PART
THIRTY-ONE
The Wiltshire and Somerset Appendix
(a Somerset branch of the
family with its origins in Gloucestershire)
Updated February 2020
The information in
this file was previously in a number of appendices within the original Part 31 –
The Wiltshire and Somerset Line. At the
end of 2019, that file was substantially updated, following receipt from Stephen
Carpenter, of the Wiltshire Family History Society, of transcribed parish
records for the County of Wiltshire.
That work provided a confirmed link between the main body of the file
and the details previously included in Appendix One and Appendix Two. Merging those three elements, together with
the insertion of a massive amount of new details obtained from the parish
records, resulted in the new file, renamed Part 31 – The New Wiltshire Somerset
Line, being too large to retain the third appendix. This, therefore is a revamped version of that
remaining appendix, which would be a shame to lose.
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THE
FAMILY OF WILLIAM THOMAS COLLETT OF BATH |
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When
searching for William Thomas Collett (Ref. 31P23), who was living in Bath shortly
after he was born to parents from South Wraxall, another William Thomas Collett
was discovered, who does not appear anywhere on the Collett Family History website. So, he and his family line have been
included here, in the hope that his actual lineage might be identified at a
later date. To start, we know his
father was also William Collett, but from Marshfield in South Gloucestershire,
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31o1 |
William Collett
was born at Marshfield around 1826, although no record of his birth or baptism
has been found. Who his parents were
in still not known because, at the age of 15, young William Collett was living
at Marshfield with the Holder family of Thomas and Hannah Holder, both 25,
and their son Robert Holder, aged three years. What is known is that, nine years later, he
married Margaret Sarah Lephard (Leppard) who was born at Hungerford in Berkshire,
with their wedding recorded at Bath (Ref. x1 9) during the first quarter of
1851. A few weeks later, the pair of them
was recorded in the census of 1851 at Midsummer Buildings in the Walcot area of
Bath, where the first of their children was born two years later. On that census day, William Collett from
Marshfield was 26 and a farm labourer, and Margaret S Collett from Hungerford
was also 26. |
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After
the Walcot birth of daughter Margaret Elizabeth, the family made their home at
nearby Bathwick, where all of the couple’s remaining children were born and
baptised, with the births recorded in Bath.
According to the census conducted in 1861, the family was residing at Villa
Fields in Bathwick-with-Woolley, where William Collett from Marshfield was 34
and a mason’s labourer and his wife Margaret S Collett from Hungerford was 36.
The five children with them that day
were recorded as Margaret E Collett from Walcot who was eight, Louisa Collett
who was five, William T Collett who was three, and the twins Richard and Robert
Collett who were both two years old. |
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More
children were added to the family over the next decade, although they had to
suffer the loss of son Robert, who died in November 1867. It was also at Villa Fields, Bathwick-with-Woolley,
that the enlarged family was still living in 1871. William was 44 and a labourer, who said he
had been born at Bathwick like all of his children. His wife Margaret S Collett was 46 and from
Hungerford, while their five children were William T Collett aged 13 and
still at school, as was Richard who was 12, James who was nine, Francis G Collett
who was seven and Mary E Collett who was four years of age. The couple’s two eldest daughters had already
left home by then. |
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Perhaps
it was the premature death of his son Robert that had a bad effect on head of
the household William Collett, because it was in the years leading up to the
next census day that he walked out on his family. On that day in 1881, he was a lodger at the
home of the Barton family in nearby Twerton at Dorset Street, when William
Collett from Bath was 53 and a married man, whose occupation was that of a
mason. Sometime after that, he left
Somerset and travelled north to Cheshire where, in 1891, he was a patient at
Upton-by-Chester. The census return just said he had been born in England, that he was
63 and married, and that he had worked as a relieving officer before becoming
ill. The subsequent death of William
Collett at Nantwich was recorded at Chester register office (Ref. 8a 236)
during the third quarter of 1891, when he was still 63, after which he was buried
at Nantwich on 14th July 1891. |
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in 1881, the wife of William Collett was still living at Villa Fields in Bathwick-with-Woolley
with two of her sons. Head of the
household Margaret S Collett from Hungerford continued to say she was married,
and that she was 56 and working as a cook.
Her two sons were Richard who was 21 and Francis who was 17. The next Bathwick census in 1891 recorded Margaret
Collett from Berkshire as being the married head of the household, who was 66
but with no stated occupation. The only
child still living with her, was her son Richard Collett who was 31. It is possible that she would have been
unaware that her husband was ill on that day, and that he passed away a few
months later. It was four years later
that the death of Margaret Sarah Collett was recorded at Bath register office
(Ref. 5c 399) during the second quarter of 1895, when she was 70. |
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31p1 |
Margaret Eliza Collett |
Born in 1853 at
Walcot, Bath |
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Louisa Collett |
Born in 1855 at
Bathwick, Bath |
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William Thomas Collett |
Born in 1857 at
Bathwick, Bath |
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Richard Collett twin |
Born in 1859 at
Bathwick, Bath |
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Robert Collett twin |
Born in 1859 at
Bathwick, Bath |
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James Collett |
Born in 1861 at
Bathwick, Bath |
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Francis George Collett |
Born in 1863 at
Bathwick, Bath |
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Mary Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1867 at
Bathwick, Bath |
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31p1 |
Margaret Eliza Collett was born at Walcot in Bath in 1853 and
was baptised at St Saviour’s Church in Bath on 29th May 1853, the
first-born child of William Collett and Margaret Sarah Leppard. Her birth was recorded at Bath (Ref. 5c 716)
during the second quarter of the year.
She was eight years old in 1861 and, on completing her education, she
left Bathwick to make her own way in the world. Where she was in 1871 has not yet been
discovered, while in 1881, Margaret Eliza Collett was 26 and the domestic cook
at the house of Martin Henry Whish and his wife Ellen at Alderley within the
Chipping Sodbury area of South Gloucestershire. Also employed at the same address was her
sister Louisa (below) who was a housemaid for the couple, and their youngest
sister Mary Elizabeth who was helping her older sisters. |
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Nine
years later, the marriage of Margaret Eliza Collett and William Hulance was
recorded at the Chipping Sodbury register office (Ref. 6a 249) during the
first quarter of 1889. One year later,
Margaret gave birth to the couple’s only child. By that time Margaret already had a daughter
who was four years old, as confirmed in the Alderley census of 1891. William Hulance was 37, Margaret E Hulance was
36, and daughter Margaret E Hulance was one year of age. The family was again residing in Alderley
in 1901, where William Hulance was 45 and a domestic gardener, Margaret Eliza
Hulance was 47, and daughter Margaret Ellen Hulance was 11. Staying with the family was Margaret’s younger
sister Mary Elizabeth Collett (below). |
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Where
the family was in 1911 is not known, although it is confirmed that the death
of Margaret Eliza Hulance, nee Collett, was recorded at Bath register office
(Ref. 5c 578) during the last three months of 1922, at the age of 69. |
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Louisa Collett was born in 1855 at Bathwick, just east
of Bath, where she was baptised at St Mary’s Church on 12th August
1855, another daughter of William and Margaret Sarah Collett. She was five years old in 1861, but was not
living at the family home in Bathwick-with-Woolley in 1871. That year, Louisa Collett was 15 and a servant
at the Widcombe home of Joseph Chinnock, aged 74, and his much younger wife Jane
who was 45. Ten years later, she was
reunited with her older sister Margaret (above), when they were working together
in the service of the Whish family at the Alderley (Chipping Sodbury) when
Louisa from Bath was 24 and a domestic servant and housemaid. |
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Louisa
was still working for widowed Martin Whish in 1891 at the age of 35, but on
that occasion, one of the other two servants was her younger sister Mary E Collett
(below). She was still unmarried at
the end of the century when she was still a servant at the Alderley home of Martin
Henry Swish who was 85, when Louisa Collett from Bathwick was 45. As a loyal servant of Martin Whish for most of
her working life, it would appear that she was a beneficiary upon his death
and was able to retired to Torquay, where she was living in 1911, in the St
Marychurch district of the town.
Unmarried Louisa Collett was 55 and living on private means. Just over ten years later, the death of
Louisa Collett was recorded at Newton Abbott register office (Ref. 5b 141) during
the last three months of 1921, when she was 66. |
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William Thomas Collett was born at Bathwick in 1857, the
third child and eldest son of William Collett and Margaret Sarah Leppard. His birth was recorded at Bath (Ref. 5c 631)
during the third quarter of 1857, following which he was baptised at St Mary’s
Church in Bathwick on 9th August 1857 and was three years old in 1861.
By 1871 William was 13 years old and still
attending school, while living with his family at Bathwick-with-Woolley. The later marriage of William Thomas Collett
and Catherine Mary Deverill was recorded at Bath during the fourth quarter of
1880 (Ref. 5c 1033). Catherine (or Caroline
– see later) was born at Hinton Charterhouse in Somerset, with her birth recorded
at Bath (Ref. 5c 708) during the second quarter of 1859 as Caroline Mary Deverell. By 1871, Catherine Deverill, from Hinton
Charterhouse, was a servant aged 12 years at Norton St Philip, just south of
Hinton Charterhouse, the home of octogenarian Susan Withers and her elderly
son Charles Withers. |
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In the neighbouring county of Wiltshire, Elizabeth Deverill
(1785-1865) was the wife of William Collett (Ref. 31N3) of South Wraxall near
Bradford-on-Avon, not far from Bath. |
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Within
six months of her wedding day, Catherine was named as Mary Collett in the census
of 1881, when she and two of her younger siblings were living at Twerton Hayes
Buildings in Twerton (Bath), with her husband William T Collett, aged 23 and a
plumber’s labourer from Bath. Mary
Collett from Hinton Charterhouse was 22, Daniel Deverill was 16 and Maria Deverill
was eight years old and also born at Hinton Charterhouse. As far as can be determined, Catherine presented
William with four children while the couple was living at Twerton, the first
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By
1891 the family was still living at Twerton, where William T Collett was 35 and
again working as a plumber’s labourer.
His wife, named as Caroline Mary Collett was 32 and had presented William
with three children. William Henry Collett
was nine, Margaret Elizabeth Mary Collett was six, and Martin Richard Charles
Collett was four. Staying with the family was William’s younger brother James
Collett (below), who was 29, and uncle James Palmer from Suffolk, aged 48, who
was a widower and a jobbing gardener. Ten
years later, the Bath census return, completed in 1901, included plumber William
T Collett who was 43, his wife Kate Mary Collett who was 42, and sons Martin Collett
and Alfred Collett who were 14 and five years of age respectively, both of
them born at Twerton, as were all of their children. |
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Nine
years after that census day, the death of William’s wife was recorded at Bath
register office (Ref. 5c 275) during the third quarter of 1910, when she was
51 years old. Curiously, like the
census in 1891, she was listed as Caroline M Collett. In addition to that, it is very interesting
that the eldest daughter of her son William, was also given the name Caroline
Maud Mary Collett, Maud being the name of his wife. Her demise was confirmed in the census of
1911, when William Thomas Collett from Bathwick was a widower at the age of 54,
whose occupation was that of a labourer and a plumber. Looking after him, his son Alfred, and his
brother Richard (below), was his unmarried daughter Margaret Collett, who was
described as a domestic cook. |
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At
the time of his death, his stated age was incorrectly recorded as being 63,
rather than 69, when the death of William Collett was recorded at Bath
register office (Ref. 5c 590) during the final three months of 1926. |
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31q1 |
William Henry H Collett |
Born in 1881 at
Twerton, Bath |
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Margaret Elizabeth Mary Collett |
Born in 1884 at
Twerton, Bath |
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Martin Richard Charles Collett |
Born
in 1886 at Twerton, Bath |
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Alfred James L Collett |
Born in 1895 at
Twerton, Bath |
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Richard Collett was born at Bathwick in 1859 and was
the twin brother of Robert (below). They
were baptised together at Bathwick on 10th April 1859, the second and
third male children of William and Margaret Collett. The birth of Richard Collett was recorded
at Bath (Ref. 5c 733) during the first three months of 1859 and he was two
years old in the Bathwick-with-Woolley census of 1861. Four years after the death of his twin-brother,
Richard was again living with his family at Bathwick-with-Woolley in 1871 at
the age of 12 years. However, in 1881,
Richard Collett from Bathwick was living at Villa Fields in Bathwick with his
just mother and his brother Francis, when he was 21 and a labourer. |
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He
never married and, at the age of 31, he was again working as a labourer in
1891, when he was the only child still living at Bathwick with his mother who,
by then, had been separated from his father for over ten years. Where Richard was in 1901 has not been
determined, but by 1911 he was a mason’s labourer working in the building
trade, when he was 52, unmarried, and born at Bathwick, staying at the Bath
home of his widowed older brother William Thomas Collett. Twenty-five years later, the death of Richard
Collett of Bathwick was recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 605) during
the second quarter of 1936 when he was 77. |
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Robert Collett was born at Bathwick in 1859 and was
the twin brother of Richard (above) whose joint births were recorded at Bath
(Ref. 5c 733). They were baptised together
at Bathwick on 10th April 1859, the second and third male children
of William and Margaret Collett.
Robert was two years of age in 1861, when he and his family were residing
in Bathwick-with-Woolley. Tragically,
he was only eight years old, when he died at Bathwick, the death of Robert Collett
recorded at Bath (Ref. 5c 408) during the fourth quarter of 1867. He was then buried at Bathwick on 21st
November 1867. |
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James Collett was born at Bathwick in 1861 and just
after the census day that year, with his birth recorded at Bath (Ref. 5c 732)
during the second quarter of the year.
He was a few months old when he was baptised at Bathwick on 14th
July 1861, another son of William and Margaret Collett. It was at Bathwick-with-Woolley that he was
living with his family in 1871, when James was nine years old. After leaving school, he also left Bathwick
and in 1881 he was working as a servant and domestic gardener at a dwelling in
the Gloucestershire village of Northleach, when James Collett from Bath was 19. Ten years later, on the day of the census
in 1891, James Collett was staying with the family of his older brother William
Collett (above), at Twerton, when he was still unmarried at the age of 29,
and employed as a plate layer on the Midland Railway. |
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A
little over four years after that day, the marriage of James Collett and (1) Rebecca
Tessa Leppard was recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 1052) during the
fourth quarter of 1895, Leppard also being his mother’s maiden name. Two year later, Rebecca presented James with
a son who was born at Bath, where the three of them were living in 1901. James Collett was a general labourer of 39,
his wife Rebecca Teressa Collett from Canada was 37, and their son was Albert
James Leppard Collett who was three years of age. Tragically, Rebecca died during the following
year, most likely at the time of the birth of the couple’s second child, who
also did not survive. The death of Rebecca
Teressa Collett was recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 311) during the
third quarter of 1902, when she was 39. |
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In
1901, his brother Francis (below) was a married man with a family living in
Bath where, staying with them was his sister-in-law, unmarried Anna S Snell,
aged 28, who was a confectioner’s shop assistant. One year after losing his first wife, the
marriage of widower James Collett and spinster (2) Anna Selina Snell was recorded
at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 1098) during the third quarter of 1903. Anna was the daughter of Thomas and Ann Snell
and was born in 1872, being ten years older than James. What is strange, is that no record of James,
Anna, or James’ son Albert, has been identified anyway in 1911, so it has not
been possible to discover if James had any children with Anna during the
first eight years of their marriage. |
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What
is known, is that Geoffrey W G Collett was born at Bath in 1914, when his mother’s
maiden name was confirmed as Snell. The
later death of James Collett of Bathwick was recorded at Bath register office
(Ref. 5c 520) during the third quarter of 1934 when he was 73. His obituary was published in the Bath
Chronicle & Herald on 7th July 1934, included the surname of
Chancellor, possibly the name of his solicitor. Being so much younger than her husband, it was
nearly twenty years after losing her husband, when the death of Anna S Collett
was recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 7c 39) during the last quarter of
1953, at the age of 81. |
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Albert James Leppard Collett |
Born in 1897 at
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Geoffrey W G Collett |
Born in 1914 at
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Francis George Collett was born in 1863 at Bathwick, where he
was baptised on 13th March 1864, the seventh child of William and
Margaret Collett. His birth was recorded
at Bath (Ref. 5c 672) during the last three months of the previous year and as
Francis G Collett, he was seven years of age in the Bathwick-with-Woolley
census of 1871. He was 17 in the
Bathwick census of 1881, one of only two sons still living there with his
mother at Villa Fields, when he was employed as a porter. It is not known where he was in 1891, but
four years later he married Rosina Snell, daughter of daughter of Thomas and
Ann Snell, whose younger daughter Anna later became the second wife of James
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The
marriage of Francis George Collett and Rosina Snell was recorded at Bath
register office (Ref. 5c 823) during the first quarter of 1895, when the
groom was 32. Francis was a butcher
who was living in Bath in 1901, at the age of 37. By then, he and Rosina, aged 31 and from Castle
Combe, had three sons, all of the born in Bath. Reginald Collett was five, Harold Collett was
four and Leonard Collett, who was not yet one year old. Staying with the family was Rosina’s younger
sister Anna S Snell who was 29 and also born at Castle Combe who, two years
later married Francis’ brother James. |
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couple’s final child was also born in Bath, before the family moved to nearby
Widcombe, just south of Bathwick, where they were living in 1911. George Collett was 47, a butcher, and Rose
Collett was 41, when only three of their four sons was living with them,
following the death of son Leonard at Bath in 1904. The surviving three sons were Reginald 15,
Harold 14 and new arrival Leslie for was four years old. Once again, one of Rosina’s younger sisters
was living with them, and she was Rachel Snell from Castle Combe who was 22. |
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Francis
and Rosina died just three years apart, their deaths recorded at Bath register
office. The passing of Francis George Collett
was recorded there during the last three months of 1937 (Ref. 5c 589), when
he was 73, and it was during the same period in 1940, that the death of Rosina
Collett was recorded there (Ref. 5c 1490) at the age of 70. |
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Reginald George William Collett |
Born in 1895 at
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Harold James L Collett |
Born in 1897 at
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Leonard John Collett |
Born in 1900 at
Bath |
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Leslie Collett |
Born in 1906 at
Bath |
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Mary Elizabeth Collett was born at Bathwick, possibly at the
end of 1866 or during the first weeks of 1867, with her birth recorded at
Bath (Ref. 5c 392) during the first quarter of 1867. She was baptised at Bathwick on 10th
February 1867, the last child of William Collett and his wife Margaret Sarah Leppard. She was four years old in the Bathwick-with-Woolley
census of 1871 while, at the age of 13 in 1881, she was already a domestic helper
in Alderley, at the same address where her two older sisters Margaret and Louisa
were employed as servants to the Whish family. In 1891 Mary E Collett was 24 when she was
working alongside her older sister Louisa (above) as domestic servants at the
Alderley home of widower Martin Whish.
After another decade, unmarried Mary Elizabeth Collett, aged 34 and from
Bathwick, was a visitor at the Alderley home of her married sister Margaret Eliza
Hulance, when her occupation was that of a domestic servant in 1901. |
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William Henry H Collett was born at Twerton sometime after the
day of the census in 1881, with his birth recorded at Bath (Ref. 5c 564) during
the third quarter of that year. He was
the eldest of the four known children of William Thomas Collett and Catherine
Mary Deverill who, as William Henry Collett was nine years old in the Twerton
census of 1891. A few days before the
next census in 1901, the marriage of William Henry H Collett and Maud Mary
Carter was recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 791). Then, on the day of the census that year,
William H Collett from Bath was 21 (sic) and a book-binder and his wife Maud
M Collett was 20 (sic) and also born in Bath, who had no job of work. |
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Maud
Mary Carter was born at Walcot during the first months of 1883, making her only
eighteen years old when she married nineteen-year-old William. It is believed that their marriage produced at
least three children born at Bathwick, with all three recorded with the couple
on the day of the Bath census in 1911 in the Weston district of the town. By that time, William H Collett from Twerton
was 29, when his occupation was that of a machinist in the printing trade. Maud M Collett from Walcot was 28 and their
three children were Caroline M M Collett who was nine, Dorothy L G Collett
who was six and Ernest W H Collett who was two years of age, all three confirmed
as having been born at Bathwick. |
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Just
over fifty years after that day, the death of William H H Collett was recorded
at Wells register office (Ref. 7c 209) during the third quarter of 1962, when
he was 80 years old. Two years prior
to his passing, he had been widowed following the death of Maud M Collett,
which was recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 7c 20) during the last three
months of 1960, at the age of 77. |
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Caroline Maud Mary Collett |
Born in 1901 at
Bathwick, Bath |
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Dorothy Louisa G Collett |
Born in 1904 at
Bathwick, Bath |
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Ernest William Henry Collett |
Born
in 1908 at Bathwick, Bath |
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31q2 |
Margaret Elizabeth Mary
Collett was born at Twerton
on 19th July 1884, her birth recorded at Bath (Ref. 5c 573) during
the third quarter of the year, the second child of William and Catherine Collett.
She was recorded using her full name
in the Twerton census of 1891, when she was six years old. After leaving school she entered domestic
service and in 1901 she was described simply as Margaret Collett who was 18
and a parlourmaid living and working at the Bath home of Sicilian born Thomas
Ninmo, a Major General with the Indian Staff Corps, and his family. |
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Following
the death of her mother in 1910, Margaret returned to the family home in
Bath, where she was living with her widowed father and her youngest brother
Alfred (below), who had living with them Margaret’s uncle Richard Collett, her
father’s younger brother. Once again, she
was simply included in the census of 1911, as Margaret Collett from Twerton
who was 27 and a domestic cook. |
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Three
years later, the marriage of Margaret E M Collett and John H Tucker was
recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 1215) during the last quarter of 1914.
John Henry Tucker was born at Bath in
1881, the son of Edward and Catherine Tucker. The marriage provided the couple with a daughter
and a son, the record of their births confirmed their mother’s maiden name was
Collett. The birth of Margaret G Tucker
was recorded at Bath register office during the last three months of 1916 (Ref.
5c 770), where the birth of Ronald J Tucker was recorded (Ref. 5c 649) during
the second quarter of 1919. The death
of Margaret Elizabeth M Tucker was recorded at Bath during the first weeks of
1976 (Ref. 22 0290), when she was 91. |
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Martin Richard Charles Collett was born at Twerton, Bath in 1886 with
his birth recorded at Bath (Ref. 5c 588) during the third quarter of that
year. As with his sister (above), Martin
was also listed in the Twerton census of 1891 under his full name, when he was
four years of age. After a further ten
years, Martin Collett had completed his schooling and, at the age of 14, was
already working as a barber, while still living with his parents in Bath. Rightly or wrongly, it has been assumed that
Martin left Great Britain during the first decade of the new century, since
no record of him has been found in the census of 1911, nor that of a marriage
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31q4 |
Alfred James L Collett was born at Twerton in 1895 and was
the last child born to William Thomas Collett and Catherine Mary Deverill. His birth, like his older siblings, was recorded
at Bath registry office (Ref. 5c 513) during the fourth quarter of 1895. Sometime after he was born his family moved
to Bath, where they were living in 1901, when Alfred Collett from Twerton was
five years old and one of only two children still with their parents. Following the death of his mother in 1910,
Alfred had left school and was working as an antique dealer’s messenger at the
age of 15, when he was living with his widowed father, his unmarried sister Margaret
and his uncle Richard Collett. |
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It
was in the second quarter of 1920 that Alfred J L Collett married Hilda B Mortimer,
the event recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 1491). Over the following years Hilda gave birth to
four children, which was followed by the premature death of her husband, when
the death of Alfred J Collett, aged 38, was recorded at Bath register office
(Ref. 5c 729) during the first quarter of 1934. |
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31r4 |
Betty K Collett |
Born in 1921 at
Bath |
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31r5 |
Enid M Collett |
Born in 1923 at
Bath |
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31r6 |
Hazel M Collett |
Born
in 1926 at Bath |
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31r7 |
Eric J Collett |
Born
in 1931 at Bath |
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31q5 |
Albert James Leppard Collett was born at Bath on 7th September
1897, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 5c 508) during the last three months
of 1897. He was the only known child
of James Collett and Rebecca Tessa Leppard who was three years of age in the
Bath census of 1901. Albert was four
years old when his mother died and was five years old when his father married
his sister-in-law, the sister of his brother Francis’ wife. Although no record of Albert, his father or
his stepmother, has been found, it was during the third quarter of 1924 when,
at the age of 27, he married Edith M Blyth, the event recorded at Bath (Ref. 5c
1165). No record of any children has
been found and in 1975 the death of Albert J L Collett was recorded at Bath
register office (Ref. 22 0231) early in that year. |
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31q6 |
Geoffrey William G Collett was born at Bath on 23rd June
1914, the son of James Collett by his second wife Anna Selina Snell, his birth
recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 834) during the third quarter of
1914, when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Snell. He never married and he was still living in
the Bath area when he died in the spring of 1986 at the age of 71, his death
recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 22 83). |
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31q7 |
Reginald George William Collett was born at Bath on 1st
August 1895, where his birth was recorded (Ref.5c 569) during the third
quarter of the year. He was the eldest
of the four sons of Francis George Collett and Rosina Snell and was five years
old in the Bath census of 1901. By
1911 the family was residing in the Widcombe area of Bath, just south of
Bathwick, when Reginald had already left school and was working as a
watchmaker at the age of 15. It was
fourteen years later, as Reginald George W Collett, that his marriage to Gladys
M Farley was recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 1166) during the third
quarter of 1925. After being married
for four years Glady gave birth to a son whose birth was recorded at Bath. The family appear to have lived their life
at Bath, where the death of Reginald George Collett was recorded (Ref. 7c 803)
during the spring of 1973, when he was 77. |
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Kenneth Reginald Collett |
Born in 1929 at
Bath |
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31q8 |
Harold James L Collett was born at Bath in 1897 with his
birth recorded there (Ref. 5c 529) during the second quarter of the year. As simply Harold Collett, he was four years
old in the Bath census of 1901 and was 14 in 1911 when he and his family were
living in Widcombe, from where Harold was already working as a printer. Like his older brother Reginald (above),
Harold was also married in 1925, but earlier in the year, when the marriage
of Harold J L Collett and Ethel Schickel was recorded at Bath register office
(Ref. 5c 1188) during the second quarter of that year. The marriage produced two children for the couple,
both recorded at Bath register office, where the later death of Harold J L
Collett was also recorded at Bath (Ref. 7c 398) during the first quarter of
1968, when he was 71. |
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31r9 |
David James L Collett |
Born in 1931 at
Bath |
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31r10 |
Kathleen Mary R Collett |
Born in 1935 at
Bath |
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31q9 |
Leonard John Collett was born at Bath towards the end 1900,
with his birth recorded there (Ref. 5c 501) during the last three months of
that year. He was only a few months old
in the Bath census of 1901, while it was just over three years later, that
the death of Leonard John Collett was recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c
304) during the third quarter of 1904. |
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31q10 |
Leslie Collett was born at Bath in 1906, the last of
the four sons of Francis George Collett and Rosina Snell. His birth was also recorded at Bath register
office (Ref. 5c 474), during the third quarter of the year and by 1911, when
he and his family were residing in the Widcombe area of south Bathwick, when
Leslie was four years old. It seems that
he never married and lived all of his life in the Bath area, where his death
was recorded (Ref. 7c 53) during the third quarter of 1957, when he was 51. |
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31r1 |
Caroline Maud Mary Collett was born at Bathwick on 30th
July 1901, her birth recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 613) during
the third quarter of the year. She was
the eldest child of William Henry H Collett and Maud Mary Carter and was nine
years old in the Weston (Bath) census of 1911. She was around 28 years of age when she married
Ernest E V Perrett, their wedding day recorded at Bath (Ref. 5c 1272) during
the third quarter of 1929. She and Ernest
later moved west, within the county, to live in the Taunton, where they were
joined at some time by Caroline’s brother Ernest Collett (below). And it was there, at Taunton Deane register
office (Ref. 23 1462), that the death of Caroline Maud M Perrett was recorded
at the start of 1990, four years before her brother’s death was also recorded
there. |
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31r2 |
Dorothy Louisa G Collett was born at Bathwick near the end of 1904
and her birth was recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 487) during the first
months of 1905. It was in 1927, as Dorothy
L G Collett, that her marriage to Walter L Wilkins was recorded at Bath (Ref.
5c 1258) during the second three months of that year. Dorothy gave birth to the couple’s only known
child nine months later, when the birth of John L Wilkins was recorded at
Bath register office (Ref. 5c 653) during the last months of that same year,
his mother’s maiden name confirmed as Collett. Her son was only three years old when his
mother died, possibly giving birth to her second child, who also did not
survive the ordeal. The death of Dorothy
L G Wilkins was recorded at Bath (Ref. 5c 734) during the first quarter of
1931, at the age of 26. |
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31r3 |
Ernest William Henry Collett was born at Bathwick on 19th
February 1909, the only son of William Collett and Maud Carter, whose birth
was recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 453). It would appear that he never married and,
later in his life, settled in the Taunton area of Somerset, most likely living
at the home of his married sister Caroline (above). The death of the two siblings was recorded
at Taunton Deane register office within four years of each other, the passing
of Ernest William H Collett recorded there (Ref. 7241b b59b) during the early
months of 1994. |
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31r4 |
Betty K Collett was born at Bath in 1921, where her
birth was recorded (Ref. 5c 888) during the third quarter of the yea, when
her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Mortimer. Her marriage to Ernest H Reeves was recorded
at Bath register office (Ref. 7c 26) during the first three months of 1947. |
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31r5 |
Enid M Collett was born at Bath in 1923, her birth
recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 774) during the first quarter of that
year, when her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Mortimer. She was 21 when she married William A Gibbs
in 1944, the event recorded at Bath (Ref. 5c 1089) during the last three months
of the year. |
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31r6 |
Hazel M Collett was born at Bath in 1926 and her birth,
like those of her two older sisters, was recorded there during the second quarter
of the year (Ref. 5c 739), her mother’s maiden name being Mortimer. She married Dennis H Davies at Bath, where their
marriage was recorded (Ref. 7c 34) during the second quarter of 1948. |
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31r7 |
Eric James Collett was born at Bath in 1931, where his
birth was recorded (Ref. 5c 638) during the last three months of that year, the
last child of Alfred James L Collett and Hilda B Mortimer. He had only just celebrated his second birthday,
when his father suffered a premature death. Raised by his widowed mother, it seems that
he never married, with the death of Eric J Collett being recorded at Bath register
office (Ref. 7c 12) during the second quarter of 1965, when he was only 33 years
old. |
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31r8 |
Kenneth Reginald Collett was born in Bath on 16th
June 1929, the only known child of Reginald George William Collett and Gladys
M Farley. His birth was recorded at Bath
register office (Ref. 5c 644) during the third quarter of 1929, when the mother’s
maiden name was confirmed as Farley. No record of a marriage had been found,
while the death of Kenneth Reginald Collett was recorded at Bath & North
East Somerset register office (Ref. 300/1 c8d) during the first months of 2004,
at the age of 74. |
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31r9 |
David James L Collett was born at Bath in 1931, the older
of the two children of Harold James L Collett and Ethel Schickel. His birth was recorded at Bath during the second
quarter of that year (Ref. 5c 690), when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed
as Schickel. David was twenty-seven when
he married Valerie A Nicholls, their wedding recorded at Bristol register office
(Ref. 7b 99) during the first quarter of 1959. |
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31r10 |
Kathleen Mary R Collett was born at Bath on 21st December
1934, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 5c 587) during the first three months
of the following year, her mother’s maiden name confirmed as Schickel. It was during the third quarter of 1957,
when the marriage of Kathleen M R Collett and John H G Chitson was recorded
at the Bath register office (Ref. 7c 13), the marriage producing two
sons. David A J Chitson was born
during the second quarter of 1960, his birth recorded at Weymouth register
office (Ref. 7c 1088), when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Collett. He later married Fleur J S Roper in Bournemouth
during 1986. |
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Kathleen’s
second child was Jeremy Chitson, also born at Weymouth, whose birth was recorded
there (Ref. 7c 1195) during the second quarter of 1962. It was during the summer of 1984 that he
married Nichola J Watton at Bath (Ref. 22 275). The later death of Kathleen Mary Chitson,
nee Collett, was recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 3001c c52c) during
the summer of 1995, at the age of 60. |
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