London Road in Coventry with his wife Martha who was 72. It was five years later that Isaac Collett died in 1906, his death recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 6d 403) during the first three months of that year, when he was 74. Three years later the death of Martha Collett was recorded at Coventry record office (Ref. 6d 284) during the second quarter of 1909, when she was 80 years old.
	15N27		Jane Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1861 at Coventry
15M16	Mercy Clarke Collett was born at Willoughby in 1835, the last child of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. She was baptised at Willoughby on 29^th June 1837 in a joint ceremony with her older brother Isaac (above). No record of her has been found within the Coventry census of 1841, to where her family had moved after she was born, but she was living with her parents and three older brothers at Bishop Street in Coventry in 1851, when she was recorded as Mary Collett aged 15 from Willoughby. It is possible she was married before 1861.
15M17	Emma Collett was born at Stretton in 1841 and was baptised there on 7^th November 1841, the only daughter of Henry Collett and Phoebe Tubbs. Emma was nine years old in the 1851 census for the Rugby & Dunchurch area of Warwickshire, when she was living there with her parents and brother Henry (below). No record of Emma has been located in 1861, but two major events in her life took place in 1870, and they were the death of her father and the marriage of her brother. Her widowed mother Phoebe was still living in the Rugby & Dunchurch area in 1871, while Emma Collett, aged 29, was living and working in the Foleshill area of Coventry.
	According to the next census in 1881, Emma Collett aged 36 was a housemaid, one of ten domestic servants, employed at Weddington Hall near Nuneaton in Warwickshire, the home of Magistrate and High Sheriff of Warwickshire, Henry Cunliffe Shaw of Kingsbury in Warwickshire and his wife Georgina. Just less than four years later, on 1^st January 1885, Emma Collett married William Buckingham at St Martin’s Church in Birmingham. The marriage certificate recorded that she was Emma Collett spinster aged 43 of Smithfield. William Buckingham was listed as a widower and gentleman aged 60, and also of Smithfield, which was the wholesale market area within the city of Birmingham.
	On the certificate, Emma’s father was described as Henry Collett, a parish clerk, and that ties in exactly with what is known about Emma’s father. William’s father was given as Joseph Buckingham, a stocking maker, while the witnesses were Samuel Buckingham, possibly William’s son or brother, and Charlotte Constable. Four years earlier in 1881 William Buckingham, who was born at Plymouth, was living at 8 Bond Gate in Nuneaton aged 60, where he was a chimney sweep. Living with him was his 35 years old sister Louisa Gibson, a dressmaker who was also born at Plymouth.
	So, from being a chimney sweep in 1881, he became ‘a gentleman’ by January 1885, according to his marriage certificate. Further records reveal that William Collett was born around 1820, the son of Adam and Martha Buckingham, and that his first wife was Ann Mason. So, not only would it appear he enhanced his status for his second marriage, he also said he was younger by five years than his actual age of nearer 65, that is over twenty years older than Emma Collett.
	By the time of the census in 1901, Emma Buckingham was listed as being aged 59 born at Stretton-on-Dunsmore, a widow living at Nuneaton with her son William Buckingham aged 16. He was an office worker at an ironmongers and was born at Nuneaton. Emma Buckingham nee Collett died at Nuneaton in 1906, where she was buried in the same grave as her husband and his first wife Ann. The single headstone that marks the grave includes the details for all three of them.
	Emma’s son William Buckingham married Rose Ellen Green in 1908. Rose was born in 1884 and died in 1966, while her husband died forty-five years earlier in 1921. Their relatively short marriage produced a daughter for William and Rose, Laura Rose Buckingham who was born in 1913. Laura Rose Buckingham married Leslie Arthur Oliver in 1937 and they had two children: Margaret M Oliver born 1939 who married Derek Farnell in 1960 who had a daughter Elizabeth in 1961 and a son Andrew in 1965; and Stephen William Oliver born 1948 who married Lynn Smithson in 1968, and they had a daughter Sarah Louise Oliver born in 1969.
15M18	HENRY COLLETT was born at Stretton on 4^th May 1844, the only son of Henry Collett and Phoebe Tubbs. In 1851 Henry was six years old when living in the Rugby & Dunchurch area with his parents and his sister Emma (above). Ten years later he was 15, by which time his sister had left home to seek work, leaving Henry living with his parents in the Rugby & Dunchurch registration district.
	In 1870 the marriage of Henry Collett and Harriet Field was recorded at Rugby. Harriet was born in 1850 at the village of Marton near Stretton. The couple had fourteen children, all of whom are listed below, although three of them died very young. By 1871 Henry and Harriet were living in the Southam area of Warwickshire, by which time Harriet had present Henry with the first of their child. Henry Collett was 25, Harriet Collett was 21, and their son William H Collett was not yet one year old.
	According to the 1881 Census, Henry and Harriet were living at 2 St John’s Street in Kenilworth. With them were five of their six children, all of whom were born at Kenilworth. The couple’s eldest son William Henry Collett would have been ten years old, but tragically he had died when he was five. Henry was listed as a labourer aged 34 and born at Stretton-on-Dunsmore. His wife Harriet was 30, and their five children at that time were recorded as Walter J Collett, who was eight, Emma Collett, who was six, Geo Hy Collett, who was four, Harry Collett, who was two, and Chas John Collet who was four months old.
	Ten years later the family was living at Henry Street in Kenilworth, where Henry was 46 and Harriet was 40. On that on occasion only seven of their fourteen children were still living with them, and they were Charles 12, Annie 10, Ada, who was eight, Frank, who was four, Harold, who was two, and Ellen who was one day old. By that time the family had lost Ellen, who died in 1886, while their daughter Emma, age 16, and their son George, who was 15, had both left home by then, perhaps to ease the overcrowded accommodation that was the family’s home.
	According to the Kenilworth census in March 1901 Henry Collett at 57 was a domestic gardener, and his wife Harriet was from Marton in Warwickshire and was 51. By that time only five of their seven youngest children were still alive and living with them in Kenilworth, following the death of the couple’s second daughter named Ellen. The five children recorded as living with them were Henry who was 23, Frank who was 13, Harold who was 12, Jack who was eight, and six years old Ernest. Once again, all of them were confirmed as having been born at Kenilworth. Daughter Ada Collett was 17 and was also living and working in Kenilworth, not far from the family home.
	Pictured on the right is Henry Collett standing in Albion Street, Kenilworth. At that time there were six alehouses along Albion Street, and Henry was a frequent visitor to many of them. By April 1911 only three of the couple’s children were still living with Henry and Harriet at Henry Street in Kenilworth. The census that year listed that family as Henry aged 65, his wife Harriet from Marton who was 60, and their sons Frank Collett 23, Jack Collett 17, and Ernest Collett 16.
	Henry Collett died two years later on 3th December 1913 at the age of 69, while his widow Harriet survived for a further sixteen years, when she died in 1929. At the time of the death of their son Reginald Jack Collett, at the end of 1917, Harriet Collett was living at 65 Henry Street in Kenilworth according to her son’s military records. Henry and Harriet and their daughter Ada, were all buried in a single family grave in the churchyard of St Nicholas Church in Kenilworth.
	15N28		William Henry Collett		Born in 1871 at Stretton
	15N29		Walter Joseph Collett		Born in 1872 at Kenilworth
	15N30		Emma Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1874 at Kenilworth
	15N31		George Henry Collett		Born in 1876 at Kenilworth
	15N32		Harry Collett		Born in 1878 at Kenilworth
	15N33		Charles John Collett		Born in 1880 at Kenilworth
	15N34		Jane Anne Collett		Born in 1881 at Kenilworth
	15N35		Ada Collett		Born in 1883 at Kenilworth
	15N36		Ellen Collett		Born in 1885 at Kenilworth
	15N37		Frank Collett		Born in 1887 at Kenilworth
	15N38		HAROLD JAMES COLLETT		Born in 1889 at Kenilworth
	15N39		Ellen Collett		Born in 1891 at Kenilworth
	15N40		Reginald Jack Collett		Born in 1892 at Kenilworth
	15N41		Ernest Collett		Born in 1894 at Kenilworth
15M19	Maria Collett was born in 1840, possibly born at Wappenbury to the north-east of Warwick, since it was there that she was baptised on 31^st May 1840, the first of five children of Oliver Collett and Rachel Mann. The parish register stated that her parents were residents of Eathorpe on that day, which may have been a temporary arrangement. By the time of the census in June 1841 Maria, who was one year old, and her parents, were living in the village of Ladbroke to the south of the town of Southam in Warwickshire. And it was there that she died during the last quarter of 1849, her death recorded at Southam (Ref. 16 361), following which she was buried at Ladbroke on 5^th October 1849, aged nine years.
15M20	Ann Collett was born at Ladbroke in 1841, her birth recorded at Southam (Ref. 16 451) during the fourth quarter of the year. It was at Ladbroke that she was baptised on 12^th December 1841, the second child of Oliver and Rachel Collett. Like her sister Maria (above), Ann also did not survive and died at Ladbroke in 1847, her death recorded at Southam (Ref. 16 390) during the second quarter of the year, following which she was buried at Ladbroke on 5^th June 1847, aged five years.
15M21	John Collett was born at Ladbroke towards the end of 1843, just one mile south of Southam where his birth was recorded (Ref. 16 499) during the first few days of 1844. However, it was at Ladbroke where he was baptised on 31^st December 1843, the son of Oliver and Rachel Collett. By the time of the Ladbroke (Southam) census in 1851, John Collett was seven years old. On leaving school, he went to live with his uncle William Collett (Ref. 15L19) at Stretton-on-Dunsmore. His uncle was a shoemaker, and he trained John to also become a shoemaker. By the time of the next census in 1861 John Collett from Ladbroke was 16 and was a shoemaker, living at the White Lion Inn on London Road in Stretton, where the publican was his uncle William Collett. What happened to John after that time is not known, except that his uncle left Stretton and moved to Chester-le-Street, so John was forced to make his own way in the world, wherever that was since no record of him has been found in the next census returns for 1871.
	However, it was at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-on-Avon on 26^th May 1874 that John Collett married widow Susan Hellis, the former wife of George Hellis and the daughter of Samuel Metcalf. John was described as being 29 and the son of Oliver Collett, while his much older bride was 38. Susan had been born at Long Melford, just north of Sudbury in Suffolk during 1837, and in 1870 she and her first husband were living in Leamington Spa when they daughter Georgina Hellis was born and baptised. Within the next six months George Hellis died, as too did daughter Georgina so, in the census of 1871, widow Susan Hellis from Long Melford was described as a needlewoman of 33 years still living in Leamington with her six-year-old son Mark Hellis from Buckhurst Hill in Essex.
	After nearly seven years together, the census of 1881 confirmed that John and Susan were living at 39 Guild Street in Stratford-on-Avon, when John from Harbury was 34 and not in employment and Susan from Long Melford was 43. Living with the couple was Susan’s son Mark Hollis who was 16 and born at Chigwell in Essex. Susan’s son left home over the following years, during which time John and Susan became foster parents.
	That was confirmed in the next census of 1891 when the three of them were still living in Stratford-on-Avon but at Meer Street. John Collett from Southam was 46, Susan was 54 and their foster son was Henry W King aged two years. By that time in his life John was working as a car driver and groom. The couple later settled in Surrey as confirmed by the census in March 1901. John and Susan were then living and working in the Kingston-upon-Thames area of south London. On that occasion, he gave his age as 53, rather than 57, although his place of birth was confirmed as Ladbroke in Warwickshire, and his occupation was that of a general carman. Susan was 63 and it was seven years later that she passed away during 1908.
	Three years after losing his wife John Collett said he was 69 when he was residing at 95 Park Road, Kingston Hill in Kingston-upon-Thames, the only person living at that address. He was described as a widower and his occupation was again that of a carman, coupled with also being a stable man. Whether it was an enumerator error or not, his place of birth was incorrectly recorded as Kingston in Warwickshire, there being no place of that name within the county. However, it was to the county of his birth that he returned after 1911 and it was at the Shipston-on-Stour register office (Ref. 6d 812) that the death of John Collett was recorded during the fourth quarter of 1917, when his recorded age was again in dispute, the death certificate stating he was 76.
15M22	Eleanor Harriet Collett was born at Ladbroke either at the end of 1845 or very early in 1846. Her birth was recorded at Southam (Ref. 16 508) during the first month of 1846 and it was on 1^st February 1846 that she was baptised at Ladbroke, the fourth child of Oliver Collett and his first wife Rachel, who died shortly after the birth. In the census for Ladbroke in 1851 Eleanor was five years old and one of only two children still living with her father, while just over five years later the death of Eleanor Harriet Collett was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 292) during the second quarter of 1856. Coincidentally, that was also around the same time that her father’s second wife Eleanor Harriet Newcomb and Eleanor’s half-brother Thomas Oliver Collett (below) died.
15M23	Ellen Collett was born at Ladbroke around 1847 and was the fifth and last child of Oliver Collett and Rachel Mann. To date no baptism record has been found for her. Furthermore, no record of any member of her family has been located in the next census in 1861, but by 1871 Ellen Collett from Ladbroke was 23 and a domestic servant at the Leamington home of William and Sophia Chappell, not far from her half-sister Caroline Collett (below) who was in lodgings with her brother John Oliver Collett (below). The death of an Ellen Collett with the right birth year died in Birmingham, her death recorded at Aston (Ref. 6d 204) during the first quarter of 1896 when she was 49.
15M24	Sarah Ann Collett was born at Ladbroke in 1849, her birth recorded at Southam (Ref. 16 559) during the first quarter of the year. She was baptised at Ladbroke on 18^th February 1849, the daughter of Oliver Collett and Eleanor Harriet Collett. At the time of the Ladbroke census in 1851, Sarah Collett was two years old when living there with her family. Tragically she died two years later at Ladbroke, with her death also recorded at Southam (Ref. 6d 372) during the first three months of 1853.
15M25	Caroline Collett was born at Ladbroke in 1850 and her birth was recorded at Southam (Ref. 16 567) during the second quarter of the year. It was also at Ladbroke where she was baptised on 30^th June 1850, the daughter of Oliver and Harriet Collett. On the occasion of the census in 1851, Caroline was under one year old when living at Ladbroke with her family. With the death of her mother in 1856, followed by her father marrying for a second time shortly after, Caroline was taken in by John Parsons and his family which, in the census of 1861, was living in the Myton area of Warwick. On that occasion Caroline Collett from Ladbroke, aged 10 years, was already working as a servant at the Parsons family home at The Warwick County Prison, where John Parsons was described as a servant garden. Curiously Caroline Collett was also described as his daughter, as was another child, Susan Bromwich, who was not yet one year old. That raises the question, were Caroline and Susan being fostered by John and Elizabeth Parsons.
	Ten years after that, Caroline Collett, at the age 20, was lodging in Leamington with her brother John Oliver Collett (below). By that time, even though she was unmarried, Caroline Collett had given birth to a base-born daughter while she had been living in Leamington, who was just two months old in the census 1871. Mother and daughter were living at a house in Villiers Street North, the home of plasterer Hugh Rainbow and his wife Elizabeth. Caroline’s daughter was baptised at All Saints Church in Leamington Priors (Royal Leamington Spa) four months later on 6^th August 1871. Significantly by that time, according to the child’s baptism record, Caroline Collett was the mother, while the father was named as Frederick Collett. It may be of interest that there is no Frederick Collett associated with this family line around the time of the birth of Caroline’s daughter, so who he was remains a mystery, in addition to which, daughter Annie Elizabeth was only four years old when she died.
	15N42		Annie Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1871 at Leamington
15M26	John Oliver Collett was born at Eathorpe in 1851, the son of Oliver and Harriet Collett although, to date, no record of his birth or baptism has been found, nor as any record of him or his family been found within the census returns for 1861. However, in early April in 1871, John Oliver Collett, from Eathorpe, was 20 years old and working as a mail-cart driver, when he was a lodger at the Leamington home of plasterer Hugh Rainbow and his wife Elizabeth Rainbow. Also lodging at the house in Villiers Street North in Leamington was John Oliver’s unmarried sister Caroline Collett (above) with her base-born daughter.
15M27	William Collett was born at Ladbroke in 1852, his birth recorded at Southam (Ref. 6d 487) during the last quarter of the year. It was at Ladbroke where he was baptised on 21^st November 1852, the son of Oliver and Harriet Collett. No record of William or his family has been found in 1861 but, it is understood from the next census, that he became a married man during that decade. However, no record of any marriage between William Collett and (1) Sarah Ann has been found. According to the census in 1871, the married couple was living in Leamington, where William Collett from Ladbroke was employed as a butler. He increased his age to 20, probably because Sarah A Collett was 24, who was expecting the birth of their first child. Some of his older siblings, namely Ellen, Caroline and John Oliver Collett (above) were also living in Leamington in 1871.
	Just a few months after that census day Sarah Ann Collett gave birth to a son William Oliver Collett, who was baptised at All Saints Church in Leamington on 6^th August 1871. His birth was recorded at Warwick (Ref. 6d 495) during the third quarter of that year. That part of his life still remains a mystery, since the marriage of William Collett, a bachelor, and (2) Mary Ann Williams, a widow, was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 855) during the third quarter of 1874, when he was 21 years of age. The actual wedding took place at Stretton-on-Fosse on 26^th August 1874, when William was confirmed as the son of Oliver Collett. Mary Ann was stated to be the daughter of Richard Pendery and was the widow of the late Charles Williams.
	Mary Ann Pendery had been baptised at Stretton-on-Fosse on 17^th May 1840, the daughter of Richard and Lydia Pendery, meaning that she was twelve years older than William Collett. With record of the couple found within the census of 1881, his earlier work as a butler (in 1871) stood him in good stead for work in London in 1891. Both William and Mary Ann did not present their true ages to their employer for the census that year, nor did they give the villages of their birth, just the county. Instead, William Collett was 45, Mary Ann Collett was 40, when both of them were servants at the home of Augustus and Mary Broom at Vigo Street in Westminster.
	Even more curious is the discovery, in the Warwick census of 1881, of Sarah Ann Hitchen aged 34, the former partner of William Collett and the mother of his son, who was living at Bridge End with her new husband James Hitchen who was 29. Living with the couple was William’s son William Oliver Collett who was nine years old from Leamington who was described as the son-in-law of James Hitchen. Also, by that time, Sarah Ann had given birth to the daughter of James Hitchen and, on that day, Emily Ann Hitchen was two years of age. No further record of William Collett or his son William Oliver Collett has been unearthed.
	15N43		William Oliver Collett	Born in 1871 at Leamington
15M28	Elizabeth Anne Collett was born at Ladbroke in 1854 and her birth was recorded at Southam (Ref. 6d 457) during the last quarter of the year. She was baptised at Ladbroke on 23^rd November 1854, the last confirmed daughter of Oliver and Harriet Collett. Sadly, it was during the first three months of 1855, that the death of Elizabeth Ann Collett was recorded at Southam (Ref. 6d 414). She was the fourth of five children of Oliver Collett who never reached adulthood.
15M29	Thomas Oliver Collett was born at Shipston-on-Stour in 1856, the sixth and last child of Oliver Collett and his second wife Eleanor Harriet Newcomb. His birth was recorded at Shipston-on-Stour (Ref. 6d 552) during the first quarter of that year, but tragically, neither mother nor child survived the ordeal, and both were buried at Shipston. However, immediately before he died, Thomas Oliver Collett was baptised at Shipston-on-Stour on 30^th April 1856, following which his death was recorded there during the second quarter of that same year (Ref. 6d 293).
15M30	Ada Alice Collett was born at Warwick in 1873, the twelfth child of Oliver Collett, who died when Ada was two years old, and his third wife Mary Hannah Woodward. Her birth was recorded at Warwick (Ref. 6d 568), following which she was baptised at St Paul’s Church in Warwick on 20^th April 1873, when her parents were confirmed as Oliver and Mary Hannah Collett. After the death of her father, Ada remained living with her widowed mother and in 1881 the pair of them were residing at the Market Place in Warwick. Ada A Collett was eight years of age, her mother Ann Woodward was 38, and living with them was Ann’s younger sister Eliza Woodward who was 30. Both of the sisters had been born at Knowle, near Alcester in Warwickshire, both were dressmakers and sufficiently well off to employ a servant.
	It was at Brook Street in Warwick that Ada, aged 18, was still living with her mother Ann and her aunt Eliza in 1891, by which time Ada A Collett was working as a pupil teacher. It would appear that her mother passed away during the latter days of the old century, since in the next census of 1901, Ada A Collett was 28 and a certificated elementary school teacher living at the Guy Street, Warwick, home of her aunt Eliza Woodward. And it was there also that she was living in 1911, at the age of 38 when she was working as a certificated assistant teacher. She never married and the death of Ada A Collett was recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 9c 1413) during the first quarter of 1962, when she was 88 years old.
15M31	Henry Ford Collett was born at Marton in 1849 where he was baptised on 22^nd October 1849, the eldest son of John and Elizabeth Collett. Sadly, five months later he died at Marton on 23^rd March 1850. The village of Marton lies approximately two miles south of Stretton
15M32	Oliver John Collett was born in 1850 at Marton where he was baptised on 1^st December 1850, the son of John and Elizabeth Collett. His birth was recorded at Rugby (Ref. 16 511) during the final three months of 1850. On the day of the census in 1851 Oliver John Collett was under one year old, when he and his family were still living in Marton. Following the death of his sister Sarah Jane Collett (below) in 1856, Oliver’s family left Marton when they moved to Little Park Street in the St Michael’s district of Coventry, where they were living in 1861. By that time Oliver John Collett from Marton was 10 years old and still attending school, and ten years after that, the same family group was still living at Coventry St Michael when unmarried Oliver Collett was 20 and a cordwainer’s assistant. Five years later Oliver’s mother died in 1876, at which time his father re-married and moved to Birmingham. It was during the second quarter of 1880 when Oliver John Collett married Margaret Eleanor Birch, the event recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 573). The wedding service was conducted at Coventry on 20^th June 1880, when Oliver’s father was confirmed as John Collett and Margaret’s father was made as William Birch. Sadly, the marriage failed to produce any children for the couple.
	According to the census in 1881, the childless couple were listed as living at Bishopsgate Green in the parish of Holy Trinity in Coventry. And it was from there that Oliver John Collett, age 30, and a watch finisher from Marton, was living with his wife Margaret E Collett age 33 from Foleshill in Coventry, who was employed as a silk-filler. It may be a coincidence or not but, when Oliver’s father married for a second time, close to when Oliver married Margaret, it was to Ann from Foleshill and, although she was 58 in 1881 compared to Margaret who was only 33, there is a chance that the two ladies were related in some way or at least knew each other. After a further ten years, Oliver J Collett from Marton was 39 years of age and still working as a watch finisher, when he was living at Bright Street in Coventry with his wife Margaret E Collett from Foleshill who was 42 who was employed as a filler in the ribbon trade.
	It was a similar situation at the end of March in 1901, by which time the couple was recorded residing at Swanswell Place in Coventry. The census return that year described Oliver J Collett from Marton as being 50 and a watchmaker, while his wife Margaret E Collett from Foleshill was 51 and was still working as a silk-filler. Just under three years later the death of Oliver John Collett was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 388) during the first quarter of 1904, when he was 53. As a result of her loss Margaret Eleanor Collett from Foleshill was a widow at the age of 63 when she was still living in Coventry on the day of the next census in 1911. Margaret was born in 1847 and died in 1933.
15M33	Arthur Thomas Collett was born at Marton in 1852 and was baptised there on 2^nd January 1853, the son of John and Elizabeth Collett. Four years later his sister Sarah (below) was born at Marton, but she died the following year. Not long after that tragic event Arthur’s parents left the village and settled in Coventry St John where Arthur Thomas Collett was recorded as eight years old in the census of 1861. Ten years later the family was still living in the St John district of Coventry when Arthur T Collett was 18. After a further five years, Arthur’s mother Elizabeth died in Coventry in 1876, after which his father re-married and moved to Birmingham.
	It was also that same year that Arthur married Eleanor Cramp Angliss in 1876 and by the time of the census in 1881 the marriage had produced a daughter for the couple, who were living in Mount Street in the St Michael with St John area of Coventry. According to that year’s census, Arthur T Collett from Marton was 28 years old and was a watch finisher like his older brother Oliver John Collett (above), while his wife Eleanor was a dressmaker aged 29 who had been born at Coventry where their four years old daughter Gertrude had also been born.
	During the next decade Eleanor presented Arthur with their second daughter. The gap between the two girls may indicate that there were other children born to the couple who did not survive. However, by 1891 the family of four was still living in Coventry, where Arthur T Collett was 38, Eleanor C Collett was 39, and their two daughters were Gertrude 14 and Elsie who was three years old.
	Although no record of the family has been found in the census in March 1901, by April 1911 they were still living in Coventry, by which time the couple’s eldest daughter had left home and was presumably married by then. The remainder of the family were described as Arthur Thomas Collett of Marton who was 58, his wife Eleanor Cramp Collett who was 59, and their daughter Elsie Collett who was 23. Arthur Thomas Collett was living in Coventry when he died in 1927, while his wife Eleanor died nine years later in 1936.
	15N44		Gertrude Collett	Born in 1876 at Coventry
	15N45		Elsie Collett	Born in 1887 at Coventry
15M34	Sarah Jane Collett was born at Marton on 4^th April 1855 and was baptised there on 17^th February 1856, and it was there also that she died on 25^th February 1856 at just eleven months of age. The parish records at Marton confirmed that she was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Collett.
15N1	Thomas Charles Collett was born at Coventry in 1842 and was baptised at St John’s Church in Coventry on 17^th April 1843. Only his mother’s name, Elizabeth Collett, appeared in the parish register, and the later census revealed that he was Elizabeth’s first base-born son of an unnamed father, like his two siblings. By 1851 Thomas Collett was nine years old and, on that occasion, he was living at the Whitefriars Workhouse in Coventry with his unmarried mother Elizabeth Collett who was a pauper, and his base-born sister Sarah Collett who was three years old. Thomas and Sarah were both described as the bastard children of Elizabeth Collett.
	Whether his mother married after 1851 is not known, but by 1861 Thomas Collett from Coventry was 18 years old and was living within the Coventry St John area of the city. Just over two years later Thomas married Rosanna Rowney at Coventry, where Rosanna was born. The record of their wedding is very interesting as it gives the name of Thomas’ father as J Collett. The full parish record at St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry states that Thomas Charles Collett was 21, and his wife was Rosanna Rowney who was 22, the event taking place on 7^th June 1863. Although not stated in the parish register, Rosanna was the daughter of William Rowney, and she was actually 21 at the time of the Coventry census in 1861, therefore she was nearer 23 years of age when she married Thomas, making her two years older than her husband, as confirmed by the later census returns.
	The marriage produced five children for the couple, who were all born at Coventry. According to the 1881 Census for the Holy Trinity district of Coventry, the family was living at 5 Bond Street where Thomas C Collett age 38 was a watchmaker and finisher, while his wife Rosanna age 40, was a silk winder. The couple’s eldest daughter Rosanna, age 16, was listed as being a worsted weaver, while their eldest son Joseph Henry Collett age 15 was not in employment. The other children were Mary Elizabeth Collett who was 13, Herbert C Collett who was nine and Walter Collett who was five years old.
	Ten years later in 1891 the family was still living in the Holy Trinity district of Coventry, when Thomas C Collett was 48, his wife Rosanna was 50, and just four of their children were still living at the family home. They were Joseph H Collett who was 25, Mary E Collett who was 23, Herbert Collett who was 18 and Walter Collett who was 14 years of age. Thomas Charles Collett was 58 in the Coventry census of 1901 and by 1911 he was 68 and was still living there with his wife Rosanna Collett who was 70 years old. Thomas Charles Collett died at Coventry in 1918.
	15O1		Rosanna Collett	Born in 1864 at Coventry
	15O2		Joseph Henry Collett	Born in 1865 at Coventry
	15O3		Mary Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1868 at Coventry
	15O4		Herbert Charles Collett	Born in 1872 at Coventry
	15O5		Walter Collett	Born in 1876 at Coventry
15N2	Joseph Collett was born at Coventry on 28^th June 1845, the second of three base-born children of unmarried Elizabeth Collett. Tragically it would appear that Joseph died at Coventry during the early months of the following year and, seemingly before he could be baptised, since no record of that event has been found to date, nor was he living with his mother and his two siblings in 1851.
15N3	Sarah Collett was born at Coventry in 1847 and it was there also that she was baptised on 21^st April 1848 at St John’s Church, the third base-born child of Elizabeth Collett. By the time of the census in 1851 Sarah was three years old and was living with her mother and old brother Thomas (above) at the Coventry Union Workhouse. The conditions in which they were living were particularly harsh and, tragically, Sarah died there later that same year.
15N4	Thomas Collett was born at Coventry in 1840 and it was there at St Michael’s Cathedral that he was baptised on 20^th April 1840, when his parents were named as Thomas and Jemima Collett. He was their first child, but sadly he died later that same year.
15N5	William Henry Collett was born at Coventry in 1841 and was baptised at St Michael’s Cathedral in the city on 18^th April 1842. He was the second son, but eldest surviving child of the nine children of Thomas Collett and Jemima Standbridge. It was around 1865 that William married Harriet Hands who was born at Coventry in 1840, and the couple’s three known children were also born at Coventry. At the time of the census in 1871 the family comprised William H Collett, age 29, who was a watch escapement maker, living at 31 Bayley Lane in Holy Trinity district of Coventry, with his wife Harriet, age 30 and a former ribbon weaver, and their daughter Harriet who was three years old. The property adjacent to the Collett family home was the White Horse Inn, at 29 Bayley Lane.
	On the day of the census in 1871, Harriet was expecting the couple’s second child, who was born later that year, and that was followed by the birth of their third and last child four years later. According to the next census in 1881, William Hy Collett, age 38 and a watch finisher, was recorded as living at 4 Theatre Yard, off Smithford Street in the St Michael Stoke district of Coventry, while his wife and their three children were living with William’s mother-in-law. Harriet Collett, age 41 and a weaver of silk, and her three children were lodging at the home of 73 years old Susan Hands, at 7 Charles Street in the Holy Trinity parish of Coventry. Harriet’s status was recorded as married, the daughter of Susan Hands, while her three children were described as grandchildren to head of the household Susan Hands. They were Harriet Collett who was 13, Ada Collett who was nine, and Herbert Collett who was five years old.
	The family’s separation at that time may have had something to with the health of William Henry Collett, because it was during the following year that he died, his death recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 306) at the age of 40, during the first quarter of 1882. By the time of the Coventry census in 1891, widow Harriet Collett was 50, and the only member of her family still living with her was her son Herbert who was 15. Her eldest child Harriet was married by then and was living in Peterborough with her husband at the home of her elderly ‘cousin’ George Mead, a retired merchant and druggist. Also staying at the same address with George Mead, was Harriet’s younger daughter Ada Collett from Coventry, who was 19. During 1894, Ada was married in Coventry where she died in 1897, possible during the birth of a second child who also did not survive.
	It is curious why, three years after the death of her daughter Ada, Harriet was visiting George Mead, age 73 and a retired chemist and druggist from Coventry, at his home at 27 Lincoln Road in the St John the Baptist district of Peterborough. It is possible that they were cousins, rather than George being the cousin of her two daughters, as stated in the earlier census. Also, by the time of the census in 1901, both of Harriet’s surviving children appear to have left England for one of the colonies, since neither of them has been positively identified anywhere within the census returns.
	By the time of the census in early April 1911 Harriet Collett, age 70 and from Coventry, was once again living there within the city. She was described as a widow of a private means residing at 26 Kensington Road in Coventry, where she was support by general domestic servant Agnes Vieduard who was a widow of 53 who had been born in Birmingham. The census return also confirmed that Harriet had given birth to a total of four children, one of which was still alive at that time. With only three children already accredited to William and Harriet, it seems likely the fourth and missing child did not survive beyond infancy and therefore was never listed with the family in any later census return. That leads to the conclusion that the living child in 1911 was either Harriet or Herbert, neither of whom have been identified anywhere in Britain in the census of 1911.
	It was just over one year later that the death of Harriet Collett was recorded at Coventry register office (ref. 6d 506) during the second quarter of 1912. She was 71 years of age and was again residing at 26 Kensington Road in Coventry when she passed away on 10^th June. Probate of her estate of £1,164 18 Shillings 9d was settled at Coventry on 25^th July 1912 when the executors of her Will were named as John Garner Stallebrass, an architect, and Ernest William Hayward who was an outfitter.
	15O6		Harriet Collett	Born in 1867 at Coventry
	15O7		Ada Collett	Born in 1871 at Coventry
	15O8		Herbert Collett	Born in 1875 at Coventry
15N6	Alfred Collett was born at Coventry in 1843, where he was baptised at St Michael’s Cathedral on 27^th April 144, the son of Thomas and Jemima Collett. He was their second child to die during the same year that he was baptised.
15N7	Rebecca Jemima Collett was born at Coventry in 1844, where she was baptised on 7^th July 1845 at St Michael’s Cathedral, the daughter of Thomas and Jemima Collett. Rebecca lived all of her life in Coventry and, in the census of 1851, she was six years old, in 1861 she was 16, and in 1871 she was 25, and, on each occasion, she was living there with her parents.
	She never married and following the death of her father, she was living with her widowed mother at 7 Cow Lane in Coventry in 1881. At that time, she was 35 and was working as a dressmaker. As the eldest of the three children still living at the family home with her mother, it would seem logical that she maintained the family home following the death of her mother during the 1880. However, no record of Rebecca has been located in the census of 1891.
	According to the next census in 1901, Rebecca J Collett, age 56 and from Coventry, was still living in the city at that time, when her occupation was that of a general domestic servant. It was eight years later that she died at Coventry in 1909, when she was buried with her parents at the London Road Cemetery, where a headstone marks the grave.
15N8	Edwin Collett was born at Coventry in 1846, the son of Thomas and Jemima Collett. In the census of 1851, he was Edwin Collett age four years, while in 1861 he was correctly recorded as Edward Collett who was 14. By 1871, Edwin was 24 and still unmarried, and was living and working in the St John district of Coventry. Three years after that Edwin married (1) Clara West in 1874 with whom he had five children. According to the census in 1881, Edwin Collett of Coventry, age 34, was a draper. Living with him at 2 Lansdown Terrace in the Holy Trinity area of Coventry was his wife Clara Collett from Wellington in Shropshire who was 30.
	The first two of their five known children had been born by then and they were Clara E Collett who was five and Ellen J Collett who was three, both daughters having been born in Coventry. Edwin’s wife may well have been expecting the couple’s third child on the day of the census in 1881, since it was later that same year that their third daughter was born.
	It was three years after that when Clara presented Edwin with a son, while it was four years later on 13^th November 1888 that Clara died when she and Edwin were residing at 26 Little Park Street in Coventry. Her death coincided with the birth of the couple’s fifth and last child, who tragically died the following year. Clara was only 37 at that time, having been born in 1851. She was buried at the London Road Cemetery in Coventry, where she was later joined by Edwin’s parents and his eldest sister Rebecca (above), a large headstone marking the grave site. The Will of Clara Collett, wife of Edwin Collett, was proved at the Principal Registry on 23^rd April 1890 by the aforesaid Edwin Collett, a draper’s assistant, of 1 Richmond Terrace, Cox Street in Coventry, the sole executor. Her personal estate was valued at £467 7 Shillings 1d.
	Shortly after that Edwin married the much younger (2) Laura Leeson, with whom he had a further two children, both of them born after the census in 1891. At that time the family had left Richmond Terrace and was living at Earl Street in the Holy Trinity district of Coventry, and comprised Edwin Collett, age 44, his wife Laura 32, and Edwin’s daughters Clara E Collett, age 15, Ellen F Collett, age 13, and Lilian A W Collett who was nine, and his son William E Collett who was six years old. The latter entry was an error in the census return, as the child should have been recorded as Wallace E Collett. Edwin’s youngest daughter by his first wife, Beatrice Louise, had died while still an infant.
	On the day of the census, it was very likely that Laura was expecting the couple’s first child, who was born later that same year but, who sadly, did not survived beyond a few months. Their second child was born at Cox Street in Coventry in 1893, and while she was recorded living with the family in 1901, she died at the age of ten years in 1903.
	Once again, the census in 1901 confirmed that Edwin, who was 54 and a draper’s assistant, was married to Laura who was 42 and also from Coventry, where the family was still living with their daughter Gwendoline who was eight years old. However, three children from Edwin’s first marriage were still living with them in the family home and they were his daughters Nellie who was 23 and Lilian who was 19, who were both teachers at a local boarding school, together with their son Wallace who was 16 and a printer’s apprentice. Edwin’s eldest daughter Clara was married by then.
	By the time of the next census in 1911 the only members of the family recorded as living in Great Britain were Edwin Collett of Coventry who was 64 and his wife Laura Collett of Coventry who was 52, and the family of Clara Edith Clemson nee Collett, Edwin’s eldest daughter, which was also still residing in Coventry. Some years earlier Edwin’s three other surviving children from his first marriage had already emigrated to Australia.
	It was just two years later that Laura Collett died in 1913, and she was followed three years after that by her husband Edwin Collett who died in Coventry during 1916. Both were buried at the London Road Cemetery, where a single headstone marks the location of the grave. Also buried in the same grave some years earlier were Edwin’s and Laura’s two daughters Florence and Gwendoline, together with infant Beatrice Louise Collett from Edwin’s first marriage.
	15O9		Clara Edith Collett		Born in 1875 at Coventry
	15O10		Ellen Jane Rebecca Collett		Born in 1877 at Coventry
	15O11		Lilian Annie W Collett		Born in 1881 at Coventry
	15O12		Wallace Edward Collett		Born in 1884 at Coventry
	15O13		Beatrice Louise Collett		Born in 1888 at Coventry
	The children from the second marriage of Edwin Collett and Laura Leeson were:
	15O14		Florence Christine Collett		Born in 1891 at Coventry
	15O15		Gwendoline Collett		Born in 1893 at Coventry
15N9	John Collett was born at Coventry in 1849, the son of Thomas and Jemima Collett. In 1851 he was two years old, in 1861 he was 12, and in 1871 he was 21. It was during the following year that John married Emma Beauchamp at St Peter’s Church in Coventry in 1872. Emma was the daughter of Samuel Beauchamp of Coventry. Over the following years, Emma presented John with two children while they continued to live in Coventry. By the time of the census in 1881 John was 31 and a watchmaker like many members of the Collett family in Coventry, while his wife Emma who was 29, was described as a silk winder.
	Living with them at 5 Cot (Cottage) at No. 16 Hertford Place in Hertford Close in the St Michael Stoke district of Coventry were their two children, John who was aged seven years and Emma who was four years old, both of them confirmed as having been born at Coventry. The year after the census Emma presented her husband with their third child, so by 1891 the family was made up of John 41, Emma 39, their sons John Collett 17 and Albert Collett, age eight years, and their daughter Emma Collett who was 14. Their son Albert only survived for another year, when he died at Coventry in 1892. Whether connected to that tragedy or not, but John Collett then died during the first few months of 1893.
	It was later that same year that his widow Emma married widower Henry Tedd, but sadly the marriage only endured for six years, when Emma died in 1899. It is unclear what happened to her son John Collett, since it was only her daughter Emma Collett who appeared to remain living in Coventry, both in 1901 and 1911.
	15O16		John Collett	Born in 1873 at Coventry
	15O17		Emma Collett	Born in 1876 at Coventry
	15O18		Albert Collett	Born in 1882 at Coventry
15N10	Mark Collett was born at Coventry in 1850, the son of Thomas Collett and Jemima Standbridge. Sadly, he was around three years old when he died at Coventry during 1853.
15N11	Ruth Collett was born at Coventry in 1855, the youngest daughter of Thomas Collett and Jemima Standbridge. During her younger years, she was living with her parents in Coventry when she was five years old in 1861, and 15 in 1871. Following the death of her father during the 1870s, Ruth Collett, aged 25, was one of three children still living with her widowed mother at 7 Cow Lane in Coventry, when she was working as a ribbon paper box maker. It was later that same year when she married John Leedham at Cow Lane Baptist Chapel. John was a carpenter by trade, and over the next fourteen years the couple had four children.
	The first two children were (1) May Elizabeth Leedham who was born in 1884, who married Fred Haley in 1914, and (2) Thomas Leedham who was born 1888, who married Hannah Martin in 1915, with whom he had two children Thelma Leedham, born at Coventry in 1918, and Ronald Leedham who was born there in 1928.
	Their penultimate child was (3) John Roland Leedham (born 1891, died 1962) and he married Lilian Denny in 1914 with whom he had three children, (a) Leonard Leedham (born 1914, died 1994) who married Josephine Redgrave in 1946 and adopted two children Jane and Michael, (b) Kathleen Annie Leedham (born 1916, died 2007) who first married Cecil Percy Smith in 1940 and from whom she was divorced in 1957, when she then married Ernest Smith that same year, and (c) Muriel Harriet Leedham (born 1920, died 1995) who married Thomas Alfred Hobbs in 1940 and had two children (i) Bernadette Patricia Hobbs (born 1943) who married in 1962 Thomas Bryson (later divorced), but had three children Melanie Bernadette Bryson (b.1964), Andrew Jane Bryson (b.1966) and Daniel John Bryson (b.1973), and (ii) Nickoli Hobbs (born 1950 in Coventry) married in 1972 Richard Michael Smith and had two sons Benjamin Richard Smith (born 1976) and Mark Thomas Smith (born 1978) who married Sally Oliver who now have a son Daniel Benjamin Thomas Smith (born 2007).
	While the last child of Ruth Collett and John Leedham was (4) Bernard Leedham, born in 1895 who married Dorothy K Hammond in 1921 who also had two children (i) Anthony J Leedham (born 1926) who married Jennie M Griffiths in 1952 and (ii) Richard J Leedham (born 1930) who married Hazel M Griffiths in 1954. Ruth Leedham nee Collett died in 1926 having been a widow for around the last four years of her life, while her husband John, who had also been born in 1855, had passed away during 1922.
15N12	Philip Collett was born at Coventry in 1858, the youngest child of Thomas and Jemima Collett. In the following census returns he was recorded as being two years old, 12 years old, and 22 when he was living at 7 Cow Lane in St Michael Stoke in Coventry with his widowed mother and two sisters Rebecca and Ruth (above). Within the next year Philip married Susan Hickman in Coventry where she was also born in 1859, and by the time of the next census in 1891 the marriage had produced two children for the couple. Philip was 32, Susan was 31, and their two children were Gladys who was seven, and Horace who was two years old. At that time the family was living at Lord Street in Coventry.
	No further children were added to the family, so by March 1901 Philip Collett was 42 and his occupation was that of a watch finisher, his wife Susan was 41, daughter Gladys was 17 and was working with her father as a watch polisher, and their son Horace was 12 and was still attending school in Coventry, where the family was still living.
	Towards the end of the first decade of the new century, Philip’s and Susan’s daughter Gladys left the family home to be married, but remained living in the Coventry registration district. In April 1911, the three other members of her family were still living there and they were recorded as Philip Collett, age 52, his wife Susan Collett, also 52, and their son Horace Philip Collett who was 22. It was six years after that census day, when Philip Collett died at Coventry in 1917. He was survived by his wife by a further twenty-three years, when Susan Collett, nee Hickman, died during 1940.
	15O19		Gladys Edith Collett	Born in 1883 at Coventry
	15O20		Horace Philip Collett	Born in 1888 at Coventry
15N13	Henry Collett was born at Coventry in 1857, the eldest of the four children of Job Collett and Hannah Wilson, and in 1861 he was three years old and living at Warwick Lane in Coventry St John with his family. And it was there also that the family was still living in 1871. During the next decade the family moved to 53 New Buildings within the Holy Trinity district of Coventry, from where Henry Collett, age 22, was working as a general porter. Following the death of his mother during the 1880s, Henry aged 35 and his younger brother Joseph (below), were the only children still living in Coventry with their widowed father on the day of the census in 1891.
	Over the following years Henry met and married Harriet Green, the event recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 922) during the last three months of 1894. Harriet was eight or nine years younger than Henry having been born at Blockley in Gloucestershire around 1867 while, on the marriage certificate, her name was recorded as Harriet Cooke Green.
	Before the end of the century Harriet had presented Henry with their only known children, as confirmed by the census in 1901. Henry, who was 44, was still working as a porter but, on that occasion, he was employed by a grocer. Harriet was 36, their daughter Jane was four, and their son Frederick was two years old. By April 1911 their daughter Jane, at 15 years of age, was not living at the family home in Coventry, but was living and working elsewhere in the city, while still living with his parents was their son Frederick who was 12 years old. Henry Collett was 55, his place of birth confirmed as Coventry and his occupation was that of a grocer’s porter. Living with him and his son at 57 St John Street in Coventry was his wife Harriet Collett who was 46.
	It was eleven years later that Harriet Collett nee Green passed away, her death recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 735) during the second quarter of 1922 when the informant of her death reported that she was 57 years old. The record of her death described her as Harriet C Collett. Henry Collett survived his wife by another five years when his death was also recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 718) during the last quarter of 1927 when his age was reported as being 70 years.
	15O21		Jane Collett	Born in 1896 at Coventry
	15O22		Frederick Collett	Born in 1898 at Coventry
15N14	Kate Collett was born at Coventry in 1860, when her family was living in Warwick Lane in the city. She was then baptised at St Michael’ Church in Coventry on 7^th November 1860. Twenty years later, according to the census in 1881, Kate Collett was 20 and was living with her parents Job and Hannah Collett at 53 New Buildings in Coventry Holy Trinity area. At that time, she was employed as a beaded trimming maker. It was four years later, on 10^th August 1885 at the Church of St Thomas in Coventry, that she was married James Dowswell who in the census of 1881 was a (house) painter. Their marriage produced five children, who were all born in Coventry. They were Kate Dowswell (born 1889), Herbert Dowswell (born 1891), James Dowswell (born 1894), Richard Dowswell (born 1898) and Sidney Dowswell (born 1903). James Dowswell died at Coventry in 1921 and was survived by his wife; Kate Dowswell nee Collett passing away in Coventry during the first quarter of 1935 (Ref. 6d 850).
15N15	Job Richard Collett was born at Alma Street in Coventry during the first three months of 1863, the son of Job Collett and Hannah Wilson, whose birth was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 162) under his full name. However, during his early years, he was simply referred to as Richard Collett and, at the time of the census in 1871, he and his family were living at Warwick Lane in Coventry, and by 1881 he was still living with his parents, but at 53 New Buildings in Coventry. At the age of 18, Richard’s occupation was that of a watchmaker. It was at the start of the last week of 1882 that, as Richard Collett, he married (1) Mary Roe on 24^th December 1882 at St Thomas’ Church in Coventry. Richard was recorded as being 20 and the son of Job Collett, a tailor, when Mary was 19 and the daughter of John Roe, a watch finisher. Both the bride and the groom signed the register in their own hand, while the witnesses were Mary’s father and Ellen Smith.
	Mary Ann Roe was also born in 1863 and was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Roe of Spon End, Coventry. Over the following years their marriage resulted in the birth of three children. Their first two children were born at Conway Square, Spon End in Coventry, when Richard Collett was a watchmaker but, by the time of the birth of their third child, Richard and Mary were living at Waltham, Massachusetts, in America. However, tragedy struck the family in 1894 when Mary died, possibly giving birth to the couple’s fourth child, who also did not survive. It is not apparent whether Mary died while the family was still in America, but their absence from the UK Census in 1891 may suggest that they were. Upon the death of his wife, Richard and his three children returned to Coventry where they initially lived at the home of his in-laws, the Roe family.
	Out of that situation, Richard started a relationship with his late wife’s sister, with the subsequent marriage of Job Richard Collett, a widower, and (2) Ellen Roe, a spinster, recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 295) during the third quarter of 1894. That second marriage produced a further four daughters for Richard. The first two daughters were born at Spon End in Coventry, when their father’s occupation was that of a publican, the third child born at Foleshill Road in the city but, shortly after that, the family travelled back to America, where their fourth daughter was born, while the family was again living at Waltham in Massachusetts.
	Prior to sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, the Coventry census of 1901 included Richard as Job R Collett, his full name most likely used as a result of the earlier death of his father in 1894. On that occasion he was 38 and a licensed victualler living at 4 Spon End in Coventry with his wife Ellen Collett who was 28, together with all five children of his children, whilst employing a domestic servant. The children from his first marriage were confirmed as Annie Collett who was 15 and a watch trade polisher, Richard Collett who was 13, and Lizzie Collett who was 11 and a British subject born in America. The two children from his second marriage were recorded as Ellie M Collett who was six and Lilian M Collett who was three years old. Other than daughter Lizzie, every member of the household had been born in Coventry, including servant Rose Oxley who was 17.
	Just over five years later the family finally made the permanent move to America, when they sailed out of Liverpool on 22^nd June 1906 on board the S S Arabic, arriving in Boston eight days later on 30^th June. The passenger list including the following members of the family: Ellen Collett and her three children, Elsie Maud Collett aged 11, Lilian May Collett who was eight, and Marjorie Collett who was nine months, together two of her husband’s older children, Job Collett aged 19 and Lizzie Collett aged 18. Job Richard Collett had left Liverpool during the month of September in the previous year on board the S S Cymric.
	It would appear that Job travelled back to England a couple of years after arriving in America, as his name was listed amongst the passengers on board the S S Saxonia which sailed into Boston Harbour on 29^th August 1907, when Job R Collett was 44 years of age. Having arrived in North America, the family settled in Massachusetts where the couple’s last known child was born in 1912. It was also in Massachusetts that they remained living, and where Job Richard Collett, a watchmaker, was still alive at the time of the US Census in 1930, when he was a resident of Lowell City in Massachusetts, by which time his wife had already passed away. Ellen was alive five years earlier, when Job and Ellen were listed on an Atlantic crossing back to USA in 1925. Another passenger list record, confirmed that Job made the same journey, but alone, out of Liverpool on 16^th July 1932, arriving in Boston on 23^rd July on the S S Britannic, indicating that continued contact with the family in England was maintained.
	15O23		Annie Collett		Born in 1885 at Coventry
	15O24		Job Richard Collett		Born in 1888 at Coventry
	15O25		Agnes Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1890 at Waltham, Mass.
	The following are the children of Job Richard Collett and his second wife Ellen Roe:
	15O26		Elsie Maud Collett		Born in 1895 at Coventry
	15O27		Lilian May Collett		Born in 1898 at Coventry
	15O28		Marjorie Collett		Born in 1905 at Coventry
	15O29		Evelyn P Collett		Born in 1912 at Waltham, Mass.
15N16	Joseph Collett was born at Warwick Lane in Coventry in 1870, and was the youngest of the four children of Job Collett and his wife Hannah Wilson. At the time of the census in 1881 Joseph Collett was 10 years old, when he was living with his family at 53 New Buildings in Coventry. With the death of his mother during the 1880s, Joseph was still living with his widowed father and his older brother Henry (above) at the time of the next Coventry census in 1891, when he was 20. Around three years later Joseph married Phoebe Taylor with whom he had three children before his tragic death in the latter part of 1901.
	By the time of the census that year, Joseph Collett, age 30 and from Coventry, was working as a tailor like his father before him, while he was living adjacent to 54 White Friars Lane in Coventry St Michael with his wife and their three children. Phoebe was 28, and the children were Phoebe Collett who was five, Clara Collett who was three, and Thomas Collett who was under one year old, who lost his father when he was still a baby. Phoebe continued to look after her children over the next three years, before she married machinist, Arthur James Bennett who was born at Coventry in 1868. At that time, in 1904, Arthur was still living with his elderly widowed mother Emma Bennett, who continued to live with the family after the couple were married.
	The census in 1911 revealed that Arthur James Bennett was 42, his wife of six years was Phoebe Bennett, age 36, and by that time they had three children, Arthur James Bennett who was five, Phyllis May Bennett who was two, and William Henry Bennett who was seven months old. Also living with the family at 85 Craven Street in Coventry was Arthur’s 78 years old mother Emma, and his three stepchild Phoebe Collett, age 17 and a domestic servant, Clara Alice Collett who was 13, and Thomas Oliver Collett who was 11. The two younger Collett children were still attending the local school.
	15O30		Phoebe Collett	Born in 1894 at Coventry
	15O31		Clara Alice Collett	Born in 1897 at Coventry
	15O32		Thomas Oliver Collett	Born in 1900 at Coventry
15N17	Mercy Collett was born at Wednesbury in 1849 with her birth recorded at West Bromwich (Ref. 18 639) during the second quarter of the year. She was baptised at St Lawrence’s Church in Darlaston on 27^th May 1849, when her parents were confirmed as Henry Collett and Ann Collett nee Lewis. In 1851 Mercy was one year old and living with her parents at Wood Green in Wednesbury. It is likely that all of Mercy’s younger siblings were born at Hobbs Hole Road in the town, where they were settled from 1861 through to 1891, and where Mercy Collett was 12 years of age in 1861 and 21 years old in 1871. Shortly thereafter Mercy left Wednesbury and went to work in the area of Wolverhampton. What happened to her there has not been discovered, except to say that it was at Wolverhampton that the death of Mercy Collett was recorded (Ref. 6b 313) during the third quarter of 1872.
15N19	Henry Collett was born at Wednesbury in 1855 and his birth was recorded at West Bromwich (Ref. 6b 636) during the first three months of that year. He was baptised on 1^st April 1855 at the Church of St Bartholomew in Wednesbury, the eldest son and third child of Henry Collett and Ann Lewis. By 1861 Henry aged six years, and his family, were living at Hobbs Hole Road in Wednesbury, where he was still living in 1871 at the age of 16 when he was already working as moulder’s assistant. It may have been an accident at work that took the life of Henry Collett, since it was during the first three months in 1873 that the death of Henry Collett was recorded at West Bromwich (Ref. 6b 534), when he was only 17 years old.
15N20	Elizabeth Collett was born at Wednesbury in 1857, the fourth child of Henry and Ann Collett. The birth of Elizabeth Collett was recorded at West Bromwich (Ref. 6b 610) during the third quarter of 1857 and, unlike most of her siblings, no baptism record has been unearthed. She was four years old in the census of 1861 at Hobbs Hole Road in Wednesbury, where she was in 1871 at the age of 13, and again in 1881, when Lizzie Collett was said to be 21.
15N21	John Collett was born at Wednesbury in 1859 with his birth recorded at West Bromwich (Ref. 6b 653) during the second quarter of that year, although no baptism has been found. It is possible that he was born after his parents made their home on Hobbs Hole Road in Wednesbury, where John Collett was under one year old in 1861. It was also at Hobbs Hole Road that he was still living with his parents in 1871, when he was 10, and again in 1881, by which time he was 19 and working as a labourer.
15N22	Mary Collett was born at Hobbs Hole Road in Wednesbury in 1863 and her birth was recorded at West Bromwich (Ref. 6b 744) during the second quarter of the year. She was around eighteen months old when Mary Collett was baptised at St Bartholomew’s Church on 6^th September 1864, the daughter of Henry and Ann Collett. She was six years of age in 1871 but was not listed with her family at Hobbs Hole Road in 1881.
15N23	Thomas Collett was born at Hobbs Hole Road in Wednesbury in 1868, another son of Henry and Ann Collett. His birth was recorded at West Bromwich (Ref. 6b 794) during the second quarter of the year. Very shortly after he was born Thomas was baptised at the Church of St Bartholomew in Wednesbury on 25^th May 1868. He was two years old in the census of 1871 and in 1881 he was 12, on both occasions living with family at Hobbs Hole Road. He was one of only two children still living at his parents’ home in 1891 when Thomas Collett was 22 and working alongside his elderly father as labourers at a nearby boiler yard. His father died at Wednesbury seven years later and three years after that Thomas had moved to the north of England.
	Following the death of his father, plus the earlier premature deaths of three of his older siblings, Thomas Collett of Wednesbury was recorded in the town of Widnes in Lancashire in 1901, as a lodger at the Joseph Street home of the Dean family, from where bachelor Thomas was 32 and employed as a fitter on the construction of an iron bridge. Perhaps because of his mother’s failing health, Thomas returned to Wednesbury and was with his mother Ann when they were boarding at the home of widow Elizabeth Ann Crouch. Thomas was still unmarried at the age of 41 when his occupation on that occasion was that of a planer and a driller. He was also living in that area of Staffordshire when he died, his death recorded at West Bromwich register office (Ref. 6b 899) during the last three months of 1943, when he was 75.
15N24	Richard Henry Collett was born at Hobbs Hole Road in Wednesbury in 1876, the last child of Henry Collett and Ann Lewis. It was during the third quarter of that year when his birth was recorded at West Bromwich (Ref. 6b 865). In the census of 1881 Richard was four years old living with his family at Hobbs Hole Road, where he was still living in 1891 when he was 14 and a fitter at a tube factory. Eight years later, on Christmas Day in 1899, Richard Henry Collett, aged 23 and residing at Hobbs Hole Road, married Eliza Ann Palmer who was also 23 and living at 8 Vicarage Road in Wednesbury, the daughter of Josiah Palmer. It is interesting to note that their daughter was born at Tipton in 1900, where Richard’s widowed mother was living in 1901.
	On that census day, however, Richard and his wife and child were staying at the home of Eliza’s parents, Josiah and Mercy Palmer, at Russell Street in Wednesbury. Richard Collett was 24, as was his wife Eliza Collett, both born at Wednesbury, while their daughter Dora Collett was under six months old. Richard’s occupation was that of an ironwork fitter, but a change of career took Richard in a different direct, as revealed by the next census in 1911. Head of the household Richard Henry Collett was 34 and the manager of a public home at Shire Oak in Walsall, where his wife Eliza Annie Collett, aged 34, was the only other occupant at the address. Their two daughters were both attending school and were living with William Hobbins and his wife Hannah Mary Hobbins and their daughter Mary Hobbins at Walsall. Dora Mercy Collett was 11 and from Tipton, with Annie Palmer being seven years of age and from Wednesbury. The two girls were described as the nieces of William Hobbins, whose daughter was the same age as Annie.
	Forty year later Richard was still living within the Wednesbury area of Staffordshire and it was at the Wednesbury register office that the death of Richard H Collett was recorded (Ref. 9b 1207) during the first quarter of 1951, when he was 74.
	15O33		Dora Mercy Collett	Born in 1900 at Tipton
	15O34		Annie Palmer Collett	Born in 1903 at Wednesbury
15N25	Joseph Collett was born at Earl Street in Coventry on 19^th October 1844, the eldest son of Joseph Collett and his wife Ann Foxon, whose birth was recorded there (Ref. 16 361) during the third quarter of that year. He was baptised at St Michael’s Cathedral Church on 13^th January 1845, when his parents were confirmed as Joseph and Anne Collett. In the Coventry census of 1851 Joseph was six years old when he was living at Bishop Street with his parents, his younger brother John (below) having died by then. On that day, his father was working as a tailor as was Joseph’s grandfather who was also a resident of Bishop Street, although later his father worked as a fishmonger, amongst other jobs. By 1861 Joseph was recorded as being 15 when he was still living with his parents, but at Silver Street in Coventry, where he had already taken up the occupation of a fishmonger like his father, with whom he was very likely working. It was eight years after that, on 4^th August 1869 at St Michael’s Cathedral Church, that Joseph Collett, aged 24 and the son of Joseph Collett, married Eliza Ellen Gould who was 24 and the daughter of gardener John Gould and his wife Esther. The birth of Eliza E Gould was recorded at Stourbridge (Ref. 18 481) during the last three months of 1846.
	By 1871 Joseph’s father had ceased to be a fishmonger, while Joseph junior had established a fishmonger’s shop in Upper Well Street by that time, where he also smoked fish and had a concession to gather the oak for burning from Coombe Park, near Coventry. Also, by that time, the marriage of Joseph and Eliza had produced the first of the couple’s six children, when the Coventry census that year revealed that Joseph Collett was 26 and a fishmonger, his wife Eliza from Dudley was 25 and their daughter Josephine Collett was under one year old. Father and daughter were both confirmed as having been born in Coventry.
	Over the following ten years a further four children were added to the family which, by 1881, was living at 21 Upper Well Street in Coventry. Joseph was 36, and a herring fish curer, Eliza Ellen was 35, and their five children were Josephine Collett who was 10, Frank Joseph Collett who was eight, Sidney Collett who was seven, Leo Andrew Collett who was three and Henry Foxon Collett who was eleven months old. Sadly, the youngest of them, Harry Foxon Collett, died just after the census day, while son Leo also did not survive, and died during the first few months of 1882.
	Following the tragic loss of their two youngest children, Eliza later presented Joseph with their last child in 1886. By 1891 the family still residing at (Upper) Well Street comprised Joseph Collett, aged 46 and a fish merchant, Eliza Ellen Collett, aged 45, and their three eldest children Josephine who was 20, Frank who was 18, Sidney who was 17, plus their latest arrival Hugh Wilfred Collett who was four years old.
	It was also later in that same year that their daughter Josephine was married. In the March census of 1901, only the couple’s youngest child was still living with them at Upper Well Street. Joseph aged 56, was still a fishmonger, Eliza E Collett from Dudley was 55, and Hugh W Collett was 14 and had already started work by then. Staying with the family of three that day were three lodgers, Harry Roscoe, William Dixon and Thomas Jones. With the departure of their son Hugh to be married, and following the death of his wife Eliza Ellen Collett nee Gould during the last quarter of 1907 (Ref. 6d 313) at the age of 63, Joseph Collett was living alone in Coventry at the age of 66 on the day of the census in 1911, when he gave his place of birth as Earl Street in Coventry. Amazingly, he lived to be a grand old age, when the death of Joseph Collett, aged 90 years, was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 708) during the last three months of 1934.
	15O35		Josephine Collett	Born in 1871 at Coventry
	15O36		Frank Joseph Collett	Born in 1872 at Coventry
	15O37		Sidney Collett	Born in 1873 at Coventry
	15O38		Leo Andrew Collett	Born in 1878 at Coventry
	15O39		Henry Foxon Collett	Born in 1880 at Coventry
	15O40		Hugh Wilfred Collett	Born in 1886 at Coventry
15N26	John Collett was born at Coventry, his birth recorded there (Ref. 16 428) during the first three months of 1847. He was one year old when he was baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry on 4^th April 1848, when his parents were confirmed as Joseph and Ann Collett. Tragically, it was during the third quarter of that same year, when the death of John Collett was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 16 269).
15N28	William Henry Collett was born at Stretton in 1871, the first child born to Henry Collett and Harriet Field. Shortly after he was born his parents moved to Kenilworth, where William died in 1876. Following his death, he was buried in the churchyard of Stretton Church.
15N29	Walter Joseph Collett was born at Kenilworth in 1872, the eldest surviving son of Henry Collett and Harriet Field. In the census of 1881, he was listed as Walter J Collett, aged eight years, when he was living at 2 St John’s Street in Kenilworth with his family. He was only fourteen years old when he emigrated to Manitoba during 1886, which may suggest that he accompanied other relatives of his family. And it was there in Canada that he married Sadie Riley, who was born in 1870. The marriage produced three children for the couple, all of them born in Canada.
	The picture of Walter has been extracted from a larger photograph that was taken at the family reunion in Kenilworth, possibly at the time of his eightieth birthday celebration in 1952. Other siblings included in the larger picture were his sister Emma, and his brothers George, Frank, Harold, and Ernest. Sadie Collett nee Riley died in 1944, while her husband Walter Joseph Collett died at Vancouver in 1956.
	15O41		Arthur Edgar Collett		Born in 1903 in Canada
	15O42		Constance Sarah Collett		Born in 1905 in Canada
	15O43		Harriet Maime Collett		Born in 1907 in Canada
15N30	Emma Elizabeth Collett was born in 1874 at Kenilworth, the eldest daughter of Henry Collett and Harriet Field. In the census of 1881, she was simply listed as Emma Collett, aged six years, when she was living with her family at 2 St John’s Street in Kenilworth. As one of fourteen children, it was possibly due to the cramped living conditions during the late 1880s that Emma left the family home, which was then at Henry Street in Kenilworth. That was confirmed in the census in 1891, when Emma Collett, aged 16, was working as a general domestic servant for beer retailer Joseph Clemson, aged 25, and his wife Martha E Clemson, aged 24, at The Railway Inn at 21 St Michael Street in West Bromwich.
	On that occasion Emma’s place of birth was given by her employer, in error, as West Bromwich. What is more interesting is that Martha E Clemson was the former Martha Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 9O12), the eldest child of Robert and Mary Ann Collett, whose family details can be found in Part 9 – The Aldsworth Line. That raises the question, was Emma in some way related to Martha, or was her appointment purely a chance coincidence. Eight years later, and sometime during 1899, Emma Elizabeth Collett married Thomas Jones of Bethesda in North Wales, with whom she had four children, although sadly only three of them survived. According to the next census in March 1901, Emma E Jones, aged 26 and from Kenilworth, was living at Bangor in North Wales, where all of her four children were eventually born.
	The census in April 1911, placed the family still living in Bangor, where Thomas Jones was 39, Emma Elizabeth Jones was 36, and their three surviving children were Eluned Collett Jones who was 10, Ceridwen Harriet Collett Jones who was five, and Thomas Collett Jones who was two years old. Emma Elizabeth Jones, nee Collett, died at Blackpool in 1965. Her husband Thomas, who was born in 1871 at Trefdraeth in Anglesey, had died many years earlier at Kenilworth, when he passed away during 1938.
	The above picture of Emma has been extracted from a larger family group photograph which included her five brothers, which was most likely taken in 1952 at the eightieth birthday celebrations for her eldest brother Walter Collett (above).
	15O44		Eluned Collett-Jones		Born in 1900 at Bangor
	15O45		Eleanor Emma Collett-Jones		Born in 1902 at Bangor
	15O46		Ceridwen Harriet Collett-Jones		Born in 1904 at Bangor
	15O47		Thomas Collett-Jones		Born in 1907 at Bangor
15N31	George Henry Collett was born at Kenilworth in 1876, the son of Henry Collett and Harriet Field who were living at 2 St John’s Street in 1881. Ten years later in 1891 he had left school and at the age of 15 he was already working and was not living at the family home, but was living not far away, and still within the Kenilworth area. By March 1901 George Collett from Kenilworth was 26 and was living in the village of Coates near Cirencester in Gloucestershire where he was employed as a domestic butler. What happen to him immediately after that is not known, since no obvious record for him has so far been located within the next census in April 1911.
	The picture of George was taken at the same family gathering referred to under his brother Walter and sister Emma (above), which was probably taken in 1952 at Walter’s eightieth birthday party. What is known for sure about George is that he was employed as a butler at Hodnet Hall in Shropshire, the home of the Mrs and Mrs A Heber-Percy. It was also through his work at Hodnet Hall that he met his future wife who was living in the nearby village of Hodnet.
	It was during the second quarter of 1922 that the marriage George Henry Collett and Mary Ellen Fox was recorded at Stafford register office (Ref. 6b 53). Mary Fox was born at Swynnerton near Stone in Staffordshire in 1898, the youngest daughter of Charles and Lucy Lydia Fox. Their only child was born towards the end of the same year, which may indicate that Mary was already carrying the child on their wedding day. The child’s birth was recorded at Stone register office, who was in all probability born at the Swynnerton home of Mary’s parents. In 1901 Charles Fox from Chebsey in Staffordshire was a waggoner on a farm, and was living at Swynnerton with his family, including his daughter Mary E Fox who was two years old.
	It would appear that George and Mary lived the remainder of their life together at Hodnet, since that was where both of them were buried. Mary Ellen Collett died on 2^nd November 1944 at the age of 45, while her husband survived by a further twenty-five years. George Henry Collett died on 13^th October 1969 and was buried at Hodnet in the same grave as his wife. In addition to George and Mary, the headstone on the grave in the churchyard of St Lukes Church in Hodnet indicates that Mary’s two older spinster sisters Emma Fox and Lucy Lydia Fox were also buried there. Emma was 76 when she died on 29^th May 1970, while Lucy died on 23^rd May 1987 at the age of 90.
	15O48		George Henry Collett	Born in 1922 at Swynnerton, Staffordshire
15N32	Harry Collett was born in 1878 at Kenilworth. In 1881 the census that year described him as Harry Collett aged two years living at the family home at 2 St John’s Street in Kenilworth. No record of him has been found within the census of 1891 when he would have been 12, but by 1901 he was still living with his parents at Henry Street in Kenilworth at the age of 23 when, as Henry Collett, he was working as a labourer at a brickyard. Just four years later Harry Collett married Annie Elizabeth Barnwell at Kenilworth during 1905. Annie was born at Kenilworth in 1876 and, in 1881 when she was four years old, she was living with her parents, labourer Thomas Barnwell and his wife Mary Ann, at School Lane in Kenilworth.
	It is quite likely that the photograph of Harry (above) was taken in the first few years of the 1930s when he would have been in his early fifties. The full picture shows him standing in his back garden (?) formally dressing in a three-piece suit.
	In April 1911 Harry and Annie were still living in Kenilworth where their four children were born. The census return for that year listed the family as Harry 33, Annie Elizabeth 34, and their two children at that time as Albert Harry Collett who was three, and one-year old Elsie Doris Collett. All members of the family were confirmed as having been born at Kenilworth. Missing from the census was the couple’s eldest daughter Winifred, who had died when she was only two years old.
	Harry Collett, and sometimes called Henry, was tragically killed in an accident at the Courtaulds Factory in Coventry on 5^th January 1935 aged 56. Annie Elizabeth Collett nee Barnwell survived her husband by twenty-five years, and in her later years she lived at Earlsdon in Coventry prior to her passing on 20^th February 1960 at the age of 85. The couple was buried in the same grave at the London Road Cemetery in Coventry, where their daughter Doris was also buried a few years later. A single headstone marks the grave with the following inscription:
	In Loving Memory of a Dear Husband Harry Collett who feel asleep on 5^th January 1935 aged 56 years Also Annie Elizabeth his wife died 20^th February 1960 aged 85 years
	15O49		Winifred Anne Collett		Born in 1906 at Kenilworth
	15O50		Albert Harry Collett		Born in 1908 at Kenilworth
	15O51		Elsie Doris Collett		Born in 1909 at Kenilworth
	15O52		Marjorie Gladys Collett		Born in 1913 at Kenilworth
15N33	Charles John Collett was one of the fourteen children of Henry Collett and Harriet Field. He was born at Kenilworth and his birth was recorded at Warwick (Ref. 6d 226) during the second quarter of 1880. Later that same year, he was baptised at the Church of St John in Kenilworth on 1^st August. He may have been born at 2 St John’s Street in Kenilworth, where he was living with his large family in 1881, when he was listed as Chas John Collett. Ten years later, in the Kenilworth census of 1891, he was listed as Charles Collett aged 11 years, who was living at Henry Street in Kenilworth with his parents. Sometime after leaving school, Charles signed up for military service and by March 1901, at the age of 19 (sic), he was in the Coldstream Guards in London. Just less than eight years later, the marriage of Charles John Collett and Florence Cross was recorded at West Bromwich register office (Ref. 6b 180) during the first three months of 1909.
	Florence Cross was born at Aston in Birmingham on 28^th June 1874, where she was baptised on many years later on 6^th June 1886, the daughter of George and Hannah Cross. By the time of the census in 1911, Florence had already presented Charles with a daughter. Charles John Collett from Kenilworth was 30 and a relief railway signalman who was living in Walsall with his wife Florence Collett from Aston in Birmingham who was 36, and their one-year-old daughter Eileen Florence Collett who had been born at Pleck in Walsall. Staying with the family that day was Olga Alberta Hindley aged ten years and from Handsworth, who was incorrectly described as the niece of Charles Collett. In fact, Olga’s birth was recorded at West Bromwich register office (Ref. 6b 31) during the first quarter of 1901 under the name of Olga Alberta Louise Cross, indicating that she was the base-born daughter of the unmarried Florence Cross and therefore the stepdaughter of Charles John Collett.
	The family eventually emigrated to Canada where Charles John Collett died at Port Moody in 1947. Like Charles, his wife Florence also died at Port Moody, but ten years later in 1957. It was while the couple was living at Port Moody that Charles built their house, where their daughter Eileen and her half-sister Olga lived for the rest of their lives up until 1997 and 1999 respectively. Upon the deaths of the two half-sisters, the house was occupied by Charles’ and Florence’s granddaughter Daphne Walker and her second husband Harold Peter St Mary, Daphne being the granddaughter of Eileen Florence Collett and Arthur Eric Walker.
	15O53		Olga Alberta Louise Cross	Born in 1900; died 1999 at Port Moody
	15O54		Eileen Florence Collett	Born in 1909; died 1997 at Port Moody
15N34	Jane Ann Collet who was known as Annie, was born at Kenilworth on 8^th December 1881, with her birth recorded at Warwick (Ref. 6d 635) during the first quarter of 1882. It was also as Jane Ann Collett that she was baptised at St John’s Church in Kenilworth on 2^nd April 1882, another child of Henry Collett and Harriet Field. It was as Annie Collett, aged 10, that she was recorded living with her family at Henry Street in Kenilworth in 1891. Ten years later, at the age of 19, Annie Collett from Kenilworth, was a patient in hospital at Leamington Priors (today known as Leamington Spa), by which time she had been working as a domestic servant.
	With her older brother Walter Joseph Collett having sailed to Canada in 1886, it seems likely that Jane followed him there before the end of the century. It also seems high likely that the formal photograph of Jane around 1907, was taken to celebrate her engagement to her future husband, who also featured in the full photograph, and was used to send to her family back in England. It was during 1908, at Brandon, Manitoba in Canada, that Jane Anne Collett married Patrick Joseph Kelly. Patrick from Seattle was born at Clonmoyle Township within the parish of Lynn, County Westmeath in Ireland [Éire] on 15^th March 1879, who emigrated to Canada in 1903, and who died at Seattle, Washington USA, during 1958 and was followed five years later by Annie.
	Patrick and Annie were buried at the Riverton Crest Cemetery in Tukwila, Washington, just south of Seattle. Their daughter Alma and her family are also buried there. Norah, the mother of Jim and Ron (below) was interred at the Tahoma National Cemetery for Veterans in Kent (Washington) with her husband Raymond, who was a veteran of the United States Army. The death certificate for Patrick Joseph Kelly produced a number of interesting facts, as follows. It was at home at 6115 44^th Avenue South, Seattle, in King County, Washington on 14^th February 1958. By then, he had retired after being involved with an occupation in building maintenance, the son of John Kelly and Brigett Moran who had been born at Westmeath in Ireland. The informant of his passing was his daughter Ruth Suttell of Seattle (aka Norah Irene). The cause of death was coronary occlusion with myocardial infraction. And finally, the certificate confirmed that he was buried at Riverton Crest on 18^th February 1958.
	Annie and Patrick had three daughters as shown in the delightful picture on the right, taken around 1920. The eldest daughter was Alma Marguerite Kelly (1913-1977) who married Julian Roy Storey (1908-1993), with whom she had two children in Seattle – Kenneth Allen Storey (1934) and Patricia Storey (1936) who never married. Their son Kenneth on the other hand was married twice, the first time in 1957 to June Eileen Olsen, and later to Judy Olsen. Kenneth and June had three daughters, Eileen (1958), Linda (1960), and Nancy (1963).
	Annie and Patrick’s second daughter was Ada Kelly (1914-1999) who married Daniel Price (1911-1979), and they a daughter - Joanne L Price (1938-1999) who married Lewis E Walker (1935) of St Maries in Idaho, and had four sons. The third daughter of Annie and Patrick was Norah Irene Kelly (1918-2007) who married Raymond Joseph Suttell (1911-1999) and they lived in Seattle where they had two sons, James Edward Suttell (born 26.09.1945), Director of The Seattle Times, who was married on 02.06.1973 to Beth Brezina who was born on 18.01.1948, and Ronald Patrick Suttell (born 21.05.1949), Facilities Director Alaska Airlines, who was married on 03.04.1976 to Kathy Rose Greminger who was born on 28.02.1950, both of whom live at Tacomo in Washington State. In early 2022, Jim and Ron Suttell provided updates to their family details.
15N35	Ada Collett was born at Kenilworth in 1883 and was recorded in the census of 1891 as being eight years old while living at Henry Street in Kenilworth with her parents Henry and Harriet Collett. Ada was still living in Kenilworth in March 1901, but had moved out of the family home to secure work as a general domestic servant at the age of 17. Ada was still unmarried ten years later in April 1911, when she was recorded in that year’s census as Ada Collet from Kenilworth aged 26 who was still living within the county of Warwickshire. The picture of Ada may have been taken at the time of her engagement to her future husband, who also featured in the photograph in full army uniform.
	Four years later Ada Collett married Ernest Letts in 1915. Ernest was born in 1886 and was killed on 9^th October 1917 at Ypres. He was Private 36676 with the First Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment and was buried at Poelcapelle British Cemetery in Belgium. At the time of his death Ada was living at 35 Henry Street in Kenilworth, her parents Henry and Harriet living at 65 Henry Street at that time. Ada Letts nee Collett died at Kenilworth in 1941 and was buried with her parents in a share grave in the churchyard of St Nicholas Church in Kenilworth.
15N36	Ellen Collett was born at Kenilworth in 1885, the daughter of Henry Collett and Harriet Field. Sadly, she died the following year during 1886.
15N37	Frank Collett was born at Kenilworth, his birth recorded at Warwick (Ref. 6d 124) during the third quarter of 1887, another son of Henry Collett and Harriet Field. He was four years old in the Kenilworth census of 1891 when he was living in Henry Street with his family. Ten years later in March 1901, Frank Collett was 13 when he was still attending school while living in Kenilworth with his parents and four of his siblings. He was still living there with his parents in April 1911 when, at the age of 23, he was employed as an assistant grocer when once again his place of birth was confirmed as Kenilworth. Two years later, during the third quarter of 1913, Frank Collett married Sarah Huff Simpson, the event recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 6d 73). The picture of Frank was taken during 1952 at the eightieth birthday party of his eldest brother Walter (above).
	Sarah Huff Simpson was born in 1889 and was tragically killed on 7^th November 1940 during a German bombing raid over Kenilworth. Sarah was a rest centre worker with the Women’s Voluntary Service and was not was on duty, but at the family home when the house was destroyed by falling anti-aircraft fire. Her youngest son Frank was also in the house at that time and suffered two broken legs. A later report of the incident published in the Kenilworth newspaper after the war read as follows: “Sarah Huff Collett aged 51, wife of Frank Collett. Sarah was injured at her home at 7 Arthur Street due to falling anti-aircraft fire, and died in an ambulance on the way to hospital. Sarah, nee Simpson, married Frank locally in 1913. Their son also Frank, had both legs broken in the blast and spent several months in hospital. Another son Ivan, a Royal Marine, was killed in Sicily in January 1944. A daughter still lives in Kenilworth. Sarah was in the WVS, mainly concerned with rest centre work, and appeared as Kenilworth’s only representative on the WVS Roll of Honour. Sarah is buried in Kenilworth cemetery.”
	Sarah Collett was buried at the Kenilworth (Urban District Council) Cemetery where a single headstone bears not only her name, but that of her son Ivan Ernest Collett, who was killed in Italy just over three years after his mother. Also named on the same headstone is her husband Frank Collett, who died at Kenilworth many years later on 24^th February 1965, his passing recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 9c 185), at the age of 77.
	15O55		Frederick Charles Collett		Born in 1915 at Kenilworth
	15O56		Ivan Ernest Collett		Born in 1921 at Kenilworth
	15O57		Gwenda Marian Collett		Born in 1922 at Kenilworth
	15O58		Joyce Estelle Collett		Born in 1925 at Kenilworth
	15O59		Reginald Frank Collett		Born in 1928 at Kenilworth
15N38	HAROLD JAMES COLLETT was born at Henry Street in Kenilworth on 24^th February 1889, the son of Henry Collett and Harriet Field. And it was Henry Street in Kenilworth that he was living with his family in 1891 aged two years, and ten years later in 1901 when he was 12. His apparent absence from the April census in 1911 may have been due to the fact that he might have been in military service and out of the country on that occasion. What is known is that he later became an engineer with Rover Car Company, and that he married Eveline Fanny Smith at St Nicholas Church in Kenilworth on 31^st December 1917. Eveline was born at Kenilworth on 25^th May 1890, the daughter of Thomas and Fanny Smith.
	The picture of Harold was very likely taken when he was in his sixties. In the full photograph, he was dressed formally in a three-piece suit and, standing with him, was his diminutive wife Eveline. Harold was a very tall man, at something over six feet, compared to his wife who was well over a foot shorter. The occasion at which the photograph was taken was possibly the wedding of one of their sons, Harold or John, who were both married in the early nineteen fifties.
	Harold James Collett died during 1972, while his widow Eveline survived him by ten years when she died on 30^th July 1982. The couple were buried in the same grave in Kenilworth Cemetery, where a single headstone erected by their children marks the grave with the following words:
	Treasured Memories of Our Dear Parents Harold James Collett 1889 – 1972 Eveline Fanny Collett 1890 – 1982
	15O60		Eveline Beatrice Collett		Born in 1918 at Kenilworth
	15O61		HAROLD THOMAS COLLETT		Born in 1920 at Kenilworth
	15O62		John Henry Collett		Born in 1923 at Kenilworth
	15O63		Alan James Collett		Born in 1925 at Kenilworth
15N39	Ellen Collett was born at Kenilworth on 6^th April 1891 and was named after her sister who had died just four years earlier in 1886. However, she too failed to survive, when she died in December that same year and was buried in St Nicholas’ Churchyard in Kenilworth.
15N40	Reginald Jack Collett was born at Kenilworth in 1892 and was simply recorded as Jack Collett aged eight years in the Kenilworth census of 1901. At that time, he was living with his family at Henry Street. Ten years later in April 1911 he was once again recorded in the census return as Jack Collett aged 17, while he was still living with his parents at Henry Street in Kenilworth. Whilst the two references to his age in the census returns for 1891 and 1901 confirmed his date of birth, at the time he was killed in action in 1917 his age was incorrectly stated by the military services as being 31 instead of 25. This is Reginald Jack Collett in his army uniform just prior to the Great War.
	Reginald Collett was Private 52926 with the Eighth Battalion Royal Fusiliers and saw active service in the First World War and was killed on 24^th November 1917. Below is the record of his death. As there is no mention of a widow, it must be assumed that he never married. “Reginald Jack Collett aged 31 died on 24^th November 1917. He was the seventh son of the late Henry and Harriet Collett of 65 Henry Street in Kenilworth. He was killed during the early days of the Battle of Cambrai and his name appears on Panel 3/4 of the Cambrai Memorial at Louverval Nord in France.”
	The Cambrai Memorial is situated near the village of Louverval. It commemorates the lives of 7,000 British and South African servicemen who died in the Battle of Cambrai from 20th November through to December 1917 under the command of Sir Douglas Haig.
15N41	Ernest Collett was born at Kenilworth in 1894, the last of fourteen children of Henry Collett and Harriet Field. In March 1901, Ernest Collett was six years old while living with his family at Henry Street in Kenilworth. Ernest was sixteen years old at the time of the next census in 1911 when he was still living at the family home in Henry Street in Kenilworth with his parents Henry and Harriet Collett, and his two older brothers Frank Collett and Jack Collett. From his appearance in this photograph, Ernest looks to have been in his twenties when it was taken after the Great War, and perhaps around 1920, and therefore around six years or so prior to his wedding day.
	Ernest Collett was in his early thirties when he married Maggie Wilson Philp in 1926, and later that same year the first of the couple’s three children was born. Maggie, who was also known as Daisy, was born in 1898, the daughter of William and Christina Philp. Daisy died in 1973, while Ernest survived for a further fourteen years before he died at Kenilworth on 25^th December 1987. They were buried in a single grave at the Kenilworth Cemetery where a headstone marks the site, with the words:
	Resting In Loving Memory of Maggie Wilson Collett ‘Dais’ 1898 – 1973 Also Ernest Collett 1894 – 1987”.
	15O64		Kathleen Marguerite Collett		Born in 1926 at Kenilworth
	15O65		Peter Ernest John Collett		Born in 1929 at Kenilworth
	15O66		Alison Christine Collett		Born in 1931 at Kenilworth
15N42	Annie Elizabeth Collett was born at Leamington Priors, the base-born daughter of unmarried Caroline Collett. Her birth was recorded at Warwick (Ref. 6d 451) during the first three months of 1871 and, on being baptised at All Saints Church in Leamington on 6^th August 1871, she was described as the child of Caroline Collett and Frederick Collett. The earlier census of 1871 included two-month-old Annie E Collett living with her unmarried mother at a house in Villiers Street North, the home of plasterer Hugh Rainbow and his wife Elizabeth. Also listed as living at the same address was Annie’s young uncle, her mother’s brother John Oliver Collett. Tragically, Annie was just over four years old when the death of Annie Elizabeth Collett was recorded at Warwick (Ref. 6d 360) during the third quarter of 1875.
15N44	Gertrude Collett was born at Coventry in 1876, the eldest of two daughters of Arthur Thomas Collett and Eleanor Cramp Angliss. She was four years old in 1881 when living at Mount Street in Coventry with her parents and was 14 in 1891. Seven years later in 1898, she married William Thompson of Coventry, with whom she had two children. Doris Thompson was born at Coventry the year after they were married, while Cyril William Thompson was born in 1904, and he married Hilda Annie Steward in 1931, and died in 1987. Gertrude Thompson nee Collett died in 1954.
15N45	Elsie Collett was born at Coventry in 1887, the younger of two daughters of Arthur and Eleanor Collett. Elsie was three years old in the Coventry census of 1891 and although the family has not been located in 1901, Elsie was 23 and still living with her parents in 1911. It was four years after that when she married Walter J Bird in 1915. The marriage produced three children for the couple, including twins, all of which were born while the family was living in the Foleshill district of Coventry. The twins Thomas R Bird and Constance Bird were born during 1916, while Walter John Bird was born in 1918. Elsie Bird nee Collett died in 1939.
15O1	Rosanna Collett was born at Coventry in 1864, the eldest child of Thomas Charles Collett and Rosanna Rowney. In 1881 Rosanna and her family were living at 5 Bond Street in Coventry, where Rosanna was working as a worsted weaver at the age of 16. It was just four year later that she died in 1885.
15O2	Joseph Henry Collett was born at Coventry in 1865, the eldest son of Thomas and Rosanna Collett. He was 15 years old in 1881 when he was living with his family at 5 Bond Street in Coventry. By that time, he had left school but had not yet secured a job. Later in his life he was employed as a nickel-plater, working in the manufacture of bicycles. He was 25 in the census of 1891 when he was still unmarried and living with his parents in Coventry. However, ten years later, the next census in 1901 recorded bachelor Joseph H Collett from Coventry as a nickel plater in the cycle trade who was 35 when he was staying with his younger married brother Herbert at 25 Arthur Street in Coventry. And it was there that he died three years later in 1904 at the age of 39.
15O3	Mary Elizabeth Collett was born at Coventry on 22^nd March 1868, the second daughter of Thomas and Rosanna Collett, who was baptised at St Michael’s Church on 23^rd September 1868. Mary E Collett was recorded as 13 in 1881, and 23 in 1891 when, on both occasions, she was living with her family in Coventry. It is assumed that she was married after 1891, since no record of her as Mary Collett has been found in 1901 or 1911.
15O4	Herbert Charles Collett was born at Coventry in 1872, the son of Thomas and Rosanna Collett. In 1881 Herbert and his family were living at 5 Bond Street in Coventry when he was nine years old, and ten years later in 1891 he was 18 years of age. During 1896 Herbert married the teenage Rose Ann Peacey from Coventry with whom he had four children before 1911. By March 1901 the Coventry family comprised Herbert C Collett who was 28 whose occupation was a watch dial enameller, his wife Rose who was 23, and their three children Edith R Collett who was four, Thomas C Collett who was two and Herbert Collett who was one year old. At that time the family was living at 25 Arthur Street in Coventry where Herbert’s older unmarried brother Joseph H Collett (above) was also lodging.
	Two years after that census day the family suffered the tragic loss of their youngest son Herbert at the age of just three years. However, the couple’s loss was offset by the birth of another son during the following year, the baby named after Herbert’s brother Joseph whose premature death was recorded that same year. The census for Coventry in April 1911 listed the family as Herbert Charles Collett who was 38, his wife Rose who was 32, and their three surviving children Edith Rose Collett who was 14, Thomas Charles Collett who was 12 and seven-year-old Joseph Collett. Herbert Charles Collett was still living in Coventry when he died in 1928.
	15P1		Edith Rose Collett		Born in 1896 at Coventry
	15P2		Thomas Charles Collett		Born in 1898 at Coventry
	15P3		Herbert Collett		Born in 1900 at Coventry
	15P4		Joseph Henry Collett		Born in 1904 at Coventry
15O5	Walter Collett was born at Coventry on 12^th November 1876, the youngest of the five children of Thomas Charles Collett and Rosanna Rowney, who was baptised at St Michael’s Church on 18^th May 1877. Walter was five years old in 1881 when he was living with his family at 5 Bond Street in Coventry. Ten years later he was still there at the age of 14. According to the next census in 1901 Walter Collett was 24 and a watch jeweller who was still living with his parents at Bond Street in Coventry. It is also known that he suffered a premature death at Coventry in 1906.
15O6	Harriet Collett was born at Coventry in 1867, the eldest of the three children of William Henry Collett and Harriet Hands. In 1871 Harriet and her parents were living at 31 Bayley Lane in Coventry, when she was three years old. For whatever reason, by the time of the next census in 1881, Harriet, at the age of 13, was living with her mother and two younger siblings (below), at the home of her grandmother Susan Hands at 7 Charles Street in Coventry, while her father was living nearby at 4 Theatre Yard on Smithford Street where tragically he died in 1882.
	During the latter half of the 1880s Harriet married William Shepherd who was born at Peterborough in 1866. It is possible that Harriet met William while she was working for her mother’s cousin, George Mead from Coventry, who was a merchant in Peterborough. And it was with bachelor George Mead, aged 64 and a retired merchant and a druggist, that Harriet and William Shepherd were boarding in 1891. Also living at 8 Ivy Villas on the Lincoln Road in Peterborough was Harriet’s sister Ada Collett (below), neither sister being credited with an occupation. Harriet Shepherd from Coventry was 21 (sic), while her husband William, aged 24, was an accountant and a clerk.
	No record of the couple has been found in the next two census returns for 1901 and 1911, so it is possible that they had left England sometime during the 1890s. The same applied to Harriet’s married brother Herbert Collett (below), so they may have emigrated together, following the death of their sister Ada Collett, just a few years after she was married.
15O7	Ada Collett was born at Coventry in 1871, but after the census that year, which took place on the second of April, when her parents William and Harriet were living at 31 Bayley Lane in Coventry, where Ada may have been born. Over the following decade, and after the birth of her brother Herbert (below), Ada’s parents were living at separate addresses in Coventry. So, by the time of the census in 1881 Ada, at the age of nine, was living with her mother and her two siblings at 7 Charles Street, the home of her grandmother Susan Hands. Her father died during the next year, and a few years later, upon leaving school, it would appear that Ada travelled to Peterborough to live with her mother’s cousin George Mead. Her older sister Harriet (above) may have also been with her, since both of them were living with him in 1891, when Ada Collett from Coventry was 19.
	It was in 1894 that Ada Collett married George John Roe at Wells Street Chapel in Coventry. George was a widower, the son of George Roe, who had been born in 1864. The marriage produced a daughter for the couple, Ethel Ada Roe, who was born at Coventry in 1895, but sadly Ada Roe nee Collett died in 1897, possibly during the birth of a second child who also did not survive. There were other occasions when the family of Collett formed a union with the Roe family. The first was in 1863 when Job Richard Collett (Ref. 15N15) married Mary Roe, and the second was also in 1894 when the same Job married Ellen Roe, the sister of Mary. The aforementioned George Roe, father of George John Roe, may well have been a brother of the two sisters.
15O8	Herbert Collett was born at Coventry in 1875, the only son, and third child, of William Henry Collett and his wife Harriet Hands. In 1881 Herbert, aged five years, was living with his mother and two sisters at 7 Charles Street in Coventry, the home of his grandmother Susan Hands, while his father was living and working nearby at 4 Theatre Yard on Smithford Street, where tragically he died in 1882. During the next ten years both of his sisters left Coventry, so by the time of the census in 1891, Herbert was the only member of the family living there with his widowed mother, when he was 15. In 1897 Herbert married Edith Lane at St John’s Church in Coventry. Edith was the daughter of Thomas Lane. No further record of Herbert Collett or his wife has been found in Great Britain after that time.
15O9	Clara Edith Collett was born at Coventry in 1875, the first child of Edwin Collett and Clara West. She may have been born while the couple were living at Earl Street, since it was there that her sister Ellen (below) was born two years later. The Coventry census in 1881 described her as Clara E Collett who was five years old, living at 2 Lansdown Terrace with her family.
	With the death of her mother in 1888, following which her father re-married, Clara was living with her father and her stepmother at Earl Street in 1891 when she was 15 years old. It was eight years later that she married Albert Clemson at Queen Street Baptist Chapel in Coventry in 1899. Albert was the son of Jonah Clemson, and was born in 1875 at Oakengates in Shropshire. Clara and Albert had four children, and they were as follows.
	Clara Prudence Gwendoline Clemson, who was born in Shropshire in 1901, married Walter C Nickerson in Coventry during 1926. Albert Eric Clemson, who was born in 1902, married Margaret M Swift at Coventry in 1928, and died in 1992. Alec Edwin Clemson, who was born in 1906, married Marjorie A Ellis in Coventry in 1930, with whom he had a daughter Helen Clemson who was born at Coventry in 1933. The couple’s fourth child was Harold Clemson who was born in 1908. The family of Clara E Clemson aged 35 and Albert Clemson aged 36, was still living in Coventry in April 1911 when their four children were recorded as Gwendoline Clemson who was 10, Albert Eric Clemson who was seven, Alec Edwin Clemson who was four and Harold Clemson who was two years of age.
15O10	Ellen Jane Rebecca Collett, who was known as Nellie, was born at Earl Street in Coventry during 1877. She was three years old in the 1881 Census when, by which time she was living at 2 Lansdown Terrace in the Holy Trinity district of Coventry, with her parents and her older sister Clara (above). Her mother died in 1888 and her father was re-married shortly thereafter, and it was with them that she was living at Earl Street in Coventry in 1891 at the age of 13 when she was named in the census return as Ellen J Collett. Upon leaving school Ellen became a school teacher, and it was as Nellie Collett, aged 23, that she was recorded in the census of 1901. She was still living at home, but was working in Coventry as a teacher at a boarding school with her younger sister Lilian (below).
	It seems likely that Ellen never married, although it is known that she sailed to Australia with her brother Wallace Collet (below) during the first few years of the new century. In 1916 it was as Miss Nellie Collett of Hazelbrook in New South Wales that she was recorded in the military records of her brother Wallace as his sister and next-of-kin. The only other established record of her was in 1917, when she was a spinster and a schoolmistress living in New South Wales, where her brother Wallace was married that same year.
15O11	Lilian Annie W Collett was born at 2 Lansdown Terrace in Coventry during the months after the third of April 1881. When she was seven years old her mother died and her father re-married. In 1891 it was with her father and her stepmother that she was living at Earl Street in Coventry when she was nine years old. When she finished attending the local school in the mid-1890s, she followed the career chosen by her older sister Ellen (above), when she became a teacher at the nearby boarding school, as confirmed by the census in 1901, when she was 19 and was still living with her family in Coventry. It is not known exactly what happened to Lilian after 1901, but there is a possibility that she emigrated to Australia with her sister Ellen and her brother Wallace (below), although no evidence has been found yet to confirm that.
15O12	Wallace Edward Collett was born at Coventry in 1884, the only son of draper Edwin Collett and his wife Clara West. Wallace was only four years old when his mother died in 1888, and three years later he was living with his father and stepmother at Earl Street in Coventry, when he was recorded in error as William E Collett aged six years. By the time of the census in 1901 Wallace Collett, at the age of 16, was working as a printer’s apprentice, while he was still living at the family home in Coventry with his father and his stepmother and his two sisters.
	During the first decade of the new century Wallace Collett and his older sister Ellen (above), and possibly even their sister Lilian, sailed to a new life in New South Wales, Australia. It was on 9^th March 1916 that Wallace Edward Collett enlisted as a private, service number 2149, with the 53^rd Battalion of 4^th Reinforcement Brigade of the Australian Imperial Infantry Force. He was 32, unmarried, a builder and a Baptist living at Hazelbrook with his unmarried sister Nellie Collett, who was named as his next-of-kin. After four months training Wallace was sent to the Western Front in Europe on board the ship HMAT A44 Vestalia which sailed out of Sydney Harbour on 11^th July 1916. It was while fighting on the Western Front during the next year that he was injured and was sent back to Australia on 21^st July 1917.
	Following his return to Australia it was at Petersham in New South Wales that Wallace Edward Collett married Henrietta Harris during 1917. Whether he ever made a return to the war after he was married is not known, although it seems unlikely. It may have been as a result of his original injuries, sustained in 1917, that brought about his death on 4^th July 1919, following which he was buried at Rookwood Cemetery (Plot C, Grave No. 196), at Rookwood in Sydney, New South Wales. His burial record confirmed that he was 35 years old, that his next-of-kin was his wife, Mrs Henrietta Collett of Summerhill, a suburb of Sydney, and that his father was Edwin Collett. See WW1 Collett Fatalities
15O13	Beatrice Louise Collett was born at Coventry in 1888, the last child born to Edwin Collett by his first wife Clara West who appears to have died, either during or shortly after the birth. Tragically it was during the following year that Beatrice died in Coventry where she was buried in a grave at the London Road Cemetery which eventually contained the bodies of her father, his second wife, and both of Beatrice’s two half-sisters.
15O14	Florence Christine Collett was born at Coventry in 1891, the first daughter of Edwin Collett and his second wife Laura Leeson. Sadly, she died later during that same year.
15O15	Gwendoline Collett was born at Cox Street in Coventry during 1893, the only surviving child of the four daughters of Edwin Collett and his second wife Laura Leeson. She was eight years old in the Coventry census of 1901, but sadly she died two years later in 1903.
15O16	John Collett was born at Coventry in 1873, the eldest child of John Collett and Emma Beasuchamp. He was seven years old, and 17 years old in the 1881 and 1891 when he was living in Coventry with his family. No obvious record of John Collett, aged 27 and from Coventry, has been found in 1901 or 1911.
15O17	Emma Collett was born at Coventry in 1876, the only daughter of John Collett and Emma Beasuchamp. According to the census in 1881 Emma, at the age of four years, was living at 5 Cot, No. 16 Hertford Place in Hertford Close in the St Michael Stoke district of Coventry with her parents and her two brothers. It was the same situation ten years later in 1891 when she was 14. However, in 1892 her younger brother died, and in early 1893 her father died, following which her mother re-married later that same year. By March in 1901 Emma Collett was unmarried at the age of 24, when she was working as a ribbon warper in Coventry. She was still living in Coventry ten years after that in 1911, when she was still a spinster at the age of 34. It was four years later, in 1915, that the marriage of Emma Collett and the younger William Henry Clark was recorded at Coventry register office, he having been born in 1880.
15O18	Albert Collett was born at Coventry in 1882, the youngest child of John Collett and his wife Emma Beauchamp. He was eight years old in the Coventry census of 1891 when he was still living there with his family. However, tragedy struck the family during the following year when Albert died at Coventry in 1892.
15O19	Gladys Edith Collett was born at Coventry in 1883, the first child and only daughter of Philip Collett and Susan Hickman. Gladys was seven years old in the Coventry census of 1891, and ten years later in March 1901 she was 17 when she was working as a watch polisher with her father who was a watch finisher. Seven years later, in 1908, Gladys married Edward Maher with whom she had two children who were born while the couple were living in Coventry, one before, and one after, the census in 1911. According to that year’s census return, Gladys Edith Maher was 27, and her husband Edward Maher was also 27. Living with them was their son Edward Horace Maher who was one year old.
	Two years later Gladys presented Edward with a daughter, Gladys I Maher who was born at Coventry in 1913, who married Allan P Whittle in 1936. They had two children Laurence M Whittle, born at Coventry in 1939 who married Pauline J Smith in 1966, their married resulting in two children, Heather Megan Whittle (born 1972), and Andrew Whittle (born 1975), and Carolyn J Whittle, born 1945, who married John H Burton in 1968, who had two sons Richard Matthew Burton (born 1972), and Andrew James Burton (born 1974).
	Gladys’ and Edward’s son Edward Horace Maher (1909-1992) married Phyllis D M Hancock in 1934, and they had two children, the first being Colin Philip Edward Maher, born in 1936 who married Celia L Gilder in 1966, with a son Simon Edward Maher who was born at Rugby in 1970. Edward and Phyllis’ second child was their daughter Marilyn D Maher who was born at Coventry in 1939.
15O20	Horace Philip Collett was born at Coventry in 1888, the second of only two children born to Philip Collett and Susan Hickman. He was simply recorded as Horace Collett in the Coventry census of 1891 when he was two years old, and again in 1901 when he was 12. He was still living with his parents at Coventry in 1911 when he was 22. No records have been discovered to indicate that he ever married, but it is known that he died in 1956.
15O22	Frederick Collett was born at Coventry in 1898, the only son and second child of Henry Collett and his wife Harriet Green. He was two years old, and 12 years old, in the census returns for Coventry in 1901 and 1911, when he was living with his parents on both occasions. He later married Ethel Welch who was born in 1891 and who died in 1963. The marriage produced no children for Frederick, who died at Coventry in 1991.
15O23	Annie Collett was born near the end of 1885 at Conway Square, Spon End in Coventry, the first-born child of watchmaker Job Richard Collett and his first wife Mary Roe. As Annie Collett she was baptised at Thomas’ Church on 7^th February 1886, when she was recorded as the daughter of Richard and Mary Collett. After living for a few years in America, the family returned to Coventry around 1894, where Annie’s father married his younger sister-in-law Ellen Roe. By 1901 the new family was residing at 4 Spon End in Coventry and by which time Annie had left school and was learning the trade of her father since, at the age of 15, Annie Collett from Coventry was a watch-trade polisher. Five years later the whole family emigrated to America and settled in Massachusetts where, on 28^th May 1911, Annie Collett married Ernest A G Fosburg, from Sweden, at Lowell, Massachusetts. Ernest was 26 and the son of Albin Fosburg and Emma Wettergren, while Annie was 25 and the daughter of Job R Collett and Mary A Roe.
15O24	Job Richard Collett was born at Conway Square, Spon End in Coventry on 14^th January 1888, the second of the three children of Job Richard Collett and his first wife Mary Roe. He was only one year old when his parents sailed to America where, in 1890, his sister Agnes Elizabeth (below) was born. It was in 1894 that his mother died, following which his father and the three children, returned to Coventry, where his father married his sister-in-law Ellen Roe. In the British census of March 1901 Job was listed with his family at 4 Spon End in Coventry as Richard Collett, aged 13. By 1905, when his sister Marjorie was born, Job and his family were living at Foleshill Road in Coventry, but shortly after the birth the family emigrated to America, where Job’s youngest sister Evelyn was born in 1912, while the family was living in Massachusetts.
	It was also in Waltham, Middlesex County in Massachusetts that Job Richard Collett (1) married Gertrude Louisa Butler in 1910, and at that time in his life he was employed as a machinist. That marriage produced two sons for Job and Gertrude. Seven years after the birth of their second son, and presumably following the passing of his wife, Job married (2) Edith who was born in England in 1896. The wedding took place in 1921 and four years later Edith presented Job with a daughter. It was also around that time that the family became naturalised American citizens.
	15P5		Richard Samuel Collett	Born in 1911 at Massachusetts
	15P6		George William Collett	Born in 1914 at Massachusetts
	15P7		Mildred Florence Collett	Born in 1925 at Waltham, Mass
15O25	Agnes Elizabeth Collett was born at Waltham in Massachusetts on 14^th January 1890, the third child of J Richard Collett and Mary Roe from Coventry in England. Sometime after she was born, her mother died and her father returned Coventry with his three young children, where he re-married in 1894. As Lizzie Collett aged eleven and a British subject born in America, she was living at 4 Spon End in Coventry with her father and stepmother in 1901, where the family lived for a further five years, before finally emigrating to Waltham, Massachusetts in 1906. Lizzie took up her father’s trade as a watchmaker, an occupation she was credited with when she suffered a premature death in 1913. She contracted pulmonary tuberculosis and was admitted to Waltham Hospital where Elizabeth Collett, daughter of Job R Collett and Mary Roe, died on 13^th November 1913 at the age of 23 years and 10 months, following which she was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Waltham.
15O26	Elsie Maud Collett was born at 4 Bloomfield Place in Coventry on 30^th March 1895 and was baptised at St Thomas’ Church on 12^th May 1895, another daughter of watch finisher Job Richard Collett and the first by his second wife Ellen Roe, the sister of his first wife. She was six years old in the Coventry census of 1901, when her family were still living at 4 Spon End. Five years later the family sailed to America, where they settled in Waltham, Massachusetts.
15O27	Lilian May Collett was born at 4 Spon End in Coventry on 4^th March 1898, where she was baptised on 10^th April 1898 at St Thomas’ Church, another daughter of Job Richard Collett by his second wile Ellen Roe. The baptism record also confirmed her date of birth, her place of residence, and the occupation of her father as a publican.
15O28	Marjorie Collett was born at Coventry in 1905, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 6d 366) during the third quarter of that year, another daughter Job Richard Collett and Ellen Roe. She was one year old when her family left England for a new life in America.
15O29	Evelyn P Collett was born at Lowell in Massachusetts on 29^th January 1912, the youngest child of Job Richard Collett and his second wife Ellen Roe. It is understood that she was married in Massachusetts around 1942 and that she died in Massachusetts on 5^th October 1995.
15O30	Phoebe Collett was born at Coventry in 1894, the eldest child of tailor Joseph Collett and Phoebe Taylor. In 1901 Phoebe and her family were living adjacent to 54 White Friars Lane in Coventry St Michael, where she was recorded in the census return as five years old, which may be debatable. Sometime during the few months after the census, her father died, and three years after that her mother married Arthur Bennett, with whom she was living in Coventry in 1911. On that occasion her age was stated as being 17 which, if more accurate than the age given ten years earlier, could mean she was born in 1894, rather than 1896.
	However, it was also at Coventry in 1912 that Phoebe married Frederick W Page, so it is more than likely that she was 18 at that time, rather than 16, if she had been only five years old in 1901. The marriage produced two children, George Frederick Page who was born in 1913, who died in 1989, and Irene M Page who was born at Coventry in 1919. The difference in their ages may have been a result of the absent of Phoebe’s husband during the war years. Phoebe Page, nee Collett, died in 1971.
15O31	Clara Alice Collett was born at Coventry in 1897, and was the middle child of the three children of Joseph and Phoebe Collett. Recorded as simply Clara Collett in the Coventry census of 1901, she was three years old and living there with her complete family. However, the family was reduced to just one parent a few months later, when her father died in the latter part of 1901. Around 1904 her mother re-married, following which Clara and her two siblings lived in Coventry with their mother and stepfather Arthur Bennett. It was in the census of 1911 that Clara was listed with her family as Clara Alice Collett at the age of 13. Five years on from then, in 1916, Clara married Harry Worrall and they had two sons. Thomas Henry Worrall was born in 1917 and died in 2004, and Reginald F Worrall was born at Coventry in 1920. Clara Alice Worrall, nee Collett, died in 1978
15O32	Thomas Oliver Collett was born at Coventry in 1900, the son of Joseph Collett and Phoebe Taylor. Tragically his father, who was a tailor, died during the months following the March census in 1901 and before the end of that same year. A few years later his mother married Arthur Bennett, who then became stepfather to Thomas and his two sisters (above). Thomas was 11 years old in the Coventry census of 1911, when he was living with the Bennett family. He later married Margaret L Newell at Coventry in 1927, and they had one daughter. Thomas Oliver Collett died in 1965.
	15P8		Sheila Marjorie Collett	Born in 1927 at Coventry
15O33	Dora Mercy Collett was born at Tipton, near Dudley, in 1900 and it was at Dudley register office (Ref. 6c 49) that her birth was recorded under her full name during the month of October that year. She was barely one month old when she was baptised at St James’ Church in Wednesbury on 6^th November 1900, the eldest of the two daughters of Richard Henry and Eliza Annie Collett. Five months later, the Wednesbury census placed Dora and her parents staying at the home of her maternal grandparents Josiah and Mercy Palmer at Russell Street. Ten years after that Dora, aged 11 and from Tipton, and her sister Annie (below) were attending school in Walsall when they were not living with the parents who were also recorded in Walsall but at Shire Oak. Instead, the two sisters were described as the nieces of horse-breaker William Hobbins and his wife Hannah Mary Hobbins, with whom they were boarding.
	Dora was thirty years old when she became a married lady, the marriage of Dora M Collett and Thomas W Palmer recorded at West Bromwich (Ref. 6b 1047) during the first quarter of 1930. There is every chance that Thomas was related to Dora’s mother, the former Eliza Annie Palmer. Nine months after they were married Dora presented Thomas with the first of their children, Thomas W Palmer junior. His birth, like that of their second child, was recorded at West Bromwich (Ref. 6b 1307) during the fourth quarter of 1930. One year later the couple’s second child Pauline D Palmer was added to the family, her birth recorded there (Ref. 6b 1159) during the last quarter of 1931. In both cases, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett.
	The births of their last two children were recorded at the Wednesbury register office, (Ref. 6b 1086) and (Ref. 6b 1728) for respectively Betty D Palmer, born during the first quarter of 1933, and Peter J Palmer, born during the fourth quarter of 1939, when again, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. The death of Dora M Palmer nee Collett was recorded at Wolverhampton register office (Ref. 9b 745) during the third quarter of 1966, at the age of 67.
15O34	Annie Palmer Collett was born at Wednesbury in 1905, her birth recorded at Wednesbury (Ref. 6b 935) during the second quarter of the year, the second of the two daughter of Richard Henry Collett and Eliza Annie Palmer. She attended school in Walsall with her sister Dora and in 1911 both girls were living with William Hobbins and his wife, while their parents were recorded nearby in Walsall Shire Oak. That day Annie Palmer Collett was described as being seven years old (sic) and from Wednesbury. It was five years after her sister was married that the marriage of Annie P Collett and Walter T Wood was recorded at Wednesbury (Ref. 6b 2245) during the third quarter of 1938.
	As far as can be ascertained, Annie and Walter only had one child, born twelve months after the couple was married. The birth of Ronald Wood was recorded at Wednesbury register office (Ref. 6b 1371) during the third quarter of 1939.
15O35	Josephine Collett was born at Upper Well Street in Coventry, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 6d 473) during the first quarter of 1871, the first of the six children of Joseph Collett and his wife Eliza Ellen Gould. She was under one year old in the Coventry census of 1871 and ten years later she and her family were living at. 21 Upper Well Street in Coventry. In April 1891, the census return for that year confirmed that Josephine Collett was 20 and that she was still living with her parents in Coventry. However, by that time in her life she was already making plans to be married, and it was a little later that same year that she married Frederick William Youlton at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry.
	Frederick Youlton was born in 1868 at Stratton, near Bude, in Cornwall, and the marriage register confirmed that Josephine Collett, aged 20, was the daughter of fishmonger Joseph Collett. The couple was married in the presence of Frank Joseph Collett, Josephine’s brother (below). Ten years earlier, according to the census in 1881, Frederick Youlton was 13 and an apprentice printer compositor, living at the Cot Hill, Stratton home of his grandmother Jane Darch.
	It was during the year following their wedding that the couple’s first child was born and, by the end of the century, their family was complete with a total of four children, and all of them born at Coventry. Eva Ellen Youlton was born in 1892, Elsie Josephine Youlton was born in 1895, Frederick Harold Youlton was born in 1897, and Ralph Cecil Youlton was born 1899.
	Elsie (1895-1990) married William H Tunstall in 1922, and they had a daughter Betty Y Tunstall who was born in 1925, and who married Ronald Bayley in 1950. Ralph (1899-1991) married Selina Hunt in 1924, and they had two sons: (a) Derek Ralph Youlton (1929-1992) who lived in Surrey with his wife Elizabeth Wyatt and their three children; and (b) Terence Youlton who was born in Surrey in 1935 and who married Sylvia M Hemmings with whom he had two children, Jane (born 1960) and David (born 1962). Josephine Youlton nee Collett died in 1947, and for the last seven years of her life she had lived as a widow, after the death of her husband at Coventry in 1940.
15O36	Frank Joseph Collett was born at Upper Well Street in Coventry, his birth recorded there (Ref. 6d 515) during the last three months of 1872, the second child and eldest son of Joseph and Eliza Collett. At the age of eight Frank Joseph Collett was living with his family at 21 Upper Well Street in Coventry, and was still living there with them ten years later when he was 18 and working as a machinist. It is known, within the family, that Frank’s father wanted him to become a fishmonger and help his father run the family fish shop on Upper Well Street. When Frank was offered the opportunity to serve an apprenticeship with his father, he refused saying of his father “He wants a slave not an apprentice”. That is why Frank had many different jobs, and often none, and why he moved around a lot, looking for work.
	Four years after he was recorded living with his parents, Frank Joseph Collett married Fanny Gertrude Painter at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry on 14^th April 1895. Fanny was born at Smethwick in 1872, the eldest child of Henry and Mary Painter and, just prior to her wedding day, she had been working in domestic service as a cook. The couple’s marriage certificate confirmed the following details: that Frank was 22, a bachelor and a machinist residing at 21 Upper Well Street in Coventry, the son of fish merchant Joseph Collett; that Fanny was 22 and a spinster with no stated occupation, residing at 19 Broadgate in Coventry, the daughter of machinist Henry Painter – who was also one of the witnesses.
	The birth of Fanny Painter was recorded at Kings Norton (Ref. 6c 489) during the early days of October in 1872. It was also as simply ‘Fanny Painter’ that she was baptised at Smethwick on 16^th October 1872, when her parents were again named as Henry and Mary. At the age of eight years, Fanny Painter and her family were residing at Victoria Terrace in the Handsworth area of West Bromwich on the day of the census in 1881. On that occasion, her father’s occupation was that of a chandelier fitter and lamp maker. The only record of a Fanny Painter in the census of 1891 was aged 20 years and was working as a domestic servant at the West Bromwich home of the Boswell family at Pleasant Street.
	The marriage produced a total of seven children for Frank and Fanny and in 1901 the family was living at 21 Osborne Street in Handsworth within the West Bromwich registration district, where Frank J Collett, aged 28, was an iron striker (blacksmith). Listed with him in the census was his wife Fanny G Collett, who was also 28 but from Smethwick, and their three children Evelyn L Collett who was five and born at Coventry, Doris E Collett who was two and also born at Coventry, and Fanny G Collett who was just three months old and born at Handsworth.
	Ten years later the family had grown by the addition of a further four children, and in April 1911, the whole family was once again living in the Coventry area. Frank Joseph and Fanny Gertrude were both 38, and their seven children were Evelyn Louise Collett 15, Doris Ellen Collett 12, Fanny Gertrude Collett 10, Violet Collett who was eight, Phyllis Freda Collett who was five, Frank Henry Collett who was two, and Florence Maud Collett who was only one month old. Two further children were added to the family after 1911, but tragically neither of them survived.
	After a further twenty-four years, the death of Frank J Collett, aged 62, was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 857) during the first three months of 1935. At the time of his passing, Frank was employed by Daimler Motors at Sandy Lane in Coventry. By that time in his life, he owned his own home at Dugdale Road in Coventry. His widow Fanny, continued to live there with her son Frank, that is until sometime after Frank junior was married in 1936. When that happened, Fanny moved in with her married daughter Flo (Florence) Dill at Wyley Road, just two streets away from Dugdale Road. Eventually she moved to a retirement home in Earlsdon Avenue in Coventry, and later to The Stone House residential nursing home on Birmingham Road in the village of Allesley, three miles west of Coventry, where she was still living when she died during 1961.
	15P9		Evelyn Louise Collett	Born in 1896 at Coventry
	15P10		Doris Ellen Collett	Born in 1898 at Coventry
	15P11		Fanny Gertrude Collett	Born in 1901 at Handsworth, West Bromwich
	15P12		Violet Collett	Born in 1903 at Coventry
	15P13		Phyllis Freda Collett	Born in 1905 at Coventry
	15P14		Frank Henry Collett	Born in 1909 at Coventry
	15P15		Florence Maud Collett	Born in 1911 at Coventry
	15P16		Ruby Collett	Born in 1913 at Coventry
	15P17		Olive Collett	Born in 1915 at Coventry
15O37	Sidney Collett was born at Upper Well Street in Coventry on 2^nd January 1874, his birth recorded there (Ref. 6d 521) during the first quarter of the year, the son of Joseph and Eliza Collett. In 1881 Sidney’s family was living at 21 Upper Well Street in Coventry, when Sidney was seven years old. Ten years later, at the time of the next census in 1891, Sidney was still living with his parents at 21 Upper Well Street in Coventry at the age of 17, by which time he was working as a labourer.
	Exactly three years later, on 25^th March 1894 at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry, Sidney Collett married Charlotte Dingley. They were both recorded as being twenty years of age, Sidney’s father confirmed as Joseph, while Charlotte was the daughter of David and Lizzie Dingley and was born in 1874. The marriage resulted in the birth of eight children, three of which were born before the end of the century. By March 1901 the family living at Cook Street in Coventry was made up of fish shop assistant Sidney Collett, aged 27, his wife Charlotte Collett of Coventry who was also 27, and their three children Joey Collett who was six, Sidney Collett who was four, and Harry Collett who was one year old. Tragically their son Harry died later that same year.
	Also in 1901, Sidney’s father-in-law David Dingley was recorded in that year’s census as a general dealer and amusement proprietor. That may well explain why Sidney changed from being fish shop assistant to become a shooting gallery proprietor in 1907 when his son Frank was born. Both families were living in Cook Street in 1901 and, in the previous census of 1891, when Sidney Collett was living at Upper Well Street in Coventry, his next-door neighbour was Henry Dingley, the brother of his future father-in-law.
	Over the next decade, a further four children were added to the family, one of which, daughter Elizabeth, did not survive, and the last of which was born in a caravan at Pitchcroft, Worcester Racecourse, when Sidney’s occupation was that of a shooting gallery proprietor. New information received from Mal Collett in 2015 provides evidence of where the family was in 1911, when previously it was not known. The census that year only listed Sidney Collett and Charlotte Collett, both aged 37, living at the side of the road on Station Road in Ellesmere Port when Sidney was described as a Travelling Showman, coincidentally not far from where Mal currently lives. It is therefore suspected that their children were still receiving their schooling in Coventry.
	Two more children were born into the family after 1911, the first of them back in Coventry and the second at Nuneaton. Having already lost two children to infant death, further tragedy hit the family during the First World War, when the couple’s two eldest sons were both killed in action in Belgium, when fighting for their King and Country.
	Whilst it is known that their eldest son Joseph was killed in action on the Western Front during the Battle of Bapaume in 1918, while Sidney Frederick received serious injuries which enabled him to be brought back to England, where he eventual died in hospital and was buried. His military record incorrectly spelled his name as Sydney, and at the time of his death his parents were referred to as Mr S and Mrs C Collett of Block 2 in Cook Street in Coventry.
	Upon the occasion of the marriage of his son Frank in 1934, Sidney’s occupation was stated as being that of a dealer. Three years later Charlotte Collett nee Dingle died at Coventry on 2^nd March 1937, and shortly thereafter Sidney went to live with his married daughter Charlotte Devall and her family at 25 Read Street in Coventry. That was confirmed by the 1939 Register which described Sydney Collett a retired greengrocer, a departure from fish shop assistant and shooting gallery proprietor. His son David Collett was known to be a greengrocer at that time, so he may have taken over his father’s business. Sidney Collett survived his wife by eight years, when he died at Lichfield in Staffordshire on 18^th August 1945 (Ref. 6b 305). A memorial headstone in the London Road Cemetery marks their grave, on which there is also a reference to their son Private S Collett of the Warwickshire Regiment.
	There is a mystery as to what Sidney was doing in Lichfield at that time, with one theory being that he was visiting his son Albert Collett and his wife Ada as their daughter Yvonne who was born at Lichfield that same year. There is no information available to suggest what Albert and Ada were doing in Lichfield at that time in their life. Members of the family recall having to go to Lichfield in 1945, when the body of Sidney Collett was taken back to Coventry to be buried there with his wife Charlotte.
	15P18		Joseph Collett		Born in 1894 at Coventry
	15P19		Sidney Frederick Collett		Born in 1896 at Coventry
	15P20		Harry Collett		Born in 1899 at Coventry
	15P21		Samuel Collett		Born in 1901 at Coventry
	15P22		Elizabeth Ellen Collett		Born in 1903 at Coventry
	15P23		David Collett		Born in 1905 at Coventry
	15P24		Frank Collett		Born in 1907 at Worcester
	15P25		Charlotte Collett		Born in 1912 at Coventry
	15P26		Albert Herbert Collett		Born in 1914 at Nuneaton
15O38	Leo Andrew Collett was born at Coventry in 1878, the son of Joseph Collett and his wife Eliza Ellen Gould, whose birth was recorded there (Ref. 6d 548) during the first quarter of that year. He was three years old in the census of 1881 while he was still living in Coventry with his family at 21 Upper Well Street. Just less than one year later, the death of Leo Andrew Collett was recorded in Coventry (Ref. 6d 309) during the first three months of 1882 when he was only four years old.
15O39	Harry Foxon Collett was born at Coventry, his birth registered there (Ref. 6d 575) during the second quarter of 1880, the son of Joseph and Eliza Collett. It was as Henry Foxon Collett that he was listed with his family in 1881 at the age of eleven months when they were living at 21 Upper Well Street in Coventry. That would seem to indicate that he had been born during the month of April in 1880. Tragically it was shortly after that census day when the death of Harry Foxon Collett was recorded at Coventry (Ref. 6d 268) during the second quarter of 1881.
15O40	Hugh Wilfred Collett was born at Coventry on 26^th May 1886, the youngest of the six children of Joseph Collett and his wife Eliza Ellen Gould, whose birth was recorded at Coventry during the third quarter of 1886. He was four years old in the Coventry census of 1891 and, ten years later in March 1901, Hugh W Collett, aged 14, was the only member of his family still living with his parents, and by which time he was employed at the local telegraph works, presumably for the General Post Office. It was towards the end of the next decade that Hugh married Agnes Elizabeth Barnett in 1909. Agnes was born at Coventry on 20^th April 1891, the daughter of George and Mary Barnett.
	Over the next fourteen years the marriage produced five children for Hugh and Agnes, three born before the Great War and two afterwards. According to the Coventry census in April 1911, Hugh Collett was 25 and a filer (or fitter) working in the motor trade, his wife Agnes Collett was 23, and by then their first child Nellie Collett was one year old. On that census day the family was residing at 4 Earls Court on Much Park Street in Coventry. Tragically, during the German blitz on Coventry in the Second World War, Hugh, his wife Agnes, and their two youngest children were killed on 14^th November 1940, all four of them being interred in a mass grave in the London Road Cemetery in Coventry.
	According to the 1939 Register, the family’s home was at 49 Parkside in Coventry, but it was while all four of them were seeking the safety of an air raid shelter at the Armstrong Siddeley Works in Parkside that they were killed, when the shelter was the subject of a direct hit by the German bombers - see WW2 Collett Fatalities. The story of the family during the early days of the Second World War was that when there was an air raid, the residents of that area of the city would use the deep air raid shelters at the Armstrong Siddeley factory. There they should have been safe, but the shelter used by the Collett family and their neighbours on that fateful day, received a direct hit by a high explosive bomb, resulting in the death of all of the occupants.
	The Blitz Casualty Records included the following family details: Hugh Wilfred Collett - born 26/05/1886 at Coventry, son of Joseph Collett, a Fishmonger and Eliza Ellen Gould. Brother of Josephine, Frank Joseph and Sydney Collett. Husband of Agnes Elizabeth. Resided at 49 Parkside. Employed at Armstrong Siddeley Motors Limited. Killed in the Coventry Blitz 14/11/1940 at the Armstrong Siddeley Works, Parkside, Coventry, aged 51. Buried at Coventry Cemetery. Agnes Elizabeth Collett nee Barnett - born 20/04/1891 at Coventry, daughter of George Barnett and Mary Ann O'Neil. Wife of Hugh Wilfred Collett. Resided at 49 Parkside. Housewife. Killed in the Coventry Blitz 14/11/1940 at the Armstrong Siddeley Works, Parkside, Coventry, aged 50. Buried at Coventry Cemetery.
	Sidney Albert Collett - born 26/12/1920 at Coventry, son of Hugh Wilfred Collett and Agnes Elizabeth Barnett. Resided at 49 Parkside. Employed at Sir W F Armstrong Siddeley Aircraft Limited. Killed in the Coventry Blitz 14/11/1940 at the Armstrong Siddeley Works, Parkside, Coventry, aged 19. Buried at Coventry Cemetery.
	Cyril Ernest Collett - born 03/05/1923 at Coventry, son of Hugh Wilfred Collette and Agnes Elizabeth Barnett. Resided at 49 Parkside. Employed at Armstrong Siddeley Motors Limited. Killed in the Coventry Blitz 14/11/1940 at the Armstrong Siddeley Works, Parkside, Coventry, aged 17. Buried at Coventry Cemetery
	15P27		Nellie Victoria Collett		Born in 1910 at Coventry
	15P28		Frederick George Collett		Born in 1912 at Coventry
	15P29		Elsie A A Collett		Born in 1914 at Coventry
	15P30		Sidney Albert Collett		Born in 1920 at Coventry
	15P31		Cyril Ernest Collett		Born in 1923 at Coventry
15O41	Arthur Edgar Collett was born in Canada in 1903. He married Eoined Manning of Vancouver and Palm Springs in the USA. Eoined was born in 1906 and died in 1994, Arthur having died in 1982.
	15P32		Bruce Riley Collett		Born in 1933 in Canada
	15P33		Daphne Catherine Collett		Born in 1940 in Canada
15O42	Constance Sarah Collett was born during 1905 in Canada. She married James Baden-Powell Robertson of Montreal in 1928. James was born in 1900 and died in 1990, while Constance died in 1988.
	15P34		Andrew Michael Walter Robertson				Born in 1934 in Canada
	15P35		James Collett Robertson				Born in 1940 in Canada
15O43	Harriet Maime Collett was born in 1907 in Canada. In 1933 she married (1) Robert Philpott from whom she was later divorced, before marrying (2) Curtis Zell of Los Angeles in the USA in 1959. Harriet died in 1993.
	15P36		Robert E Philpott		Born in 1934
	15P37		Faye Philpott		Born in 1939
	15P38		John Philpott Zell		Born in 1947
15O44	Eluned Collett Jones was born at Bangor in 1900, and was educated at Bangor University. She became a school teacher and married hotelier Henry Griffiths of Poulton-le-Fylde near Blackpool. Henry was born in 1900 and died in 1986 followed by Eluned who died in 1997. The couple had one son Peter Harlyn Griffiths, born in 1938, who married Susan Brinkman of Letchworth in Hertfordshire in 1967. The marriage produced two daughters for Peter and Susan, Jacqueline (1969) and Joanna (1971).
15O45	Eleanor Emma Collett-Jones was born at Bangor in 1902, where she died in 1905.
15O46	Ceridwen Harriet Collett-Jones was born at Bangor in 1904 and, like her sister Eluned (above), she too attended Bangor University, following which she became a schoolmistress and private tutor to the children of diplomats living abroad. During her life she lived at Montevideo in Uruguay, and later at Rottingdean, near Brighton in Sussex. Ceridwen never married and died in 1999 at the age of 95.
15O47	Thomas Collett-Jones was born at Bangor in 1907, and followed his two surviving sisters through Bangor University to become eventually a pharmacist. He married (1) Elaine Essery Kemp in 1937 and in 1939, at Whitchurch in Shropshire, their daughter Tamar Katharine Olivia Collett-Jones was born. Thomas was later divorced from Elaine. Tamar had a son, Anthony Collett-Jones who was born in London in June 1960, but who died in September that same year. Twenty-nine years later Tamar was living in Hornsea, Essex, when she died in 1989.
	In 1954 Thomas Collett-Jones married (2) Roberta Gillies-Malins of Burnham in Buckinghamshire and Ryde on the Isle of Wight, and they had a son Simon C Collett-Jones who was born at Windsor in 1955.
15O48	George Henry Collett was born at Swynnerton, Staffordshire, in 1922, the only son of George Henry Collett of Kenilworth and Mary Ellen Fox of Swynnerton, near Stone, who were married at Hodnet in Shropshire. His birth was recorded at Stone register office (Ref. 6b 93) during the fourth quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Fox. During the second quarter of 1945, the marriage of George H Collett and Wilhelmina I A Rudd was recorded at Whitchurch register office in Shropshire (Ref. 6a 137), where the births of three of their four children were also recorded. Wilhelmina Irene Alice Rudd was born at Market Drayton in 1924. George Henry Collett was 90 years of age when he died at Hodnet in Shropshire on 2^nd March 2013.
	15P39		Marilyn Collett	Born in 1949 at Whitchurch, Salop
	15P40		Robert Collett	Born in 1953 at Whitchurch, Salop
	15P41		John Collett	Born in 1955 at Whitchurch, Salop
	15P42		Alan Paul Collett	Born in 1962 at Shrewsbury, Salop
15O49	Winifred Anne Collett was born at Kenilworth in 1906 and died there in 1908, the first of the four children of Harry Collett and Annie Elizabeth Barnwell. Both her birth and her death were recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 6d 224 & 6d 90), each of them during the fourth quarter of the year, meaning she was around two years old when she passed away.
15O50	Albert Harry Collett was born at Kenilworth in 1908, his birth recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 6d 108) during the second quarter of the year. Under his full name, he was three years old in the Kenilworth census of 1911, when living there with his parents Harry Collett and Annie Elizabeth Collett. It was at the end of 1938 when the marriage of Albert H Collett and Vera F Hensman was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 62) during the first three months of 1939). Albert is pictured here on that day. Vera Frances Hensman was born in the Stoke area of Coventry on 14^th September 1914, the daughter of Frank Hensman and Edith Davis and she died in 1978, her death recorded at Birmingham early that year. She had been widowed ten years earlier, when the death of Albert H Collett was also recorded at Birmingham register office (Ref. 9c 13) during the first three months of 1968, when he was 59.
15O51	Elsie Doris Collett was born at Kenilworth on 24^th October 1909, her birth also recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 6d 368), and was described as being one year old in the Kenilworth census of 1911. It is apparent that she never married, but was the maid of honour, or senior bridesmaid at the 1938 wedding of her brother Albert (above), when she was captured in the photograph on the right. Elsie Doris Collett was 71 years old when she died in Coventry in 1982, her death recorded there (Ref. 33 134) during the summer of that year.
15O52	Marjorie Gladys Collett was born at Kenilworth on 20^th June 1913, the youngest child of Harry Collett and Annie Elizabeth Barnwell. As with her three older siblings, her birth was recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 6d 71) during the third quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Barnwell. It was also at Kenilworth that she married Albert Sidney Clarke of Earlsdon in Coventry, the wedding recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 53) during the third quarter of 1937. The couple had one son Michael John Clarke whose birth was recorded at Coventry during the second quarter of 1947, his mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Collett. Albert, who was born on 10^th February 1912, died at Coventry in 2003, while the earlier death of Marjorie Gladys Clarke was recorded at the Sussex Eastbourne register office (Vol. 18 7) during the spring of 1982. A simple headstone in the London Road Cemetery in Coventry marks the spot where she was buried, on which is inscribed “Marjorie Gladys Clarke 1913 – 1982”.
15O54	Eileen Florence Collett was born within the Pleck district of Walsall, her birth recorded at Walsall register office (Ref. 6b 367) during the last quarter of 1909, the only child of Charles John Collett and Florence Cross. Prior to her mother being married to Charles, Florence gave birth to a base-born daughter, Olga Alberta Louise Cross. The family of four emigrated to Canada after the census in 1911, where Eileen Florence Collett married (1) Arthur Eric Walker in 1935. Arthur was born in 1915 and died in 1954, while Eileen died in 1997 at the age of 88. They had one son Denis Anthony Walker born 1938 who, in 1966, married Darlene De Leeuw of Cowichan Lake (formerly an Indian reserve) on Vancouver Island in Canada. The couple had two daughters: Deborah Jean Walker born 1967 who married Darren Mogg in 1988; and Daphne Elaine Simone Walker who was born in 1969 who married (1) Ronald Dewar in 1991, from whom she was divorce in 1995, and then married (2) Harold Peter St Mary of Port Moody in 1996.
	Following the death of her husband in 1954, Eileen Florence Walker returned to live with her mother and her half-sister Olga at Port Moody in British Columbia. Three years later in 1957 her mother passed away, following which, Eileen and Olga continued to live in the same house built by Eileen’s father at Port Moody until they both died in 1997 and 1999. When that happened, Eileen’s granddaughter Daphne, and her second husband Harold, took over residency of the house.
15O55	Frederick Charles Collett was born on 25^th March 1915, the son of Frank Collett and Sarah Huff Simpson. He married Marjorie Louisa Barnbrook in 1940, the wedding recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 6d 97) during the second quarter of the year. Their only child, their son was born during following year. Marjorie was born at Rugby in 1917 and died in 1974, while Frederick Charles Collett survived for another seventeen years, when he died in 1991. This is Frederick Charles Collett in 1940 on his wedding day.
	The couple was buried in a joint grave in the Kenilworth Cemetery where a single headstone marks the grave, with the following words:
	Treasured Memories of a Dear Wife and Mother Marjorie Louisa Collett 22^nd March 1917 - 25^th January 1974 Frederick Charles Collett Devoted and Loving Husband, Father and Grandpa 25^th March 1915 – 19^th September 1991
	15P43		Michael Anthony Collett		Born in 1941 at Warwick
15O56	Ivan Ernest Collett was born at Kenilworth in 1921, his birth recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 6d 56) during the second quarter of that year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Simpson. He was killed on active duty while at Syracuse in Sicily on 6^th January 1944. He was 23 years old and was Corporal PO/X4890 of the Royal Marines, was buried at Syracuse War Cemetery. The white headstone that marks the grave includes the line “O Heavenly Star Shine on the Grave of One We Loved”. In addition to that, his details are included on the headstone of his mother’s grave who was killed in 1940 during a bombing raid on Kenilworth, and to which his father’s name was added over twenty years later.
15O57	Gwenda Marian Collett was born Kenilworth in 1922 and is pictured here at the age of two years. He birth was recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 6d 94) during the last quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Simpson. The marriage of Gwenda Marian Collett and Norman Leslie Barrow was also recorded at Warwick (Ref. 9c 32) during the fourth quarter of 1952. Norman was born in 1927 and died in 1997, while Gwenda died five years later in 1982. The couple had two children: Sarah E Barrow born 1956 who married Nigel Adams in 1987; and Ashley David Barrow, born in 1962 who, in 1991 married Jane L Heron, with whom he has two children. They are Henry George born in 1994, and Emily Kate who was born in 1997 at Hatfield, like her brother.
15O58	Joyce Estelle Collett was born at Kenilworth in 1925, with her birth recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 6d 99) during the first quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Simpson. It was also at Warwick that the marriage of Joyce Estelle Collett and Leslie Ernest Tebby was recorded (Ref. 9c 139) during the second quarter of 1952. Leslie was born in 1926 and died in 1993. They had two children, the first of which was Patricia Irene Tebby born 1956 who married (1) Martin John Jephcote in 1977, and with whom she had Stephen John Jephcote born 1983 and Sian Lesley Jephcote born 1985. Patricia was later divorced and subsequently married (2) John Morton of Kenilworth in 1994, and they had a daughter Siobhan Lesley Morton born in 1995.
	The son of Joyce and Leslie Tebby, Andrew John Tebby was born 1962 and he who married (1) Wanda Magdalene Makryzeki in 1987 and they had a son Joseph John Tebby born in 1988. Andrew later divorced Wanda and married (2) Emma Holt of Kenilworth with whom he had a daughter Jasmin Tebby Holt who was born in Exeter in 1991, before the couple was divorced. Joyce Estelle Tebby, nee Collett, was 89 years of age when she passed away during September 2014.
15O59	Reginald Frank Collett was born in 1928. He married widow Betty Hudson nee Hyde in 1958, and later that same year their son was born. Betty was born in 1932 and Reginald Frank Collett died in 1999.
	15P44		Martin Collett	Born in 1958 at Coventry
15O60	Eveline Beatrice Collett was born at Kenilworth on 19^th May 1918 and this photograph of her was taken around the time she was 12 years old. It was during 1942 that Eveline married Cecil Percy Bates at St Nicholas Church in Kenilworth. Cecil was born at Kenilworth on 31^st January 1916 and his marriage to Eveline produced two daughters for the couple. Linda Bates was born in 1945 and became a head-teacher, and was married to Barry Geoffrey Truscott of Biddenham near Bedford. Her sister Celia Bates was born in 1948 and was the Secretary to the Bishop of Coventry who, in 1975, married William Norris Foster a solicitor of Kenilworth.
	Cecil Percy Bates died on 17^th January 2006 and was buried in Kenilworth Cemetery, his grave being alongside those of his two brothers-in-law Harold Thomas Collett and Alan James Collett (below). His widow Eveline Beatrice Bates nee Collett passed away at home in Kenilworth on 13^th August 2014 at the age of 96.
	The daughter of Linda Bates and Barry Truscott, Abigail Claire Truscott who was born in 1972, is an architect and was married to Doctor Ashley Scott Shaw in 2001. There have two children Beatrice Rose Shaw born at Islington in 2004, and Jack Charles Shaw born at Cambridge in 2007. The son of Linda and Barry, Giles William Truscott who was born in 1975, is a landscape architect and he and his partner Faye Braithwaite have a daughter, Ellie Sophia Truscott (born 19^th December 2010).
	The eldest grandson of Eveline and Cecil Bates, Henry William Forster born in 1979, the son of their second daughter Celia Bates, is a chartered accountant, and in 2008 he married he married Jennifer Christine White and has two children James William Foster (born 2009) and Isabelle Eveline Foster (born 2012) in London. Celia Bates’ and William Forster’s younger son Thomas James William Forster was born in 1981.
15O61	HAROLD THOMAS COLLETT was born at Kenilworth on 27^th August 1920. From the picture on the right, it would appear that he served with the Royal Navy sometime in his early life, and perhaps even during the Second World War. After the war he was a GEC Telecommunications Manager and he married Vera Wills Brimfield on 27^th June 1953 at St John’s Church Old Coulsdon in Surrey. Vera was also in the Royal Navy, so it is possible that it was there that she met Harold. Vera was born in London on 21^st May 1924. Harold Thomas Collett died on 23^rd September 1996 at Malborough in southern Devon, following which he was buried in the Kenilworth Cemetery off Oaks Road in the town.
	The grave of Harold Thomas Collett is flanked on one side by the grave of his younger brother Alan James Collett (below) who was buried in 2007, and on the other side by the grave of his brother-in-law Cecil Percy Bates (above) who was buried there in 2006. And it was on 20^th December 2010, that Harold’s widow Vera Collett passed away, while she was still living in her own home at the age of 86.
	15P45		Deborah Collett			Born in 1954 at Leamington
	15P46		Graham Collett			Born in 1956 at Leamington
	15P47		NEIL COLLETT			Born in 1957 at Kenilworth
15O62	John Henry Collett was born on 19^th September 1923 at Kenilworth. He was a hotelier and in 1950 at St Nicholas Church in Kenilworth he married Jeanne Clarissa Williams of Easton-on-the Hill, which lies on the boundary between Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire, just south of Stamford. Jeanne was born in 1927 and lived for some time at Estepona in Spain. Their marriage produced two children for the couple, and the photograph of John was taken at the wedding of his daughter Beverley in 1977. After a long and active life John Henry Collett passed away peacefully in Peterborough Hospital on 25^th February 2016 at the age of 92.
	15P48		Beverly Jane Collett		Born in 1952 at Kenilworth
	15P49		Myles John McLean Collett		Born in 1955 at Kenilworth
15O63	Alan James Collett was born in 1925 at Kenilworth. He married Pamela Cryer of Kenilworth in 1964, but they were divorced in 1972. Alan James Collett died in 2007 and was buried in Kenilworth Cemetery where a new headstone marks the grave. In the two adjacent graves are two other members of the Collett family. The first of these, and immediately alongside the grave of Alan James Collett, is the grave of Alan’s older brother, Harold Thomas Collett (above), while next to that is the grave of Cecil Percy Bates the husband of Alan’s and Harold’s older sister Eveline Beatrice Bates nee Collett (above).
15O64	Kathleen Marguerite Collett was born in 1926 at Kenilworth. She married George Theo Henry Hurst in 1949 at Kenilworth. George was born in 1926 and died in 1982 and was of Kenilworth. They had two children, the first of which was Kathryn Ann Hurst born in 1950 at Kenilworth who married Colin W Edwards, a local government office from Stoke Golding near Hinckley in Leicestershire. They had two children: Paul Martin Edwards born in 1977, who later married Tracey A Elvidge in 2004 and who now have a son Oliver Benjamin Edwards born in 2006; and Joanne Louise Edwards born 1980 who married Steve in 2008.
	The second child of Kathleen and George Hurst was Mark Andrew Hurst who was born in 1953, and who became a farmer and was married in 1975 to Helen May Wealthdale, a head-teacher of Kenilworth and born in 1957. They have two children: Claire Rebecca Hurst born 1975, a barrister in Cumbria, who married Gareth Ward and now has two daughters, Emily Ward (born.2011) and Freya Ward (born 2013); and Matthew William Hurst born 1979, a photographer married to teacher Chloe Johnson and now has two daughters, Isabel Hurst (born 2010) and Thea Hurst (born 2012) at Warwick. Mark Andrew Hurst, the son of Kathleen Hurst died suddenly in Kenilworth on 25^th August 2012 at the age of 58, while his mother Kathleen Marguerite Hurst nee Collett died during March 2014 at her home in Kenilworth when she was 87.
15O65	Peter Ernest John Collett was born in 1929 at Kenilworth, where he married Maureen Ann Firth a school teacher of Kenilworth in 1961. Maureen was born in 1936, and she died at Kenilworth in 2008. Peter Ernest John Collett had passed away two years earlier, while on holiday in Devon.
15O66	Alison Christine Collett was born in 1931 at Kenilworth where she has remained and was a medical secretary.
15P1	Edith Rose Collett was born at Swanswell in Coventry in 1896, the eldest of four children of Herbert Charles Collett and Rose Ann Peacey. It was as Edith R Collett that she was four years old in the census of 1901, and as Edith Rose Collett, aged 14, in 1911, when she was living with her family in Coventry. In 1915, while still a teenager, she married Frank Stafford and they had one son. Stephen Francis Stafford was born at Coventry in 1916, where he died in 1995.
15P2	Thomas Charles Collett was born at Coventry in 1898, the second child of Herbert and Rose Collett. In the Coventry census of 1901, he was recorded as Thomas C Collett who was two years old, while ten years after that he was listed in the census of 1911 as Thomas Charles Collett, aged 12, when he was still living in Coventry with his family. Very little else is known about Thomas at this time, except that he lived a long life, and died whilst still living in Coventry in 1974.
15P3	Herbert Collett was born at Coventry in 1900, the son of Herbert Charles Collett and Rose Ann Peacey. Tragically he was around three years old when he died at Coventry during 1903.
15P4	Joseph Henry Collett was born at Coventry in 1903, the last of the four children of Herbert and Rose Collett, who was seven years old in 1911. His later occupation was that of a Bakelite moulder and he married Margaret Elizabeth Rowstron at Coventry on 7^th April 1934. Margaret was born in 1903 and it was two years after they were married that she presented Joseph with a daughter, their only child. Joseph Henry Collett died at Meriden, to the west of Coventry, in 1963, while his wife had survived him by twenty-three years, when Margaret died during 1986.
	15Q1		Margaret R Collett	Born in 1936 at Coventry
15P5	Richard Samuel Collett was born in 1911 at Massachusetts, and possibly at Waltham in Middlesex County. He was the eldest of two sons of Job Richard Collett and his first wife Gertrude Louisa Butler. All that is known about Richard is that he married Frances Elizabeth Eden who was born in 1912 and who came from Watertown in Massachusetts, and that he died in 1969.
15P6	George William Collett was born at Massachusetts in 1914, the second son of Job and Gertrude Collett. He married Grace E who was from Newton in Massachusetts, and she was born in 1916. George William Collett died in 1995, six years before his wife died in 2001.
15P7	Mildred Florence Collett was born at Waltham in Massachusetts on 15^th February 1925, the youngest child of Job and Gertrude Collett. It was on 11^th June 1944 that she was married at Merrimack, Hillsborough in New Hampshire, and it was during 1987 that she died while living at Waltham, Middlesex in Massachusetts.
15P8	Sheila Marjorie Collett was born at Coventry in 1927, the only child of Thomas Oliver Collett and Margaret L Newell. In 1957 she married Frederick Harry Taylor who was born in 1920 and with whom she had five children, and all of them born at Nuneaton. They were Garry Taylor who was born in 1957, Pauline J Taylor who was born in 1960, Steven Taylor who was born in 1965, Susan Taylor who was born in 1969, and Kevin Taylor who was born in 1972. Sheila Marjorie Taylor, nee Collett, died in 2000, her husband having passed away seven years earlier in 1993.
15P9	Evelyn Louise Collett was born at Coventry, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 6d 544) during the second quarter of 1896, the first-born child of Frank Joseph Collett and Fanny Gertrude Painter. She was baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry on 13^th May 1896, the baptism record confirming the names of her parents and her date of birth as 22^nd March that same year. In 1901 Evelyn L Collett was five years old and was living with her family at 21 Osborne Street in Handsworth. That appears to have been a temporary arrangement, perhaps due to her mother having been born in Smethwick, because the family was back in Coventry by 1903. That was confirmed by the census in 1911 when Evelyn Louise Collett was 15 and the eldest of the seven children living with her parents in Coventry.
	Evelyn, who was known as Queen or Queenie, married Clarence Phillips, who was known as Bill. That happy event took place in Coventry (Ref. 6d 2062) during the fourth quarter of 1915. Together, they managed various pubs and clubs, including a Club in the Avenue at Whitley, Coventry (now a housing development), the Peeping Tom pub at Burton Green near Coventry, and the Rifleman Volunteer in Dunstable. Their marriage produced one son Frank E Phillips who was born in Coventry during 1917 and who, on being married, had one daughter Paula Phillips. Evelyn L Phillips was living at Kingswinford near Dudley when she died during the 1980s.
15P10	Doris Ellen Collett was born at Coventry and it was there that her birth was registered (Ref. 6d 577) during the third quarter of 1898. By the time she was recorded as Doris E Collett, aged two years, in the census of 1901, she and her family were living at 21 Osborne Street in Handsworth, in the West Bromwich registration district. Shortly after the census year, Doris’ family returned to Coventry where, in April 1911 she was recorded as Doris Ellen Collett who was 12. In 1916 she married Leonard T Gardner and they had five children. Nora E Gardner was born that same year, Gweneth E Gardner was born in 1918, Geoffrey Gardner was born in 1923, as was Reginald Gardner, and Leonard D Gardner was born in 1925. It is believed that Doris died during the years after the Second World War or early in the 1950s, the cause of death being lung cancer.
15P11	Fanny Gertrude Collett, who was named after her mother and who was known as Gert, was born at Handsworth in the first few days of 1901, although it was at West Bromwich register office (Ref. 6b 805) where her birth was recorded during the first quarter of that year. She was just three months old in the March census of 1901, when she was listed as Fanny G Collett. It was also at 21 Osborne Street in Handsworth that she was living with her family on that occasion, but during the next year or so they returned to Coventry. That move was confirmed by the Coventry census in 1911, when Fanny Gertrude Collett, aged 10, was living there with her family. Thirteen years later, when Fanny was twenty-three, she married James Jesse Griffiths, the event recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 1487) during the second quarter of 1924. Once married, the couple settled in Masser Road in Coventry, where her sister Violet (below) also lived, and where their two children, Joyce Griffiths and Trevor Griffiths were born. The only other fact known about the family is that Fanny died in 1993 and her son Trevor retired to Colwyn Bay.
15P12	Violet Collett, who was known as Vi, was born at Coventry in 1903, just after her parents returned to Coventry from living a few short years in Handsworth in the West Midlands. She was eight years old in the Coventry census of 1911, and it was fourteen years after that, when she married Arthur N Spencer at Coventry, where it was registered (Ref. 6d 772) during the first three months of 1925. The couple lived at Masser Road in Coventry, near Vi’s older sister Gert (above), where they had two sons. They were Donald (Don) W Spencer, born in 1926, and Arthur N Spencer, who was born in 1929. Violet Spencer, nee Collett, died in 1996. Don Spencer was an insurance agent for the Coop, while Arthur Spencer was a physicist at Manchester University and worked on nuclear physics.
15P13	Phyllis Freda Collett, who was known as Phil, was born at Coventry in 1905, and was the fifth successive daughter born to Frank and Fanny Collett. Her birth was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 517) during the final three months of that year. She was five years old in the census of 1911, and fifteen years following that she married Samuel James (Jim) Moore in 1926. Their marriage produced two daughters, Sheila P Moore who was born in 1930, and Beryl J Moore who was born in 1938. Phil worked in the medical centre of a local factory in Coventry, possible GEC (General Electric Company), while Jim had various jobs, and at one time ran a fish and chip shop in Leamington Spa. Of their daughters, Sheila married Dennis Stanley and had 2 daughters. When Dennis suffered a premature death, Sheila was remarried to Jack Taylor. She trained as a teacher and they moved to Australia with her daughters. Phil’s daughter Beryl was a music teacher and emigrated to Australia where she married Don McAdam. Phil and Jim retired to Cairns in Australia where they both died, Phyllis Freda Moore nee Collett around 2003.
15P14	Frank Henry Collett was born at Leicester Causeway in the Bishopsgate Green area of Coventry during the first quarter of 1909, the only son amongst the nine children of Frank Joseph Collett and Fanny Gertrude Painter, whose birth was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 583). To his six surviving sisters, Frank was known as son. His first forename name came from his father, while Henry was the name of his grandfather, his mother’s father. He was two years old in the Coventry census of 1911. Most of his early life was spent living at Bishopsgate Green where he attended St Osburgs School until he was 14, when he was offered employment with the Coventry Council Parks Department, working as a gardener at nearby Edgwick Park and Naul’s Mill Park. He then attended night school at Coventry Technical College where he studied engineering, following which he worked in a number of car manufacturing factories in Coventry, including the Triumph Motor Company. It was while he was working at Triumph that he met his future wife.
	It was during the second quarter of 1936 that Frank Henry Collett married Florence Beatrice Jones who was born at Coventry on 5^th October 1912, her birth certificate (Ref. 6d 1119) confirmed that her mother’s maiden-name was Lawrence. The wedding was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 2071), but actually took place at St Alban’s Church in the village of Wyken on 18^th April 1936. Bachelor Frank was 27 and a fitter residing at 87 Dugdale Road in Coventry, the son of Frank Joseph Collett deceased. His bride, who was known as Beat, was 23 and a spinster of 23 Wyken Avenue, the daughter of Thomas George Jones, a poulterer, who was one of the witnesses. During the following year, the first of their three sons was born, although tragically, the couple’s second son Graham died three days after he was born.
	Prior to being married, Frank had long periods out of work, that is until his engineering training secured him a job as an air frame erector with Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, where his cousin Sidney (see below) also worked and where he died during the wartime bombings of Coventry in November 1940. That security of work enabled Frank to propose to Beat and, following their wedding they lived with his mother at 87 Dugdale Road until they bought their own house in Donnington Avenue in the Coundon district of Coventry. After suffering the loss of their second son, their third son was given their late son’s name, by which he was known throughout his life. While employed at Armstrong Whitworth, Frank worked on many aircraft types, including the Lancaster bomber, and after the war he worked on various experimental aircraft such as the Flying Wing as well as building parts for many famous British marque. AWA was shut down between 1966 and 1967, after which Frank managed to secure work building axles for the E-Type Jaguar at the Jaguar factory in Sandy Lane, the factory where his father had worked until his death. Frank retired in 1973 and, after the death of his wife in 1982, he stayed in the family home at Donnington Avenue until 2000. The death of Florence Beatrice Collett nee Jones was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 33 0101) during the last three months of 1982. From 2000 Frank briefly live in Oxfordshire with his youngest son Graham, before finally moving into a home in the village of Merton to the south of Bicester, where he died in 2004 at the age of 95.
	As regards the war years in Coventry, Frank used to tell the story of the November 1940 Blitz when his house in Coundon was badly damaged by a land mine (large parachute bomb) dropped two streets away. The roof was blown off and the upstairs interior walls demolished. He was away from work for about a week, making the house safe for his wife and their young son. When he eventually returned to work, the foreman was amazed to see him, because ‘he had heard that Frank had been killed, like his cousin and work-mate Sidney Albert Collett (Ref. 15P30).
	15Q2		Kenneth Frank Collett	Born in 1937 at Coventry
	15Q3		Graham Collett	Born in 1942 at Coventry
	15Q4		Keith Graham Collett	Born in 1944 at Coventry
15P15	Florence Maud Collett, who was curiously known as Dill, was born at Coventry in March 1911, and was only one month old on the second day of April in 1911. It was after the census day that her birth was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 548) during the second quarter of 1911. She was another daughter of Frank and Fanny Collett. In 1933 Florence married Bertram (Bert) W C Sparkes, and their daughter Valerie M Sparkes was born at Coventry during 1936, followed by son John Bentley Sparkes. Florence Maud Sparkes, nee Collett, died in 1987. During their life together, Dill and Bert lived at Wyley Road in Coventry
15P16	Ruby Collett was born at Coventry on 31^st March 1913, another daughter of Frank and Fanny Collett. It was originally believed that she died when she was only a few years old, but that now seems to be a reference to her younger sister Olive (below).
15P17	Olive M Collett was born at Coventry and was the ninth and last child of Frank Joseph Collett and his wife Fanny Gertrude Painter. Her birth was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 1255) during the third quarter of 1915, where her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Painter. Sadly, before her third birthday, the death of Olive M Collett aged two years was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 734) during the first three months of 1918.
15P18	Joseph Collett was born at Coventry in 1894, and in his younger years he was known as Joey Collett. And it was as Joey Collett that he was included in the census return in 1901, when he was six years old and living in Coventry with his parents Sidney and Charlotte Collett, and his brother Sidney (below). The only Sidney Collett born in Coventry during 1873 and recorded in the census of 1911 was the husband of Charlotte when the couple was temporarily staying at Ellesmere Port in the Wirrall but, without any of their children. That couple has now been confirmed as travelling showman Sidney Collett and his wife Charlotte Collett nee Dingle.
	It is therefore curious that no record of Joseph Collett, aged 16, or any of his four younger siblings has been found within the census of 1911. What is now known is that Joseph enlisted at Coventry during the First World War and initially served with the Royal Berkshire Regiment service number 20636, before joining the 10th Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry as a private (service no. 26885). Tragically he was killed in action on Flanders Field in France on 25^th March 1918 during the Battle of Bapaume, and the name of Joseph Collett appears on the Arras Memorial.
	Previously it was written here, in error, that Joseph Collett had served as Private SR/584 with the Middlesex Regiment and that he was one of the many fatalities on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, where he was killed on 1^st July 1916 with his name being included on the Thievpal Memorial. However, it is now established from his military records, kindly supplied by Mal Collett (Ref. 15R9), that he was Joseph Henry Collett who was born in Middlesex around 1873. The details of the family of that older Joseph can now be found in Part 72 – Joseph Henry Collett 1873 to 1916.
15P19	Sidney Frederick Collett was born at Coventry in 1896, the second child of Sidney and Charlotte Collett, who was four years old in the Coventry census of 1901. No record of him or his siblings has been found in the next census of 1911 when his fairground parents were recorded Ellesmere Port. Just over three years later in 1914, and with the start of the First World War, Sidney enrolled with the British Army, and became Private 18137 with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. It would appear that he sustained serious injuries while on the front line during the end of 1916, which resulted in him being hospitalised back to England. What is known is that he died of his injuries while he was a patient at the Brook War Hospital in Woolwich on 28^th January 1917 at the age of 20, and was buried in the London Road Cemetery in Coventry, where a headstone marks the grave in which he was buried, and where his parents were later buried. His name was recorded in error in his military record as Sydney, in which also his next-of-kin were listed as his parents Mr S and Mrs C Collett of Block 2 in Cook Street in Coventry.
	It may be of interest that another Sidney Collett was born at Coventry just after the census in 1901. It would appear that he became an orphan before 1911 because, by the time of the census that year, he was living with his aunt and uncle at 15 Leigh Street in Coventry when he was nine years old. Further details of this Sidney Collett are included in Appendix One at the end of this file.
15P20	Harry Collett was born at Coventry in 1899, the son of Sidney Collett and his wife Charlotte Dingley. He was one year old in the Coventry census of 1901, but tragically died later that same year.
15P21	Samuel Collett was born at Coventry on 11^th August 1901, and curiously no record of him or his siblings has been identified within the next census in April 1911, although his parents were then camped at the side of the road in Ellesmere Port, when his father was described as a travelling showman, moving from fairground to fairground. He was 28 years old when he married Edith Maud Hawkes at Coventry in 1929. Edith was born in 1903 and two years after they were married, she presented Samuel with a daughter. In 1939 Samuel and his family was living at 10 Swan Street in Coventry, when he was a pavement assistant labourer with the Coventry Corporation. He was also a member of the air raid patrol and the decontamination squad. Edith Maud Collett nee Hawkes died in 1978, while two years later Samuel Collett died at Coventry on 5^th February 1980.
	15Q5		Charlotte Barbara Collett	Born in 1931 at Coventry
15P22	Elizabeth Ellen Collett was born at Coventry in 1903 the last child of Sidney Collett by his wife Charlotte Dingley. It was at Coventry that she died during 1904.
15P23	David Collett was born at Coventry on 26^th May 1905 (Ref. 6d 565), the sixth child of Sidney Collett and his wife Charlotte Dingley. Other than that, nothing much is known about David, except that he never married and was a bachelor all of his life. The electoral roll of 1939 listed David’s address as 22 Brighton Street in Coventry with his brothers Frank and Albert, Frank’s wife Gladys and their son Maurice. David was a greengrocer then, prior to being taken on at the Daimler factory in Coventry as part of the war effort. David worked at Daimler until it was bombed in the German air raids of 1940. He then moved to Derbyshire as a lodger with a couple he was friends with. The three of them were living at the Red Lion Public House in Ashbourne in Derbyshire. David lived here until his death in 1961 which was recorded at Cheadle in Staffordshire (9 129) during the second quarter of that year. His wake was conducted at The Red Lion Inn at Ashbourne.
15P24	Frank Collett was born at Worcester on 8^th July 1907, the son of Sidney Collett and his wife Charlotte Dingley. The registration of his birth confirmed that he was born in a caravan at Pitchcroft, which is Worcester Racecourse. While his mother was confirmed as Charlotte Collett formerly Dingley, on that occasion his father’s occupation was stated as being that of a shooting gallery proprietor, having previously been an assistant in a fish shop in Coventry. It is therefore very likely that the young Frank spent his early years on the road, moving from one fairground to another and that may well be the reason why no record of him or his siblings has been unearthed in the census of 1911.
	The birth certificate also gave the name of the informant of the birth of Frank Collett as Felicia Alice Bullock, who signed the certificate with a cross. It was stated that she was present at the birth and that her permanent address was 7½ Easy Row in Castle Street, Worcester. That may have happened, since Frank’s parents did not have a permanent address from which to register the birth, with them being travellers.
	It was at the parish church of Stoke St Michael in Coventry on 21^st July 1934 that bachelor Frank Collett, aged 26 and a confectioner, the son of dealer Sidney Collett, was married by banns to Gladys Bronnie Morris, a spinster of 25, and the daughter of George Job Morris deceased. Gladys, who was known as Bron, and Frank, both gave the same address at which they were currently residing, that being 38 Raleigh Road in Coventry. The witnesses were listed as David Collett, Frank’s older brother (above) and Dorcas Emma Morris, Bron’s mother.
	It is very interesting that Bron, who was born in 1907, was the older sister of Florence Ruby Morris who married Frank’s cousin Frederick George Collett (below). Gladys and Florence were two of the five children of George Job Morris and his wife Dorcas Emma Pollard.
	George Morris, from Coventry, was a butcher’s assistant in 1901 and by 1911 he was 36 and was married to Dorcas who was 31. Living with the couple in Coventry were their first four children, all of whom were born at Coventry, and they were Ethel Morris aged 11, Harry Morris who was nine, Phyllis Morris who was six, and Gladys Morris who was three years old. George Job Morris was a founder member of the union that today is known as the Transport & General Workers Union. The marriage of Frank Collett and Gladys Morris produced just the one son, who was born while they were still living in Coventry.
	In 1939 Frank and Gladys and their son Maurice were residing at 22 Brighton Street in Coventry, when they had Frank’s two brother, David and Albert staying with them. At that time in his life Frank was a confectioner, but later secured work at the Rootes Group Motor Car Factory in the city.
	15Q6		Maurice Sidney Collett	Born in 1936 at Coventry
15P25	Charlotte Collett was born at Coventry on 28^th February 1912 (Ref. 6d 987), the youngest daughter of Sidney and Charlotte Collett. Where she was born has still to be discovered and, although it is known that her family was living in Coventry in 1901 and at Worcester in 1907, no trace of Charlotte or his siblings has been found in the census of 1911, when her parents were with a travelling show in Ellesmere Port. However, it was during 1938 that Charlotte Collett married Charles Harold E Devall, who was born on 5^th September 1911. During the following year the couple was living at 25 Read Street in Coventry from where Charles was working as a machinist, driller and a tapper. By the day the 1939 Register was published, their daughter Valerie A Devall had been born and was listed with them, having been born at Coventry on 6^th August 1939. Also living with the family was Charles’s father Sydney Collett. Charles Devall died in 2000. Charlotte and Charles’ daughter Valerie married John F Dennett in Coventry during 1958, but they had no children.
15P26	Albert Herbert Collett was born on 27^th November 1914, the youngest children of Sidney Collett and Charlotte Dingley, whose birth was recorded at Nuneaton register office (Ref. 6d 110) when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Dingley. It was seven years earlier that his father was a fairground worker travelling around the country and three years before he was born his mother and father, a travelling showman, were with a travelling fair temporary sited at Ellesmere Port. In 1939 Albert and his brother David were staying at 22 Brighton Street in Coventry, the home of their married brother Frank, when Albert was a driller of aero components. At the start of the Second World War, Albert met Ada Stinton, whom he married in 1940, the event recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 52) during the last three months of the year. Albert and Ada had four children, three of them born at Coventry, with one born at Lichfield in Staffordshire. Albert Herbert Collett, who was known as Bert, died in 1980 at the family home at Bolingbroke Road in Coventry, where he and his family had lived for many years prior to his passing, his death recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 33 123) during the spring that year. His wife survived him by eleven years, when the death of Ada Collett, who was born on 28^th November 1921, was recorded at Coventry (Vol. 33) towards the end of 1991.
	15Q7		June J Collett	Born in 1941 at Coventry
	15Q8		Yvonne J Collett	Born in 1945 at Lichfield
	15Q9		Stephen Collett	Born in 1955 at Coventry
	15Q10		Clive Collett	Born in 1960 at Coventry
15P27	Nellie Victoria Collett was born at Coventry in 1910, the eldest child of Hugh Wilfred Collett and Agnes Elizabeth Barnett. She was one year old in the Coventry census of 1911. And it was there that she later married George Warren in 1938. Nellie and George had four daughters who were all born at Coventry, and they were Ruby Warren who was born in 1938, Eileen Warren who was born in 1942, Beryl Warren who was born in 1944, and Christine Warren who was born in 1946 and who married Charles Pedrioli in 1969. George Warren died in 1997, and was followed five years later by his wife Nellie Victoria Warren nee Collett, who died in 2002.
15P28	Frederick George Collett was born at Coventry on 5^th May 1912, the eldest son of Hugh and Agnes Collett. He later married Florence Ruby Morris who was born in 1913. She was known within the family as Ruby, and it was during the Second World War that she presented Frederick with the first of their two children. Their second child was born after the war, presumably because Frederick had been away during the campaign. Ruby’s older sister Bronnie Morris married Frederick’s cousin Frank Collett during the first half of the 1930s. Frederick George Collett died at Coventry during the first quarter of 2003 (Ref. 631b b67a), his wife Florence Ruby Collett nee Morris having passed away during 1986.
	15Q11		David Frederick Collett		Born in 1943 at Coventry
	15Q12		Diana R Collett		Born in 1947 at Coventry
15P29	Elsie A A Collett was born at Coventry in 1914, the third child and second daughter of Hugh and Agnes Collett. She married John Smith in 1938, and they had a daughter Doreen M Smith who was born at Coventry in 1940, plus a second child Sylvia Smith who was born a few years later. Doreen went on to marry John G Allsop in 1961 and they had four children, all of them born at Coventry. They were Jayne Allsop, who was born in 1961, Andrew Allsop, who was born in 1963, Timothy Allsop, who was born in 1966, and Melanie Allsop who was born in 1971, who later married Christopher J Taylor in 1994.
15P30	Sidney Albert Collett was born at Coventry on 26^th December 1920, the son of Hugh Wilfred Collett and his wife Agnes Elizabeth Barnett. In 1940 he was living with his parents at 49 St John Street in Coventry, while being employed at the Armstrong Siddeley Works in Parkside. Whether at work or at home on 14^th November that year, Sidney and his brother Cyril (below) and their parents sought a place of safety in a deep air raid shelter at the Parkside works, just 100 yards from the family home, which was made available to local residents. Tragically, all four members of the family were killed when a high explosive German bomb made a direct hit on top of the shelter. see WW2 Collett Fatalities
15P31	Cyril Ernest Collett was born at Coventry on 3^rd May 1923, the youngest child of Hugh Wilfred Collett and his wife Agnes Elizabeth Barnett. At the time of the start of the Second World War Cyril and his family were residing at 49 St John Street in Coventry. Sadly, Cyril was only 17 years old, when he was killed on 14^th November 1940 while gathering together with his brother Sidney (above) and their parents in a publicly used air raid shelter inside the Armstrong Siddeley Works at Parkside, when it took a direct hit from a high explosive bomb during the German blitz on Coventry. see WW2 Collett Fatalities The photograph of Cyril was taken in 1940, just prior to his untimely death.
15P32	Bruce Riley Collett was born in Canada in 1933. He married Gayle Wakeley of Victoria in British Columbia in Canada. Bruce Riley Collett died in 1992.
	15Q13		Lynne Collett (adopted)		Born in 1962 in Canada
	15Q14		Dina Collett (adopted)		Born in 1963 in Canada
	15Q15		Shannon Collett		Born in 1967 in Canada
15P33	Daphne Catherine Collett was born in Canada in 1940. She married Robert Gerald Wilson of West Vancouver.
	15Q16		Laura Collett Wilson		Born in 1968
	15Q17		Andrea Catherine Wilson		Born in 1972
15P34	Andrew Michael Walter Robertson was born in Canada in 1934. He was a dental surgeon in Vancouver and he married Patricia June McDuff of Vancouver. They had two daughters, Julie Elizabeth Robertson (1973) who is a doctor and was married in Cape Town in 2008, and Lesley Sarah Robertson who was born in 1976. Andrew died in 1983.
15P35	James Collett Robertson was born in 1940 in Canada. He was a school teacher in Calgary and in 1970 he married Carole Bruce of Calgary who was born in 1946. They had two sons Michael Jeffrey born in 1972, who married Cathy in 1998 and with whom he had two daughters, and Steven Matthew born in 1976, who is a golf professional in the Cayman Islands who married Deanne in 2010.
15P36	Robert E Philpott was born in 1934 in Canada. He was married twice, first to Jean, and then to Carole of Port Angeles in Washington in the USA. Two children came from the first marriage: Steven Philpott born 1956 who married Beth and who now has a daughter Melynda Philpott; and Laurie Philpott who married Michael Reader, and have two children, Daniel Reader (1983) and Michelle Reader (1985). Robert E Philpott, the son of Harriet Maime Zell nee Collett died on 9^th June 2011 in Port Angeles, Washington, USA.
15P37	Faye Philpott was born in 1939 in Canada and was married three times: (1) Richard Merrill; (2) Barry Johns; and (3) William Johns of California, USA. It was in 2009 that Faye died at her home in Palm Springs, California.
15P38	John Philpott Zell was born in 1947 in Canada, and he took his step-father’s name. As Johnny Zell, he is a bandleader and television personality in the USA. He married (1) Barbara and (2) Laura Semeniute of Carmarillo in California, USA. John had two children from each marriage: John Philpott Zell and Lisa Philpott Zell from the first; and Colette Diane Zell born in 1983 and Nicholas Lee Zell born in 1986 both at Los Angeles.
15P39	Marilyn Collett was born in 1949 with her birth recorded at the Shropshire Whitchurch register office (Ref. 9a 70) during the last three months of that year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Rudd. Twenty years later, in 1969, she married Clifford F Felton and was later divorced but only after producing two daughters; Patricia Marilyn Felton born 1970 who in 1990 gave birth to Simon Phillip Felton, and Amanda Jayne Felton born 1973 who married (1) Andrew McCann in 1995 later divorced, and (2) Scott J Shepley in 2000 which union produced two sons, Thomas Joshua Shepley born in 2002, and Joseph William Shepley who was born in 2005. Marilyn died in 1998.
15P40	Robert Collett was born in 1953, his birth recorded at Whitchurch register office (Ref. 9a 10) during the third quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Rudd. He was the second child of George Henry Collett and Wilhelmina Alice Irene Rudd. Robert was twenty-one years old when he married Carol A Ward, of Ellington near Huntingdon, their wedding recorded at Wolverhampton register office during the early months of 1975. Once married, the couple eventually settled in Derbyshire, while it was at Derby register office that the births of their two daughters were recorded and where the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Ward.
	15Q18		Samantha Collett	Born in 1985 at Derby
	15Q19		Frances Collett	Born in 1987 at Derby
15P41	John Collett was born in 1955 and, like his siblings, his birth was also recorded at Whitchurch register office (Ref. 9a 141) during the third quarter of the year. John’s later marriage to Stella J Caldecott of Market Drayton was recorded at the North Salop register office (Ref. 30 59) during the summer of 1983. Stella was only eighteen years of age on their wedding day, having been born in 1965. The births of both of their daughters were recorded at Shrewsbury register office, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Caldecote.
	15Q20		Laura Jane Collett	Born in 1988 at Shrewsbury
	15Q21		Emma Joanne Collett	Born in 1990 at Shrewsbury
15P42	Alan Paul Collett was born during the second quarter of 1962, the fourth and last child of George Henry Collett was Wilhelmina Irene Alice Rudd, the birth recorded at Shrewsbury register office (Ref. 9a 122). It was during the spring of 1998 that the marriage of Alan P Collett and Glenis Roberts, of Blurton in Stoke-on-Trent, was recorded at Newcastle-under-Lyme register office (Vol. 733).
	15Q22		Hannah Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1999 at Stoke-on-Trent
15P43	Michael Anthony Collett was born at Warwick near the end of 1941, the only son of Frederick Charles Collett and Marjorie Louisa Barnbrook, his birth recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 6d 141) during the first three months of 1942. Michael A Collett married (1) Dinah Hatton in 1969, their wedding recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 9c 16) during the last three months of that year, but from whom he was later divorced. He then married (2) Frances A Morris of Whittlesford, south of Cambridge, during 1997.
	15Q23		Emma Louise Collett	Born in 1973 at Warwick
	15Q24		Richard Michael Collett	Born in 1976 at Warwick
15P44	Martin Collett was born at Coventry in 1958, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 9c 110) during the first quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Hudson. He married (1) Janet Scott in 1981 who he later divorced to marry in 1996 (2) Karen Kniveton of Marsden near Huddersfield.
	15Q25		Lucy Collett	Born in 1982 at Leeds
	15Q26		Samuel Collett	Born in 1984 at Leeds
	15Q27		Sophie Collett	Born in 1990 at Leeds
15P45	Deborah Collett was born on 10^th June 1954 at Leamington Spa. She is a solicitor and in 1976 at St Nicholas Church in Kenilworth she married Michael Alan Todd, QC of Latimer, near Chesham in Buckinghamshire. Michael Alan Todd was born in 1953.
15P46	Graham Collett was born on 7^th January 1956 at Leamington Spa. He was an engineer and he married (1) Mary Gravenor in 1984, but they were divorced in 1992. Mary was born in 1962. After the divorce, Graham married (2) Catherine Helen Voyce of Hatton Park near Warwick in 1999. Catherine was born in 1972 and was a veterinary surgeon, but like the first marriage, the second also ended in divorce in 2006.
15P47	NEIL COLLETT was born on 3^rd October 1957 at Kenilworth. From the 1990’s he was living at Avon Cottage in Ashow, midway between Kenilworth and Leamington Spa, where he works as a landscape architect. The photograph of Neil was taken at the Wedding of his brother Graham (above) in 1999. Our thanks go to Neil, not only for the initial information regarding this family line provided around the time of the Shepton Mallet Collett Reunion in 1996, but for photographs of the members of his family, and the headstone details, which have been included in the September 2010 version of this family line.
15P48	Beverly Jane Collett was born in 1952 at Kenilworth. She trained at Kings College in London and became a doctor. In 1977 she (1) married Doctor David Joseph Ward but was later divorced, following which, in 1991 she married (2) Paul Roebuck an accountant of Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake, just north of Leicester. In 2010, Beverley was President of the Pain Society and was a consultant at University Hospital in Leicester. It was in the 2015 Queen’s New Year’s Honours List that Dr Beverley Collett was awarded an OBE for services to pain management, having retired from practice in September 2014 after thirty-eight years working in the National Health Service.
15P49	Myles John McLean Collett was born in 1955. The photograph of Myles was taken on the day of his sister Beverley’s first wedding in 1977. In 1984 Myles John McLean Collett married (1) Penny Hurd from whom he later divorced, and following which he married (2) Doctor Rosemary Ann Hamlin-Shanks of Bessacarr near Doncaster. From his first marriage, Myles was presented with two sons, and today in 2010, Myles is a professional tennis coach based in Yorkshire.
	15Q28		Spencer Thomas Collett		Born in 1985 at Kings Lynn
	15Q29		Benjamin John Collett		Born in 1987 at Doncaster
15Q1	Margaret R Collett was born in 1936, the only child of Joseph Henry Collett and Margaret Elizabeth Rowstron. Margaret married John J Gibbs in 1957, with whom she had two children. Kevin J Gibbs was born in 1960 and he married Margaret J Lindsay in Coventry in 1995, and Lorraine A Gibbs who was born in 1965.
15Q2	Kenneth Frank Collett was born at Coventry in 1937, the eldest of the three sons of Frank Henry Collett and Florence Beatrice Jones. Ken, as he is known, trained as a plumber and he married (1) Gloria Stella Nash at Coventry in 1957, just before his National Service call-up when he served in the Catering Corps at Ty Croes in Anglesey. It was also in Coventry where their five children were born. Sometime after the birth of their children Kenneth and Gloria were divorced, possibly around 1985, following which he later married (2) Anne Saunders from whom he was also Anglesey subsequently divorced. In 2016 Ken was living in Anglesey in a cottage attached to the property of son Brett. It is interesting that, with the exception of son Tristan and his family, all of Ken’s other surviving children were also residing Anglesey, the family of Tristan Collett was living in Llandudno Junction. Kenneth Frank Collett died on 29^th November 2021 when he was living in a retirement home at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, otherwise known locally in Wales as Lanfair P G. Ken’s death was not unexpected as he had been suffering from cancer for about five years, for which he was being treated but, despite that, it eventually returned.
	15R1		Andre Collett		Born in 1958 at Coventry
	15R2		Ian Christopher Collett		Born in 1961 at Coventry
	15R3		Brett Michael Collett		Born in 1964 at Holyhead, north Wales
	15R4		Tristan Collett		Born in 1966 at Holyhead, north Wales
	15R5		Bernice Collett		Born in 1969 at Holyhead, north Wales
15Q3	Graham Collett was born at Coventry in 1942, the second son of Frank Henry Collett and Florence Beatrice Jones. Tragically he died when he was only three days old.
15Q4	Keith Graham Collett was born at Coventry in 1944, the youngest son of Frank and Florence Collett. He originally trained as an accountant, but switched to a career in computing during 1964. MBCS (CITP). Four years later Keith married (1) Vivien Jones of Birmingham during 1968, Vivien having no direct relationship to Graham’s mother Florence Beatrice Jones. It was in 1987 that Keith and Vivien were divorced 1987, following which he moved to Ramsbottom in Lancashire. Six years later, in 1993, he married (2) Janet Jennifer Warrington nee Thompson, who was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Once married, they moved back to north Oxfordshire to be near Keith’s father and his two daughters. Sadly, nineteen years later, Janet died during 2012, three years after which Keith married (3) Leslie Ann Batten nee Fowler, who was originally from Redhill in Surrey. In 2017 they still live at Mollington in Oxfordshire, from where Keith has kindly supplied a tremendous amount of new family details, all of which and more have been inserted for the June 2017 version of this file.
	15R6		Estelle Clare Collett		Born in 1972 at Warwick
	15R7		Stephanie Jennifer Collett		Born in 1975 at Coventry
15Q5	Charlotte Barbara Collett, who was known as Barbara, was born at Coventry in 1931, the only child of Samuel Collett and Edith Maud Hawkes. Around the time that she was 21, Barbara married Derek W Higgs who was born in 1930, and their marriage produced two daughters for the couple. Karen B Higgs was born at Coventry in 1964, while Michelle Lisa Higgs was born there in 1966. Karen Higgs went on to married Victor A Aguera in 1994, and they have a daughter Charlotte Emma L Aguera, who was born in Coventry during 1999.
	In 1985 Michelle Higgs married Alan P Blakeman and they have two children, David Alan Blakeman, who was born in 1988, and Sam Michael Blakeman who was born in 1991, and both of them were born while the family was living in Coventry.
15Q6	Maurice Sidney Collett was born at Coventry in 1936, the only children of Frank Collett and his wife Gladys Bronnie [Bron] Morris. He married Elizabeth Margaret Dixon at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry during 1959. Elizabeth, who was known as Betty, was the youngest of the five children of Harold Merit Dixon and Florence Ethel Faulkner of Winchester Street in Coventry. Over the following years Elizabeth presented Maurice with three sons, all of whom were born in the Coventry area. It was just over ten years after the birth of their last child that Maurice and Betty left Coventry during 1979, when they first moved to Beverley in East Yorkshire.
	After six years living and working in Beverley the family moved again, to Great Sutton near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, where they lived from 1985 onwards, both moves being the result of new employment opportunities for Maurice. The photograph extract above, kindly supplied by Maurice’s son Mal, was taken in August 2009 at the party to celebrate his and Elizabeth’s Golden Wedding anniversary. The full picture shows Maurice and Elizabeth, together with their three sons, whose individual portraits can be seen under their own separate entries below.
	15R8		Ian Trevor Collett	Born in 1964 at Meriden, nr Coventry
	15R9		Malcolm Craig Collett	Born in 1966 at Meriden, nr Coventry
	15R10		Nigel John Collett	Born in 1968 at Coventry
15Q7	June J Collett was born at Coventry where her birth was recorded (Ref. 6d 76) during the third quarter of 1941, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Stinton. She was the eldest of the four children of Albert Herbert Collett and Ada Stinton and she married Brian C Hall in 1960, their wedding recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 9c 107) during the third quarter of the year. The couple had two sons, both born at Coventry, and they were Brent Hall in 1966 and Kyan Hall in 1971.
15Q8	Yvonne J Collett was born at Lichfield (Ref. 6b 564)) during the third quarter of 1945, the second child of Albert and Ada Collett and curiously the only one not born in Coventry. Yvonne married Andrew W Beattie in 1973 and they have a son, Mark Jason Beattie who was born at Coventry in 1969.
15Q9	Stephen Collett was born in 1955 at Coventry where his birth was recorded (Ref. 9c 16) during the second quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Stinton. He was twenty-one years old when the marriage of Stephen J Collett and Heather S Greenway was recorded as Coventry register office (Ref. 33 102) during the third quarter of 1976. Eight years later their marriage had resulted in the birth of two daughters. They were Michelle Rose Collett (Vol. 33 75) in the summer of 1982 and Cheryl Heather Collett (Vol. 33) near the end of 1984, on both occasions the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Greenaway.
	15R11		Michelle Rose Collett	Born in 1982 at Coventry
	15R12		Cheryl Heather Collett	Born in 1984 at Coventry
15Q10	Clive Collett was born at Coventry during the third quarter of in 1960 (Ref. 9c 137), when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Stinton, the youngest of the four children of Albert Herbert Collett and Ada Stinton. It was during earlier weeks of 1994 when the marriage of Clive Collett and Diane Wilson was recorded at Hinkley register office (Vol. 599) and, two years after, their son was born at Coventry (Ref. 0631c) near the start of 1996, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Wilson.
	15R13		Liam Steven Collett	Born in 1996 at Coventry
15Q11	David Frederick Collett was born at Coventry in 1943, the eldest of the two children of Frederick George Collett and his wife Florence Ruby Morris. It was in 1983 that he married Jean McKewan, who was possibly Jean Linden prior to being Jean McKewan. Nothing more is known about David at this time.
15Q12	Diana R Collett was born at Coventry in 1947, the only daughter and the younger of the two children born to Frederick George Collett and Florence Ruby Morris. Diana married Robert H Watts during 1971 and their marriage produced two sons for the couple. They were Mark Ian R Watts who was born in 1972 and Russell Edwin A Watts who was born in 1977. And it was Russell who kindly made contact in the autumn of 2014 to provide the more accurate year of birth of his uncle David Frederick Collett (above).
15Q15	Shannon Collett was born in 1967 in Canada where she married Philip Geisbrecht of Calgary.
15Q16	Laura Collett Wilson was born in Canada in 1968, where in 1989 she married Andrew David North. The married produced a daughter Amy North born in 2000.
15Q17	Andrea Catherine Wilson was born in Canada in 1972, the daughter of Daphne Catherine Collett and Robert Gerald Wilson. In 1998 Andrea married Alan Keith Linsley, and with whom she had a daughter Emma Linsley who was born in Vancouver in 2005.
15Q23	Emma Louise Collett was born in 1973 at Warwick and in 1998 she married Christopher James Stening, Christopher having been born in 1972. They now have two daughters, Freyah Louise Stening born in 2002 at Huntingdon, and Chloe Emma Stening who was also born at Huntingdon in 2005.
15Q24	Richard Michael Collett was born in 1976 at Warwick and in 2003 he married Samantha A Perry.
15Q28	Spencer Thomas Collett was born in 1985 at Kings Lynn and in 2006 he was in the Light Infantry.
15Q29	Benjamin John Collett was born in 1987 at Doncaster, and in 2010 he was a student at Bristol University.
15R1	Andre Collett was born at Coventry in 1958, the first of the five children of Kenneth Frank Collett and his first wife Gloria Stella Nash, his birth recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 9c 26) during the third quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Nash. Andre has a daughter by his former partner Joy Gold, who is now known as Chloe Gold, although she was originally given the forename of Angharad. Andre and Joy also had another daughter Sophie, who died when she was around one year old. In 2015 Andre was one of four Collett siblings living at Anglesey, where their twice married and twice divorced father Ken had also settled in his retirement. Tragically, as the eldest son of Kenneth Collett, Andre was not alive when his father died away in November 2021, having passed away a couple of years earlier at the age of 60. News of his death was a shock for the family, because he died only a few weeks after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer.
15R2	Ian Christopher Collett was born at Coventry in 1961, another child of Ken and Gloria Collett. Ian later fathered a son, Christopher Collett, by his partner Caroline Bryce. Following the premature death of Ian Christopher Collett in 2015, his widow Caroline and son Christopher moved to Northamptonshire.
	15S1		Christopher Collett	Date of birth unknown
15R3	Brett Michael Collett, whose date and place of birth is still not known, despite identifying the other four children of Ken and Gloria Collett. It seems highly likely that he was born in North Wales around 1964, with his two younger siblings (below) born at Holy Head, while his two older brothers were born in Coventry. married Emma and in 2016 the childless couple was living in Anglesey, with Brett’s father living in a cottage adjacent to their own property.
15R4	Tristan Collett was born at Holy Head, North Wales, while his birth was recorded at Anglesey West register office (Ref. 8a 78) during the fourth quarter of 1966, where his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Nash. He was the youngest son and the fourth of the five children of Ken and Gloria Collett. He was 23 years old when the marriage of Tristan Collett and Melanie J Scurlock was recorded at the South Glamorgan register office (Vol. 28) in the summer of 1990, with whom he has a daughter and a son. The birth of Sara Louise was recorded at Bangor register office (Ref. 8411b) during the summer of 1993, and the birth son Dylan was also recorded there (Ref. 8411a) during the spring of 1997. In both cases, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Scurlock. By 2016 Tristan and his family were residing in Llandudno Junction, while his three surviving siblings and their father Ken were living locally in nearby Anglesey.
	15S2		Sara Louise Collett	Born in 1993 at Bangor
	15S3		Dylan Collett	Born in 1997 at Bangor
15R5	Bernice Collett was born at Holy Head, her birth recorded at Bangor register office (Ref. 8a 35) during the fourth quarter of 1969, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Nash. She was the only daughter and the youngest of the five children of Kenneth Frank Collett and his first wife Gloria Stella Nash. Bernice later married Dale Costigan from Nuneaton and has three sons, Ralph Costigan, Tate Costigan and Nash Costigan.
15R6	Estelle Clare Collett was born at Warwick in 1972, the eldest of the two daughters of Keith Graham Collett by his first wife Vivien Jones. Estelle married Simon Cox of Lincolnshire, whom she met while at East Sussex University. They have two children, Tamsin Paris Collett-Cox who was born in 1994, and Curtis James Cox who was born in 2004. In 2017 the family was living in Coventry, where Estelle is a school teacher and her daughter Tamsin was studying for a Master’s Degree at Aberystwyth.
15R7	Stephanie Jennifer Collett was born at Coventry in 1975, the younger daughter of Keith and Vivien Collett. She married James Meneaud of Coventry, from whom she has since been divorced, and now works in insurance in Birmingham, where she currently lives.
15R8	Ian Trevor Collett was born at Meriden to the west of Coventry in 1964. He was the eldest of the three children of Maurice Sidney Collett and his wife Elizabeth Margaret Dixon. When Ian was 15 years old, he and his family moved to Beverley. However, when they moved again, to Cheshire six years later in 1985, Ian remained in Yorkshire where, in 1989, he married Jeanette Wilkinson at the coastal town of Withernsea. A few years later their two children were born while the couple was living in the City of York but sadly, since then, they were divorced. Photo: Aug 2009
	15S4		Matthew James Collett		Born in 1996 at York
	15S5		Amy Beth Collett		Born in 1999 at York
15R9	Malcolm Craig Collett was born at Meriden, near Coventry in 1966, and by 1985 he and his family were living at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, having lived for six years at Beverley in East Yorkshire. Malcolm, who is known as Mal, later married Deborah Marie Cassidy at Chester during 2001. Deborah is the daughter of John Cassidy and Catherine Reilly, and was born at Birkenhead in 1962. The couple has lived all their married life together at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, although both of their children were born at the maternity unit in nearby Chester. Much of the new information in the June 2017 version of this file was generously provided by Mal and Keith (Ref. 15Q4), Keith being Mal’s father’s second cousin. Photo: Aug 2009
	15S6		Rachel Joy Collett		Born in 1998 at Chester
	15S7		Nathan James Collett		Born in 2001 at Chester
15R10	Nigel John Collett was born at Coventry during 1968, the last of the three sons born to Maurice and Betty Collett. When he was around ten years old his family moved to Beverley, and that was followed by a move to Ellesmere Port in 1985, at which time his elder brother Ian (above) remained in East Yorkshire. And it was to Yorkshire that Nigel returned sometime after 1985. It was within the Harrogate area of Yorkshire that he married a Russian lass from whom he was later divorced. Photo: Aug 2009
15S4	Matthew James Collett was born at York in 1996, the son and the eldest of two children of Ian Trevor Collett and Jeanette Wilkinson. By 2019 Matthew, who is known as Matt, had graduated from Manchester metropolitan university with a degree in geography and in 2020 was living and working in London. The original photograph, of which this is just an extract, was taken of Matt, together with his two cousins, Rachel and Nathan (below), standing in front of The Radcliffe Camera in Oxford. Photograph taken at Oxford in 2019
15S5	Amy Beth Collett was born at York in 1999, the daughter of Ian Trevor Collett and Jeanette Wilkinson. Photo: Aug 2009
15S6	Rachel Joy Collett was born at Chester in 1998, the eldest of the two children of Malcolm Craig Collett and his wife Deborah Marie Cassidy. In 2019, her father proudly announced that Rachel Collett had just graduated with honours in History from Wadham College, Oxford. After that, she went on to earn an MA in History of Art with honours at Oriel College, Oxford in 2020 since when, Rachel has been living and working in London. This snapshot of Rachel was taken from a larger picture taken beside The Radcliffe Camera in Oxford with her brother Nathan (below) and cousin Matt (above). Photograph taken at Oxford in 2019
15S7	Nathan James Collett was born at Chester in 2000, the youngest of the two children of Malcolm Craig Collett and his wife Deborah Marie Cassidy. Malcolm also said that he and Deborah are equally as proud of Nathan who, in September 2019 began his adventure at the University of Nottingham studying English and History. This picture of Nathan was taken in Oxford, next to The Radcliffe Camera, together with his sister Rachel and cousin Matt (above), both of whom had graduated from their respective universities. Photograph taken at Oxford in 2019
	Appendix One - The Other Sidney Collett of Coventry
	In the past, there has been a little confusion over Sidney Collett who was born at Coventry around 1896 – 1901. This has been resolved to some extent, in that the Sidney who IS connected to this family line was Sidney Frederick Collett (Ref. 15P19), the son of Sidney Collett and Charlotte Dingley. It now appears that the other Sidney Collett was born at Coventry just after the census in 1901. It would further appear that he became an orphan before 1911 because, by the time of the census that year, he was living with his aunt and uncle at 15 Leigh Street in Coventry when he was nine years old.
15p1	Sidney Collett was born at Coventry in 1901 to undetermined parents. According to the census in 1911 he was nine years old and born at Coventry, and was the nephew of carpenter William Smith, aged 56 and of Brandon near Coventry, and his wife Mary Ann Smith, aged 55, from Foleshill in Coventry, who had been married for thirty-seven years. That would place the year they married around 1873, and Mary Ann may have been Mary Ann Collett prior to that event, although nothing has been found to confirm that.
	Moving forward fifteen years to when Sidney was 24, he then married Mabel Jessie Giles, the event recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 6d 837) during the first quarter of 1926. Following that, they had two children while the couple were living in the Foleshill area of Coventry. Nothing more is known about Sidney, but his wife Mabel died in 1983.
	15q1		Eunice D Collett	Born in 1928 at Foleshill, nr Coventry
	15q2		Robert S Collett	Born in 1930 at Foleshill, nr Coventry
15q1	Eunice D Collett was born at Foleshill in 1928, the eldest of the two children of Sidney Collett and Mabel Giles. In 1952 Eunice married Stanley G Lowndes and they had a daughter Alison D Lowndes who was born in 1956.
15q2	Robert S Collett was born at Foleshill in 1930, his birth recorded there (Ref. 6d 84) during the second quarter of the year, the youngest child of Sidney Collett and Mabel Giles. Perhaps through his travels for work, Robert met his future wife, when the subsequent marriage of Robert S Collett and Margaret K Sidaway was recorded at Bedwellty in Monmouthshire (Ref. 8c 3) during the third quarter of 1956, where Margaret had been born in 1931. Once married the couple settle in Coventry where their two children were born.
	15r1		David J Collett		Born in 1959 at Coventry
	15r2		Elizabeth A Collett		Born in 1962 at Coventry
15r1	David J Collett was born at Coventry in 1959, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 9c 29) during the last three months of that year, the eldest child of Robert Collett and Margaret Sidaway. He later married Rosemarie A Walton at Nuneaton, their wedding recorded at Nuneaton & Bedworth register office (Vol. 31) during the summer of 1985, who have two children who were born at Nuneaton.
	15s1		Mark Thomas Collett		Born in 1985 at Nuneaton
	15s2		Rebecca Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1989 at Nuneaton
	Appendix Two – Unused Collett Records for St Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry
	The earliest record of a Collett at St Michael’s Church (as was) was Mary Collett who was baptised there in 1664. Sadly, there was no reference to her parents.
	Just over one hundred years later, in 1768, the records include the baptism of Henrietta Collett, the daughter of Thomas Collett and his wife Mary. It is possible, although not proved, that Thomas was the son of Thomas Collett (Ref. 15J3) and his wife Elizabeth who were married in Coventry in 1744.
	In 1796 Henry Collett was baptised there, and he was the son of William Collett and his wife Mary.
	After that there was the marriage of John Collett to Catherine Smith in 1808, followed by a succession of baptisms, as follows:
	In 1814 Joseph Collett, the son of Joseph Collett and Phoebe; in 1820 Phoebe Collett married John Pickard – could she have been the widow of Joseph Collett; in 1826 Sarah Ann Collett the daughter of Henry Collett and Elizabeth;
	There is then an entry for Job Collett and his wife Hannah, for the baptism of their son Henry Collett in 1836. The later baptism of Kate Collett in 1860, to parents Job and Hannah, relates to Ref. 15N14 in the main body of this file, which is not the same Job and Hannah Collett, as the Hannah here was only born in 1828.
	Appendix Three - Other Collett Records for St Nicholas’ Church in Willoughby
	It was in 1634 that Nicholas Collett married Magdalene Butlin (Butlyn), following which they had three children who were also baptised at the parish church in Willoughby. They were John Collett, baptised in 1634, Mary Collett who was baptised in 1636, and Magdalene Collett who was baptised in 1639.
	Nicholas and Magdalene may also have had a son Robert Collett, since it was at Willoughby that a Robert Collett married Roberta Thompson during 1666.
	There is also a rather vague entry which may relate to Magdalene Collett. The item refers to the burial of widow Collett (Collitt) in 1677.
	Curiously a more recent record is the church memorial to Murray J Collett who was killed during the 1914 – 1918 War, for whom there is no corresponding record with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
	Appendix Four - Other Collett Records for Warwickshire
	One of the earliest recording of a Collet in Warwickshire is William Collett from was the Vicar of Frankton from 1485 to 1529, Frankton being south-west of Rugby.
	Another was Richard Collett who, from 1508 to 1527, was the Vicar at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry.
	Within ‘The Stoneleigh Ledger Book’ edited by R H Hilton there is a reference to John Collett on page 24 relating to the Perambulation of Ashow in 1573 to 1575.
	The Church of St Giles at Bubbenhall, to the west of Stretton-on-Dunsmore, includes the following entries in its old records.
	The marriage of Richard Collett to Elizabeth Westley in 1563, the baptism of Agnes Collate in 1564 who was the daughter of Richard Collate, and the marriage of Elizabeth Collett to Thomas Elliott, also in 1564.
	Anne Collett married Francis Lovett at Wyken Church near Coventry in 1658.
	At Grandborough, south of Rugby, Sarah Collett, the daughter of William Collett and his wife Ann, was baptised during 1680, and nearly one hundred years later in 1774, Elizabeth Collitt, the wife of John Collitt of Northampton St James, was buried there.
	In 1718, William Collett, the son of William Collett was baptised at St Margaret’s Church in Hunningham, near Leamington Spa.
	Thomas Collett of Wolverton, between Stratford and Leamington, married Sarah Davis at St Nicholas’ Church in Warwick during 1785.
	During September 1788 William Collett of Warwick married Hannah Arch of Warwick at St Nicholas’ Church.
	In 1795 Martha Collett married Richard Sly at St John’s Church in Coventry, with whom she had twelve children up to 1811, and all of them baptised at St John’s Church.
	At the same church of St John in 1820, Mary Collett married Joseph Adkin.
	Another event at Coventry in 1820 was the burial of S Collett, aged 66, at West Orchards Baptist Church where, five years earlier on 3^rd August 1815, baby N Collett, aged just six months was buried. S Collett would have been born around 1754.
	A married couple, Charles Collett and his wife and Sarah Collett, were both buried at Hatton Church near Warwick in 1921, when they were both 61 years old. Therefore, Charles was born around 1860.
	The daughter of Robert Collett, a blacksmith of Smith Street in Warwick, was married at St Nicholas’ Church in Warwick on 6^th April 1850. She was Sarah Collett, and she married William Mason of Warwick.
	Edwin Collett married Sarah Ann Parsons of Leek Wootton at St Mary’s Church in Warwick during 1881, and two years later their son Ernest Edwin Collett was baptised at the same church in 1883. The parents were recorded as Edwin and Sarah Collett, publicans of 18 The Cape in Warwick.
	On 18^th September 1897 at St Peter’s Church in Coventry Robert Collett, aged 22 and the son of Robert Collett, married Mary Ann Smith. That would place the younger Robert as being born around 1875 and, in the Coventry census of 1901, a Robert Collett aged 27 was a bricklayer married to Mary A Collett who was 23, both of them born in Coventry. Ten years after that, a Mary Ann Collett aged 32 was still living in Coventry, but there was no record of a Robert of the right age.
	Two more recent records relate to the burial at St Michael’s Church in the village of Budbrooke to the west of Warwick of a married couple. The first of these in 1905, was the burial of John Collett aged 68, who was the husband of Mary Ann Collett, while the second was, Mary Ann Collett herself who was buried in 1924 at the age of 85. John would therefore have been born around 1837.
Appendix Five – Details extracted from the Coventry Leet Book
The Coventry Leet Book, or Mayor's Register, or View of Frankpledge AD 1420-1555, was transcribed and edited by Mary Dormer Harris between 1907 and 1913
The reference to Gosford Street in the first three items is interesting because it is still there in 2011 and contains the oldest Merchant’s House in Coventry. Today the 14^th Century Merchant’s House is the Whitefriars Olde Ale House, details of which can be found at www.whitefriarscov.com

Date	Names			Reference
23 June 1434	Ric. Colet	King Henry VI, visit to Coventry	Ric. Colet of Gosford Street paid 1s 8d	Page 161
1444	Ric. Collett	Loan to the King Henry VI	Ric. Collett of Gosford Street paid 4s	Page 209
1449	Tho. Colette	The King's Loan, Henry VI	Tho. Colette of Gosford Street paid 5s	Page 240
1449/50	Tho. Colette	Provision of armour	Tho. Colette recorded as one of 59 drapers having 93 jacks*	Page 247
		*a jack was a substantially padded gambesan (quilted jacket) for war
13 October 1451	Tho. Colet	The new Charter	Tho. Colet was one of 77 councillors	Page 266
1461	Tho. Colet	Troops raised for the Earl of Warwick to fight for Edward IV against Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou at Battle of Towton (Palm Sunday 1461)	Payment of 2s by Tho. Colet for wages of 14 men (£40) that went with Earl of Warwick to fight	Page 318
6 December 1469	Tho. Collett	Prior and the Common Lands	Tho. Collett part of persons who agree to concessions to the prior	Page 351
11 April 1472	Tho. Colett	Briscow & the Lammas Lands	Commune together concerning Briscow's business and costs thereof	Page 377
1486	Eliz. Colet	Accounts	Payment of 1s 8d for ale	Page 531
20 October 1531	Edw. Colett & his wife Alice	Agreement with Craft of Gurdelers of the City for a house in Yorle Street next unto the corner house of the Abbot of Combe.		Page 705