PART THIRTY-FIVE

The Melksham to Wisconsin & Ontario Line – 1890 to 2000

This is the third of three sections of this family line

Updated June 2025

35P127	William Collett was born at Broughton Gifford in 1883, and was the eldest child of Benjamin Collett and Ruth Mortimer, whose birth was registered at Bradford-on-Avon (Ref. 5a 118) during the last three months of 1883. By March 1891 William was seven years of age and the oldest of the six children living with their parents at Mortimer Street in Trowbridge. The family then moved again around 1897 to Bath where William’s father died in 1900. On leaving school William briefly worked with his father learning the trade of a carpenter. That was confirmed in the next census of 1901 when William was 17 and living with his widowed mother and working as a joiner man with his younger brother Ewart (below). No record of William has been found within the census of 1911.
	It may have been through a link to his mother’s Mortimer family that William met, and then married, Daisy May Mortimer, the daughter of Henry Morris Mortimore from Cardiff and his wife Ellen Mortimore from Torquay, where Daisy was born. The birth of Daisy May Mortimore was recorded at Newton Abbot register office (Ref. 5b 134) during the second quarter of 1894. Just before the start of the new century, the family left Devon and settled in Somerset where six-year-old Daisy and her family were recorded in 1901. During the next decade the family returned to Devon and in 1911 were living at Babbacombe, Torquay where, at the age of 16, Daisy was employed as a milliner.
	Four years later, the banns of marriage for William Collett and Daisy May Mortimore were declared at All-Saints’ Church in Babbacombe for their wedding on 4^th April 1915, which was recorded at Newton Abbot register office (Ref. 5b 277) during the second quarter of the year. During the summer of the following year the first of their two daughters was born, followed three years after by their second child. Both births were recorded at Newton Abbot register office when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Mortimer.
	Although described as married in the census of 1921, Daisy May Collett was 27 years and 2 months old when she and her two daughters were living at the Torquay home of her parents. The completed census form does record that her daughters were four years and eight months, and one year and seven months respectively, and that both parents were alive. What happened to William is not currently known, but during the summer of 1945 Daisy May Collett married Cecil H Hill with their wedding recorded at Devon register office (Ref. 5b 884). Just over three years after that happy day, when Daisy May Hill was recorded as being 54 years of age, she died in Devon during the month of January in 1949 and was buried at Torquay Cemetery on 26^th January.
	35Q115	Eulalie Zoe Collett		Born in 1916 at Newton Abbot, Devon
	35Q116	Joyce Collett		Born in 1919 at Newton Abbot, Devon
35P128	Sarah Ann Collett was born on 11^th August 1885, with her birth registered at Frome (Ref. 5c 455), the second child and eldest daughter of Benjamin and Ruth Collett. When she was around three years old her family left Frome and moved to Trowbridge where they were living at Mortimer Street in 1891, when Sarah was five years old. Another family move happened around 1897, with the family settling in Bath. Following the death of her father in 1900, Sarah Collett at the age of 15 was living and working in Broughton Gifford at the home of her widowed grandmother Ruth Mortimore aged 80. Living at the same property was Ruth’s married daughter Eliza Mortimore 33 and her husband Jacob Mortimore aged 30 who was confirmed as Ruth’s son-in-law. With then were their two children Alice Mortimore who was four, and Margaret Mortimore who was two years of age.
	On the same day in 1901, Sarah’s widowed mother Ruth Collett was living at Claude Avenue in Bath with the rest of her family. Around the time that Sarah Ann was approaching twenty-two years of age she married Samuel Champion with their wedding day recorded at Malmesbury register office (Ref. 5a 115) during the second quarter of 1907. So, by April in 1911 Sarah Ann Champion aged 25 and of Frome was living at Twerton in Bath with her husband Samuel who was 28 and employed by Bath City Council, having been born in Twerton. The birth of Samuel Champion, a son of George and Hephzibah was registered at Bath (Ref. 5c 579) during the last quarter of 1882. It was at Broughton Gifford that Samuel died at the age of 80 on 21^st November 1962, with his death recorded at Wiltshire register office (Ref. 7c 421). Sixteen years later, when Sarah Ann Champion was nearly 93, she passed away on 20^th August 1978 and was buried with her husband in the grounds of the Broughton Gifford Baptist Chapel. Her death was also recorded at Wiltshire register office (Vol. 23 1561).
	For the five years from 1918 to 1923 Samuel Champion was the pastor at the Old Baptist Chapel, Chapel Lane (formerly Gutter Lane) off the High Street in Chippenham. During those years he was approached by a church in Southport but declined the offer to move there. However, despite being held in high regard by people of Chippenham, who wanted him to stay, he accepted a request to take over a church in Leicester, where he served for many years. Upon his retirement, Samuel returned to live in Chippenham, where he regularly acted as a supply minister at the Old Baptist Chapel. Although he and wife Sarah received invitations to re-join the chapel, they never did.
	In 2025 Matthew Kime sent in details of connections to the Collett families of Wiltshire. Primarily, he is a descendent of Joshua Mortimer of Broughton Gifford/Norrington Common, and including *Catherine Morris who was born at South Wraxall in 1764 to parents George Morris and Elizabeth Collet who were married there on 30^th December 1755. Details for Elizabeth Collett can be found within the first of two files for Part 31 – The Wiltshire & Somerset Line (Ref. 31L1). The birth of Matthew Kime was recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 7c 81) during the last three months of 1956 when his mother’s maiden-name was Green, being the son of Mary Mortimer Green, whose grandfather was Rowland Hill Green descended from *Catherine Morris.
	For Matthew, Sarah Ann Champion nee Collett was known as Auntie Sadie and her husband as Uncle Sam. From around the age of five years until July 1973 Matthew lived less than fifty-yards from Auntie Sadie and Uncle Sam at their home on Ivy Road in Chippenham. He remembers seeing Uncle Sam only a few times before he died around the time of Matthew’s sixth birthday. He also recalls, after Auntie Sadie was widowed, her younger siblings "congregating around Auntie Sadie". Her sister (Auntie Alice) and her husband (Uncle Wilf) moved in with Auntie Sadie; brother Benjamin Ashleigh (Uncle Ashleigh) and his wife lived five-doors down the hill on Ivy Road; while her brother-in-law Albert Ralph was a visitor to Ivy Road following the death of Auntie Sadie’s sister Amy Ruth Ralph nee Collett (all below).
35P129	Joshua Ewart Collett was born at Frome during the spring of 1887 with his birth registered there (Ref. 5c 486), another son of Benjamin and Ruth Collett. Shortly after he was born his family left Frome and moved to Trowbridge, where they stayed for almost ten years, before finally settling within the Twerton area of Bath. It was simply as Ewart Collett aged three years that he was listed in the census of 1891 at Mortimer Street in Trowbridge. Ten years later he had left school and had taken up the same trade as his late father, who was a carpenter. It was again as Ewart Collett that he was listed in the census of 1901, when he was still living with his widowed mother at Claude Avenue in Bath following the death of his father in the previous year. His occupation at the age of 13 was that of a joiner man, like his brother William (above), with whom he was probably working. By 1911 he was the oldest of the seven members of his family still living with his mother at Maybrick Road in Bath when, at the age of 23, his place of birth was confirmed as Frome. No further record of him has been found after that census day.
35P130	Lena May Collett, previously recorded in error as Lena Mary, was born at Trowbridge in 1888 although, like most of her younger siblings, her birth was recorded at Melksham register office (Ref. 5a 115) during the fourth quarter of the year. And it was at Mortimer Street in Trowbridge that as Lena M Collett she was living there with her family in 1891 at the age of two years. Six years later the family left Trowbridge and settled in Bath, where Lena’s father died in 1900. Nine months later the family was residing at Claude Avenue in Bath on the day of the census in 1901. By then Lena Collett was 12 years old and one of eight children still living with their recently widowed mother. Ten years later, when she was 22, Lena Collett was still living with her mother but at Maybrick Road in Bath. It is likely that she never married and lived most of her life at Bath, where the death of Lena M Collett aged 62 was recorded (Ref. 7c 47) during the autumn of 1951. Afterwards, she was buried at Broughton Gifford in the grounds of the Baptist Chapel on 23^rd September 1951, where other members of the Collett family were laid to rest.
35P131	Kirwin John Collett was possibly born at Mortimer Street in Trowbridge on 5^th July 1890 and, like his sister Lena May (above), his birth was also recorded at Melksham register office (Ref. 5a 119) during the third quarter of the year. He was almost nine months old on the day of the Trowbridge census in 1891 when he was recorded with his family as Kerwin Collett at Mortimer Street, Trowbridge. Around 1897 the growing family left Trowbridge when they moved to Bath where his father died in 1900. Once again, he was recorded as Kirwin Collett aged ten years in the census of 1901, by which time he and his siblings were living at Claude Avenue in Bath with their widowed mother. On leaving school his occupation was that of a grocer, as confirmed by the census in 1911, when he was 20 and unmarried and still living with his mother but at Maybrick Road in Bath.
	It was during the following year that Kirwin first sailed to Canada and settled in Toronto. What happened during the years from 1912 to 1915 is not currently known, but in 1916 [see more details below] his future wife Daisy Maud Salway also sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to join him in Toronto, where they were married on 11^th August 1916. The record of their wedding confirmed that ‘Kerwin’ John Collett was 26 and the son of Benjamin Collett and Ruth Mortimore, while Daisy was the daughter of Edward Salway and Ada Coleman, who was also 26 years of age. Kirwin had submitted The Marriage Act Affidavits on 8^th August with the marriage approved and the licence issued that same day at Toronto in the County of York. The witnesses at the baptist wedding ceremony were Albert A Goodhead and Mabel M Goodhead, both of 155 Hope Avenue in Toronto, the service conducted by Baptist Minister J G Brown of 109 Oakwood Avenue.
	Kirwin travelled from England to Canada, by way of Ireland, arriving in Quebec on 14^th May 1923, by which time he was the father of two sons. The passenger list for the S S Montclare described him as being 32, a baptist, born at Trowbridge, married, a tram conductor, whose wife was Daisy Maud, who was “returning home” to 41 Pears Avenue in Toronto. The steam ship had sailed out of Bristol, England, on 23^rd March 1923 with the passenger list signed by Kirwin John Collett, but with no dots above the i, most likely the reason why his forename was often recorded as Kerwen or Kerwin. The same passenger list also confirmed that the first time he had entered Canada was on 2^nd December 1912 via Portland, Maine, and that the outward-bound journey from Toronto for his current trip home to England was on 10^th March 1923 and via New York.
	Travelling with Kirwin was his wife Daisy aged 26, and sons John aged three, and Douglas George who was two years old. For Douglas his outbound journey to England had been made on 20^th October 1922, shortly after he was born. It was perhaps nine months after returning to their home in Canada that Daisy gave birth to the couple’s third and last known son. The Toronto census in 1931 identified the five members of the family residing at 7 Nairn Avenue in Toronto as Kirwin Collett aged 40 and a street railway conductor from England, his wife Daisy Collett from England who was 41, and their three Toronto born sons. They were John Collett aged 11, Douglas Collett who was ten, and Gilbert Collett who was seven years of age. Lodging with the family was Joseph Philips from England who was 42 and a building labourer who entered Canada in 1917.
	It was as Kirwin John Collett that he died in Toronto on 21^st September 1947 at the age of 57, and was buried at Prospect Cemetery, just south of Nairn Avenue in Toronto. Daisy Maud Salway was born on 18^th May 1890 at Horfield, a suburb of the City of Bristol, with her birth recorded at Barton Regis (Bristol) register office (Ref. 6a 80) during the second quarter of 1890, the third daughter of Edward and Ada Salway. Before she was ten years old her father died and her mother took the family to live in Bath where she was born and where Ada and her three daughters were living in 1901. When she was 20 years old Daisy was living in the same area of Bath as Kirwin, when she was employed by a dairy company, and was the only child still living with her widowed mother Ada Salway.
	So, it may have been around the end of the first decade of the new century that Kirwin and Daisy met each other, followed by a discussion on setting up home together in Canada, with Kirwin going ahead in 1912. As stated above, Daisy sailed to Canada in 1916, arriving in July that year at Quebec City, when the passenger list for the S S Scandinavian included the following details: Daisy M Salway, aged 26, a dairy manager, reason for travel: to be married to Kirwin Collett of 33 Powers Avenue, Toronto, who has worked on electric street cars for 4 years. Many years after being widowed, Daisy was still living in Toronto when she died there on 30^th January 1984, following which as Daisy Salway Collett, she was buried with her husband at Prospect Cemetery.
	35Q117	John Collett		Born in 1920 at Toronto, Canada
	35Q118	Douglas George Collett		Born in 1921 at Toronto, Canada
	35Q119	Gilbert Collett		Born in 1924 at Toronto, Canada
35P132	Amy Ruth Collett was born at Trowbridge in 1892, possibly at Mortimer Street, with the birth recorded at Melksham (Ref. 5a 114) during the third quarter of 1892. Towards the latter part of that decade her family left Trowbridge and moved to Bath where, sadly, her father died not long after. By March 1901 she was recorded as being eight years old, when living with her mother and the rest of her family at Claude Avenue in Bath. Ten years later in April 1911, Amy was 18 and was still living with her family at Maybrick Road in Bath. Just over nine years after that census day the marriage of Amy Ruth Collett and Albert Ralph was recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 1448) during the third quarter of 1920. Albert was the son of John Leck Ralph and his wife Fanny and was born in 1895 and baptised at Great Grimsby in Lincolnshire on 31^st May 1895. In 1911 Albert was 15 when he was still living in Grimsby with his widowed father and younger brother Adolphus 13. At the outbreak of war, Albert enlisted with the Lincolnshire Regiment at Grimsby when he was 19 and assigned the service number 10/932 in 1914. After the war his military record confirmed he was 23 and born in Grimsby and had served with the Royal Army Service Corps, service number M/379598.
	How Amy and Albert came together being over 200 miles apart, remains a mystery but, for the birth of their only known child the couple was in Grimsby, with the birth of Margaret Ruth Ralph recorded at Grimsby register office (Ref. 7a 989) during the second quarter of 1923. However, shortly thereafter the births two more children with Ralph/Collett parents were recorded at Cardiff register office, and they were Sybil Ralph in the autumn of 1924, and Sheila Ralph in 1926. Amy Ruth Ralph nee Collett was 72 when she died on 5^th February 1965, with her death recorded at Hampshire register office (Ref. 6b 286) in 1965, after which she was buried with other members of her family at the Baptist Chapel in Broughton Gifford. Twelve years later the death of Albert Ralph, who was born in May 1895, was recorded at Dorset register office (Vol. 23 0724) in 1977, with his body also laid to rest at Broughton Gifford on 27^th August 1977.
35P133	Benjamin Ashleigh Collett was born at Trowbridge on 21^st June 1894, while his birth was recorded at Melksham (Ref. 5a 113) in the third quarter of that year. Within a few years his family moved to Bath, where his father died and where, in 1901, he was listed as Ashleigh Collett aged six years living with his widowed mother at Claude Avenue. And ten years later in April 1911, he was still listed with his family as Ashleigh Collett, when he was 16, with the family then residing at Maybrick Road in Bath. In 1914, at the age of 20, he enlisted with 47^th Brigade of the 7^th Corps of the Royal Horse and Field Artillery, service number 83654, when his place of birth was confirmed as Trowbridge. It was nine years later, during the third quarter of 1923, that the marriage of Ashleigh Benjamin Collett and Nelly Cam was recorded at Calne register office (Ref. 5a 211). Nelly was seven years older than Benjamin, her birth registered at Pontypridd (Ref. 11a 473) during the first three months of 1887.
	Their wedding took place at Calne in Wiltshire, although there are currently no details to confirm whether they had any children. The birth of May E Collett was recorded at London City register office (Ref. 1c 4) either at the end of 1927 or early in 1928, when the mother’s maiden-name was reported to be Cam. Whether this was the couple’s only child has yet to be confirmed. At some time in their life, Ashleigh was residing on Ivy Road in Chippenham close to where some of his siblings lived. All that is known is known about Benjamin Ashleigh Collett is that he died on 23^rd November 1973 and was buried in the grounds of the Broughton Gifford Baptist Chapel. His passing at the age of 79 in 1973 was recorded at Wiltshire register office (Ref. 7c 1924) as Benjamin Ashley Collett. The last eight years of his life was spent as a widower following the earlier death of his wife on 3^rd November 1965 who was also buried at Broughton Gifford. The death of Nelly Collett was recorded at Somerset register office (Ref. 7c 62) at the age of 78.
35P134	Nelson Victor Collett was born at Trowbridge in 1896 and his birth was also recorded at Trowbridge register office (Ref. 5a 122) during the second quarter of that year. At the age of 14, he was already working as a printer for a book check company, when he was living with his widowed mother at Maybrick Road in Bath. Seven years later, the premature death of Nelson Victor Collett was recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 961) after he had died at Twerton in 1918 at the age of 22.
35P135	Eliza Catherine Alice Collett, who was well-known as Alice, was born on 1^st October 1897 within the Twerton district of Bath, to the west of the city centre, when her birth was recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 496). Within two years of being born her father was dead and, following that sad event, she and her brothers and sisters were looked after by their widowed mother at Claude Avenue in Bath. The Bath census records for 1901 and 1911 confirmed that Alice was three years old and 13 years of age respectively, who was living with her family at Maybrick Road on the day of the latter.
	Just a few months after her brother Benjamin (above) was married in 1923, the marriage of Catherine Alice Collett and Wilfred Ferris Day was recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 1209) during the last three months of that year. Wilfred was born on 23^rd May 1897, with his birth recorded at Chippenham register office (Ref. 5a 71) during the third quarter of the year, when his name was confirmed as Wilfred Ferris Day. The birth of his and Alice’s only child was announced in her birth notice published in the Bath newspaper on 17^th April 1926, confirming the parents as Mr W F Day and Mrs Alice Collett Day.
	For only the second time within the public records, Alice was referred to under her full birth name, when as Eliza Catherine Alice Day, nee Collett, she died on 10^th February 1972 and was buried at the Baptist Chapel in Broughton Gifford like many of her Collett family. Her death was recorded at Wiltshire register office (Ref. 7c 2104), which revealed her date of birth as 1^st October 1897. Ten years earlier, following the death of her older sister’s husband Samuel Champion, Alice and Wilfred moved into the Ivy Road, Chippenham home of widow Sarah Ann Champion nee Collett (above). Alice’s husband passed away just over twelve years after being made a widower on 12^th July 1984, with his death as Wilfred Ferris Day recorded at Bath register office (Vol. 22 16). He was buried with his wife at Broughton Gifford.
	Ruth M Day, the daughter of Wilf and Alice whose birth was recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 737) during the second quarter of 1926, went on to marry Leslie Richards with whom she had four children whose births were recorded at Wells register office in Somerset. The marriage of Ruth M Day and Leslie G Richards was recorded at Somerset register office (Ref. 7c 518) during the last three months of 1951. Their four children were: Rachel M Richards in 1953; Philip G Richards in 1954; David J Richards in 1957; and Sarah R Richards in 1960. Ruth’s family resided in a row of houses that backed onto Ivy Road in Chippenham, her children attending Ivy Lane School at the same time as Matthew Kime who kindly supplied the new information for the June 2025 update of this family line.
35P136	Albert William Collett was born at Kettering in 1886, the first of five children born to William Thomas Collett and Sarah Ann Barnett. His birth was recorded there (Ref. 3b 187) during the second quarter of 1886. His death there (Ref. 3b 105) was recorded during that same quarter of that same year.
35P137	Willie Collett was born at Kettering in 1887 and his birth, as Willie Collett, was recorded there (Ref. 3b 176) during the third quarter of that year. Whilst he was three years old in the census of 1891, when living with his family at 123 Havelock Street in Kettering, it was during the third quarter of 1892 that his death was recorded at Kettering (Ref. 3b 87) when he was five years old.
35P138	Frederick Collett was born at Kettering in 1890, the third son of William Thomas Collett of Brighton and Melksham and his wife Sarah Ann Barnett from the village of Seend in Wiltshire. Fred was probably born at 123 Havelock Street where he was living with his family in 1891 when he was one year old. His birth was recorded at Kettering (Ref. 3b 173) during the first quarter of 1890. Following the premature deaths of his two older brothers, Frederick Collett was 11 years old in the census of 1901, one of the two surviving sons of the five siblings, his younger brother Archie (below) being the other, who were still living at 123 Havelock Street in Kettering with their parents. Fred and Archie’s fifth brother had died seven years earlier in 1894
	It was on 25^th December 1908 at St Marys Church in Kettering that Frederick Collett, aged 18, married Frances Mary Claypole, also 18, the event recorded at Kettering (Ref. 3b 392). Frances was born in 1889, the base-born daughter of Mary Ellen Claypole. Marrying so young was a result of Frances already being five months pregnant on her wedding day, with the couple’s first child born less than four months later in mid-April 1909. Over the following two years Frances presented Frederick with another son prior to the next census in April 1911. At that time Frederick, aged 21, and his family were still living in Kettering, where his two sons had been born. His wife was confirmed as Frances Mary Collett, also 21, who was working as a shoe machinist who had been born at nearby Finedon. Their two sons were Frederick William Collett who was one year old, and Leslie Edward Collett who was just six months old. Also still living in Kettering at that time, were Frederick’s parents, together with his younger brother Edward Archie Collett. The marriage of Frederick and Frances Mary Collett also produced two more children during the next four years.
	The War Memorial outside the Alfred East Art Gallery & Museum in Kettering bears the names of the two brothers Frederick Collett and George Edward Archie Collett. However, no obvious record of the death of Frederick during the Great War has yet been found. Within the list of 112 British men who lost their lives only one could be Frederick, and he is simply recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as F Collett who died on 10^th October 1918. He was a gunner with the Royal Garrison Artillery, service number 86413. It seems highly likely that he was this Frederick Collett from Kettering. It therefore appears that his widow remained living in Kettering with their children for the rest of her life since, the death of Frances M Collett, aged 79 was recorded at Kettering register office (Ref. 3b 517) during the last quarter of 1968.
	35Q120	Frederick William Collett		Born in 1909 at Kettering, Northamptonshire
	35Q121	Leslie Edward Collett		Born in 1910 at Kettering, Northamptonshire
	35Q122	Phyllis Mary Collett		Born in 1912 at Kettering, Northamptonshire
	35Q123	Cyril Archibald Collett		Born in 1915 at Kettering, Northamptonshire
35P139	Albert Collett was born at Kettering in 1892, his birth recorded there (Ref. 3b 173) during the second quarter of that year. He survived for only two years and, following the recent deaths of two of his three older brothers, the death of Albert Collett was recorded at Kettering (Ref. 3b 93) during the second quarter of 1894.
35P140	George Edward Archibald Collett was born at 123 Havelock Street in Kettering in 1895, the fifth and last son of William Thomas Collett and Sarah Ann Barnett. Although his birth was recorded at Kettering (Ref. 3b 177) during the last quarter of 1895 using his full name, it was as Archie Collett aged five years that he was included in the census of 1901 when he and his older brother Frederick (above) and their parents were again recorded at the terraced house that was 123 Havelock Street in Kettering. Ten years after that it was as Edward Archie Collett that he was the only son of William and Sarah Collett who was still living in Kettering with them in 1911. He was 15 by then, by which time his older brother Frederick was married with two children and living nearby in Kettering.
	Upon entering military service at the start of the First World War the records gave his name as George Edward Archie Collett. He originally enlisted with the Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion when he was allocated the service number 1425, following which he was posted to the 1st Battalion. At that time, he gave his place of abode as Kettering, presumably he was still living there with his parents. He was later transferred to 7^th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment (Territorial Force) and eventually saw action in Flanders Field with 5^th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment as Private 203402. George Edward Archie Collett was killed in action on 9^th August 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres and was buried in Track 'X' Cemetery at St Jean-Les-Ypres, grave Plot D, Row 14.
	However, it was eight months earlier, that the marriage of George E A Collett and Norah Clipstone was recorded at Kettering register office (Ref. 3b 394) during the first three months of 1916. Those were severely hard time for the young people of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, so it was not unsurprising that Norah was already carrying George’s baby on the day of their wedding. The birth of their daughter Eunice Collett was recorded at Kettering register office (Ref. 3b 286) during the second quarter of 1916, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Clipstone.
35P141	Beatrice Maud Collett was born at Melksham in 1886 and was four years old in 1891, when she was living with her family at Woodview Road in Melksham. Ten years later she was still living there with her family, when she was 14 and was working as a dressmaker’s apprentice. Sometime during the latter half of the next decade, Beatrice married Albert Edward Pearce and, once they were married, they too settled in Melksham. And it was there that the childless couple were living in April 1911 when Albert Pearce was 35 and his much younger wife Beatrice was 25.
35Q1	Lillian Edith Collett was born at Melksham in 1882, the only daughter of farmer Albert Henry Collett and his wife Emily Ann from Trowbridge. She was eight years old in 1891 and 18 in 1901 and, on both occasions, she was living with her family in Melksham. When her parents moved to Romsey in Hampshire, Lillian stayed in Melksham and in 1911 she was living at the Melksham home of her uncle Charles S Collett and her aunt Florence, Charles’ younger sister. Also living there with them was Lillian’s grandmother, the octogenarian Harriet Collett and the mother of Charles and Florence.
	During the following years Lillian married Percy Edginton whose occupation was that of a gentlemen’s outfitter. That was confirmed at the time of the death of her already widowed mother in 1938, when Lillian Edith Edginton and her husband were named during the probate of her late mother’s estate in January 1939 at Winchester.
35Q2	Albert Edwin Collett was born at Melksham in 1887, the only son of farmer Albert Henry Collett and his wife Emily Ann. He was three years old in 1891 and 13 in 1901, and on both occasions was living with his family at the family home in Melksham. Like his sister Lillian (above), Albert also stayed in Melksham when his parents moved to Romsey in the neighbouring county of Hampshire. And in 1911 Albert Edwin Collett was unmarried at the age of 23. His occupation as that of a butcher was confirmed in 1938 on the death of his mother, when Albert Edwin Collett was named, together with his sister Lillian (above) and her husband, during the proving of his mother’s Will at Winchester in 1939.
35Q3	Gilbert William Collett was born at Melksham in 1887 and he was three years old in the census for Melksham of 1891. Ten years later he was still living in Melksham with his parents when he was 13 years old. Upon leaving school, he headed for London to seek work, and in 1911 unmarried Gilbert William Collett from Melksham was 23, when he was living and working in the Croydon registration district of Surrey.
35Q6	Henry John Collett was born at Steeple Ashton in 1878 and was two years old when living at Church Street in Steeple Ashton with his parents in 1881. Ten years later he was 12 years old and, although it is known that his youngest sibling was born in 1898, there was no record of his father in 1901. Instead, Henry, who was 22 and working as a wheelwright, was living at Keevil with his widowed mother Martha F Collett and his younger siblings, Amy Collett 13, William F Collett 11, Reginald F Collett who was eight, Walter G Collett who was six, and Elsie M Collett who was two years old. His missing brother Edward Clement Collett (below) was living and working at Lacock at that time.
	Very shortly after the census day in 1901 Henry married Minnie Louisa Long from the nearby village of Poulshot, their wedding day recorded at Devizes register office (Ref. 5a 226) during the second quarter of 1901. Minnie subsequently presented Henry with four children before his premature death on 7^th September 1910, which may have been the result of an accident at work with him being only 32. It was at Belle Vue Farm in Poulshot that his children were all born, although the births were recorded at Devizes, and it was there where Henry worked as a wheelwright. The Poulshot census in 1911 recorded his family as his widow Minnie Collett, who was 39, Reginald Collett, who was nine, Herbert Collett, who was seven, Arthur Collett, who was four, and May Collett, who was two years old. The much later death of Minnie Louisa Collett nee Long was recorded at Chippenham in 1959.
	According to the administration records at Salisbury Henry John Collett, wheelwright of Belle Vue Farm, Poulshot died on 7^th September 1910 at the General Hospital in Bristol. His estate to the value of £264 1 Shilling and 8 Pence was left to his widow Minnie Louisa Collett on 27^th January 1912.
	Minnie Louisa Long was the daughter of farmer and sawyer William Long of Poulshot Green and his wife Harriet Perrin from the adjacent village of Potterne. On leaving school Minnie worked in London and was recorded in the Wandsworth & West Battersea census of 1891 as Minnie Line from Poulshot, aged 19. Her father died during the next decade which prompted Minnie to return to Poulshot to be with her mother, as confirmed by the census in 1901 when Minnie L Long was 29 and living there with her mother Harriet, a farmer, and her sister Edith H Long who was 24.
	35R1	Reginald William Henry Collett						Born in 1902 at Poulshot
	35R2	Walter Herbert Collett						Born in 1903 at Poulshot
	35R3	Arthur Edward Collett						Born in 1906 at Poulshot
	35R4	Edith May Collett						Born in 1909 at Poulshot
35Q7	Joseph Herbert Collett was born at Steeple Ashton in 1881, but after the third of April that year. He was nine years old in 1891 when living with his family in the nearby village of Keevil. No trace of him has been found around the turn of the century, when he would have been approaching twenty. However, by April 1911 Joseph Herbert Collett of Steeple Ashton was 29 when he was living within the Melksham registration district.
35Q8	Lilian Mary Collett was born at Steeple Ashton in 1882, the daughter of Henry John Collett and Martha Feltham. By 1891 she and her family were living at Keevil, where they had lived some years before Lilian was born. At that time Lilian Mary Collett was eight years old, but ten years after that, at the age of 18, she was working as a general domestic servant at Bremhill near Calne in Wiltshire. On that occasion she gave her place of birth as Keevil. During the next decade Lilian left Calne to seek work in Bradford-on-Avon, and it was there that she was recorded at the time of the census in 1911. However, she was recorded as Lilian Collett, aged 28 and from Steeple Ashton.
35Q9	Edward Clement Collett was born at Steeple Ashton in 1884 and was six years old in 1891, when he was living with his parents in the next village of Keevil. By 1901 he was living at Lacock to the south of Chippenham where he was 17 and where he was working as a baker. By April 1911 he was once again living with his family at Keevil, when he was 26 and his place of birth was confirmed as Steeple Ashton.
35Q11	William Frederick Collett was born at Keevil in 1888 and that happened just after his parents returned to live there from nearby Steeple Ashton, and where they had lived during the early years of their marriage life. And it was at Keevil he was living with his parents in 1891, when he was two years old. He was still living there with his family in 1901, when he was 11, but towards the end of the next decade William travelled south-west to seek work at Yeovil in Somerset. The census in 1911 located him in the Yeovil area, where he was William Frederick Collett from Keevil who was unmarried at 22.
35Q13	Walter George Collett was born at Keevil in 1895, his birth recorded at Westbury register office (Ref. 5a 137) during the first quarter of that year, one of the sons of Henry John Collett and Martha Feltham. It was as Walter G Collett aged six years, and as Walter George Collett aged 16 years, that he was living with his family at Keevil in 1901 and in 1911. Twenty-two years later, when Walter was 38, he married Eveline (or maybe Evelyn) M Wheeler, the event recorded at Westbury register office (Ref.5a 327) during the last three months of 1933. Their marriage endured for around fifty years, when the death of Evelyn Collett was recorded at Trowbridge in 1983. Walter’s nephew Arthur Edward Collett (Ref. 35R3) married Edith May Wheeler in 1939 at Devizes, who was very likely related to Evelyn M Wheeler, perhaps even sister, as they were very similar ages.
35Q15	Sidney Collett was born at Melksham in 1882, his birth recorded there (Ref. 5a 116) during the last three months of that year. He was the base-born son of one of the three daughters of Henry Collett and Ann Pepler, most likely their daughter Mary Jane Collett. It is also possible that he was born at Lowbourne in Melksham the home of his grandmother with whom he was living in 1891 at the age of eight years. According to the next census return he was still living with his grandmother Ann Wiltshire, formerly Ann Collett nee Pepler, in 1901. By that time in his life Sidney Collett, aged 18 and from Melksham, was employed as an ironmonger, while the third member of the household at Lowbourne was Mary Collett his grandmother’s daughter. It is for that reason that it has been assumed that Mary Jane Collett was the mother of Sidney Collett.
	Just over four years later, on 7^th August 1905 at Holt in Wiltshire, Sidney Collett married Ellen Mary Bailey, when they were both listed as being 23, with Sidney’s father named as Henry John Collett (who was actually his grandfather), Ellen being the daughter of Francis Bailey. The event was recorded at Bradford-on-Avon (Ref. 5a 285), and one of the witnesses was Arthur John Gerrish, the Gerrish family having earlier links to the Collett family. By April 1911 the couple was living in Melksham with their first three children. Sidney and his wife were both 29, with Sidney described as an ironmonger manager, while their three daughters were listed as Phyllis Collett who was five, Vera Collett who was two, and Gervyn Collett who was just nine months old. The young family was supported by a young servant, Emily Booth from Trowbridge who was 14. All three children of the couple’s children had been born at Melksham and one other daughter was added to their family three years later. The only birth records so far found, are that of Vera Gertrude Collett whose birth was recorded at Melksham register office (Ref. 5a 105) during the fourth quarter of 1908, and Joan M Collett also recorded at Melksham (Ref. 5a 187) during the third quarter of 1914, the mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Bailey.
	35R5	Phyllis Collett					Born in 1905 at Melksham
	35R6	Vera Gertrude Collett					Born in 1908 at Melksham
	35R7	Gervyn Collett					Born in 1910 at Melksham
	35R8	Joan M Collett					Born in 1914 at Melksham
35Q23	William John Collett was born at Biddestone during 1888 and was the eldest child of William John Collett of Melksham and his wife Ellen. Not long after he was born his parents moved to West Street in Castle Combe where the family was living in 1891 when William J Collett was two years old. After three of his siblings were born at Castle Combe the family moved again to Banwell near Weston-super-Mare, where they were residing at Church Street in 1901. By that time William J Collett had already left school and, at the age of 12, was working as a grocer’s errand boy.
	During the next decade, his family went to live at 21 Stanley Grove Road in Weston-super-Mare but, by April 1911, the census that month recorded that William was no longer living with his family. Where he was that year has still to be determined, whereas it is confirmed that he married Frances Kate Oram on 24^th January 1916, the wedding taking place at Clutton in Somerset (Ref. 5c 967), twenty miles east of Weston-super-Mare. Frances’ birth was recorded at Langport in Somerset (Ref. 5c 375) during the third quarter of 1887, where she was living at Kirkham Street with her parents, William, and Elizabeth Oram, in 1891. Their marriage produced three children, as listed below, two of them being born while the couple was still living in Somerset, at Taunton, straddling a few years when the family was residing in Melksham, where the middle child was born.
	The birth of William G Collett was recorded at Taunton register office (Ref. 5c 395) during the second quarter of 1917, and the birth of Robert G Collett was recorded at Melksham register office (Ref. 5a 126) during the second quarter of 1920, while the birth of Penelope A Collett was also recorded at Taunton register office (Ref. 5c 433) during the last three months of 1923. The mother’s maiden-name for all three children was confirmed as Oram.
	Frances Kate Collett nee Oram died at Westbury in Wiltshire, her death recorded at Westbury register office (Ref. 5a 114) during the third quarter of 1935 when she died relatively young at the age of 48 years. Many years later the death of William John Collett was recorded at Warminster register office (Ref. 7c 843) during the first quarter of 1962. Very little else is known about the life and children of William John Collett, except that in Biddestone Church there is a Roll of Honour for those men of the village who lost their life during the First World War, and that includes the names of A Collett – who may have been William’s brother Alaric Collett, plus two other men simply listed as W Collett and Wm Collett.
	35R9	William George Collett					Born in 1917 at Taunton
	35R10	Robert Gerrard Collett					Born in 1920 at Melksham
	35R11	Penelope Ann Collett					Born in 1923 at Taunton
35Q24	Francis Edward Collett was born at Castle Combe in 1890, his birth recorded at Chippenham (Ref. 5a 66) during the third quarter of that year.
35Q25	Eleanor Edith Collett was born at Castle Combe in 1892, her birth recorded at Chippenham (Ref. 5a 69) during the first month of that year. Curiously, when she was baptised on 31^st January 1892, her parents were named as William John Collett and his wife Eleanor, rather than Ellen.
35Q26	Alaric Robert Collett was born at Castle Combe in 1893, his birth recorded at Chippenham (Ref. 5a 65) during the final three months of the year.
35Q27	Harold Collett was born at Banwell near Weston-super-Mare in 1897, with his birth recorded at Axbridge (Ref. 5c 452) during the last quarter of that year. He was the last known child of William John Collett of Melksham and his wife Ellen.
35Q28	Ivy Minnie Collett was born at Gloucester on 4^th June 1897, the first-born child of William Thomas Collett and Rosa Minnie Mould. Her birth was recorded at Gloucester register office (Ref. 6a 302) during the third quarter of that year. Ivy M Collett was three years of age and was living at Hanman Road in Gloucester on the day of the census in 1901, while in the next census in 1911 she was described using her full name at the age of 13 when still living in Gloucester with her family. Eight years later the marriage of Ivy M Collett and Frank W Eaglestone was recorded at Gloucester register office (Ref. 6a 850) during the last quarter of 1919. After a further seventy years, the death of Ivy Minnie Eaglestone was recorded at Gloucester (Ref. 22 1429) during the third quarter of 1989. Her date of birth, inserted above, was obtained from her death certificate.
35Q29	William Frederick Collett was born at Gloucester in 1898, the eldest son of William Thomas Collett and his wife Rosa. His birth was recorded at Gloucester register office (Ref. 6a 274) during the first three months of the year under the name William Collett. He was listed in the Gloucester census of 1901 as being William F Collett who was two years of age and living with his family at Hanman Road. It was as William Frederick Collett aged 11 years who, with his family ten years later, were still living in Gloucester.
35Q30	Granville Livingstone Collett was born at Gloucester in 1900, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 6a 332) during the last three months of that year. He was the third child of William Thomas Collett and Rosa Minnie Mould, his father working in the family business of Wm Collett & Sons Coach Builders. Granville was only a few months old in the Gloucester census of 1901 when he was living at Hanman Road, in the city, with his family, where he was again recorded in 1911 at the age of ten years. The marriage of Granville L Collett and (1) Beatrice Deane was recorded at Gloucester register office (Ref. 6a 757) during the second quarter of 1926, when he was 25. Prior to 2021, only one child had been credited to Granville and Beatrice, and he was born almost fifteen years after they were married. The existence of their son John Collett has been confirmed by Barry Collett in the USA using a combination of family records and a DNA study. However, it has now been revealed that his mother’s maiden-name was Turner, and that his birth was recorded at Gloucester register office (Ref. 6a 20) during the first three months of 1941. That would indicate that Granville had married for a second time, although no record of such a marriage, or the death of Beatrice, has been found. The good news is that, while looking into this, two earlier children for the couple also had their births recorded at Gloucester register office, Beryl during the last quarter of 1928 (Ref. 6a 77) and Blair during the first three months of 1936 (Ref. 6a 31), when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Dean.
	35R12	Beryl B Collett		Born in 1928 at Gloucester Qrt 4 6a 77
	35R13	Blair W Collett		Born in 1936 at Gloucester Qrt 1 6a 31
	35R14	John Collett		Born in February 1941 at Gloucester Q1 6a 20
35Q31	Ruby Victoria Collett was born at Gloucester on 25^th May 1904, possibly at Hanman Road where the family was residing in 1901. It was at Gloucester register office (Ref. 6a 328) during the third quarter of 1904 that her birth was recorded. Her later marriage to George H Slinn was recorded at Gloucester register office (Ref. 6a 719) during the final three months of 1930. Sometime in her later life Ruby lived in Stroud, where she died in 1979, and it was at Stroud register office (Ref. 22 2581) during the first quarter of the year that her death was recorded. It was her death certificate that provided her date of birth, quoted above.
35Q32	Grace F N Collett was one half of a set of twins born to William and Rosa Collett at Gloucester on 9^th July 1910, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 6a 311) during the third quarter of that year. It was not until 1935 that Grace became a married woman, with the event recorded at Gloucester register office (Ref. 6a 1037) during the third quarter of 1935. The marriage certificate did not reveal her full name, while her husband was named as John E Folley-Davey.
35Q33	Edwin Hayward Collett, and his twin sister Grace (above), were born at Gloucester on 9^th July 1910, the last two known children born to William Thomas Collett and Rosa Minnie Mould. Apart from being listed with his family in the Gloucester census of 1911, the only other details of life are as follows. Firstly, it was at Cheltenham register office that his marriage to Winifred M Lindon was recorded (Ref. 6a 1059) during the first quarter of 1941. The later death of Edwin Hayward Collett was also recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 7b 732) during the second quarter of 1969, and it was the death certificate that confirmed his date of birth.
35Q34	Lily Collett was born at Gloucester in 1895, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 6a 306) during the first three months of that year. She is believed to be the base-born daughter of unmarried teenager Ellen Maria Collett. Ellen’s parents were William Collett and Sarah Ann Hayward, who took Lily into their home at 13 Melbourne Street in Gloucester, from where William ran the coach building company of William Collett & Sons. In the census return completed by her grandparents in 1901, Lily Collett was six years old and described as their grandchild, while ten years later she was described in error as niece. By that time Lily Collett was 16 years of age and working as a dressmaker, and was the only person living with William and Sarah Ann Collett.
	Just under eight years after that the marriage of Lily Collett and William H Gwinnett was recorded at Gloucester register office (Ref. 6a 605) during the first three months of 1919. William Herbert Gwinnett was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Gwinnett and was born at Berkeley in South Gloucester. In 1915 William enlisted with the Army Service Corps when he was 20 and still living at Berkeley and was assigned the service number T5/7717. Sometime during their married life, Lily and William moved to Dorset and the south coast of England, where the death of William Gwinnett, aged 72, was recorded at Poole register office (Ref. 7c 713) during the second quarter of 1967. Lily survived her husband by ten years, with her death recorded at Bournemouth register office in 1977.
35Q35	Vera Collett was born on 26^th March 1908 and celebrated her 99^th birthday in March 2007.
35Q36	OLIVE E H COLLETT was born in 1912 at Gloucester, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 6a 582) during the third quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed at Ricketts. It was also at Gloucester register office (Ref. 6a 839) during the second quarter of 1937, that the marriage of Olive E H Collett and Eric W Simnett was recorded. Their marriage produced a son.
	35R15	ALLAN J SIMNETT				Born in 1946 at Gloucester
35Q37	Edythe M Collette was born in South Dakota on 28^th March 1890, the eldest of the three children of James Collett by his first wife Alice Cary Kingsbury. She married John W Winters on 6^th April 1909 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, the son of William Milton Winters and Mary Victoria Cattron, who was born in Indiana during October 1883. John died in Washington on 8^th August 1952, Edythe died on 19^th February 1967 at King in Washington.
	Edythe and John had one child, Helen Winters who was born in Minnesota during 1910. She married Harold C Johansen who was born in 1914 and who died at Tumwater in Washington on 22^nd January 1981, while his wife died nearly twenty years later in 2002.
35Q38	Walter Burton Collette was born at Brookings in South Dakota on 22^nd November 1892. He was eighteen years old when he married Alice Olive Slayton on 23^rd March 1911. She was the daughter of James Woods Slayton and Cora May Banker, and was born at Watsonville in Santa Cruz, California on 24^th April 1892. The marriage of Walter and Alice produced the three children listed below. Walter died in his forties on 2^nd August 1938, following which Alice lived the life of a widow until the time of her death in Sacramento on 22^nd December 1965.
	35R16	Alice Cora Collette				Born in 1912 in California
	35R17	Walter Burton Collette				Born in 1913 in California
	35R18	Richard Asa Collette				Born in 1918 in California
35Q40	Etta May Collett was born at Union in Pierce, Wisconsin on 5^th November 1902, the only known child of James Collett and his second wife Nora Cushing. She married (1) Winton Cyrus Peterson at Ellsworth in Pierce, who was the son of Edward A Peterson and Bertha Mary Olson. Winton was born on 22^nd July 1900 in Wisconsin and he died on 6^th July 1948 while in Goodhue, Minnesota. Following his death Etta May married was married for a second time, and later died at Ellsworth in Pierce on 17^th August 1972.
35Q41	Gladys Collett was born at Union in Pierce, Wisconsin during May 1895, the first-born child of Henry S Collett and his wife Eva Etta Clark. She married (1) Frank Jasper Martin on 11^th June 1913 at Grange Hall in Pierce. He was the son of James Martin and Minnie Belle Greene and was born at Union on 16^th March 1890. Gladys was the first of three siblings from her immediate family, see Myrtle and Willard (below), to marry into the Martin family, her father’s sister Mary Jane Collett having previously married William Alexander Martin in 1878, who may or may not have been related. Gladys’ husband died at Maiden Rock in Pierce on 3^rd February 1968, following which Gladys then married (2) William Wilbelt.
	During their life together, Gladys presented Frank with two children. Gerald Wayne Martin was born on 27^th April 1917 at Grange Hall in Pierce, and he died at Hamilton Fields in California during 1942. Marion Vesta Martin was born on 7^th March 1919 in Wisconsin, and she died on 5^th September 1985 at Santa Barbara in California, where she had married Joseph E Knowles on 6^th April 1967. He was born in 1908.
35Q42	Myrtle Collett was born at Union in Pierce, Wisconsin on 14^th February 1897, the second child of Henry and Eva Collett. She married Forest S Martin at Union on 19^th April 1916, the son of William Martin and Lulu Estella Burgess. Forest was also born at Union on 20^th July 1893, and he died at Pepin in Wisconsin on 11^th July 1990. His wife Myrtle had died thirteen years earlier, when she passed away on 30^th December 1976 while at La Crosse in Wisconsin. Myrtle and Forest had two children and they were Gilbert William Martin, who was born in Wisconsin on 18^th January 1918, who died at Calumet in Wisconsin on 26^th July 1990, and William H Martin who was born on 27^th October 1923 in Wisconsin, who died in Minneapolis, Hennepin on 6^th April 2001.
35Q43	Willard Faye Collett was born at Union in Pierce, Wisconsin on 12^th June 1901, the third child and eldest son of Henry and Eva Collett. He was the third sibling to marry someone with the surname Martin, when he married Alice Martin on 14^th September 1921. She was the daughter of Christian (Chris) and Antonia (Dona) Martin and was born at Salem in Pierce on 9^th March 1902. Alice Collett nee Martin died at Plum City in Pierce on 30^th June 1982, while Willard Faye Collett had died just over three years prior to that, when he passed away at Goodhue in Minnesota on 11^th March 1979 and was buried at Ono Cemetery in Salem Township at Pierce County, Wisconsin. The marriage of Willard and Alice produced the five children listed below.
	35R19	Valera Donna Collett				Born in 1922 in Wisconsin
	35R20	Lorna Collett				Born in 1924 in Wisconsin
	35R21	Marjorie Collett				Born in 1926 in Wisconsin
	35R22	Maxine Helen Collett				Born in 1927 in Wisconsin
	35R23	Gail Collett				Born circa 1929 in Wisconsin
35Q44	Leafy Gaynel Collett was born at Union in Pierce, Wisconsin on 8^th September 1903, where she died on 21^st May 1921 when she was 17. She was buried in the family lot at Ono Cemetery.
35Q45	Ralph Dinsmore Collett was born at Union in Pierce, Wisconsin 15^th April 1905, the son of Henry and Eva Collett. He married Edith Louisa Miller at Red Wing in Goodhue, Minnesota on 6^th May 1926, the daughter of George L Miller and Louisa Baumgardner. She was born at Elgin in Fayette, Iowa on 24^th January 1909 and she died on 2^nd October 1987 while at Plum City in Pierce, Wisconsin. Ralph Dinsmore Collett had died three and a half years earlier at Durand in Pepin, Wisconsin on 23^rd March 1984, following which he was buried at Ono Cemetery. The marriage of Ralph and Edith produced the following four children, the youngest of whom are still alive in 2012, so their details have been withheld.
	35R24	Vernon R Collett				Born in 1931 in Wisconsin
	35R25	Bernard Henry Collett				Born in 1939 in Wisconsin
	35R26	a living Collett				Date of birth unknown in America
	35R27	a living Collett				Date of birth unknown in America
35Q46	Donald Milton Collett was born at Union in Pierce, Wisconsin on 22^nd January 1911, the son of Henry and Eva Collett. He married Dorothy M Henn on 3^rd May 1934, the daughter of John Henn and Anna Dose. She was born at Union on 18^th May 1916 and died at Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin on 14^th November 1993, just three weeks after Donald had passed away at Durand in Pepin, Wisconsin on 24^th September 1993. The marriage of Donald and Dorothy produced the three children listed below.
	35R28	Jayd Collett				Born in 1950 in America
	35R29	Donna Collett				Born circa 1953 in America
	35R30	Adela Collett				Born circa 1956 in America
35Q47	Gail Winslow Collett was born at Union in Pierce, Wisconsin on 24^th June 1915, the youngest of the seven children of Henry S Collett and his wife Eva Etta Clark. Sadly, he only survived for five years, when he died at Union on 29^th December 1920.
35Q48	Grace Minerva Collett was born in Wisconsin on 7^th November 1895, the eldest child of Albert B Collett and his wife Lula May Harrison. She married Clarence L Clare at Union in Pierce on 11^th February 1920, the son of Henry Clare and Margaretha Meyers. He was born at Lake City in Wabasha, Minnesota on 4^th October 1892. Clarence was at Hennepin in Minnesota when he died on 6^th November 1971, and it was twenty years after that when Grave Minerva Clare nee Collett died at Pierce on 11^th April 1992 and was buried at Ono Cemetery.
	As a result of their marriage Grace and Clarence had the three children. Elaine Clare was born on 20^th December 1921 and she married Dwight Albert Perry at Tucson in Pima, Arizona on 30^th May, and died on 11^th August 1989. Vernon A Clare was born on 17^th April and he married Dorothy Batho on 12^th September 1945 the daughter of Lester Batho and Leola (Lola) Betterley, Dorothy having been born in Wisconsin during 1924. Vernon died at Plum City in Pierce, Wisconsin, on 14^th October 2006. While their last child Eugene C Clare was born at union in Pierce on 20^th October 1931 and he married Arvilla Bradshaw on 18^th April 1952 and died 10^th February 2005 at Duluth in St Louis, Minnesota.
35Q49	Russell H Collett was born in Wisconsin on 28^th May 1897, the eldest son of Albert and Lulu Collett. His family had not celebrated his first birthday when he died on 17^th February 1898 and was buried at Ono Cemetery.
35Q50	Lyle Clayton Collett was born in Wisconsin on 2^nd September 1899, the only surviving son of Albert and Lula Collett. He married Caroline Christine Larson at Salem in Pierce on 11^th June 1924. She was the daughter of Hans L Larson and Annie Suter and was born in Wisconsin on 29^th December 1900. Caroline died at Goodhue in Minnesota on 12^th October 1980 and had spent the last thirteen years as a widow, following the death of her husband Lyle Clayton Collett which also took place at Goodhue on 30^th July 1967. However, he was yet another member of the Collett family to be buried at Ono Cemetery in Salem Township, Pierce County, Wisconsin.
35Q51	Bernice Winifred Collett was born at Maiden Rock in Pierce, Wisconsin on 4^th August 1904, the daughter of Albert and Lula Collett. She married John Howard Riley at St Paul in Hennepin, Minnesota on 5^th January 1929. He was the son of Charles Riley and Mary Reagan and was born at Ellsworth in Pierce on 19^th April 1905. He died before his fiftieth birthday, when he passed away on 1^st January 1953. Bernice outlived her husband by nearly thirty years, when she died at Ellsworth on 6^th March 1982. During their married life Bernice presented John with two children, Jane Arlin Riley, who was born on 16^th January 1933, who died on 7^th January 1934, and Charles Howard Riley who was born on 7^th November 1940 at Goodhue in Minnesota.
35Q52	Ada Isabel Collett was born in Wisconsin on 2^nd August 1907 the youngest surviving child of Albert B Collett and Lula May Harrison. She married George Dennis Driscoll who was the son of John and Anna Driscoll, who was born in Pierce on 20^th December 1903. George died at River Falls in Pierce on 18^th April 1974 and just over ten years later Ada Isabel Driscoll ne Collett died at River Falls, St Croix, Wisconsin on 20^th December 1985. The couple only had one child, and that child was still alive in 2012.
35Q56	Frederick Victor Collett was born in 1896 at Valetta in Malta where his father Harry D Collett was serving with the army. By the time of the census in 1901, when Frederick was four years old, he and his family were settled in South Tidworth in Wiltshire between Amesbury and Andover. It would appear that his father died during the first decade of the new century so by 1911 Frederick Victor Collett, aged 14 and from Malta, was living with his widowed mother Mary Josephine Collett, and three of his siblings, in the Windsor area of Berkshire.
	Within a few years he was a soldier with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, service number 9461. However, at the outbreak of war Frederick and while still at Windsor, he enlisted with the 2^nd Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry where he was a private with the service number 20160. In 1915 he was undertaking frontline duties in France and Flanders when he was critically injured and never recovered and died of his wounds on 10^th June 1915.
35Q59	Ida Rayonette Collett was born at Bristol in 1895, her birth recorded at Barton Regis (Ref. 6a 110) during the third quarter of 1895. Ida was baptised at St Georges Church in Bristol on 4^th September 1895, when her parents were confirmed as Arthur Collett and his wife Alice Maud Mary Collett. It was at Plummers Hill Road in Bristol in 1901 where five-year-old Ida was living with her family, after which they moved to Barking in Essex and in 1911 were residing at 17 Linton Road. That year Ida Rayonette Collett from Bristol was 15 and a part-time student. It was at St Martin in London (Ref. 1a 1147) where Ida married Henry R Woodcock during the second quarter of 1929.
35Q60	Norman Temple Collett was born at Bristol in 1897, his birth recorded at Barton Regis (Ref. 6a 105) during the third quarter of 1897. It was in the following year that he was baptised at St Georges Church in Bristol on 2^nd March 1898, the son of Arthur and Alice Collett. He was three years of age in the Bristol census on 1901 when the family was recorded at Plummers Hill Road although, later, the family moved to Barking, Essex, where Norman Temple Collett from Bristol was 13 and attending school. Eleven years later Norman T Collett married Eileen M Battinson, the event recorded at Romford register office (Ref. 4a 1317) during the third quarter of 1922. The birth of their only known child was also recorded at Romford (Ref. 4a 926) during the third quarter of 1923, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed at Battinson.
	35R31	Moira E T Collett				Born in 1923 at Barking (Romford)
35Q61	Clarence Arthur Collett was born at Barking in 1908, with his birth recorded at the Romford register office (Ref. 4a 620) during the second quarter of the year and it was at 17 Linton Road in Barking that he was three years old in the census of 1911. Twenty-two years after that the marriage of Clarence A Collett and Helen S Hewitt was recorded at Romford register office (Ref. 4a 1495) during the third quarter of 1933. Perhaps it was the Second World War that delay the couple from starting a family, with their only known child born after Clarence return home after the campaign. The birth of Norma A Collett was recorded at Ilford register office (Ref. 4a 669) during the first three months of 1946.
	35R32	Norma A Collett				Born in 1946 at Ilford, Essex
35Q62	Amy Louise Collett was born in Dursley in 1896, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 6a 228) during the third quarter of that year. She may have been born at Silver Street in Dursley, where four-year-old was living with her parents in 1901. The family was still living in Dursley ten years later, while it was after a further ten years, when Amy was 25, that she married Percy Reginald Jenkins who was also 25. Their wedding took place at St Mary’s Church in the Redcliffe area of Bristol on 19^th October 1921, when the bride’s father was confirmed as James Collett and the groom’s father as Thomas Jenkins. Their two sons were born within the next five years; the birth of Reginald D C Jenkins recorded at Bristol (Ref. 6a 124) during the third quarter of 1923, and the birth of Desmond B Jenkins recorded at Chipping Sodbury register office (Ref. 6a 377) during the third quarter of 1926. In both cases, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett.
35Q63	Francis James Collett was born at Silver Street in Dursley on 12^th December 1898 and his birth was recorded there (Ref. 6a 295) during the first quarter of the following year. He was the son of James Collett and Mary Jane Eyles who were living at Silver Street in 1901 when James was two years old. He was still there with them in 1911 when he was 12. It was at Stroud register office (Ref. 6a 797) that the marriage of Francis J Collett and Lucy O Burdock was recorded during the last quarter of 1932. The birth of the couple’s only known child was also recorded at Stroud (Ref. 5c 596) during the first three months of 1935. The Electoral Roll for Painswick in, or after, 1956, recorded Francis J Collett, his wife Lucy O Collett, and their adult daughter Elizabeth B Collett, as residing at New Hall, now a Grade II Listed Building on the corner of New Street and Bisley Street, in Painswick. Nearby, at 8 Gyde Alms Houses was Charles E Collett (Ref. 64P48) and his wife Sarah L Collett who feature in Part 64 – The Upper Swell Oddington (Gloucestershire) Line.
	It was also at Stroud, around twenty-five years later, that the death of Francis James Collett was recorded (Ref. 22 1826) during the summer of 1981 when he was 82. Six years after being made a widow, the death of Lucy Olive Collett, nee Burdock, was recorded at Stroud register office (Ref. 22 1929) during the summer of 1987. The death certificate also confirmed that she was born at Painswick on 2^nd July 1909. On the day of the Painswick census in 1911 Lucy was living there with her parents Frank Elliott Burdock and his wife Annie Elizabeth Burdock, both born at Painswick.
	35R33	Elizabeth Burdock Collett				Born in 1935 at Stroud
35Q65	Frederick John Henry Collett was born at Burleston Cottages in Shipton Bellinger, near Andover, on 16^th June 1906, his birth recorded at Andover register office (Ref. 2c 222a) during the third quarter of 1906. However, it was at Shipton Bellinger that he was baptised on 22^nd July 1906, when his parents were confirmed as Frederick George and Harriet Hannah Collett, nee Bannister. It was during the last three months of 1924 when Frederick J H Collett married Gladys M Crockford, the event recorded at Hampshire register office in Petersfield (Ref. 2c 451). It was also in Hampshire that Frederick and Gladys set up home for their family, where all three of their children were born. Perhaps, after the war, the family moved to the Middlesex area of North-West London, where the later marriages of their three children took place and were all recorded at Uxbridge register office. Frederick John Henry Collett was 82 years old when he died during the month of March in 1989, with his death recorded at Hillingdon (Middlesex) register office (Vol. 13 1128).
	35R34	Molly D Collett				Born in 1931 at Portsmouth
	35R35	Jean V Collett				Born in 1935 at Petersfield
	35R36	Brian A Collett				Born in 1940 at Portsmouth
35Q66	Olive D Collett was born at Shipton Bellinger near Andover in 1912, perhaps even at Burleston Cottages, where her family was residing in 1911. The birth of Olive D Collett was recorded at Andover register office (Ref. 2c 451) during the first quarter of that year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Bannister.
35Q67	Henry Edward Collett was born at Hannington near Highworth in 1903, his birth recorded at Swindon (Ref. 5a 6) during the last quarter of that year. By 1911 Henry Edward Collett was seven years of age when he was living with his family at Lydiard Tregoze near Swindon, the only known son of William and Christine Collett. The only other detail currently known about him comes from the registration of his death at Swindon during the early months of 1985 when his date of birth was stated as being 11^th November 1903.
35Q68	Frances Margaret Collett was born at Cricklade near Swindon in 1906 and it was at Cricklade where his birth was recorded (Ref. 5a 58) during the third quarter of the year. She was listed with her family in the Lydiard Tregoze census of 1911 under her full name, as the age of four years. She was baptised at the Church of St Sampson in Cricklade on 11^th August 1907, the second child and only daughter of William and Christine Collett. Frances was nearly twenty-eight when she married Robert J Daniels at Cricklade (Ref. 5a 137) during the second quarter of 1935. Their daughter Roberta J Daniels was born in Swindon where her birth was recorded (Ref. 5a 70) during the third quarter of 1937. Six years later the birth of the couple’s second daughter, Susan M Daniels, was also recorded at Swindon (Ref. 5a 78) during the first quarter of 1943. Both events recorded the mother’s maiden-name as Collett.
35Q72	Florence Collett was born at Hayward Town in Sawyer County, Wisconsin on 23^rd February 1897, the eldest of the six children of Edwin James Collett and his wife Lulu Nelson and was three years old at the time of the Hayward census in 1900. It was there also that she was living in 1905, where she was eight, and again in 1910 when she was 13. It was around six years later that Florence married Elmer Elsworth Blaisdell, the son of Ernest Rufus Blaisdell and Rosa Knott, who was born in Wisconsin on 25^th November 1897. Elmer died on 6^th January 1980 at Ramsey in Minnesota and was followed ten years later by Florence who died at Chippewa in Wisconsin on 15^th March 1990.
	Florence and Elmer had four children. Elmer E Blaisdell - born in Wisconsin in 1917, Eldon R Blaisdell - born in Texas in 1919, Donald B Blaisdell - born in Minnesota in 1922, and Jack K Blaisdell who was also born in Minnesota during 1925.
35Q73	Raymond Collett was born at Hayward in Sawyer County on 17^th July 1899 and was one year old in the Hayward census of 1900. He was five years old in 1905, was 10 years old in 1910, and was 20 years of age in the Hayward Town census of 1920. It is possible that he never married, because he was still living with his parents at Hayward in 1930 when he was 30. He died on 20^th December 1972 while at Ashland in Ashland County, Wisconsin.
35Q74	Marie Collett was born at Hayward in Sawyer on 9^th August 1901, the third child of Edwin and Lulu Collett, who was three years old in the Hayward census of 1905. Five years later her name was recorded in error in the Hayward census of 1910 as Mentia Collette, who was nine years of age, although after a further ten years she was Marie Collett, aged 18, who was still living with her family at Hayward Town.
35Q75	Vernice Collett was born at Hayward in Sawyer on 5^th September 1904 and was eight months old at the time of the Hayward census in 1905. Five years after that she was named as Verna Collett, aged six years in the Hayward census of 1910, but was Vernice again in 1920, when she was 15 and still living at Hayward with her family. She later married Raymond Waldemar Bergin, who was born on 3^rd January 1907 at Minneapolis, Hennepin, the son of Carl John Bergin and Alma Josephine Holt. He also died there on 8^th November 2004, with Vernice having passed away at Hennepin twenty years earlier on 5^th August 1984. Vernice and Raymond had a son Raymond W Bergin who was born in Minnesota in 1930.
35Q76	Isadore Collett was born at Hayward in Sawyer on 8^th May 1907 and was two years old on the day of the 1910 census for Hayward, when she was curiously named as Prudence Collette. However, in both the census returns for 1920 and 1930 she was named as Isadore Collett who was 12 and 23 respectively, when she was still residing at Hayward with her parents. She later married Floyd Otto Gobler who was born in Minnesota on 15^th October 1907, the son of Otto Gobler and Theresa Alvina Stieve. Isadore Gobler nee Collett died in Los Angeles on 8^th August 1983, while Floyd died there on 15^th September 1990. Isadore and Floyd had a son Robert Gobler who was born in Wisconsin in 1935.
35Q77	Howard Collett was born at Hayward in Sawyer County, Wisconsin on 28^th October 1911, the youngest of the six children of Edwin James Collett and his wife Lulu Nelson. He was eight years of age and 18 years old in the two Hayward censuses of 1920 and 1930, when he was still living with his family at Hayward. The only other piece of information regarding Howard Collett is that he died in San Francisco on 3^rd October 1960.
35Q78	Clyde Elmer Collett was born in Wisconsin on 27^th January 1898, the eldest of the two sons of Frederick Levi Collett and his wife Anna Sophia Braatz. He may have been born at Eau Galle Town in Dunn County, Wisconsin, where his parents were living in 1900 when Clyde Collett was two years old. By the time he was 11 in 1910, he and his family were residing at Cassian in Oneida County, Wisconsin, but by 1920 the family had moved again, that time to Pierce County where his father had been born and where Clyde was 20 years old. It was three years after that when Clyde Elmer Collett became a married man.
	He married Anna Arthfield in Wisconsin who was born there on 28^th September 1906. Once married the couple settled in Rhinelander in Oneida County where their children were born and where the family was living in 1930. By that time Anna had already presented Clyde with their first three children, although within the census that year their surname was incorrectly recorded as Colletts. Clyde was 31, Anna was 23, Dorothy was six, Elaine Collett was three, and Betty Collett was one year old.
	Two more children were added to their family shortly after 1930, and by 1940 the complete family was living at Cassian in Oneida County, where his family had died seven years earlier and where his widowed mother was presumably still living. On the occasion Clyde E Collett was 41, Anna A Collett was 33, and their five daughters were Dorothy M Collett, who was 16, Elaine M Collett, who was 13, Betty M Collett, who was 11, Shirley A Collett, who was nine, and Carol J Collett who was three years of age. In addition to a lodger, Dorene Dewey aged 28, also staying with the family was Leona A Saude who was 19 and described as sister-in-law to head of the household Clyde. The relationship must have been on his wife’s side of the family, since his brother’s wife was Marguerite.
	Anna Collett nee Arthfield died at Hartford in Washington County, Wisconsin on 26^th April 1973, and it was seven years later that Clyde Elmer Collett also died there on 9^th March 1980. During their life together they had five children who were all born in Wisconsin.
	35R37	Dorothy M Collett		Born in 1924 in Wisconsin
	35R38	Elaine M Collett		Born in 1927 in Wisconsin
	35R39	Betty M Collett		Born in 1929 in Wisconsin
	35R40	Shirley A Collett		Born in 1931 in Wisconsin
	35R41	Carol J Collett		Born in 1933 in Wisconsin
35Q79	Earl Claire Collett was born in Wisconsin on 17^th March 1904, the younger of the two sons of Frederick and Ann Collett, and he may have been born at Eau Galle Town in Dunn County, Wisconsin, since it was there that his parents had been living in 1900. However, by 1910 the family were recorded at Cassian in Oneida County, Wisconsin, where Earl C Collett was six years old. It was at Pierce County in Wisconsin that the family was living in 1920, when Earl was 15, although it was again at Cassian that he and his parents were living in 1930 after his brother Clyde had left to be married. Earl C Collett was 25 at that time.
	It was in 1935 that he married Marguerite Elizabeth Wilcox who was born in Michigan on 6^th October 1905, the daughter of James Wilcox and Rosary Jensen. Not long after they were married, they had two children who were born while Earl and Marguerite were still living at Cassian in Wisconsin. The Cassian census in 1940 also confirmed that they had been living at the same address in 1935 following their marriage that year. Earl C Collett from Wisconsin was 36, Marguerite E Collett from Michigan was 34, and their two daughters were Phyllis L Collett, who was four, and Sharon P Collett who was two years old.
	Marguerite Elizabeth Collett nee Wilcox died while at Collin in Texas on 14^th October 1992 over eleven years after Earl Claire Collett had died in Los Angeles on 19^th January 1981.
	35R42	Phyllis L Collett		Born in 1936 in Wisconsin
	35R43	Sharon P Collett		Born in 1938 in Wisconsin
35Q80	George William Collett was born at Spring Valley in Pierce County, Wisconsin on 12^th September 1898, the eldest child of William Arthur Collett and his first wife Elsie Fox. He was the only one of their three children who survived, his mother dying three days after the birth of the couple’s third child when George was seven years old. George’s father was remarried in 1909 and that married produced two half siblings for George, with yet another two (twins) who died at birth. When George was 11 in 1910, he was still living at Spring Valley but with his father and his stepmother Alma. By 1920 George was no longer living with his father who, by then, was living at Hayward in Sawyer County.
	No corresponding record of George has been found within the census of 1920, but by 1930 he was married to the much older Mary L Collett who was 49 and born in Wisconsin, when George W Collett was only 32. On that occasion the couple was living at the home of George’s father at Hayward in Sawyer. George W Collett was living at Contra Costa in California when he died on 18^th February 1969, his death record confirming that his mother’s maiden-name was Fox and that he had been born in Wisconsin.
35Q86	Harland Leroy Collett was born at Hayward in Sawyer County, Wisconsin on 24^th January 1920, the last of the seven children of William Arthur Collett and the fourth child by his second wife Alma Regina Peterson, and only the second of those four children to survive to adulthood. In 1930 Harland L Collett, who was 10 years old, was living at Hayward in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, with his parents and older sister Allene I Collett who was 16. He later married Vivian who had also been born in Wisconsin during 1919. Harland Leroy Collett died while he was at Cameron in Texas on 19^th March 1985.
35Q92	Leonard Stanier Collett was born at Brantford in Brant County, Ontario on 19^th September 1922, the eldest of the four sons of Henry Thomas Collett and Ada Elizabeth Smith. He was named after his grandfather John Stanier Collett and he later married Genice Victoria Mauney on 18^th April 1953 at Prescott in Yavapai County, Arizona. Genice was born in Mississippi, USA, on 7^th December 1927 the daughter of George Homer Mauney and Lizzie Rebecca Rickles. Once married the couple settled in Ottawa, Carleton County, Ontario, where their son was born. Leonard Stanier Collett was still a resident of Ottawa when he died there on 9^th March 2011 in Ottawa Civic Hospital.
	His brother Howard (below) died in January 2013 and in his obituary the widow of Leonard Collett was referred to as Genice Collett of Ottawa. The obituary for Leonard Stanier Collett was published in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper two days after he died and read as follows: “Len passed away peacefully after a struggle with Mesothelioma (a form of lung cancer). He was predeceased by his son Ronald who died in 1973 and is survived by his devoted and loving wife Genice Collett (nee Mauney) and by three younger brothers Austin (and his wife Finnie), Howard (and his wife Helen), and Wilmer (and his wife Anne). He leaves behind several nieces and nephews from both the Collett and Mauney families as well as close friends Keith Adam and family. Len spent his pre-university years on a farm near Burford, Ontario, graduated from Manchester University with a degree in Physics and Chemistry, then completed his masters in Geophysics at the University of Toronto. After four years with Newmont Mining in Arizona he joined the Geographical Survey of Canada for a full and valued career in Ottawa, retiring finally in 1990. His greatest joy outside of his professional life was creating a haven of self-taught cabinet making on their farm near Hopetown, including the propagation of nut trees surrounded by a thriving grove of black walnut. As a humanitarian, Len was active in community affairs, supported the arts and cultural life of Ottawa, and was a strong advocate of scholarships for students of geo-sciences.”
	Just over four years after losing her husband Genice Victoria Collett, nee Mauney, the widow of Leonard Stanier Collett died on 28^th May 2017 in Ottawa, Ontario in Canada while residing at the Chartwell Duke of Devonshire Retirement Residence. She was in her 90th year, having been born on 7^th December 1927 in Tippah County, Mississippi, USA.
	35R44	Ronald Bryan Collett			Born in 1957 at Ottawa, Carleton County
35Q93	Austin Edward Collett was born at Burford in Brant County on 22^nd March 1924, the son of Henry and Ada Collett. He first married (1) Golda Marie Chapman on 28^th March 1951 at Kingston in Frontenac County, Ontario. It was there also that Golda was born on 25^th August 1926, the daughter of Alfred Earl Chapman and Ethel Mary Smith. The couple settled at Brockville in Leeds County, Ontario, where Golda presented Austin with three children, the first child suffering an infant death shortly after she was born. Golda Marie Collett nee Chapman died on 1^st July 1996 at Maitland in Grenville County, Ontario, following which Austin married (2) Josephine Preston on 4^th October 1997 at Maynard in Grenville County.
	Josephine was born on 27^th January 1923 at Grenville County, Edwardsburgh Township in Ontario and was previously married to Egbert Fretwell with whom she had a son Dale Fretwell. Austin Collett and his wife Finnie of Prescott, Ontario were referred to in that way in the obituary of Austin’s brother Howard in 2013. It was thirteen months after that when Josephine (Finnie) Collett nee Preston passed away on 27^th February 2014 and following which her funeral took place at Maynard Cemetery in the Spring on Tuesday 4^th March 2014 at 11 am. Her obituary is reproduced below.
	“Peacefully at Wellington House, Prescott, on Thursday February 27^th 2014, the former Josephine ‘Finnie’ Preston aged 91 years. Beloved wife of the late Egbert Fretwell and is survived by her husband Mr Austin Collett. Dear mother of Dale Fretwell (and his wife Denise) of Prescott and the late Joene Preston. Loving grandmother of Carly, Joe and Chadd Fretwell. Mrs Collett is survived by her step-children Jo Ann Collett of Nepean, Brent Collett (and his wife Karen) of Brockville, Judy Burns (and her husband Steve) of Ottawa and step-grandchildren David and Matthew Burns, Leah, Justin and Anna Collett, a sister-in-law Vi Preston of St Lawrence Lodge as well as several nieces and nephews. Pre-deceased by her parents Bill and Josephine (Robishud) Preston and siblings Hilda Seeley, Korleen Ewart, Madeline Gentile, Ruth Fortier, Joseph Preston, Jerrold ‘Joe’ Preston and Clifford Preston.”
	Austin Edward Collett, of Brockville, was 92 when he passed away on 31^st October 2016 at the Carveth Care Centre in Gananoque, Ontario, which lies on the west bank of the St Lawrence River. He was then laid to rest at Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Maitland in Grenville County, Ontario. His obituary read as follows: “Beloved husband of the late Golda Chapman and Finnie Preston. Loving father of Jo Ann Collett of Ottawa, Brent Collett (and wife Karen) of Brockville, and Judy Burns (and husband Steve) of Ottawa. Cherished grandfather of David and Matthew Burns, Leah, Justin and Anna Collett, stepfather of Dale Fretwell (and his wife Denise), and step-grandfather of Carly Jo and Chad. Also survived by brother Wil Collett (and his wife Anne), sister-in-law Genice Collett, brothers-in-law Sterling and Lorne Chapman, and special friend Ruth and several nieces and nephews. Predeceased by brothers Len and Howard Collett (and his wife Helen).”
	35R45	a Collett daughter			Born in 1957 at Brockville, Leeds County
	35R46	Jo Ann Coleen Collett			Born in 1958 at Brockville, Leeds County
	35R47	William Brent Collett			Born in 1959 at Brockville, Leeds County
	35R48	Judith Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1961 at Brockville, Leeds County
35Q94	Howard Glen Collett was born at Burford in Brant County on 1^st June 1927, the third son of Henry and Ada Collett. It was at Norwich in Oxford County, Ontario, that he married Helen May Everett on 4^th April 1953. Helen was born at Norwich on 17^th May 1932, the daughter of David Everett and Flossie Evelyn McMullen. The couple stayed in Oxford County after they were married and it was at Woodstock that they were living when all four of their children were born. Howard Glen Collett died on 30^th January 2013 while in the Tillsonburg Memorial Hospital in Oxford County, and it was just over three years later that his wife passed away at Tillsonburg – see below.
	His obituary stated that he was in his eighty-sixth year, was formerly of Otterville, Norwich and Woodstock in Ontario, the beloved husband of Helen Collett nee Everett of Tillsonburg, and cherished father of Bev Esseltine of Tillsonburg, Roger Collett of London, and Harvey Collett also of Tillsonburg. He was the father-in-law of Sylvia (Collett nee Audebert) of Kelowna in British Columbia and very proud grandfather of Ashley Collett and her fiancé Ryan Charlton of St Thomas, and Jack Collett of Kelowna. He was the brother of Austin Collett and his wife Finnie of Prescott Ontario, Wilmer Collett and his wife Annie of Ottawa, and brother-in-law of Genice Collett of Ottawa and Harold and Jean Everett of Markham. He was predeceased by his son Gord Collett, who died in 2002, and brother Len Collett who passed away in 2011. Howard was a proud member of H A S C, Tri-Lakes Region since 1960 and had 36 years of service with W O B I.
	The obituary for his widow Helen May Collett nee Everett read as follows: “Peacefully, at Maple Manor Nursing Home, Tillsonburg on Friday April 29, 2016, Helen Collett, formerly of Otterville, Norwich and Woodstock, died at the age of 83. Beloved wife of the late Howard Glen Collett who died in 2013. Beloved Mom of Bev (John) Esseltine of Tillsonburg, Roger of St Thomas, and daughter-in-law Sylvia (the late Gordon – 2002) Collett of Peachland BC. Cherished grandmother of Ashley (Ryan) Charlton of St Thomas and Jack Collett of Peachland BC. Sister of Harold (Jean) Everett of Markham. Predeceased by mother Flossie Everett (1977), son Harvey (2014), sister Bertha Burdge (1989). A private family service will be held on Wednesday May 4, 2016 at the Interment Oxford Memorial Park Cemetery, Woodstock, Ontario.”
	35R49	Beverley Ann Collett		Born in 1953 at Woodstock, Oxford County
	35R50	Roger Howard Collett		Born in 1955 at Woodstock, Oxford County
	35R51	Gordon Mark Collett		Born in 1960 at Woodstock, Oxford County
	35R52	Harvey Alan Collett		Born in 1961 at Woodstock, Oxford County
35Q95	Wilmer James Collett was born at Brantford in Brant County on 5^th August 1930, last child of Henry Thomas Collett and Ada Elizabeth Smith. He was known as Wil, and he later travelled to New Zealand for reasons of work and it was there in Wellington that he married Anne Mary Phyllis Johns from London, England, on 15^th July 1961. His work took the family all over the world, but upon retirement the couple now live at Ottawa in Canada. It was as the brother of Howard Collett (above) that Wilmer Collett and his wife Annie were said to be of Ottawa in Howard’s obituary of 2013. Just less than four years after that, Wil and Anne were named in the obituary of Wilmer’s older brother Austin Edward Collett in October 2016.
	Wilmer James Collett died on Sunday 22^nd March 2020 at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in Ottawa, with his family by his side. He was the youngest of the four sons of Henry (aka Harry) Thomas Collett and Ada Elizabeth Collett, nee Smith, and brother to Leonard, Austin, and Howard. The brothers all lived relatively long and very healthy lives with Len passing at the age of 88, Austin at the age of 92, Howard at the age of 85, and Wil at the age of 89. He is survived by his loving wife Anne, to whom he was married for 58 years, daughter Michelle and son David, and grandchildren Libby (Elizabeth) and Ethan, David’s two children. Wil graduated from The Ontario Agricultural College in 1953 and obtained an MBA from the University of Western Ontario in 1956. He then joined the Foreign Service, ultimately ending his career of 34 years in External Affairs. He capped off his career abroad by joining the United Nations as the Representative for the Food & Agriculture Organization [FAO] in various countries. Wherever he went, he left a trail of friendships and honourable achievements in the name of Canada, a country he so proudly represented. Our thanks go to his nephew Roger Collett for providing his obituary.
	36R53	Michelle Anne Collett		Date and place of birth withheld
	35R54	David James Collett		Date and place of birth withheld
35Q96	Edward Cleare Collett was born at Simcoe in Norfolk County, Ontario, on 8^th February 1933, the only child of Edward William Collett and Constance Edith Richardson. He married Doreen Margaret White, daughter of Edward James White and Elizabeth Black Cornelius on 10^th May 1958 at Brantford in Brant County, Ontario.
	35R55	Stephen Edward Collett		Born in 1964 at Brantford, Brant County
	35R56	Karen Diane Collett		Born in 1966 at Brantford, Brant County
35Q97	James Martin Collett was born at Chester, Pennsylvania on 23^rd April 1919, the only child of James Howard Collett and his wife Elsie Emma Rost. No record of him or his parents has been found in 1920 and 1930, but by 1940 his father was in lodgings in Chester, while James, aged 23, and his mother were living at Collingwood Borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
	James later married Eleanor Marie Smith and they had three sons who are all living today in Pennsylvania. James Martin Collett died in Philadelphia on 10^th March 1995. All the information for this Pennsylvania family has been kindly provided by Kristen Collett who lives in Brookhaven in Pennsylvania, which is just two towns away from Chester, where most of her ancestors lived and were born.
	35R57	a Collett son				Name/Date of birth not disclosed
	35R58	a Collett son				Name/Date of birth not disclosed
	35R59	a Collett son				Name/Date of birth not disclosed
35Q105	Herbert Ronald Collett was born at Griffithstown, near Pontypool in 1906, the first child of Herbert John Collett and Alice Louisa Smith. His birth was recorded at Pontypool register office (Ref. 11a 2010) during the first quarter of the year. Having been living with his family at Keynsham in 1911, it was a few miles to the north of that town in 1940, that the marriage of Herbert R Collett and Lilian M Gerrish was recorded at Kingswood register office (Ref. 6a 841) during the second quarter of that year.
35Q106	Florence Louisa Collett was born at Bristol after her family moved there from South Wales, with her birth as Florence L Collett recorded there (Ref. 6a 203) during the first three months of 1910.
35Q107	Arthur C Collett was born at Keynsham, south-east of Bristol, in 1913 where his birth was recorded (Ref. 5c 909) during the first quarter of that year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Smith. He was still living in that part of the country when he became a married man, with the wedding of Arthur C Collett and Grace E Chillcott recorded at Bristol register office (Ref. 6a 97) during the second quarter of 1940, when he was twenty-seven.
35Q108	Elizabeth M Collett was born in 1915 at Keynsham, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 5c 926) during the first three months of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Smith.
35Q109	Ruth Collett was born at Keynsham in 1917, her birth recorded there (Ref. 5c 782) during first quarter of that year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Smith.
35Q110	Peter H Collett was the last of the five children of Henry John Collett and Alice Louisa Smith. Like three of his older siblings, his birth was also recorded at Keynsham register office (Ref. 5c 896) during the last quarter of 1919, when again, his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Smith. He was around 26 years of age when his marriage to Dorothy L Pratt was recorded at Colchester (Essex) register office (Ref. 4a 2589) during the last quarter of 1945.
35Q111	Joan F Collett was born at Melksham in 1921, her birth recorded there (Ref. 5a 117) during the last quarter of that year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Wedlock. Twenty-two later the marriage of Joan F Collett and Geoffrey F Francis was recorded at Trowbridge register office (Ref. 5a 300) during the last three months of 1943.
35Q112	David J Collett was born in 1925 at Melksham, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 5a 166) during the third quarter of the year when, once again, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Wedlock. He was nearly twenty-five when he married Margaret J Balch, their wedding day recorded at Trowbridge register office (Ref. 7c 1379) during the second quarter of 1950. The couple was still living in the Trowbridge area when their only known child was born during the first three months of 1956 (Ref. 7c 733).
	35R60	Jacqueline M Collett				Born in 1956 at Trowbridge
35Q115	Eulalie Zoe Collett was born in Devon during the summer of 1916 the eldest of the two daughters of William Collett and Daisy May Mortimore, her birth recorded at Newton Abbot register office (Ref. 5b 188), with her mother’s maiden-name reported as Mortimore. From Devon she travelled to Hampshire at some time in her life, since it was at Southampton register office (Ref. 2c 342) where the marriage of Eulalie Zoe Collett and John W A Cook was recorded during the third quarter of 1940 when she was 24. It appears the couple return to Devon where Eulalie gave birth to three children, with their mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Collett. They were: David John Cook in 1944, his birth record at Devon register office (Ref. 5b 246); Peter W Cook in 1947 also at Devon register office (Ref. 7a 584), and Richard Cook in 1958 but recorded at Newton Abbot register office (Ref. 7a 525).
35Q116	Joyce Collett was born in Devon during 1919 with her birth also recorded at Newton Abbot register office (Ref. 5b 225) during the last three months of that year, another daughter William and Daisy Collett, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Mortimore. Nothing further is known about Joyce after this time.
35Q120	Frederick William Collett was born at Kettering on 17^th April 1909 and the first of the four children of Frederick Collett and Frances Mary Claypole. His birth was recorded at Kettering register office (Ref. 3b 161) during the second quarter of 1909, following the wedding of his parents on Christmas Day of the previous year. As Frederick William Collett, he was not yet two years old in the Kettering census of 1911. Twenty-two years later Frederick William Collett married Beatrice E Warner, the event recorded at Kettering (Ref. 3b 474) during the last three months of 1933. It would appear that their marriage produced just the two children listed below. The death of Frederick William Collett was recorded at Kettering (Ref. 3b 1722) during the first three months of 1973, when he was 64.
	35R61	Mary Collett				Born in 1936 at Kettering
	35R62	John Collett				Born in 1938 at Kettering
35Q121	Leslie Edward Collett was born at Kettering on 8^th September 1910, his birth recorded there (Ref. 3b 130) during October that year, as confirmed in the Kettering census of 1911 when he was recorded under his full name as being six months old. It was twenty-four years after that when Leslie E Collett married Kathleen A Stevenson at Kettering (Ref. 3b 491) during the final three months of 1935. Their son was born at Kettering in 1943, his birth recorded there (Ref. 3b 382) during the second quarter of that year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Stevenson. The death of Leslie Collett was recorded at (Ref. 7 2199) during the spring of 1989, when he was 78.
	35R63	David Collett				Born in 1943 at Kettering
35Q122	Phyllis Mary Collett was born at Kettering on 13^th September 1912, her birth recorded there (Ref. 3b 255) during the fourth quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Claypole. She was twenty-four when she married William H. Sharpe, the event recorded at Kettering (Ref. 3b 403) during the last three months of 1936. It is possible that Colin Sharpe, whose birth was recorded at Thrapston in 1941 and his mother’s maiden-name was Collett, was the only child of William and Phyllis. The death of Phyllis Mary Sharpe was recorded at Corby register office (Ref. 7 1919) during summer of 1986.
35Q123	Cyril Archibald Collett was born at Kettering on 13^th December 1915, the last child born to Frederick and Frances Collett, whose birth was recorded at Kettering register office (Ref. 3b 267) during the first three months of 1916. The marriage of Cyril Archie Collett and Marjorie E Newman was recorded at Kettering (Ref. 3b 539) during the third quarter of 1934. It was also at Kettering that their three children were born. The death of Cyril Archie Collett was recorded at Kettering (Ref. 6691a a75d) at the end of 2005.
	35R64	Pauline Collett				Born in 1935 at Kettering
	35R65	Kenneth Frederick Collett				Born in 1946 at Kettering
	35R66	Ann E Collett				Born in 1947 at Kettering
35R1	Reginald William Henry Collett was born at Belle Vue Farm in Poulshot on 26^th March 1902, the eldest child of Henry John Collett and Minnie Louisa Long, whose birth was recorded at Devizes register office (Ref. 5a 97) during the second quarter of that year. His father suffered a premature death in 1910, following which the family was still recorded at Poulshot six months later in the census in 1911, when Reginald Collett was nine years of age. Twenty-one years later, when Reginald was thirty, he married Vera D Marshment, their wedding recorded at Devizes register office (Ref. 5a 211) during the first three months of 1932.
35R2	Walter Herbert Collett was born at Belle Vue Farm in Poulshot on 31^st December 1903, another son of wheelwright Henry Collett and his wife Minnie, whose birth was recorded at Devizes register office (Ref. 5a 104) during the first quarter of 1904. As Herbert Collett he was seven years old in the Poulshot census of 1911, by which time his father had been dead for six months, leaving his four children living with their widowed mother. According to the record at Trowbridge register office (Ref. 5a 489), it was during the last three months of 1940 when he married Kathleen F Tudgay. It was there also, that the death of Walter Herbert Collett was recorded in December 1992.
35R3	Arthur Edward Collett was born at Belle Vue Farm in Poulshot on 3^rd August 1906, the third son of Henry and Minnie Collett, whose birth was registered at Devizes (Ref. 5a 103). It was simply as Arthur Collett that he was four years of age in the Poulshot census of 1911, his father having died six months earlier. Twenty-eight years later Arthur Edward Collett married Edith May Wheeler, the event recorded at Devizes register office during the third quarter of 1939. It is possible that Edith may have been related to Evelyn M Wheeler who married Arthur’s uncle Walter George Collett (Ref. 35Q13), possibly sisters, as there was not a great difference in their ages. The marriage of Arthur and Edith produced four children, as listed below. It was at Chippenham, during the month of November in 1990, that Arthur Edward Collett passed away.
	35S1	Hazel D Collett							Born in 1940 at Devizes
	35S2	Edward K Collett							Born in 1944 at Devizes
	35S3	Monica Collett twin							Born in 1950 at Chippenham
	35S4	Valerie Collett twin							Born in 1950 at Chippenham
35R4	Edith May Collett was born at Belle Vue Farm in Poulshot in 1909, the only daughter and last child of Henry and Minnie Collett. Her birth was recorded at Devizes register office (Ref. 5a 98) during the first quarter of 1909. She was only eighteen months old when her father died and, in the census of 1911, May Collett was two years old when living at Poulshot were her widowed mother and three older brothers. Many years later the marriage of Edith May Collett and Victor J Bridewell (or Brickwell) was recorded at Devizes register office (Ref. 7c 1187) during the third quarter of 1953.
35R15	ALLAN J SIMNETT was born in 1946, his birth recorded at Gloucester register office (Ref. 7b 791) during the last three months of that year. He inherited the company Wm Collett & Sons established by his great grandfather William Collett (Ref. 35O29). In 1973 he set up the export division of the company under the trading name of Collett Export Limited. The business is now based at Ledbury in Herefordshire where it is controlled by Allan, his son, and his daughter.
35R16	Alice Cora Collette was born at San Joaquin in California on 13^th January 1912, the eldest child of Walter Burton Collette and his wife Alice Olive Slayton. Alice married Alfred W Schopf and died on 25^th October 1998.
35R17	Walter Burton Collette was born in California on 29^th October 1913, the eldest son of Walter and Alice Collette. Nothing more has been revealed about him at this time, except that he died on 6^th March 2005.
35R18	Richard Asa Collette was born at Los Angeles in California on 22^nd June 1918, the youngest of the three children of Walter Burton Collette and Alice Olive Slayton. The only other known fact about him at this time is that he died at Sacramento on 31^st August 1999.
35R19	Valera Donna Collett was born at Plum City in Pierce, Wisconsin on 10^th April 1922, the first child born to Willard Faye Collett and his wife Alice Martin. She later married Gerald Joseph Shafer on 22^nd June 1948 at El Paso in Pierce. He was the son of Mathew Shafer and Julia Andersen and was born at El Paso on 25^th January 1922. Valera died at Spring Valley in Pierce on 25^th January 1995 and was followed by her husband who passed away on 2^nd March 2007 when he too was still living in Spring Valley. Four children were born to Valera and Gerald and they were Gary Shafer who married Kathy, Dennis Shafer, Peg Shafer who married Toby Vorlicek, and Diane Shafer who married Doug Lee.
35R20	Lorna Collett was born in Wisconsin on 13^th January 1924 and she later married E L Herbaly who was known as Herb.
35R21	Marjorie Collett, who was known as Margie, was born at Salem in Pierce on 24^th February 1926, the third of the four daughters of Willard and Alice Collett. Tragically she was only three years old when she died at Red Wing in Goodhue, Minnesota on 25^th May 1929.
35R22	Maxine Helen Collett was born at Grange Hall in Pierce on 24^th April 1927, the fourth child of Willard and Alice Collett. She married Ralph Matzek at Ellsworth in Pierce on 20^th August 1946, and she died at Maiden Rock in Pierce on 18^th June 2010. Their three children were Douglas Matzek, who married Mary, Robert Matzek, who married Lori, and Nancy Matzek who married Doug Weiss.
35R23	Gail Collett was born possibly around 1929, but certainly after 1927. He was the only son and fifth child of Willard Faye Collett R13and Alice Martin and he later married Marion with whom he had a daughter.
	35S5	Linda Collett				Date of birth unknown
35R24	Vernon R Collett was born in Wisconsin on 7^th April 1931, the eldest of the four children of Ralph Dinsmore Collett and his wife Edith Louisa Miller. All that is known about him at this time is that he died in Pierce on 2^nd October 1971.
35R25	Bernard Henry Collett was born in Wisconsin on 5^th April 1939 the second of the four children of Ralph and Edith Collett. His wife was a member of the King family with whom he had four children. In 2012, as his widow, she was still alive, Bernard Henry Collett having died many years earlier during April 1985.
	35S6	a living Collett				Date of birth unknown
	35S7	a living Collett				Date of birth unknown
	35S8	a living Collett				Date of birth unknown
	35S9	a living Collett				Date of birth unknown
35R28	Jayd Collett was born in America on 15^th April 1950, the eldest of the three children of Donald Milton Collett and Dorothy M Henn. He was twenty-five when he married Roxanne D Aune on 19^th December 1975 at Clay in Minnesota, Roxanne having been born in 1952.
35R29	Donna Collett was born in America, possibly around 1953 and certainly after 1950, and was the daughter of Donald and Dorothy Collett. She later married Don Ginsbach.
35R30	Adela Collett was born in America, possibly in the mid to late 1950s, and was the youngest of the three children of Donald and Dorothy Collett. It is established that she later married to become Adela Kehl.
35R34	Molly D Collett was born in Hampshire in 1931, her birth recorded at Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 627) during the first three months of that year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Crockford. Molly was twenty-seven when she married Ronald A Baker at Uxbridge (Ref. 5f 503) during the third quarter of 1958, the same place and time that her sister Jean (below) was also married.
35R35	Jean V Collett was born in Hampshire in 1935 and her birth was recorded at Petersfield register office (Ref. 2c 223) during the fourth quarter of the year, her mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Crockford. Just after her older sister Molly (above) was married, so too was Jean, her marriage to Fred Dawson also recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 5f 504) during the same third quarter of 1958, when Jean was twenty-two.
35R36	Brian A Collett was born in Hampshire in 1940, his birth recorded at Portsmouth register office (Ref. 2b 1012) during the last three months of that year. The record of his birth also confirmed that his mother’s maiden-name was Crockford. Brian was twenty-two years of age when he married Avril A MacLean, their wedding recorded at Uxbridge in Middlesex (Ref. 5f 272) during the second quarter of 1963.
35R44	Ronald Bryan Collett was born at Ottawa in Carleton County, Ontario, Canada on 26^th November 1957, the only child of Leonard Stanier Collett and Genice Victoria Mauney. Nothing further is known about him at this time except that he died on 1^st July 1973 while still in Ottawa, Carleton County, as the result of a traffic accident when he was struck by a car while on his bicycle.
35R45	a Collett daughter was born at Brockville in Leeds County, Ontario, during June 1957, the first child born to Austin Edward Collett and his wife Golda Marie Chapman. Tragically she died shortly after being born, her death also recorded during the month of June 1957.
35R46	Jo Ann Coleen Collett was born at Brockville in Leeds County on 3^rd June 1958, the eldest child of Austin Edward Collett and Golda Marie Chapman. Following the death of her mother in 1996 her father married Finnie Preston in 1997 and, at the time of her death in February 2014, and again over two years later when her father passed away, Jo Ann Collett was recorded as residing at Nepean in Ottawa, Ontario.
35R47	William Brent Collett was born at Brockville in Leeds County on 28^th October 1959, the son of Austin and Golda Collett. It was also at Brockville that he married Karen Darlene Evelyn Poole on 20^th August 1988. Karen was also born at Brockville on 31^st October 1960, the daughter of Percy Everett Carson Poole and Verna Marilyn Poole White. On the occasion of the death of his stepmother, William and his family were mentioned in her 2014 obituary in the following way - Brent and Karen Collett of Brockville and their three children Leah, Justin, and Anna. It was the same situation two years later, when the obituary for William’s father, Austin Edward Collett, who passed away in October 2016, which again included the name of his son, as Brent Collett of Brockville, when his wife was confirmed as Karen.
	35S10	Leah Ada Evelyn Collett	Born on 22.02.1994 at Kingston, Frontenac
	35S11	Justin William Craig Collett	Born on 05.06.1996 at Kingston, Frontenac
	35S12	Anna Sarah Rose Collett	Born on 14.03.2000 at Brockville, Leeds Cty
35R48	Judith Elizabeth Collett was born at Brockville in Leeds County on 24^th July 1961, the daughter of Austin and Golda Collett. On 1^st October 1983 at Brockville, she married Stephen Michael Burns who was born at Kingston in Frontenac County on 14^th June 1958, the son of Michael John Burns and Betty Phyllis Tinkess. The couple adopted two boys, David Alexander Burns who was born on 23^rd July 1992 at Kingston in Frontenac County, and Matthew Michael Burns who was born on 12^th January 1995 at Greater Napanee in Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.
	In the obituary of her stepmother in February 2014, as well as the later obituary of her father Austin Edward Collett, Judith and her family were referred to in the following way – Judy and Steve Burns of Ottawa and their two sons David and Matthew Burns.
35R49	Beverley Ann Collett was born at Woodstock General Hospital in Oxford County on 27^th October 1953, the eldest child of Howard Glen Collett and Helen May Everett. She first married (1) Ivan Russell Day who was born on 25^th September 1956, their wedding taking place at Woodstock in Oxford County on 17^th July 1976. She was married for a second time just three years later, on 15^th September 1979 when she wed (2) John Warren Esseltine, the son of Henry Warren Esseltine and Helen Marguerite Empy, who was born at Springfield in Elgin County, Ontario, on 11^th April 1949. In the obituary for her father in 2013 the couple was simply named as Bev and John Esseltine of Tillsonburg.
35R50	Roger Howard Collett was born at the General Hospital in Woodstock on 10^th January 1955, the son of Howard and Helen Collett. His first partner was Kimberly Elaine Palmer who was born on 19^th October 1956 at St Thomas in Elgin County, Ontario, and together they had a daughter while residing in St Thomas. And it was Roger who kindly provided all the details of his family line from his grandfather Henry Thomas Collett (Ref. 35P76). At the time of the death of his father in January 2013, his son was described as Roger Collett of London, while his granddaughter was confirmed as Ashley Collett who was engaged to be married to Ryan Charlton. By the time of the death of his mother in April 2016, Roger was described once again as being of St Thomas.
	35S13	Ashley Brooke Collett		Born in 1986 at St Thomas, Elgin County
35R51	Gordon Mark Collett was born at the General Hospital in Woodstock on 4^th January 1960, another son of Howard and Helen Collett. He was known as Gord and he married Sylvia Audebert on 20^th February 1993 at London in Middlesex County, Ontario. She was the daughter of Roland Ugen Audebert and Jacqueline Suzanne and was born at Woodstock on 4^th June 1967 in the Woodstock General Hospital. Their son was born in the General Hospital at Kelowna within the Central Okanagan Regional District of British Columbia in Canada. Tragically Gordon Mark Collett was killed in an aviation accident while working as a commercial helicopter pilot. The incident happened on 11^th September 2002 on Pink Mountain at Fort St John within the Peace River Regional District of British Columbia. At the time of the passing of Gordon’s mother Helen in April 2016 his widow Sylvia Collett and her son Jack were living at Peachland in British Columbia.
	35S14	Jack Mark Collett		Born on 20.09.2001 in Kelowna
35R52	Harvey Alan Collett was born at the General Hospital in Woodstock on 5^th September 1961, the youngest of the four children of Howard Glen Collett and Helen May Everett. It seems likely that Harvey was not married by the time of the death of his father in 2013, since it was simply as Harvey Collett of Tillsonburg that he was named within his obituary. Tragically, just fifteen months after the death of his father, Harvey Alan Collett was killed in a road traffic accident while riding on an e-bike on the morning of 25^th April 2014 at the age of only 52. His obituary, kindly provided by his brother Roger, is reproduced below:
	“Harvey Collett of Tillsonburg, in his 53^rd year. Beloved son of Helen Collett of Tillsonburg. Brother of Bev and John Esseltine of Tillsonburg, Roger of London, and brother-in-law of Sylvia Audebert-Collett of Kelowna BC. Uncle of Ashley and Ryan Charlton of St Thomas, and Jack of Kelowna BC. Predeased by his father Howard (2013) and brother Gord (2002). Harvey was a proud and dedicated member of the Tillsonburg Lions Club. Friends will be received at The Arn-Lockie Funeral Home, 45 Main Street West, Norwich on Tuesday 29^th April, cremation to follow. A Lions service will be held Tuesday evening at 6.30pm at the funeral home.
35R54	David James Collett was the son of Wilmer James Collett and Anne Mary Phyllis Johns. He later travelled to the homeland of his father and it was at Toronto in Canada that David married Kimberly Mouland with whom he had two children.
	35S15	Elizabeth Sarah Anne Collett		Date and place of birth withheld
	35S16	Ethan Wilmer Bruce Collett		Date and place of birth withheld
35R55	Stephen Edward Collett was born at the General Hospital in Brantford, Brant County, on 8^th July 1964, the eldest of the two children of Edward Cleare Collett and Doreen Margaret White. He first married (1) Anne Pettigrew at Brantford in Brant County on 21^st September 1991 with whom he had a daughter. Anne Pettigrew was born on 7^th June 1965. Stephen later married (2) Olga Vrentzos who was born on 25^th June 1964, the wedding taking place at the Greek Orthodox Church in Kitchener, Ontario on 15^th June 2002.
	35S17	Rachel Ellen Collett		Born on 03.08.1994 at Brantford, Brant Cty
35R56	Karen Diane Collett was born at the General Hospital in Brantford on 27^th December 1966, the daughter of Edward and Doreen Collett. It was also at Brantford on 6^th June 1993 that she married Mario Baldassara who was born on 20^th September 1965. Their two children were also born in the hospital at Brantford and they were Anthony Joseph Baldassara who was born on 12^th January 1998 and Julia Elizabeth Baldassara who was born on 5^th November 2001.
35R61	Mary Collett was born at Kettering in 1936, her birth recorded there (Ref. 3b 176) during the first quarter of that year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Warner. Mary was 20 years of age when she married John C Ashby, their wedding recorded at Kettering (Ref. 3b 1565) during the third quarter of 1956. Their marriage resulted in the birth of two children, Alyn J Ashby who was born at Kettering in 1957, and Stephen J Ashby who was also born there in 1960. On both occasions the birth certificates confirmed their mother’s maiden-name was Collett.
35R62	John Collett was born at Kettering in 1938, his birth recorded there (Ref. 3b 198) during the first three months of 1938, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Warner.
35R64	Pauline Collett was born at Kettering in 1935, her birth recorded there (Ref. 3b 192) during the second quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Newman. Pauline married Dennis A Cox and their wedding was recorded at Kettering (Ref. 3b 1429) during the first quarter of 1956 when she was 21 years old. It was during one year later that Pauline presented Dennis with a daughter, Jane E Cox who was born at Kettering in early months of 1957.
35R65	Kenneth Frederick Collett was born at Kettering in 1946 where his birth was recorded (Ref. 3b 283) during the first three months of that year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Newman. Kenneth was only 18 years old when he married Lesley E Foulds at Kettering where their wedding was recorded (Ref. 3b 1241) during the final quarter of 1964. Nine months after they were married Lesley gave birth to a daughter and two years later, a son.
	35S18	Joanne Lesley Collett		Born in 1965 at Kettering
	35S19	Martin Kenneth Collett		Born in 1967 at Kettering
35R66	Ann E Collett was born at Kettering in 1947 and it was there that her birth was recorded (Ref. 3b 824) during the third quarter of that year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Newman. It was during the first few months of 1971 when Ann E Collett married Maurice Sherborne (Ref. 3b 1155). Over the following years Ann gave birth to two children, Brett Michael Sherborne born in 1974 and Collette Michelle Sherborne born in 1977. Both births were recorded at Kettering, when the children’s mother’s name was confirmed as Collett.
35S1	Hazel D Collett was born in 1940, her birth recorded at Devizes register office (Ref. 5a 304) during the third quarter of that year, the eldest for the four children of Arthur Edward Collett and Edith May Wheeler. She was only 19 years old when she married David A Morse, the event recorded at Chippenham register office (Ref. 7c 947) during the first three months of 1960. Their son, Nigel P Morse was born within the Chippenham area in 1963.
35S2	Edward K Collett was born in 1944, his birth recorded at Devizes register office (Ref. 5a 173) during the second quarter of that year. He was twenty-three when he married Doreen Dodson, the wedding recorded at Bootle register office (Ref. 10b 1667) during the third quarter of 1969. The marriage produced two children for Edward and Doreen, whose births were both recorded at the Chester/Ellesmere Port register office - Andrew Keith Collett during the first three months of 1977 (Vol. 35 91) and Elizabeth Alison Collett during first three months of 1979 (Vol. 35 268), and in both cases the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Dodson.
	35T1	Andrew Keith Collett						Born in 1977 in Cheshire
	35T2	Elizabeth Alison Collett						Born in 1979 in Cheshire
35S3	Monica Collett was the twin sister of Valerie Collett (below), their births recorded at Chippenham register office (Ref. 7c 441) during the second quarter of 1950, the daughters of Arthur Edward Collett and Edith May Wheeler. She later married Terry J Barrett, with their wedding recorded at Chippenham register office (Ref. 7c 1821) during the second quarter of 1972 when she was 22 years of age.
35S4	Valerie Collett was the twin sister of Monica Collett (above), whose birth was recorded at Chippenham register office in 1950. She later married Malcolm J Clark(e), the event recorded at Chippenham register office (ref. 7c 1778) during the second quarter of 1970, when she was around 20 years old. Exactly two years later Valerie gave birth to twin daughter Sara Lindsay Clarke and Helen Elizabeth Clarke, their birth recorded at Chippenham register office during the second quarter of 1972.
35S5	Linda Collett, the daughter of Gail and Marion Collett, whose date of birth is not known, married Don Fedie and they had a daughter Sara Fedie.
35S13	Ashley Brooke Collett was born at the General Hospital in St Thomas, Elgin County, on 21^st January 1986 the daughter of Roger Howard Collett and Kimberly Elaine Palmer. It was also while she was still living in St Thomas that Ashley married Peter Ryan Charlton on 6^th July 2013. He was the son of Peter Charlton and Rhonda Roberts and was also born at St Thomas Elgin General Hospital on 5^th June 1985. Upon the death of her grandfather Howard Glen Collett in January 2013 his granddaughter Ashley Collett and her fiancé Ryan Charlton of St Thomas were mentioned in his obituary. Ashley and Ryan were also included in the obituary for uncle Harvey Alan Collett who was killed in a road accident in 2014. They were also named in the obituary for Ashley’s grandmother Helen May Collett nee Everett in April 2016.
35S14	Jack Mark Collett was born in Kelowna on 20^th September 2001, the son of Gordon Mark Collett and Sylvia Audebert. Tragically his father, who was known within the family as Gord, died as a result of an aviation accident in September 2002, just nine days before Jack’s first birthday. And it was simply as Jack Collett of Kelowna that he was named with his mother Sylvia Collett in the 2013 obituary of his grandfather Howard Glen Collett. After the death of his father, Jack and his mother lived at Peachland in British Columbia where, in April 2014, they were both named in the obituary for Harvey Alan Collett, Jack’s uncle. It was also at Peachland that Jack and his mother were still living two years later, as confirmed in the April 2016 obituary Helen May Collett, the mother of Jack’s father.
35S18	Joanne Lesley Collett was born at Kettering in 1965, her birth recorded their (Ref. 3b 843) during the third quarter of that year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Foulds.
35S19	Martin Kenneth Collett was born at Kettering in 1967, where his birth was recorded their (Ref. 3b 880) during the first three month of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Foulds.
	APPENDIX – from Ref. 35O93
	Another Collett Family of Birmingham involved in jewellery trade
	Some of the initial information relating to Thomas Collett, who married Rose Frances Hill at St Georges Church in Birmingham on 5^th August 1888, was kindly supplied by Roger Collett in Canada. This confirmed that bachelor Thomas was 27 and a gold stamper (in jewellery) residing at 23 Great Hampton, when his father was named as Thomas Collett, a refiner. His wife Rose was 23 and of 23 Hampton Row, the daughter of jeweller Matthew Hill. Thomas and Rose both signed the register in their own hand. From the census in 1891, we know that Thomas and Rose were living at Unett Street in Birmingham, immediately next door to the family of Charles Collett, the pair of them working in the jewellery trade, and most likely brothers. Using the known information for these two young men, it is possible to trace their family line back through a succession of men named Thomas back to Thomas Collett born at Evenlode in Gloucestershire, who was baptised at nearby Oddington on 11^th September 1807, the son of another Thomas Collett and his wife Sarah Collett.
	This family can now be found in Part 79 – The Second Oddington (Glos) Line to Birmingham