PART FORTY-ONE

The Middlesex Harefield Line - 1772 to 2011

(see also The Middlesex Ickenham & Ruislip Line - 1720 to 1910)

This line commences with Henry Collett (Ref. 1M28)

of Kempsford in Gloucestershire

Updated October 2021

This is the family line of Jean Oakes nee Ferguson (see Ref. 41P10) of Cheshire

depicted in capitals, and Cheryl Collett (Ref. 41S1) in the USA, whose great grandfather

was George James Collett (Ref. 41P6) of Harefield & Washington depicted by the underlining.

As a result of the August 2008 update it is also the family line of

Trevor Collette (Ref. 41S11) of Kingston in Ontario

The April 2010 update was thanks to Rebecca Humphreys of Farnham in Surrey

whose great great grandfather was Henry James Collett (Ref. 41P1)

A previous update included the family line of Brian Arthur Collett (Ref. 41R35)

of Sutton in Surrey who kindly provided the new information regarding his family

The revision of February 2013 included the line of David George Collett (Ref. 41R23)

41M1	HENRY COLLETT (Ref. 1M28) was the second son of Robert and Mary Collett and was born at Kempsford on 2^nd April 1772 where he was baptised on 27^th April 1772. He was born into a tragic family as his older brother John had died an infant death, his only younger sister Elizabeth also died in the same way when he was just approaching his fifth birthday, and shortly after that his father died.
	So, the family, that would have otherwise been six in number, was reduced to just three, they being Henry, his widowed mother Mary, and his only surviving younger brother John. Mary then appears to have sought solace with a local blacksmith by the name of Joseph Bunce, as a result of which, just over a year later, she brought into the family a base-born child. This was followed eighteen months later by a second base-born child, the father for whom was not known.
	It was initially believed that at some time in his life Henry left Gloucestershire and made his way to Cornwall, most likely for work reasons. It was also believed that it was there that he met Elizabeth Withiell who was born in Cornwall in 1770. Not long after they met it was understood that they were married at Philleigh on 16^th August 1792, when Henry Collett was recorded as being a farmer. It has long been acknowledged that there was a seven years gap between the date of their wedding and the birth of their first confirmed child, leading to speculation that there may have been others born during this period.
	Since then, new information has come to light which places a question-mark over Henry’s marriage to Elizabeth Withiell. The alternative option, which is now considered to be more realistic, was that Henry moved to London, rather than Cornwall, where he married Elizabeth Woods on 31^st December 1798 at St Mary’s Church on Marylebone Road in the City Borough of Marylebone. That date correlates better with the birth of their first child. Sometime after they were married the couple left the City of London and settled at Harefield in Middlesex, where all of their children were born. The baptisms for all of the children listed below were conducted at St Mary’s Church in Harefield.
	Previously it was thought that more children than listed below had been born in the years between 1793 and 1800 and that one of these may well have been Thomas Collett born in 1793. This now seems unlikely but is still worth a mention, as Thomas Collett in 1841 was the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages for the Brentford, Staines & Uxbridge registration district which included Harefield. It was in that capacity that he recorded the birth in December 1840 of Richard Benjamin Collett, the grandson of Henry Collett, and the eldest son of Richard Collett (below) who was born in 1809. The brief details of Thomas Collett, the registrar, and his family can be found in Part 41 – The Ickenham & Ruislip Line, which was previously an appendix included in this family line but which has now been separated from it.
	At the time of his son Richard’s marriage, in December 1837, Henry was reported to be working as a watchman. This too seems at odds with him being a farmer in Cornwall in 1792 and again might be a further clue that he was not the Henry Collett who married Elizabeth Withiell at Philleigh. Four years after the marriage of his son Richard, at the time of the first national census in 1841, Henry and his wife Elizabeth were both listed as being 70 years of age, while they were living at Copper Mill Lane in Harefield. Living there with them was their married son Richard and his family, including the aforementioned grandson Richard Benjamin Collett.
	Almost four years later Henry’s wife Elizabeth Collett died at Harefield, during the second quarter of 1845, leaving Henry as a widower, who was confirmed was being 79 at the time of the next census in 1851. The detail in the census return recorded that he was born at Kempsford and that he was a labourer with a pension. Still living with Henry at that time was his son Richard, together with his wife Sarah and their eight children. Henry Collett survived for almost another two years after the census day, and died at Harefield during the first quarter of 1853.
	41N1	John Collett				Born in 1800 at Harefield
	41N2	Robert Henry Collett				Born in 1802 at Harefield
	41N3	WILLIAM COLLETT				Born in 1803 at Harefield
	41N4	Elizabeth Collett				Born in 1806 at Harefield
	41N5	James Collett				Born in 1807 at Harefield
	41N6	Richard Collett				Born in 1809 at Harefield
	41N7	Jonathan Collett				Born in 1811 at Harefield
	41N8	Ann Collett				Born in 1812 at Harefield
	41N9	Sarah Ann Collett				Born in 1816 at Harefield
41N1	John Collett was born at Harefield in 1800, the eldest son of Henry Collett and his wife Elizabeth Woods. Because of the connection with Ickenham, through his brother William Collet (below), it was originally thought that he may have been the John Collett who married Charlotte Montague from Ickenham near Ruislip in Middlesex. However, it can now be confirmed that John, the husband of Charlotte Montague was born around ten years earlier, so could not have been the son of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. It is more likely that he was related in some way to the aforementioned Thomas Collett, the registrar for the Brentford, Staines & Uxbridge registration district in 1840.
	In view of the Ickenham connection, it is considered worthwhile providing the details of the family of John Collett and Charlotte Montague, and Thomas the registrar, in the second section of this family line, Part 41 – The Ickenham & Ruislip Line, which was previously an appendix at the end of this file.
41N2	Robert Henry Collett was born at Harefield in 1802, where he was baptised at St Mary’s Church on 9^th May 1802, the second child born to Henry and Elizabeth Collett. Robert Henry Collett later married Ann Stevens at St Mary’s Church in Lambeth on 24^th May 1836 following the publication of banns. The couple both signed the register in their full names and the witnesses were Leonard Collett and Hannah Dunn. At this moment in time, it is not known who Leonard Collett was, or what relationship he had to Robert Henry Collett. However, it is known that he married Hannah Dunn at that same church almost exactly one year later, since the records there confirm that Leonard Collett married Hannah Dunn at St Mary Lambeth on 14^th May 1837.
	Robert was around thirty-four at the time of their wedding, while Ann was about ten years younger than Robert, and their marriage produced three known children, and all of them were born at Harefield. In the Harefield census of 1841, he was recorded simply as Robert Collett a grocer, having a rounded age of 35, while his wife Ann was 25. Living with them at Copper Mill Lane were their three children, Mary Ann Collett, who was five, Henry Collett who was three, and Ruth Collett who was two years old. Also listed with the family in 1841 was 70-year-old Ruth Stevens, who was very likely Ann’s mother. Ten years later it was the same situation, except that the Harefield census of 1851 provided more accurate details of Robert’s and Ann’s ages.
	Robert Henry Collett was 48, by which time he was described as a gardener and a seedsman, while Ann Collett was 38. Their three children were again recorded as Mary Ann Collett, who was 14, Henry Collett, who was 13, and Ruth Collett who was 11 years of age. During the next decade the two oldest children left the family home in Harefield, leaving just the youngest child still living there with her parents in 1861. By that time the family was residing in a dwelling on the road leading to Copper Mills and was made up of Robt Hy Collett of Harefield, who was 58 and a nurseryman and a gardener, his wife Ann, who was 47, and their daughter Ruth who was 21 and described as being deaf. Living just one dwelling away from them was the family of Jonathan Collett (below), Robert’s younger brother.
	Where the couple’s unmarried daughter Mary Ann Collett was at that time has not been determined, but following the death of Ann Collett during the 1860s, Mary had returned home to look after her widowed father by the time of the next census in 1871. The Harefield census that year recorded Robert Henry Collett, aged 69 and a gardener, living at Park Lane with just his two unmarried daughters, Mary A Collett who was 34 and domestic servant, and Ruth Collett who was 31 and an invalid having been deaf for eighteen years.
	On that occasion in 1871, living just one house along Park Lane from Robert and his two daughters, were the two sons of his late brother Jonathan Collett, Charles and Frederick Collett. According to the next Harefield census in 1881, Robert H Collett was a widower of 80 years who had been born at Harefield, who was still living at Park Lane with his two daughters Mary A Collett and Ruth Collett who was incorrectly recorded as Edith Collett. As ten years earlier, living just next door but one, was Robert’s nephew Charles Collett, and next to him was another nephew James Theophilus Bolton Collett, the son of Robert’s brother Richard (below) who was simply listed as James T B Collett.
	Robert Henry Collett died not long after the census in 1881, and may well have been followed shortly after by his invalid daughter Ruth, since neither of them were recorded in the next census of 1891, by which time his surviving daughter Mary Ann Collett had returned to Watford, where she was living before Robert was made a widower.
	41O1	Mary Ann Collett				Born in 1836 at Harefield
	41O2	Henry Collett				Born in 1837 at Harefield
	41O3	Ruth Collett				Born in 1839 at Harefield
41N3	WILLIAM COLLETT was born at Harefield on 12^th December 1803, where he was baptised a year later at St Mary’s Church on 8^th December 1804. When he was of full age, he married Elizabeth Bishop who was possibly one year older, having been born at nearby Ickenham, near Ruislip in Middlesex, either at the end of 1802 or very early in 1803. She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Bishop and was baptised at Ickenham on 6^th February 1803. It was also at the birth of three of the couple’s youngest four children that the mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Bishop. Once they were married the couple settled in Harefield, where all of their children were born.
	William’s occupation was that of a butcher, as verified by subsequent census returns, while in June 1841, the census that year for Harefield included the family as follows. William and Elizabeth were both recorded with a rounded age of 35, whereas the age of their five children that day was more accurately stated. They were William who was 15, Ellen who was nine, Isaac who was four, Jacob who was two, while the youngest member of the family was baby Emma who was just six months old. Also living with the family was Betty Sheerwood, aged 65, who was previously thought to be Elizabeth’s mother, which could only be correct if William was twice married, first to Elizabeth Sheerwood and later to Elizabeth Bishop. However, no recording of either marriage has been located. It is also known that the death of Betty Sheerwood was recorded two years later at Uxbridge (Ref. iii 238).
	No trace has been found of the three missing children, George, Abraham and Sarah, in any of the national census records, so it must be assumed that they had died as infants prior to 1841. Nor has any trace been found of William’s youngest son John, either in the census of 1851 or any later census records. There is every possibility that the death of John Matthew Collett recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. iii 265) during the first three months of 1846, may relate to William’s last-born child. In 1851 the family living at Harefield was headed by butcher William Collett who was 47, as was his wife Elizabeth from Ickenham, while the children still living with the couple were Ellen Collet who was 20, Isaac Collett who was 14, Jacob Collett who was 12, Emma Collett who was 10, David Collett who was six and Job Collett who was five. Every member of the household, excluding Elizabeth, had been born at Harefield. The couple’s eldest son was absent that census day, but was still unmarried and living with his parents ten years later.
	By April 1861 William was described as a master butcher, while he and his wife Elizabeth, both aged 57, were living with their four unmarried sons at the High Street in Harefield. Once again, their place of birth was confirmed as being Harefield and Ickenham respectively. Their unmarried sons were William Collett who was 34, Jacob Collett who was 21, David Collett who was 17 and Job Collett who was 15. Also living with the family was George Collett Jones, who was eight years old and born at Harefield, who was listed as being the grandson of William and Elizabeth. George was the son of their daughter Ellen and was most likely base-born, hence the reason for him being with his grandparents.
	William and Elizabeth both appeared in the 1871 Census when both of them were 67 years old. That day they, and their son Job Collett aged 26, and their grandson George James (previously George Collett Jones in 1861) aged 17, were living with the couple’s married son Jacob Collett and his wife and two children at Harefield. Ten years later William Collett, aged 77 and a butcher from Harefield, was still living with his married son Jacob and his family in the High Street in Harefield, as confirmed by the census in 1881. At that same time William’s wife Elizabeth Collett, aged 79 and from Ruislip, was staying with another of her married sons, David and his family, at the Grocer’s Shop in Harefield. It has been assumed that both William and Elizabeth passed away during the next decade, since no record of them has been found within the census of 1891.
	41O4	William Henry Collett	Born in 1826 at Harefield
	41O5	Mary Collett	Born in 1829 at Harefield
	41O6	Ellen Collett	Born in 1831 at Harefield
	41O7	George Collett	Born in 1832 at Harefield; infant death
	41O8	Abraham Collett	Born in 1833 at Harefield; infant death
	41O9	Sarah Collett	Born in 1835 at Harefield; infant death
	41O10	Isaac Collett	Born in 1836 at Harefield
	41O11	JACOB COLLETT	Born in 1838 at Harefield
	41O12	Emma Collett	Born in 1840 at Harefield
	41O13	David Collett	Born in 1843 at Harefield
	41O14	Job Collett	Born in 1845 at Harefield
	41O15	John Collett	Born in 1846 at Harefield; infant death
41N4	Elizabeth Collett was born at Harefield in 1806 and was baptised there in St Mary’s Church on 26^th March 1806.
41N5	James Collett was born at Harefield where he was baptised at St Mary’s Church on 15^th March 1807, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. No mention of him has been found in any of the census records.
41N6	Richard Collett was born at Harefield in 1809 and it was there that he was baptised in St Mary’s Church on 26^th December 1809, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. At the age of 28 he was a labourer working at a local mill on the occasion of his marriage to Sarah Bolton at Harefield on 25^th December 1837. Sarah was 26 and had been born at nearby Chalfont in Buckinghamshire in 1811, and she was the daughter of gardener Henry Bolton and his wife Elizabeth. Richard and Sarah were both residing in Harefield at the time of their wedding, and both of them made the mark of a cross on the marriage certificate, which was witnessed by Sarah’s mother. After they were married the couple continued to live with Richard’s parents at Copper Mill Lane in Harefield, where all of their children were born.
	The Registrar at Uxbridge, whose name appears on the birth certificate for the couple’s second child, was Thomas Collett. It is possible that he was related in some way to Richard, but this has not yet been determined. Richard’s occupation, as stated on the birth certificate at that time in 1840, was that of a groom. For more details of Thomas Collett, the registrar, see Part 41 – The Ickenham & Ruislip Line. Six months later the 1841 Census confirmed that the family was still living with Richard’s parents Henry and Elizabeth Collett, at their home in Copper Mill Lane in Harefield. The family comprised Richard Collett who was 30, his wife Sarah who was 25, their daughter Elizabeth who was two years old, and their son Richard who was only six months old.
	Ten years later, according to the census of 1851, Richard Collett was 41, while Sarah was 39. During the previous ten years a further six children had been added to the family, and the couple and their eight children were still living at the Harefield home of Richard’s father Henry Collett from Kempsford in Gloucestershire. The eight children recorded on the census return in 1851 were Elizabeth Collett, aged 12, Richard Benjamin Collett, aged 11, Sarah Collett who was nine, Mary Ann Collett who was eight, Ann Collett who was six, James Collett who was three, and twins John and Harriet Collett who were both two months old. All of the children were confirmed as having be born at Harefield.
	Two years later the family was completed with the birth of Richard’s and Sarah’s final child. However, it would also appear that one of the twins, John, died while still very young, just after the census in 1851. Ten years later in 1861 the Harefield census that year listed the family as Richard, aged 52, who was working as a labourer, while his wife Sarah was 48. Only five of their nine children were living with them at that time, and they were Richard B Collett, aged 20, Anne Collett, aged 15, James Collett, aged 12, Harriet Collett, aged 10, and Thomas Collett who was seven years old.
	It was also at Harefield that Richard Collett died just over five years later on 11^th June 1866 at the age of 57. His death was recorded at Uxbridge, and the informant was his married daughter Elizabeth Green, nee Collett. The death certificate recorded that Richard was formerly a gas maker, and that the cause of death was bronchitis. His widow Sarah Collett continued to live at Harefield after his passing, and was recorded there in the census of 1871 when, as the widow Sarah Collett, she was 58. The only member of her family living with her on that occasion was her granddaughter Emily Mary Collett, who was three years old. Emily was the base-born child of Sarah’s unmarried daughter Mary Ann Collett.
	41O16	Elizabeth Collett				Born in 1838 at Harefield
	41O17	Richard Benjamin Collett				Born in 1840 at Harefield
	41O18	Sarah Collett				Born in 1841 at Harefield
	41O19	Mary Ann Collett				Born in 1843 at Harefield
	41O20	Ann Collett				Born in 1845 at Harefield
	41O21	James Theophilus Bolton Collett				Born in 1848 at Harefield
	41O22	Harriet Collett twin				Born in 1851 at Harefield
	41O23	John Collett twin				Born in 1851 at Harefield
	41O24	Thomas Collett				Born in 1853 at Harefield
41N7	Jonathan Collett was born at Harefield in 1811 and it was there that he was baptised in St Mary’s Church on 17^th December 1811. He later married Margaret and both he and his wife were listed as having a rounded age of 25 in the Harefield census of 1841. By that time the marriage had produced two children for Jonathan and Margaret, and they were Charles, for was four, and Maria who was still under one year old.
	Maria did not survive and died during the next few years, although the couple’s loss was offset by the birth of a second daughter shortly after. One further child was added to the family during the next five years, so by the time of the census in 1851 the family living in Harefield was made up of Jonathan, who was 40, Margaret, who was 38, and their three children, Charles, aged 13, Elizabeth Margaret who was seven, and George who was four years old. It should be noted that Elizabeth has been difficult to trace in the following census returns because she often used her second forename.
	It is highly likely that Jonathan and Margaret were preparing for the birth of another addition to the family on the census day in 1851, with another son born to the couple shortly thereafter. However, further tragedy seems to have struck the family after the census that year, when their son George died during early months of 1855, but once again their loss was partly compensated by the birth of the couple’s final children.
	Only two of the three new children were recorded in the Harefield census of 1861 when the family was living in a cottage on the road leading to the Copper Mills, just one dwelling away from Jonathan’s older brother Robert Henry Collett (above). At that time Jonathan Collett, aged 49, was an agricultural labourer, and his wife as Margaret Collett was 48. With them were their three surviving sons, Charles Collett, who was 23 and also an agricultural labourer, Jonathan Collett, who was 11, and Frederick H Collett, who was eight years old. Sometime during the next decade both Jonathan and Margaret died, leaving just their youngest son still living with their eldest son at Harefield, with their other son Jonathan having left home for work reasons by then, although he and his sister Elizabeth did return to the family home in Harefield at a later date.
	41O25	Charles Collett	Born in 1837 at Harefield
	41O26	Maria Collett	Born in 1840 at Harefield; infant death
	41O27	Elizabeth Margaret Collett	Born in 1844 at Harefield
	41O28	Robert George Collett	Born in 1846 at Harefield
	41O29	Jonathan Collett	Born in 1851 at Harefield
	41O30	Frederick Henry Collett	Born in 1853 at Harefield
41N8	Ann Collett was born at Harefield in 1812 and baptised there at St Mary’s Church on 26^th December 1812, the daughter of Henry Collett and Elizabeth Woods.
41O1	Mary Ann Collett was born at Harefield in 1836. She never married and at the age of 44 in 1881, she was living with her elderly widowed father Robert Collett at Park Lane in Harefield, with her unmarried sister Ruth, who was recorded in error as Edith Collett. The earlier census returns for Harefield in 1841 and 1851 included Mary Ann Collett as being five years old and 14 years of age, respectively. For the latter she and her family were living at Copper Mill Lane.
	She was absent from the family home in 1861 when her parents were living on the road leading to the Copper Mills in Harefield. That was because she and her brother Henry (below) were both living and working in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, but not together. Mary Ann Collett from Harefield was 23 and employed as a nurse maid at the home of William and Mary Waywick. However, following the death of her mother during the 1860s, Mary Ann had returned to Harefield by the time of the census in 1871 to look after her widowed father and her invalid sister Ruth, who were then living in Park Lane, where Mary A Collett, aged 34, was recorded as a domestic servant.
	It was the same situation ten years later when the family of three was again shown as residing in Park Lane in Harefield where head of the household was Robert H Collett, aged 80, with no stated occupation, and his daughters unmarried Mary A Collett, aged 44, and Ruth Collett, aged 41, who was deaf. It is known that her father died shortly after that, and her younger sister may also have passed away around the same time.
	Whether by coincidence or not, unmarried Mary A Collett, aged 53 and from Harefield, was living and working as a domestic cook at a residence on the High Street in Watford, the eldest of three servants. On that same day her unmarried cousin Harriet Collett (Ref. 41O22), aged 40 and from Harefield, was also living and working in Watford. In addition to those two members of the family, also living in Watford that day, was their niece Rosina Collett (Ref. 41P32), who was 16 and also from Harefield
	Mary’s time at Watford appears to have been short-lived, because by March 1901 she was living at Fairview Street in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the home of her brother Henry (below) and his wife Ann. The census that year recorded Mary A Collett from Harefield as 64 years old and a general domestic servant but, with no listing for her in the next census of 1911, it must be assumed that she had died during the first decade of the new century.
41O2	Henry Collett was born at Harefield in 1837 and was three years old in the census of 1841, when he was living at Copper Mill Lane in Harefield with his parents Robert Henry and Ann Collett. Ten years later in 1851 Henry was 13 and was still living with his parents. On leaving school he took up the occupation of a baker, and both he and his sister Mary Ann (above) were living and working in the Watford registration district of Hertfordshire in 1861, when he was recorded as Henry Collett, age 23, from Harefield. Shortly after that Henry married Ann Sears who was born at Rickmansworth in 1835.
	It would appear that the marriage did not produce any children for Henry and Ann, since in the census of 1871 the childless couple were living in Reading St Mary, where Henry Collett from Harefield was 33, while his wife Ann from Hertfordshire was 35. By the time of the census in 1881, Henry, aged 43, was a baker living at Newbury Street in Wantage in Berkshire (part of Oxfordshire from April 1974). With him was his wife Ann, aged 45, together with her nephew George T Sears, who was 15 and from Paddington in London.
	Sometime during the following years, the couple returned to live in Reading, where they were incorrectly recorded at the time of the census in 1891. Henry Collett from Harefield was 53, and his wife Ann was 55. Another move took place during the 1890s, since by March 1901, Henry Collett, aged 63 and from Harefield, and his wife Ann Collett, aged 65 and from Rickmansworth, were then living at Fairview Street in Cheltenham, where Henry was described as a journeyman baker. Living there with them was Henry’s older sister Mary A Collett (above).
41O3	Ruth Collett was born at Harefield in 1839, the youngest of the three known children of Robert Henry Collett and his wife Ann Stevens. According to the census records she lived all her early years at Harefield, where in 1841 she was two when living at Copper Mill Lane, and again in 1851 when she was 11. By 1861 Ruth and her parents were living on the road leading to the Copper Mills, where she was described as being deaf at the age of 21. Following the death of her mother during the 1860s, Ruth’s older sister Mary Ann returned to Harefield to look after her and her widowed father. The next census in 1871 confirmed that the three of them were living in Park Lane in Harefield where Ruth Collett was 31 and was listed as being an invalid who had been deaf for the past eighteen years.
	It was very likely, because of her disability, that she never married and, in the census of 1881, she was again registered as being deaf at the age of 41, although she was incorrectly recorded in the census as Edith Collett. On that occasion, as ten years earlier, she was again living with her elderly widowed father Robert Collett and her unmarried sister Mary A Collett (above) at Park Lane in Harefield. With her father passing away during the next few years, it has not been determined exactly what had happened to Ruth after that time, but her absence from all of the following census returns indicate that she too died during the 1880s.
41O4	William Henry Collett was born at Harefield, the son of labourer William Collett and his wife Elizabeth, who were both named as residents of Harefield on the child’s baptism record. Curiously, that same baptism record for the ceremony conducted at Harefield on 15^th January 1826, the same day that two other children were baptised there, also gave the birth date of William Henry Collett as 15^th January 1825, whereas the other two children’s date of birth was at an earlier time in the previous year.
	He was recorded simply as William Collett aged 15 in the census of 1841, when he was still living with his family at Harefield. Ten years later he was absent from the family home, but was back with his parents in 1861, when he was 34 and a bachelor, one of the four sons still living with William and Elizabeth Collett at their home on the High Street in Harefield. His occupation was that of Master Butcher, like his father, with whom he was presumably working.
	Seven weeks after the day of the census William married Ann Calcutt of Northamptonshire on 27^th May 1861 at Limehouse in Stepney. The witnesses at the ceremony were David Collett, William’s younger brother, and Eliza Climpson. The marriage register recorded that both William and Ann were living at West India Road, which was in Poplar Close by Limehouse. Ann was born on 1^st February 1838 at Steane Park, just north-west of Brackley, the daughter of James Calcutt and Hannah Matthews who were married at Lower Heyford in Oxfordshire on 3^rd November 1834. What may be of interest is that James Calcutt was a shepherd born at Stonesfield in Oxfordshire, which also had a contingent of Colletts living there. See Part 38 - The Oxfordshire Stonemasons.
	Living near to William and Ann in Poplar at that time was William’s younger sister Emma Collett (below) who had just married George Goodman. Ann, being much younger than William, formed a close relationship with her sister-in-law Emma, who was a similar age, and that closeness was continued by each of their eldest children, they being Henry, the son of William, and Harriet, the daughter of Emma, who were married nearly twenty years later.
	During the ten years following their wedding day, the marriage produced five children for William and Ann, and all of them were born at Mile End Old Town in Stepney. The birth certificate for their third child Laura, revealed that the family was living at 7 William Street in Mile End Old Town. Within the next two years the family left William Street and by April 1871 they were living at 18 Roberts Place in Mile End Old Town in the St Philips West Tower Hamlets district of London, from where William was continuing to work as a butcher.
	According to the 1871 Census the respective ages given for William and Ann were incorrect, being 40 and 39, whereas they should have been nearer 44 and 32, with their age difference being twelve years. The reason for this may have been the embarrassment caused by the great difference in their ages. In that same census William’s and Ann’s children were listed as Henry, who was eight, Eliza, who was six, and Laura who was two years old. It seems highly likely that Ann was with-child on the day of the census in 1871, since the couple’s fourth child was born later that same year.
	A few years later Ann presented her husband with their fifth child, but this happy event was followed shortly after by a major tragedy for the family, when William died at the age of 50. It was in 1875 that William Henry Collett died and was buried at St Saviours Church in Bow Common. His age at the time of his death was given as 55, which again was in conflict with his actual age. So, by the time of the census of 1881, Ann Collett was recorded as being a widow. However, although she has been located within the census records for that year, she did not have her children with her.
	The 1881 Census confirmed that Ann Collett, from Steane Park near Brackley, was a widow and was a general servant working at the Kings Arms public house at 18 Moor Street in Soho. Ann gave her age as being 40, when in fact she was 42. Moor Street is still there today, just off Cambridge Circus on Shaftesbury Avenue. The proprietor and licenced victualler of the inn was Mr W Wheatley, 46 of Colmworth in Bedfordshire, with his younger wife Emily who was 29 and from Kingland in Middlesex. The couple’s daughter was two years old Beatrice who was born at Soho. Three of Ann’s children were also living in the Soho area at that time, and they were Henry Collett who was head of the household, who said he was 21, when he was nearer 18, his sister Amy, who was eleven, and his brother Arthur, who was six years old.
	Ten years later in 1891 Ann was listed as living at 29 Hilldrop Crescent with her unmarried daughter Laura. Ann Collett was 49 and was employed as a cook, while Laura, who was 20, was a domestic housemaid. Hilldrop Crescent is still there today, just off the A503 Camden Road. As no record of daughter Eliza has ever been found, except in the 1871 Census, it might be assumed that she may have died around 1875, when her father passed away, and when she was approximately 10 years old. With no record for Ann found in the 1901 Census, coupled with no mention of her in 1894 at the time her daughter Laura was married, it must be assumed that she had died sometime between April 1891 and October 1894.
	41P1	Henry James Collett				Born in 1862 at Stepney
	41P2	Eliza Collett				Born in 1865 at Stepney
	41P3	Laura Collett				Born in 1869 at Stepney
	41P4	Amy Collett				Born in 1871 at Stepney
	41P5	Arthur Collett				Born in 1874 at Stepney
41O6	Ellen Collett was born at Harefield in 1831, the daughter of William and Elizabeth Collett. As Ellen Collett she was listed in the census of 1841 as being nine years old. It is understood that, when she was around the age of 21, she fell pregnant and in 1853 she gave birth at Harefield to a base-born son who was given the name George Collett Jones, the father being named as James Jones of the Middlesex Militia. During the following two consecutive years Ellen gave birth to two more children fathered by James, and it was only after, or around the time of, the birth of the third child, that James Jones married Ellen Collett at Harefield on 11^th July 1855. All three children were born at Harefield, as were all of their subsequent seven children.
	The Harefield census in 1861 confirmed that Ellen Jones, aged 31, was married to James Jones who was also 31. Living with them were four of their five children, Lavinia Jones who was seven, Emma Jones who was six, Mary Jones who was four, and Aaron Jones who was eleven months old. Ellen’s missing son George Jones was then eight years of age and the census confirmed that he was living nearby with his paternal grandparents at their home on the High Street in Harefield. It would also appear that later in his life, when George was old enough to do so, he dropped the Jones from his name, and that may have been a consequence of him being base-born and being raised by his Collett grandparents, with whom he was still living in 1871.
	During the following decade Ellen presented James with a further five children, as confirmed by the next Harefield census in 1871, when the family was living in a dwelling on the High Street. By that time the couple’s eldest daughter Lavinia Jones had left the family home and was living elsewhere. The enlarged family was therefore recorded as James Jones, aged 41 and from Rickmansworth, his wife Ellen Jones, aged 42, Emma Jones who was 15, Mary Jones who was 13, Aaron Jones who was 12, Frederick Jones who was eight, David Jones who was six, Alice Jones who was four, Lily [Caroline Lily] Jones who was two, and Ernest Jones who was two months old. Excluding the head of the household, all of the other members of his family were born at Harefield.
	By 1881 Ellen, then confirmed as Helen Jones, was a widow at 50 who had been born at Harefield. She was working as a letter carrier, while living in the third house along the High Street in Harefield. Also living in the High Street at that time was her brother Jacob Collett and his family (see below), while living with Ellen on that occasion were just three of her ten children. They were her sons Frederick Jones, aged 18, and David Jones, aged 16, both of them working as brick-maker’s labourers, and her daughter Caroline Jones who was 11. Once again, all three children were confirmed as having been born at Harefield, and from this it would appear that her youngest child Ernest had not survived.
	Within the Collett Family Bible there is a reference to the death of Helen Ellen Morgan nee Collett who died on 7^th June 1927. Since Ellen Collett of Harefield, born in 1831, was still recorded in the census of 1881 as Helen Jones, it is possible that she was married for a second time sometime after then, to become Ellen Morgan. Unfortunately, there is no mention of Helen Ellen Morgan’s age at the time of her death, but if she was Ellen Collett, she would have been ninety-four which seems improbable, but not impossible.
	41P6	George James Collett Jones				Born in 1853 at Harefield
41O10	Isaac Collett was born at Harefield in 1836, the son of William and Elizabeth Collett. He was confirmed as being four years old in the 1841 Census and was 14 in 1851, when he was living with his parents at Harefield. It was just four years later that Isaac Collett died at Harefield, where he was buried on 3^rd February 1855 at the age of 20.
41O11	JACOB COLLETT was born at Harefield in 1838, his birth recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. iii 281) during the last three months of that year, the son of William and Elizabeth Collett. He was listed as being two years old in the Harefield census of 1841 and was 12 at the time of the census there in 1851. On leaving school he took up employment as an agricultural labourer and in 1861, when he was 21, he was unmarried and was still living with his parents at the High Street in Harefield. Four years later the marriage of Jacob Collett and Margaret Lacey was recorded at Uxbridge in early 1865, following which the couple settled in Harefield, where all of their children were born. Margaret was born at Missenden just north of High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire in 1845, and was the daughter of Alice Lacey.
	At the time of the 1871 Census for Harefield, Jacob gave his age as 32 when he was working as a labourer, while Margaret stated she was 26 and from Missenden in Buckinghamshire. By that time in their lives the couple had only two of their four children living with them, following the premature deaths of the other two. Isaac Collett was four years old and Ellen Collett was not yet one year old. Staying with Jacob and Margaret that day was Jacob’s parents William and Elizabeth Collett, and Jacob’s younger brother Job Collett. Ten years later, according to the census in 1881, Jacob Collett from Harefield was working as a brick-maker at Harefield, when he gave his age in error as 39. This was near to the year that he was born, rather than the 41 years of age that should have been recorded. Margaret stated she was 35 and born at High Wycombe.
	The couple’s children living with them on that occasion were Isaac Collett who was 14, Ellen Collett who was 11, Emma Collett who was nine, Flora Collett who was five and Alfred Collett (Thomas) who was two years old, and all of them confirmed as having been born at Harefield. Jacob’s son Isaac had already followed in his father’s footsteps and in 1881 he was working with his father as a brick-maker’s labourer. Also living with the family again was Jacob’s father William Collett, the butcher of Harefield, who was 77, together with a lodger, 14-year-old Robert Bugbee of Harefield, who was an agricultural labourer. At that time in 1881, the Collett family was living in a dwelling on the High Street in Harefield, only a few doors away from Jacob’s sister Helen Jones nee Collett (above).
	Also, on the day of the census in 1881, Jacob and Margaret may have been expecting the birth of their next child, who was born later that same year, and was followed by two more children, born into the family over the next four years. The three new arrivals were confirmed in the next census in 1891, when Jacob was 50, and his wife was 45. However, by that day, the three eldest surviving children had already left the family’s home in Harefield, while still living with them were Emma Collett aged 17, Alfred Collett aged 13, Mabel Collett who was nine, George Collett who was seven, and Ellen Collett who was five years old – who was recorded as Ethel Collett ten years later.
	According to the March census in 1901, Jacob Collett and his family were still residing at an address on the High Street in Harefield, where Jacob, aged 62, was employed as a bricklayer’s labourer. Still living there with him was his wife Margaret who was 55, while the only children still living with the couple were Thomas A Collett, who was 22 and a labourer at the nearby cement works, Louis G Collett who was 18 and a bricklayer’s apprentice, and their daughter Ethel Collett who was 15 and a cotton spinner.
	Ten years later the census in 1911 confirmed that only the two youngest sons were still living with farm labourer Jacob Collett, who was 73, and his wife Margaret who was 65, at 9 Waterloo Villas on the High Street in Harefield. They were Alfred Thomas Collett (sic) who was recorded in error as 28 (instead of 32), while his brother Lewis George Collett who was 28, was recorded as being 25. All three men were confirmed as having been born at Harefield, while Margaret’s place of birth was simply stated as Buckinghamshire. Judging by the two sons stated age in the previous census, Alfred was nearer 32, while Lewis was 28. The death of Jacob Collett was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 30) during the third quarter of 1921 when he was 82 years old.
	41P7	Jonas Collett				Born in 1865; infant death
	41P8	Isaac Collett				Born in 1866 at Harefield
	41P9	David Collett				Born in 1868; infant death
	41P10	ELLEN ELIZABETH COLLETT				Born in 1870 at Harefield
	41P11	Emma Collett				Born in 1872 at Harefield
	41P12	Flora Collett				Born in 1875 at Harefield
	41P13	Thomas Alfred Collett				Born in 1878 at Harefield
	41P14	Mabel Collett				Born in 1881 at Harefield
	41P15	Lewis George Collett				Born in 1883 at Harefield
	41P16	Ethel Collett				Born in 1885 at Harefield
41O12	Emma Collett was born at Harefield on 9^th November 1840 and, when the birth was recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. iii 296) during the last quarter of 1840, her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Bishop. She was six months old at the time of the census in 1841 which took place on 6^th June that year. By 1851 Emma was 10 and was living with her family at Harefield in the Uxbridge & Hillingdon registration district. It would appear that on leaving school Emma sought work in the Watford area and in the 1861 Census she was incorrectly listed as being 22. It was probably while she was at Watford that she met miller George Goodman and, less than a year after the census day, they were married at Holy Trinity Church in Kentish Town on 20^th January 1862.
	George was a similar age to Emma, having been born at Rickmansworth in 1839. The couple’s first child, Harriet Goodman, was born in July the same year that they were married. Not long after that the family settled in Poplar, living near to where Emma’s older brother William Henry Collett (above) was living at that time. There then followed the birth of a further thirteen children born to the couple over the next two decades. In 1871 the family of seven was living in the ‘Leather Market’ district of St Olave Southwark on the south side of the River Thames in London. The census return listed the family as living in a house on William Street in Bermondsey, where George was 31 and still working as a miller, his wife Emma was 30, and their five children at that time were Janet Goodman who was eight, Alice Goodman who was seven, Eliza Goodman who was five, David Goodman who was three, and George Goodman who was two years old.
	Rather curiously, the couple’s eldest child Harriet Goodman was not living with the family on that occasion. Instead, it looks as though she was living with her father’s brother Robert Goodman and his wife Emma Goodman, formerly Washbrook, at Watford, when she was described as being 11 and a silk winder. However, ten years after that Harriet Goodman was visiting her cousin Henry James Collett (Ref. 41P1) at 16 Church Street in Soho, whom she married shortly after the census in 1881.
	During the next ten years, three children were added to the family which, by the time of the census in 1881, was living at 4 Abbey Street South in Bermondsey. Abbey Street today is the B202 link road between Tower Bridge Road (A100) and Jamaica Road (A200). George was no longer a miller, his occupation then being that of a carman, while living with him was his wife Emma and six of their children. They were Eliza Goodman who was 15 and working as a domestic servant, David Goodman who was 14 and still at school, George Goodman who was 13 and an errand boy, Edmond Goodman who was nine, Ellen Goodman who was two, and Ernest Goodman who was just seven months old, having been born on 12^th August 1880.
	Two more children were born into the family shortly after the census year, and so by 1891, the Bermondsey family comprised George Goodman 54, Emma Goodman 52, George Goodman 22, Edmond Goodman 18, Ellen Goodman 12, Ernest Goodman 10, Alfred Goodman who was eight, and John Goodman who was seven years old.
	Just after the turn of the century George was still working as a carman in London at the age of 62, when he and his family were living at 33 Abbey Street in Bermondsey. Emma was then 61 and just three of her children were still living there with her and her husband. They were Edmund Goodman, who was 28 and a weights and scales maker, Ernest Goodman, who was 20 and a printer’s labourer, and John Goodman, who was 17 and employed as a wharf clerk, all three of them simply noted as having been born in Surrey. The couple’s first child, and their eldest daughter Harriet Goodman, married her cousin Henry James Collett in 1881. See Henry James Collett (Ref. 41P1) for further details of their family.
	Emma’s and George’s son Ernest Obid Goodman, who was born on 12^th August 1880, married Charlotte Payn on 17^th July 1907. Charlotte was the daughter of fishmonger Harvey Payn of Westminster and his wife Elizabeth Payn of Bradford. In 1901 Charlotte was a shop assistant living with her parents in the Newington area of London. Ernest and Charlotte had many children but only one daughter, Irene Lillian who was born on 4^th August 1924 who later married Ronald Heard Valsler. And it was their daughter-in-law Janey Bullock, the wife of their son Colin Valsler, who kindly provided the details to open this branch of the family.
41O13	David Collett was born at Harefield in 1843, with his birth recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. iii 334) during the first three months of that year, the son of butcher William Collett and his wife Elizabeth Bishop. At the time of the census in 1851 David Collett was six years old, while ten years later, when he was 17, he was still living at home with his parents at the High Street in Harefield. At that time in his life, he was employed as an agricultural labourer. Just over one month after that David Collett was one of the witnesses at the Stepney Limehouse wedding of his older brother William Henry Collett (above) on 27^th May 1861, at which he made his mark, rather than sign his name.
	David later married Charlotte Ward at Uxbridge during the second quarter of 1866, Charlotte having been born at Reading in 1839 although, within all of the following census returns, she gave her place of birth as Harefield. Once they were married the couple moved to Harefield where they lived for the rest of life. Five years later in 1871 they were confirmed as living in Harefield, where David was 28 and working as a bricklayer, and Charlotte 32. By that time their family comprised two daughters Lottie, who was four years old, and Elizabeth, who was under one year old, and a son William David Collett who was three years old, all three of them having been born at Harefield.
	Ten years later the Harefield census of 1881 confirmed that David Collett was 37 and that he was working as a builder. Living with him was his wife Charlotte, aged 41, whose occupation was stated as being that of a grocer. That indicated that she was the proprietor of the grocer’s shop in Harefield. Living with David and Charlotte in April 1881 were their seven children. They were Lottie aged 14, who had left school and was assisting her mother in her grocer’s shop, William who was 12, Elizabeth who was 10, Joseph who was eight, Alfred who was six, Alice who was five, and Grace who was two years old. Also living with the family at that time was David’s mother Elizabeth Collett, aged 79 and of Ickenham, together with David’s younger brother Job Collett (below).
	It is interesting that the Harefield census conducted in 1891, recorded David Collett as being 48 and his stated occupation at that time in his life was that of a baker and a grocer, most likely having taken over the running of the shop due to his wife’s failing health. His wife Charlotte Collett was 51, and the children still living with them on that occasion were Lottie, who was recorded as Lettia Collett, aged 24, William Collett aged 22, Elizabeth Collett aged 20, Joseph Collett aged 18, Alfred Collett aged 16, Alice Collett aged 15, and Grace Collett who was 11 years old. Still living with the family was David’s brother Job Collett who was 45.
	Just after the start of the new century David was once again working as a builder and was then 57 years of age in the March census of 1901. He was still living on the High Street in Harefield with his wife Charlotte who was 61 who was confirmed as having given up the grocer’s shop, since she was listed as having no occupation. Once again David’s brother Job listed as another member of the household, as was live-in domestic servant Minnie Tin from Horn Hill in Buckinghamshire who was 14. According to the next Harefield census in 1911, retired builder David Collett of Harefield was 67 and was still living there with his wife Charlotte who was 71 and also from Harefield. Still living with the elderly couple was David’s brother Job Collett who was 65, and returning to the family home, to presumably take over the family business from his father, was the couple’s unmarried son Alfred Collett who was 36 and a builder. Tending to the needs of David and Charlotte, was domestic servant Jane Everett aged 20 years and from Surrey, and visiting the couple that day was Emma Gibson aged 48 and from Biggleswade in Bedfordshire.
	In addition to them, David’s and Charlotte’s married daughter Alice had returned to the family home, together with her baby son, but minus her husband. The census listed the two on them as Alice Creighton, aged 35 and from Harefield, and her son Francis Collett Creighton who was just one month old. Just over five years later, on 23^rd June 1916, Charlotte Collett nee Ward died while she and her husband were still living in Harefield, and she was followed two years later by David Collett, who died there on 21^st April 1918. A headstone in the churchyard of St Mary’s marks their joint graves.
	As a builder, David Collett had acquired a considerable fortune by the time he passed away. His Will was proved in London on 1^st August 1918 when his address was given as Cumberland House in Harefield. The executors of his estate of £29,122 10 Shillings 8 Pence were named as his sons Joseph Collett and Alfred Collett, who were both builders, William Gregory, a gentleman, and Evelyn Hurden, another builder.
	41P17	Lottie Collett				Born in 1866 at Harefield
	41P18	William David Collett				Born in 1868 at Harefield
	41P19	Elizabeth Collett				Born in 1870 at Harefield
	41P20	Joseph Collett				Born in 1872 at Harefield
	41P21	Alfred Collett				Born in 1874 at Harefield
	41P22	Alice Collett				Born in 1875 at Harefield
	41P23	Grace Collett				Born in 1878 at Harefield
41O14	Job Collett was born at Harefield on 27^th June 1845, and was the youngest surviving child of William Collett and his wife Elizabeth Bishop, his mother’s maiden name confirmed at the registration of his birth at Uxbridge (Ref. iii 357) during the third quarter of 1845. On leaving school he eventually became a bricklayer, like many other members of the Collett family. In the census of 1861 Job was 15, and was already working as a bricklayer’s labourer, when he was living at the family home on the High Street in Harefield. By the time of the next Harefield census in 1871 he was still unmarried at the age of 26, when he was then working as a bricklayer, while he and his parents were living at the home of his older married brother Jacob Collett (above)
	A further ten years later and Job was still a bachelor at 34, when he was still working as a bricklayer. According to the 1881 Census, Job Collett of Harefield was living with his married brother David Collett (above) and his family in the property known as the grocer’s shop in Harefield. It was the same situation ten years later when Job was 45 and continuing to work as a bricklayer, while still living with his older brother David. It seems more than likely that Job actually worked for his brother David, who managed the family’s building company. According to the next census in 1901, David Collett was confirmed as a builder, and unmarried Job Collett was again a bricklayer living with him and his wife Charlotte at their home on the High Street in Harefield.
	On the occasion of the 1911 census for Harefield, Job Collett was still living there with his brother David Collett who had retired by then, the family building business then being managed by David’s son Alfred Collett. Under occupation, bachelor Job was simply described as a gentleman aged 65. This confirms that he was a bachelor all his life, and it is also known that he was a very eccentric character and was very careful, virtually Scrooge-like, with his money. At one time later in his life he was employed as a bird scarer, presumably at nearby London Airport.
	Job Collett died at Harefield on 10^th June 1934, his death recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 83) during the second quarter of 1934, when he was said to be 90 years of age. He left a considerable sum of money in his Will, and his life is marked by a marble vault in St Mary’s Church at Harefield on which there is the following inscription ‘Job Collett son of William and Elizabeth of Harefield born 27^th June 1845 died 10^th June 1934’. The newspaper article reproduced in Appendix Two of this family line refers to Job visiting the church and planning the expensive tomb sixteen years before he died. His first Will was made on 5^th December 1923, over ten years before he died. The document dictated that his estate would be held in trust for twenty years after his death and then divided into three, split equally between nephews Harry Collett and his son Bert, Arthur Collett, and Isaac Collett and his son Isaac.
	The aforementioned Harry Collett and Arthur Collett were Henry James Collett (Ref. 41P1) and his brother Arthur Collett (Ref. 41P5), while Harry’s son Bert was a reference to Herbert Henry Collett (Ref. 41Q1) the eldest son of Henry (Harry) James Collett. Isaac was the cousin of Harry and Arthur. In fact, it was only as a result of a visit from Henry (Harry) James Collett and his son Herbert (Bert), after the making of his first Will, that Job re-wrote the document excluding the two of them because they did not adhere to Job’s strict abstinence policy. A Codicil to the Will was therefore made on 3^rd November 1925 which removed Harry and Bert Collett, who were replaced by Thomas Collett and his son Thomas. Also, Isaac’s grandson was added, that being in addition to the inclusion of his son Isaac. However, all of these terms and conditions were later superseded when Job made his last Will and Testament.
	Under his final Will the eventual main beneficiaries to his estate were his nephews, although it would appear that the Will was not proved until 1937, perhaps because of family disputes over its contents. In October that year the Sunday Pictorial included a headline article about the ‘miser’ Job Collett. This is reproduced in Appendix Two at the end of this family line. Upon his death, the cottage in which he had lived most of his later life passed to his eldest nephew Isaac Collett, with the stipulation that it must be renovated before he received his inheritance. In the newspaper article, Isaac makes reference to the eight years following the death of Job that it would take before any of the beneficiaries would receive their inheritances.
41O16	Elizabeth Collett was born at Harefield in 1838 and was twelve years old in 1851. She later married the younger James Green who was born at Rickmansworth in 1845. That event took place after September 1861 when, as Elizabeth Collett, she was a witness at the wedding of her brother Richard (below). For some reason no record of Elizabeth has been found six months earlier at the time of the census in 1861, nor ten years after in 1871, as either Elizabeth Collett or Elizabeth Green. However, it was in the census of 1881 that Elizabeth and her husband James were living at 7 Cumming Street in Clerkenwell. Elizabeth Green from Harefield was 41, while James Green, aged 35, was an attendant at the public baths in Clerkenwell. Living with the couple at that time was their daughter Julia Green, aged 17 and of Rickmansworth, and Elizabeth’s niece Emily Collett, aged 13 and born at Harefield. Emily was the base-born child of Elizabeth’s younger sister Mary Ann Collett (below), with whom she was actually living in 1891.
41O17	Richard Benjamin Collett was born at Harefield on 10^th December 1840 and was 11 in 1851 and 20 in April 1861. Five months later on 14^th September 1861 at Hillingdon, he married Caroline Hughes who was born at Harefield in 1842. Richard’s occupation at that time was that of a zinc worker. Caroline’s father, who was a witness at the wedding, was William Henry Hughes, also of Hillingdon, who was a copper worker. The second witness to sign the marriage certificate was Richard’s sister Elizabeth Collett (above).
	Shortly after they were married Richard and Caroline were living at Abbey Road in Merton, Surrey, where their first child was born. The child’s birth certificate stated that Richard Benjamin Collett was a copper forger. A year or so later the family had made the one mile move from Merton to Wimbledon, where they were living at the time of the birth of the couple’s second and third child. The 1871 Census for Kingston & Wimbledon listed Richard as 30, Caroline as 29, and their two children as Arthur, who was five, and Clara who was two years old.
	The birth certificate for the couple’s third child six years later placed the family as living at 2 Vine Cottages on Hubert Road in Wimbledon and made reference to Richard being employed as a foreman at the Garratt Copper Mills. Four years later the census of 1881 recorded the family of five still living at 2 Vine Cottages, but by then Richard was working as a commercial clerk at the copper works. The family at that time comprised Richard B Collett, aged 40, and Caroline Collett, aged 39, both of them from Harefield, with their three children Arthur F Collett, aged 15 who was a draper’s porter, Clara C Collett, aged 12, and Bernard B Collett who was only three years old.
	After the census in 1881 the family appear to have moved and, although their location in 1891 has not been determined, Richard’s son was living and working in the Putney area of London where he was recorded incorrectly as Arthur Collette, while Richard’s daughter Clara was recorded at Eton. The remainder of the family has not been positively identified in 1891, so it is not clear where Richard and Caroline, and their son Bernard were at that time.
	Ten years on from then, Richard Collett, aged 60, and Caroline Collett, aged 59, were living in the village of Nutfield near Redhill in Surrey, where Richard was working as a foreman at the Fullers Earth Works. Living with the couple at Nutfield was son Bernard who was 23 and also employed at the Fullers Earth Works, but as an engine driver.
	At the time of the marriage of his son Arthur during the second half of the first decade of the new century, Richard Collett, as father of the groom, was recorded on the marriage certificate as a Works Foreman. Sometime during the next few years Richard and Caroline left Nutfield and moved to Horley, south of Reigate in Surrey, although it would appear from Richard’s death certificate that he continued to work at the Fullers Earth Works in Nutfield, and very likely with his son Bernard. And it was at Reigate that Richard and Caroline were confirmed as living at the time of the census in 1911. Richard Benjamin Collett was 70, while Caroline was 69. Also living nearby in Reigate at that time was their youngest son Bernard, who was married by then, with a family of his own.
	Sadly, it was later that same year that Richard Collett died on 9^th October 1911 and, according to the certificate drawn up at Horley on the following day, this happened at Cockley Pits in Nutfield, where Richard was a foreman at the Fullers Earth Works. The certificate also confirmed his age as being 70, and that the cause of death was acute bronchitis. The informant of the death to the registrar at Horley was his son Bernard, who was present at Cockley Pits when his father passed away. Following the death of her husband, Caroline Collett moved to Newbury to live with her son Arthur at Shaw-cum-Donnington, where she died almost exactly eight years later on 11^th October 1919.
	41P24	Arthur Frederick Collett				Born in 1865 at Merton
	41P25	Clara C Collett				Born in 1868 at Wimbledon
	41P26	Bernard Bolton Collett				Born in 1877 at Wimbledon
41O18	Sarah Collett was born at Harefield in 1841 and was nine years old in the Harefield census of 1851. She may have been the Sarah who married Charles Holloway, a brick-maker from Denham in Buckinghamshire. In 1881 Sarah, from Harefield, and Charles were living at Railway View in Horton Road in Hillingdon with their seven children. Charles was 41, Sarah was 40, and their children were John Holloway who was 17, Ann Holloway who was 12, Charles Holloway who was eight, Edith Holloway who was seven, Richard Holloway who was six, May Holloway who was four, and Frederick Holloway who was three years old. All of the children had been born at Yiewsley in the London Borough of Hillingdon.
41O19	Mary Ann Collett was born at Harefield on 20^th August 1843, her birth recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. iii 3). She was eight years old at the time of the 1851 Census when she was living with her parents Richard Collett and Sarah Collett nee Bolton at the home of her grandfather Henry Collett of Gloucestershire. On completing her schooling, Mary entered into domestic service and, according to the next census in 1861, Mary A Collett was 17 years of age and a servant at the home of William and Elizabeth Roddy and their family at the High Street in Harefield.
	Over six years later, on 13^th December 1867, unmarried Mary Ann Collett gave birth to a base-born daughter Emily who was very likely placed in the care of Mary Ann’s widowed mother, with whom she was living at Park Lane in Harefield on the day of the census in 1871. The census return that year described Emily Mary Collett as being three years of age and the grandchild of Sarah Collett nee Bolton. On that same day, unmarried Mary Ann Collett was living at the home of widower Henry Hawkins, a farm bailiff, at Dorefield Grove Farm on Woodcock Hill in Rickmansworth where she was described as his niece. That relationship can be explained by the fact that on 11^th November 1848, Henry Hawkins married Elizabeth Bolton, the sister of Mary Ann’s mother Sarah Collett nee Bolton, who was therefore the aunt of Mary Ann Collett. Sadly, Elizabeth Hawkins née Bolton had died just a few weeks prior to that census day, when she passed away on 1^st March 1871.
	Later that year, Mary Ann became pregnant when she was still living at the home of Henry Hawkins, her base-born son Herbert being given the forename Hawkins when he was born on 16^th May 1872. Although no father’s name was included on his birth record, Herbert revealed his father was Henry Hawkins, a farm bailiff, when he became a married man. Two years later, on 31^st October 1874, Mary Ann Collett married Thomas Crook who was born at Hill End in Harefield in 1846. Their marriage was recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 3a 288), when Mary Ann was confirmed as the daughter of Richard Collett, a labourer of Harefield, and Thomas was named as the son of Thomas Crook, a blacksmith.
	By the time of the census in 1881, Mary Ann Crook, aged 38 and from Harefield, was living at Hill End in Harefield with her husband and their only children together. Thomas Crook was 34 and a labourer who had been born at Hill End, while their son Ernest Crook was one year old, who had also been born at Harefield. Living with the Crook family that day, was Mary Ann’s nine-year-old base-born son who, for proprieties sake was incorrectly recorded as Henry Crook, who had been born at Harefield. At that same time, Mary Ann’s base-born daughter Emily Collett, aged 13 and from Harefield, was staying with Mary Ann’s older married sister Elizabeth Green nee Collett (above) at 7 Cumming Street in Clerkenwell, London.
	Ten years later, according to the census in 1891, the Crook family was still living at Hill End, when every member of the household having been born at Harefield. They were Thomas Crook who was 43 and a labourer working at the nearby chalk works, his wife Mary Ann Crook who was 49, and their son Ernest Crook who was eleven and still at school. Completing the family group were Mary Ann’s two base-born children; unmarried Emily M Collett was 23 and employed as an asbestos cloth weaver, and Herbert H Collett was 19 and a general labourer. They were described as the stepdaughter and stepson of head of the household Thomas Crook. It was four years after that census day when Mary Ann’s base-born son Herbert Henry Hawkins Collett was married in 1895, with her daughter Emily Mary Collett being married during the following year.
	Just after the turn of the century, Mary Ann Crook was listed in the 1901 Census as being 57 years of age, when her husband Thomas Crook was 53 and their son Ernest was 21. They were still living at Hill End in Harefield, where both Thomas and Ernest were employed as general labourers. Two years later, on 22^nd June 1903, Mary Ann Crook née Collett died at Hill End, when her married daughter Emily Mary Mead was present as she passed away. The death of Mary Ann Crook was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 20) while, within the Harefield Parish Register, it was recorded that she was buried there during June 1903.
	41P27	Emily Mary Collett				Born in 1867 at Harefield
	41P28	Herbert Henry Hawkins Collett				Born in 1872 at Harefield
41O20	Ann Collett was born at Harefield in 1845 and was six years old in 1851, and 15 years of age in 1861. Ann later married house painter Frederick Ridrup who was born in 1843 and by 1901 both of them were still living in Harefield. However, it is likely that she married Frederick after 1891 as there is no listing of her as Ann Ridrup in any of the earlier census records. There is also a chance that Ann was first married to William Windfield and, although his wife was Ann Elizabeth, she was also born at Harefield around 1845.
41O21	James Theophilus Bolton Collett was born at Harefield in 1848, his birth recorded under his full name at Uxbridge (Ref. iii 2) during the second quarter of that year. He was the sixth child of Richard Collett and Sarah Bolton, and was one of eight children still living with his parents in 1851 at two years of age, when he was simply named as James Collett. On the census day that year, the large family was living at the Harefield home of James’ grandfather Henry Collett from Kempsford who was 79. It was again as James Collett aged 12, that he was still living with his family at Harefield in 1861, when he was attending school. Just over six years later, nineteen-year-old James Collett from Harefield married eighteen-year-old Ann Smith Fells of Marston Moretaine, in south-west Bedfordshire, where the wedding took place on 10^th June 1867, and where the couple’s first child was born. The marriage was recorded at Ampthill (Ref. 3b 160). After the birth of that child, the family of three settled in Harefield, where seven more children were added to their family. Ann Smith Fells was born in 1849 and was baptised at Marston Moretaine on 2^nd September 1849, the daughter of Ambrose Fells and Sophie Smith.
	By the time of the census at the start of April in 1871, Ann had already presented James with two children. James Collett was 24, Ann Collett was 23, and their two children were Margaret Collett who was three, and Harriet Collett who was just one year old. After a further ten years, James Collett from Harefield was 33 and working as a non-domestic gardener and labourer. He and his wife Ann, aged 32 and from Marston in Bedfordshire, were living at Park Lane in Harefield with their daughters Margaret aged 13 and also from Marston, Harriet who was 11, Sarah who was nine, and Rose who was five, together with their sons Walter who was three, and James who was one year old. Next door to their dwelling in Park Lane was the home of James’ cousins Charles and Frederick Collett (below), while just two doors away was their uncle Robert Henry Collett.
	Ten years later, the census in 1891 again recorded the family residing at Park Lane, by which time James Collett was 43 and employed as a cowman. Wife Ann Collett was 42 and their children were Walter Collett who was 15 and a milk boy, James Collett who was 10 and at school, Reginald Collett who was four years old and also at school, and Daisy Collett who was two. Also living with the family as a boarder was Elizabeth Roe who was six years old and born in London. James and Ann’s third daughter Sarah had already left the family home by then and was living and working in Rickmansworth.
	Just three children were living with the couple at Park Lane by the end of March in 1901 when, at the age of 52, James was once again working as a gardener and Ann was 51. The first of the three children still with them was their unmarried eldest daughter Margaret, who was recorded as being 30, rather than 33, with she and her mother both confirmed as having been born at Marston Moretaine. The other two children were the couple’s youngest children, Reginald who was 14, and Daisy who was 12, both of them confirmed as having been born at Harefield.
	By April 1911 only their son Reginald was still living with James and Ann. James Collett of Harefield was 62 and a jobbing gardener, his wife was 61, and their unmarried son was strangely recorded as 28, although it is likely to have been an error in translation, his age really being 23. As was the case regarding the births of their Harefield born children being registered at nearby Uxbridge, so it was that the later deaths of both James and Ann were also recorded there, most likely when they were still residents of Harefield. It was only just over five years after the day of the census in 1911, that the death of James T B Collett was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 79) during the fourth quarter of 1916, when he was 69 years old. Ann survived her husband by twenty-two years, when the death of Ann S Collett was recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 3a 144) during the first three months of 1939, at the age of 89.
	41P29	Margaret Sarah Collett				Born in 1867 at Marston Moretaine
	41P30	Harriet Collett				Born in 1868 at Harefield
	41P31	Sarah Ann Collett				Born in 1871 at Harefield
	41P32	Rosina (Rose) Collett				Born in 1876 at Harefield
	41P33	Walter Herbert Collett				Born in 1877 at Harefield
	41P34	James Thomas Collett				Born in 1880 at Harefield
	41P35	Reginald Richard Collett				Born in 1887 at Harefield
	41P36	Daisy Beatrice Collett				Born in 1889 at Harefield
41O22	Harriet Collett was a twin with her brother John (below) and was born at Harefield in January 1851, being two months old in the census that year. Her birth was recorded at Uxbridge just before that of her twin brother, during the first three months of 1851 (Ref. iii 27). They were both living with their family in 1851, while her twin John passed away during the following years. As a result, it was only single twin Harriet, who was 10 years old in the census of 1861, who was living at Harefield with her family, the place of her birth. For some reason she did not appear in either of the census returns for 1871 and 1881, but was living and working at the home of the Cottrell family in St Albans Road, Watford in 1891, where she was employed as a domestic cook at the age of 40. Also living at the High Street in Watford was Harriet’s cousin Mary A Collett (Ref. 41O1) who was 53 and from Harefield, the eldest of three domestic servants, while at Queens Road in Watford at that same time was Rosina Collett (Ref. 41P32) who was also from Harefield and was 16 years old, a servant with the Andrews family. All that is known about Harriet after that, is that she never married and died at Harefield, with her death recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 75) during the last three months of 1916, when she was 65.
41O23	John Collett was the twin brother of Harriet (above) and was born at Harefield in January 1851, his birth recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. iii 32) during the first quarter of 1851, another son of Richard Collett and Sarah Bolton. He was two months old in the Harefield census of 1851, but sadly did not survive, with his death also recorded at Uxbridge during that same decade.
41O24	Thomas Collett was born at Harefield in 1853, where he was living with his family in 1861 when he was seven years of age. He was the youngest child of Richard Collett and his wife Sarah Bolton, but tragically he died around the time he was 18, when his death was registered at Uxbridge prior to the April census in 1871.
41O25	Charles Collett was born at Harefield in 1837, the eldest surviving child of Jonathan and Margaret Collett. In 1841 he was four years old, and was 13 in 1851. In 1861 Charles Collett, aged 23 and an agricultural labourer, was still living with his family in a cottage on the road leading to the Copper Mills. With the death of both of his parents during the 1860s, Charles assumed the role of head of the household and looked after his younger brother Frederick Henry Collett (below). So, by the time of the next census in 1871, when Charles was 32, he only had living with him at Park Lane in Harefield his youngest brother Frederick.
	On that occasion Charles Collett from Harefield was still working as an agricultural labourer, while his much younger brother Frederick, aged 18, was employed as a bricklayer’s labourer. By that time in his life Charles was very likely resigned to leading the life of a bachelor, and it was in that capacity that he continued to live out the rest of his life at Harefield. Living just one dwelling away from him and his brother, on Park Lane in 1871, was his uncle Robert Henry Collett with his two unmarried daughters.
	According to the next census in 1881 Charles was 42 when he was still living at Park Lane in Harefield with his unmarried siblings, Elizabeth Collett who was 35, Jonathan Collett who was 31, and Frederick Collett who was 27. All four of them were listed as having been born at Harefield, and as Elizabeth had no stated occupation, it seems reasonable to assume that she performed the role of house keeper for her brothers. It is interesting to note that the dwelling in Park Lane in which they were living on that occasion was situated right next door to the family of their cousin James T B Collett (above), and two doors away from their uncle Robert Henry Collett.
	In 1891 the same four siblings were living at White Heath Farm in the Hill End area of Harefield, which was adjacent to The Plough Inn. Charles Collett, aged 50 rather than 53, was a labourer of Harefield, and recorded there with him was his sister Margaret (below) and his two brothers Jonathan and Frederick. Ten years after that Charles gave his age as being 61 in the census of 1901, when he was still living at Harefield. By that time in his life, he was employed as a gardener and labourer, while still living there with him was Elizabeth, Jonathan, and Frederick. With no trace of him found in the census of 1911, it is likely that Charles Collett died during the first decade of the new century.
41O27	Elizabeth Margaret Collett was born at Harefield in 1844 and was recorded as Elizabeth Margaret Collett, aged seven years, within the Harefield census of 1851, when she was living there with her parents Jonathan and Margaret Collett. No record of her has been positively identified in 1861, but in the census of 1871 Margaret Collett, aged 24, was living in Harefield. By the time of the census in 1881, and following the deaths of both of her parents, Elizabeth Collett, aged 35 and from Harefield, was acting as housekeeper for her three unmarried brothers at the house of her older brother Charles (above) on Park Lane in Harefield.
	She was still living there with her three brothers ten years later but, on that occasion, she referred to herself as Margaret Collett, aged 42 (sic) from Harefield. Her brother Charles was once again the head of the household at White Heath Farm at Hill End in Harefield, next door to The Plough Inn. The same group of four siblings was still living together in Harefield in March 1901, when once again she was recorded as Elizabeth Collett, by which time she was 53 (sic). No record of Elizabeth or Margaret has been found in the census of 1911, when she would have been in her mid-sixties.
41O28	Robert George Collett was born at Harefield in 1846, the son of Jonathan and Margaret Collett. He was four years old at the time of the Harefield census in 1851, but tragically four years later he died during the last week of February in 1855, following which he was buried at Harefield on 2^nd March 1855 at the age of just nine years, under the name of Robert George Collett.
41O29	Jonathan Collett was born at Harefield in 1849. In 1851 he was one year old, and was 11 years of age in 1861. In 1871 Jonathan Collett, aged 22 and from Harefield, was living and working in the Watford area, but by 1881, and following the deaths of his parents, unmarried Jonathan returned to Park Lane in Harefield to live with his surviving siblings Charles, Elizabeth, and Frederick. At that time, he was 31 and was working as a general labourer. Living next door to the quartet was their cousin James T B Collett (above) and his family, and next door to him another cousin Charles Collett. According to the next census in 1891, Jonathan Collett from Harefield was 39 (sic) and a labourer, living at White Heath Farm at Hill End in Harefield. Also living there with him was his brother Charles and sister Margaret (above), and brother Frederick (below).
	A similar problem occurred ten years later when, in the 1901 Harefield Census, Jonathan again gave an incorrect age saying he was 48 rather than 51. At that time, he was employed as a bricklayer’s labourer, who was very likely working with his bricklayer brother Frederick (below). Still living with the two brothers was their sister Margaret (above) and older brother Charles. Sadly, by the time of the next census in April 1911, Jonathan Collett and his brother Frederick were living in an institution in Harefield, which may have been the local workhouse. Jonathan Collett was 62 and he confirmed that he had been born at Harefield.
41O30	Frederick Henry Collett was born at Harefield in 1853 and was the youngest child of Jonathan and Margaret Collett. In the Harefield census of 1861 Frederick was eight years old, but not long after that both of his parents died, after which he was looked after by his eldest brother Charles Collett (above). In 1871 when he was 18 and a bricklayer’s labourer, Frederick was confirmed as living on the road to the Copper Mills in Harefield with his brother Charles, with whom he was also living at Park Lane in Harefield in 1881. Also returned to the family by then was Frederick’s sister Elizabeth and brother Jonathan (above). All of the four siblings were unmarried, with Frederick being employed as a bricklayer at the age of 27.
	It was at White Heath Farm, Hill End in Harefield that the four of them were still living together in 1891, when Frederick Collett was 36 and was continuing to work as a bricklayer. Curiously ten years after that in March 1901, Frederick said he was 43 which may simply be a misinterpretation of 48. At that time, he was still working as a bricklayer, possibly with his brother Jonathan who was a bricklayer’s labourer, with whom he was also still living, together with his other brother Charles and sister Margaret. The two younger brothers were still together ten years later, but according to the census in 1911 they were living in an institution in Harefield, where Frederick Collett, aged 58 and from Harefield, was recorded.
41P1	Henry James Collett was born at Mile End Old Town in Stepney on 31^st December 1862. He was eight years old at the time of the census in 1871, when he and his family were living at 18 Roberts Place in Mile End Old Town, from where his father William Henry Collett was working as a butcher. Sadly, Henry’s father died four years later, following which his widowed mother Ann was forced to enter into domestic service, when she took up the position of general servant at the Kings Arms public house in Soho. It was not previously known what had actually happened to Henry and his four siblings at that time in their lives, since none of them were living with their mother by the time of the census in 1881.
	However, thanks to new information received from his great great granddaughter Rebecca Humphreys in 2010, the full story of his life can now be told. The photograph of Henry (above) was also supplied by Rebecca and is an extract from a larger family group picture taken during the First World War.
	In April 1881, Henry Collett was living at 16 Church Street in Soho with his younger brother Arthur who was six, and his sister Amy who was eleven. He gave his age as being 21, although he was actually nearer eighteen years of age and, on that occasion, he was working as a porter for a printer. The three siblings had probably moved to Soho to be near to their widowed mother Ann, who had found work at the Kings Arms in Moor Street. Also living with them at 16 Church Street was eighteen years old Harriett Goodman who was recorded as a visitor.
	In fact, Harriet Goodman (show on the right around 1916) was the first cousin of Henry James Collett, the daughter of George Goodman and his wife Emma Collett (Ref. 41O12), the sister of Henry’s father William Henry Collett. It is possible, although not proved, that Henry and Harriet may have already been in a relationship with each other by that time in April 1881, since the two of them were married towards the end of that same year. The marriage took place at the church of St James in Piccadilly in the final quarter of 1881, when Harriet was nineteenth years old, she having been born on 26^th July 1862.
	At the time of their wedding Henry and Harriet were living at Golden Square in Soho, between Regent Street and Shaftesbury Avenue. Henry’s occupation was recorded as being that of a porter for a bricklayer, that is, a hod-carrier. The couple’s first child, Herbert, was born while the couple was still living at Soho during the following year. The marriage produced a further three children for Henry and Harriet before they left Soho for a new home in South London, they being Louisa, Harry and Dorothy.
	By 1891 the family of six was living in the Lambeth district of Newington at 6 Monkton Street, which is still there today and is just off the Kennington Road (A23). According to the census that year, Henry was 29 and was employed as a hotel porter. Harriet was also 29, and their four children were listed as Herbert, who was 10, Louisa, who was seven, Harry, who was six, and Dorothy who was three years old. Over the next ten years a further five children were added to the family, including a set of twin boys.
	The census return at the end of March in 1901 placed the Collett family living at Block No 6 in Victoria Dwellings in the Battersea district of London. Henry Collett from Stepney was 38, when he was working within the estate as the resident mechanic, while his wife Harriet from Uxbridge was also 38, and was described as a housekeeper. Henry and Harriet’s children, still living at the family home on that occasion were, Herbert, aged 19, Dorothy, aged 12, the twins Edmund and George, who were both five years old, Irene who was four, Violet who was two, and baby Laura who was just twelve days old.
	By that time in 1901 the couple’s eldest daughter had left the family home to marry William Joyce. The only other missing child was their second son Harry, who may have died while still a child, since no further record of him has been found after 1891, nor has any member of the family any memory of him. The family’s accommodation in 1901 was built by The Metropolitan Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Association and, although Henry’s occupation was recorded as the resident mechanic, he was in fact the caretaker for Victoria Dwellings, with his wife being the housekeeper there. The Association had bought some of the land around Battersea Park from the Crown for the project at £1,600 per acre.
	Other bodies were also involved in developing the area, such as the Artizans' and General Labourers' Dwellings Company, who built Shaftesbury Estate. Charles Barry Junior was the architect to the MA&LD Association, which also had dwellings in King's Cross and later became known as the Victoria Dwellings Association. The buildings comprising Victoria Dwellings consisted of three blocks; one for artisans and made up of 98 tenements of 3 or 4 rooms, and two for labourers, each having 90 tenements of 1 or 2 rooms. They were of four storeys and were built in yellow stock brick. The Victoria Dwellings at Battersea Park Road were demolished in 1983.
	It seems rather odd that, to date, no record of any member of the family has been identified within the census returns completed in April 1911, except the eldest daughter Louisa, who was married by then.
	Henry James Collett was extremely patriotic and joined up at the outbreak of the First World War. However, due to the fact that he was fifty-one, he could not be put on frontline duty and so was part of the volunteer non-combatant force. It is believed that he was awarded the military medal for his service to King and Country. In 1920 Henry and Harriet were living at 31 Landseer Street in Battersea, where they received the tragic news that their son George had died as a victim of the flu pandemic. George had not been well as a result of his capture by the Germans during the Great War and his subsequent enforced labour in a salt mine.
	At that time in his life, Henry was employed as a maintenance man at the Royal Mail Sorting Office on Lavender Hill. Henry and Harriet were at the centre of a very lively and closely-knit family. Their youngest daughter Laura lived on the top floor of 31 Landseer Street with her family. Her husband was a strong communist and had lively debates with his father-in-law. Henry’s eldest daughter Louisa lived at 62 Landseer Street, whilst his other daughter Irene, lived next door to her at number 60. Henry and Harriet’s house hosted all manner of family gatherings and get-togethers, and their grandchildren would often be found there. Harriet did everything she could to support her children during great difficulties, especially her daughters.
	Sometime around 1924, Henry went to visit his rich uncle Job Collett in Harefield. Unfortunately, Job was a strong believer in abstinence and did not approve of Henry’s social habits and, as a result of this, Job removed Henry (referred to as Harry) and his eldest son Bert from the second writing of his Will in 1925. In Appendix Two, at the end of this family line, there is a newspaper article which was published in 1937 after the Will of Job Collett was proved and settlement of his estate finally resolved, the main beneficiary being Henry’s cousin Isaac Collett (below). Henry James Collett died just before the start of the Second World War. He was a real character and could often be seen walking home swinging his walking stick and wearing his light, near white, planter’s suit. Landseer Street was bombed at the time of the blitz on London during WWII, hence the reason it does not exist today.
	41Q1	Herbert Henry Collett				Born in 1882 at Soho
	41Q2	Louisa Ellen Collett				Born in 1884 at Soho
	41Q3	Harry Collett				Born in 1885 at Soho
	41Q4	Dorothy Mary Collett				Born in 1888 at Westminster
	41Q5	Edmund John Collett twin				Born in 1895 at Battersea
	41Q6	George A Collett twin				Born in 1895 at Battersea
	41Q7	Irene Harriet Rose Collett				Born in 1896 at Battersea
	41Q8	Violet Collett				Born in 1899 at Battersea
	41Q9	Laura Julia Collett				Born in 1901 at Battersea
41P2	Eliza Collett was born at Mile End Old Town in Stepney on 5^th June 1865. The only other information so far found relating to Eliza is within the 1871 Census in which she was six years of age and was living with her family at 18 Roberts Place in Mile End Old Town. Four years after that her father died in 1875 and by April 1881 Eliza’s widowed mother was working as a general servant at the Kings Arms in Soho. No trace of Eliza or her sister Laura (below) has been found at that time, while her other siblings were living at 16 Church Street in Soho.
	Two of Eliza’s siblings reappeared in the next census in 1891, but nothing after 1871 has ever been found for Eliza, so it was assumed that she had passed away as a child. However, an entry in the Collett family bible includes the information that William Hayes and his wife Eliza both died in May 1933. It is therefore possible that Eliza Hayes may have been the former Eliza Collett and if so, she would have been sixty-eight at the time of her death. Other entries in the bible record the deaths of Eliza’s brother Arthur Collett (below) on 3^rd August 1933 and Helen Ellen Morgan nee Collett on 7^th June 1927. The position of the latter of these two individuals within the family has not been positively identified, although it is possible that she was the former Ellen Jones nee Collett (Ref. 41O6).
41P3	Laura Collett was born at Mile End Old Town in Stepney on 7^th June 1869 and at that time her family was living at 7 William Street. Her birth certificate confirmed her parents as William and Ann Collett. Laura was listed in the 1871 Census as living with her family at 18 Roberts Place in Mile End Old Town, but was recorded in error as Louise Collett aged two years. So far, no record of Laura or her sister Eliza (above) has been found ten years later in the census of 1881, following the death of their father in 1875.
	By 1891 Laura was twenty years old and was a domestic housemaid living once again with her widowed mother Ann Collett at 29 Hilldrop Crescent in Islington St Lukes, midway between Kentish Town and Lower Holloway. Three and a half years later on 1^st October 1894 Laura married George Pitts by banns at All Saints Church in Great Barford just to the east of Bedford. George was a railway porter from Great Barford and was living at Caledonian Road in Islington at the time of their wedding. The church record indicated that it was Laura’s brother Henry Collett who gave away the bride, with no reference made at all to her deceased father, or her mother, who may have also passed away by then.
	Just over six years after Laura and George were married, they were living in Islington with their first child and, according to the census return for 1901, the family of three was listed as Laura Pitts, aged 30 from Stepney, George Pitts, aged 31 of Great Barford, who was working as a builder’s general labourer, and their son George Pitts, who was one year old and born at Kings Cross.
	During the next decade two further children were added to the family which, by April 1911 was living in the Greenwich registration district of London. The family on that occasion comprised George Pitts of Great Barford who was 42, Laura Pitts of Stepney who was 40, and their son George who was eleven, and with them their two daughters Dorothy Pitts who was nine, and Ena Pitts who was four. All three children were listed as having been born at Islington prior to the family’s move to Greenwich.
	They later had another daughter Emma Pitts who appears to have been born at Great Barford. Emma was the grandmother of Phil of Harrow who kindly provided the information relating to his family line. Phil was born and lived in Ipswich and after attending university he moved to Harrow, coincidentally close to his ancestral roots at Harefield. Later in their lives, Laura and George Pitts lived at 47 Friendly Street in Lewisham that is, until George passed away, at which time Laura moved to Finchley Road in Ipswich to be near to her daughter Emma and her family. Laura Pitts nee Collett was described as a small, happy lady, who was always whistling, and who loved her canaries.
41P4	Amy Collett was born after the second of April 1871, and the event probably took place at 7 William Street in Mile End Old Town in the Stepney area of London where her family was living on the day of the census that year. Four years later in 1875, Amy’s father William Collett died and that tragic event appears to have resulted in the family being separated. According to the census in 1881, Amy was eleven and was living at 16 Church Street in Soho under the care of her older brother Henry (above), who was head of the household at the age of twenty-one. Also living there with them was their brother Arthur (below). No Amy Collett has been found in the census of 1891, so it is probably safe to assume that Amy was married by that time.
41P5	Arthur Collett was born at Stepney in 1874, the youngest child of William Collett and Ann Calcutt. Sadly, his father died when he was only one year old, and it would appear that this caused the break-up of the family. By 1881 Arthur was six years old and was being looked after by his eldest brother Henry James Collett (above) and his older sister Amy at 16 Church Street in Soho. Also living and working in the Soho area of London was their mother who was employed as a domestic general servant at the Kings Arms Inn at Moor Street. For whatever reason, no record of Arthur has so far been found in any of the census returns after 1881.
	However, there are three later known references to him; the first being a photograph taken during the Great War which shows Arthur, described as Uncle Arthur, with his twin nephews Ted and George Collett in their army uniforms. The note also stated that Uncle Arthur was a coalman. The second reference placed Arthur as one of three beneficiaries under the terms of the 1923 Will of his uncle Job Collett (Ref. 41O14). The third and last known fact about Arthur was recorded in the Collett Family Bible. This stated that he died on 3^rd August 1933, although no age or place was indicated. If this was indeed a reference to Arthur Collett of Stepney who was born there around 1874, then he would have been approximately sixty years old when he died. It would also seem likely that he never married.
41P6	George James Collett was born at Harefield on 15^th June 1853 and was originally baptised George Collett Jones. He was the son of Ellen Collett and James Jones and may have been a twin with his sister Lavinia. However, by the time of the Harefield census in 1861, when George Collett Jones was eight years of age, he was staying at the High Street home of his grandparents William and Elizabeth Collett, not far from his family. His family was growing and his parents had an eleven-month-old baby, so perhaps George was living with his grandparents to ease the situation in the family home. After a further ten years his grandparents William and Elizabeth were living at the home of their son Jacob, when they still had living with them, and in their care, their grandson George James who was 17 and a labourer, most likely working for the building firm of the Collett family.
	On 24^th April 1874 at Harefield, George married Emily Mary Heath who was born on 14^th August 1854 in the hamlet of Shredding Green in the parish of Iver in Buckinghamshire. Emily was the daughter of William Heath and Susan Norman. The couple’s first three children listed below were born at Harefield where, in 1881, they were living at Chapel House, and where George Collett was working as a gardener. Chapel House was part of the Harefield Manor House estate in Chapel Road.
	The census details confirmed that George Collett was 27 and from Harefield, that his wife was Emily, aged 26 and from Iver, and that their children were George Collett junior, who was five years old, and the twins Lewis and Beatrice who were both two years of age. Between early April 1881 and December 1885, the family moved from Harefield to live at Watford, where their son Cyril was born. It is possible that there may have been other children born between 1878 and 1885, but none have so far been discovered.
	Sometime after the birth of the child, George and Emily emigrated to North America, taking their children with them. It was originally thought that the move took place after the turn of the century, but it would appear that they must have sailed to America prior to 1891, since the family was not listed in that year’s census, nor has any record of them in the UK been found within the census of 1901.
	Unlike many immigrants to America, George and his family did not enter the country through Ellis Island in New York Harbour, but it is understood that they lived their early years in that country in the town of Minnesota. What has been established is that George James Collett died at Washington DC on 27^th September 1913 and was buried there at the Glenwood Cemetery. His widow Emily lived for another sixteen years before she died on 15^th September 1929, when she was buried with her husband. It is understood that Emily had relatives that lived in Washington and it was probably this fact that originally persuaded George and Emily to seek a new life in the Brave New World, and eventually settle there.
	41Q10	George William Collett				Born on 22.04.1875 at Harefield
	41Q11	Lewis John Collett twin				Born on 31.08.1878 at Harefield
	41Q12	Beatrice Maude Collett twin				Born on 31.08.1878 at Harefield
	41Q13	Cyril Henry Collett				Born on 15.12.1885 at Watford
41P8	Isaac Collett was born at Harefield in 1867, his birth recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 3a 32) during the second quarter of that year. He was four years old in the Harefield census of 1871 and, ten years later, at the age of 14, Isaac had already left school and was working for his father as a brickmaker’s labourer. Just over nine years later he married Mary Ann Gubby on 26^th May 1890 at the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Harefield, the event recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 3a 31) during the second quarter of the year. Mary had been born at Norwood, Middlesex, in 1864. Shortly after they were married Isaac and Mary moved north to live at Sculcoates in Kingston-upon-Hull, and it was there that all of their children were born. By early April 1891 the couple was expecting the birth of their first child when they were residing within the parish of Sutton-with-Stoneferry in the East Riding of Yorkshire, at Withernsea Street, where general labourer Isaac Collett was confirmed as being 23, while his expectant wife was 26. During the next decade four children were born into the family, and all of them born at Sculcoates near Kingston-upon-Hull.
	The 1901 Census confirmed that the family was still living at Benjamin’s Terrace on Dalton Street in Sculcoates where Isaac, from Harefield, was 34 and where he was working as a labourer at the local cement works. It also confirmed that Mary was three years older than her husband, at the age of 37, while her place of birth was then stated as being Southall in Middlesex. Their children on that occasion were Isaac who was nine, George who was four, Alfred who was two, and new arrival William who was not yet one year old. Over the next few years, a further two children were added to the family.
	Ten years later the family was still living at Sculcoates when, according to the census of 1911, Mary Collett was recorded in error as still being 37 instead of 47. Isaac Collett, from Harefield, was 43 and a labourer at the local cement works, and their six children were Isaac who was 19, George who was 15, Alfred who was 13, William who was 10, Edward who was eight and Sidney who was six years old. At some time during the next five years, possibly around the outbreak of war, Isaac and Mary returned to live at Harefield and in April 1918 the couple was living at 6 Waterloo Villas in Harefield when they received the tragic news of the death of their son Alfred, who had been killed in action during the First World War.
	In addition to the death of their son Alfred, Isaac and Mary must have suffered another family loss, since in a newspaper article in 1937 Isaac made reference to only having three children. The article took the form of an interview with Isaac about the passing of his uncle Job Collett (Ref. 41O14), and the inheritance that had been left to his nephews, due to Job never having married and so had no children of his own to whom his estate could be passed.
	As the eldest nephew, Isaac had been made the executor of the Will by his uncle, in which he and selected other nephews were named as the sole beneficiaries. An earlier Will of 1923 and Codicil of 1925 also referred to Isaac as Job’s nephew, in addition to which his eldest son Isaac was also listed as a beneficiary. Also, in the Codicil to the Will, Isaac’s own grandson Isaac Collett, the only known child of his own son Isaac, was also named as a beneficiary. Upon the death of Job Collett in 1934, his cottage at Harefield passed to Isaac Collett, the elder, who was nearing completion of its restoration under the terms of the Will in 1937. See Isaac’s interview by a Sunday Pictorial reporter in October 1937, which has been reproduced at the end of this family line. This provides a fascinating insight to the man that was his rather curious uncle Job Collett.
	41Q14	Isaac Collett				Born in 1892 at Sculcoates
	41Q15	George Thomas Collett				Born in 1896 at Sculcoates
	41Q16	Thomas Alfred Collett				Born in 1898 at Sculcoates
	41Q17	William Collett				Born in 1900 at Sculcoates
	41Q18	Edward Joseph Collett				Born in 1903 at Sculcoates
	41Q19	Sidney Collett				Born in 1905 at Sculcoates
41P10	ELLEN ELIZABETH COLLETT was born at Harefield on 6^th September 1870 and she later married John Harman in Middlesex during 1889. John was born in 1869 at Norwood and was the son of Edward Harman (1832 – 1909) of Islington and Mary Ann Pierce of St Luke’s in London. It is possible, though not yet proved, that this particular Harman family may have been in some way connected to the Harman family that were the owners of the Harman Brewery in Uxbridge. The marriage of Ellen and John produced six children for the couple and all born at Harefield, these being: John (1889); Robert (1893); Ellen (1895); Alfred (1897); Ernest (1899); and Mabel who was born on 24^th February 1900.
	The couple’s eldest son John Harman junior enlisted with the 16^th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment at the outbreak of the First World War. And so it was that, as Private Harman 6278, he was tragically killed in action on 26^th April 1917, following which he was buried at the Etaples Military Cemetery, fifteen miles south of Boulogne in France. At the time of his death John was 28 and was not married. His parents Ellen and John, who were listed as his next of kin, were living at 8 Waterloo Villas in Harefield when they received the sad news.
	The inscription on a headstone at Etaples Military Cemetery reads “In Memory of Private John Harman 6278, 16th Bn., Middlesex Regiment who died on 26 April 1917, age 28, son of John and Ellen Elizabeth Harman, of 8 Waterloo Villas, Harefield, Middx. Remembered with Honour”
	Ellen and John’s younger son Alfred Harman was interviewed for the making of a book about village life in Harefield. His recollections of his last day at school and starting his first job around 1910 can be found at the end of this family line in Appendix One.
	The couple’s youngest child, daughter Mabel Harman, married James Ferguson on 1^st August 1921 and the marriage produced two children, James Ferguson who was born at 8 Waterloo Villas in 1922 and Jennifer Ferguson. And it was James’ daughter Jean Oakes nee Ferguson who kindly provided the basic details which enabled this family line to be constructed. Her grandmother Mabel Ferguson, nee Harman, lived all her life at Harefield, where she died in 1984. Ellen Elizabeth Harman nee Collett died at 8 Waterloo Villas on 13^th May 1940, and it was there also, nearly four years later that her husband John Harman died on 9^th April 1954.
41P11	Emma Collett was born at Harefield in 1872, the daughter of Jacob and Margaret Collett. She was nine years old in 1881 when the census that year recorded her living with her family in the High Street at Harefield, where her father was a brick-maker. Emma was still living with her parents ten years later in 1891 when she was 17. During the next two years she married Philip Wiggins, a bricklayer from Southall in Middlesex.
	Over the following sixteen years Emma presented Philip with nine children, while the family was still living in Harefield. In 1901 Philip Wiggins was 29, and his wife Emma was 28, by which time they had three children Philip, Alfred and Nora. During the next ten years the remaining six years were added to the family. So far April 1911 the full family was Philip Wiggins 39, Emma Wiggins 38, Philip Wiggins 17, Alfred Wiggins 14, Nora Wiggins 12, Ethel Wiggins who was nine, Mabel Wiggins who was eight, May Wiggins who was seven, Daisy Wiggins who was five, George Wiggins who was two, and Dora Wiggins who was five months old.
41P12	Flora Collett was born at Harefield in 1875, the daughter of Jacob Collett and his wife Margaret Lacey. Flora was five years old in the Harefield census of 1881, when she was living there with her family. By the time she was 15 or 16, she had left her family in Harefield, although no positive identification for her whereabouts has so far been found. Towards the end of the century Flora married William Bowden, but again, no record of the couple has been found in the census of 1901, by which time their marriage had produced their first two children.
	However, during the first decade of the new century a further three children were born into the family, the last of which was born after the family had settled in Harefield. The census in 1911 listed the family as William and Flora Bowden, both 35, Mabel Bowden 12, George Bowden 11, Ethel Bowden who was eight, Emma Bowden who was four, and Ellen Bowden who was two years old.
41P13	Thomas Alfred Collett was born at Harefield in 1878, another son of Jacob Collett and Margaret Lacey, his birth recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 3a 79) during the last quarter of that year. As Alfred Collett, he was two years old in the Harefield census of 1881. Ten years later he was again described as Alfred Collett, who was 13, although in the March census of 1901 he was recorded as unmarried Thomas A Collett, aged 22, who was still living with his family on the High Street in Harefield, from where he was working as a labourer at the local cement works. Thomas Alfred Collett is understood to have been involved in the Boer War with the Middlesex Regiment and also later served in the early days of the First World War.
	In the census conducted in 1911, the entry for Thomas Alfred Collett was incorrectly in the following way. Firstly, his two forenames were reversed, and secondly his actual age was misrepresented. The entry therefore stated that Alfred Thomas Collett from Harefield was 28 years old (not 32) and a bricklayer’s labourer, when he was one just one of two children still living with their parents at 9 Waterloo Villas on the High Street in Harefield. Three years later, the marriage of Thomas Alfred CoIlett and Lily Eunice Woodley was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 93) during the third quarter of 1914. Not long after that Thomas rejoined the army, but was later disabled and given an honourable discharge on 20^th November 1915, when the army record simply named him as Thomas Collett. His wife was considerably younger than Thomas, with her birth, at Harefield at the end of the first week of February in 1892, recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 3a 248) during the first quarter of 1892, the eldest child of Thomas and Fanny Woodley of Harefield Moor. On leaving school, Lily Eunice entered domestic service and, in the Ickenham (near Harefield) census of 1911, when she was 19, she was a general servant who was still living at home with her parents.
	It was only after Thomas had been discharged by the army, that he and Lily started their family, with a total of six children born between 1917 and 1929. Previously though, it was known that it was their eldest son who was named in the 1925 Codicil to the 1923 Will of Thomas Alfred Collett’s uncle Job Collett (Ref. 41O14), his son Thomas replacing Bert Collett (Ref. 41Q1) aka Herbert Henry Collett, the son of Job’s nephew Harry (Henry James) Collett (Ref. 41P1), who displeased Job Collett over the evils of drink, between those two years, to have his name removed (see Will in Legal Documents)
	New information received in early 2013 from Dave Collett of Grayshott in Hampshire indicated that Alfred and Lily (Lilian) had a total of seven children, while only the six listed below have been positively identified, when their mother’s maiden name in each case was confirmed as Woodley when their births were recorded at Uxbridge register office. The couple’s youngest child was David George Collett who was born in 1929, and was only two years old when his father died. The aforementioned Dave Collett was the eldest of the two children of David George Collett and his wife Doreen M Ryder.
	Thomas Alfred Collett was buried at St Mary’s Church in Harefield during 1931, the same grave being the resting place for his widow who died nearly forty years after. Thomas and his family were residing at 66 High Street in Harefield at the time of his death. The property was one of a number of terraced houses built by the earlier members of the Collett family and were originally known as Waterloo Villas. Their son David George often talked about 'The Collett Trust' and it is understood that it was a reference to how the family building business ended up, and that the dwelling formed part of the trust holding. The much later death of Lily Eunice Collett was recorded at the Middlesex Hillingdon register office (Ref. 13 147) during the first three months of 1978, when she was 87 years of age, and when her date of birth was confirmed as 6^th February 1892.
	Interesting Note: In 1918, Isaac and Mary Collett (Ref. 41P8) were living at 6 Waterloo Villas, while living next door at 8 Waterloo Villas in 1917 was his married sister Ellen Elizabeth Harman nee Collett (above). Both couples lost a son in the Great War during each of those years; they were Alfred Collett the son of Isaac and Mary, and John Harman the son of John Harman and Ellen Elizabeth Collett. See Appendix One, a comment made by Alfred Harman in 1910 about the earlier Collett family of house-builders. Two later members of the family, Thomas Alfred Collett and David George Collett - the two sons of Thomas Alfred and Lilly Eunice Woodley listed below - built their own homes in Harefield during the early 1960s.
	41Q20	Thomas Alfred Collett				Born in 1917 at Harefield
	41Q21	Joan Eunice Collett				Born in 1919 at Harefield
	41Q22	John Edward Collett				Born in 1922 at Harefield
	41Q23	Constance Gwyneth Collett				Born in 1924 at Harefield
	41Q24	Eunice Evelyn Collett				Born in 1927 at Harefield
	41Q25	David George Collett				Born in 1929 at Harefield
41P14	Mabel Collett was born at Harefield in 1881 and just after the census in April that year. She was nine years old in the Harefield census of 1891, but had left the family home to be married by March 1901. It was just prior to the census that year that Mabel, aged 20, married Harry Short, who was 21, after which the childless couple settled in the area of Rickmansworth, where they were living on 31^st March 1901, and where Harry was employed as a general labourer. Over the next ten years Mabel presented Harry with three children, and by April 1911 the family was living in Harefield. Harry Short was 32, Mabel Short was 29, and their three children were Alfred Short who was ten, Mabel Short who was four, and Thomas Short who was one year old.
41P15	Lewis George Collett was born at Harefield in 1883, the youngest son of Jacob Collett and Margaret Lacey. In the census of 1891 for Harefield, he was recorded simply as George Collett, aged seven years. By the time of the next census in March 1901 Louis G Collett was 18 and was still living with his parents at the family home on the High Street in Harefield, where he was working with his father as a bricklayer’s apprentice. He was still unmarried ten years later, when he was still living at Harefield with his parents, when he was recorded as Lewis George Collett, aged 25 instead of 28.
41P16	Ethel Collett was born at Harefield in 1885, the youngest child of Jacob and Margaret Collett. She was five years old in 1891 and in 1901 she was 15, when she was still living with her parents at High Street in Harefield, where she was also working as a cotton spinner. Within the next four years Ethel married Edward (Ted) Cooper who was the same age as Ethel. During the years up to 1911 Ethel and Ted had three children, so in the census that year the family living at Harefield comprised Edward Cooper, aged 25, Ethel Cooper, also 25, and their three children Ethel Cooper who was five, Ellen Cooper who was two, and Edward Cooper who was just one month old.
41P17	Lottie Collett was born at Harefield in 1866, the eldest child of William Collett and Charlotte Ward. It seems likely that she was baptised as Charlotte, after her mother, but was referred to Lottie all of her life. All her early years were spent with her family in Harefield, where she was four years old in 1871, and 14 years old in 1881. She was still living with her parents at Harefield in 1891, when Lottie Collett was 24. It was during the next few years that Lottie married William Gregory, as confirmed by the March census in 1901, when she and William were living at Watford Urban with their first child. Lottie Gregory from Harefield was 34, while her husband William Gregory from Ruislip who was also 34, was employed as a railway clerk. Their daughter was six years old Gladys L Gregory who was born at Midway Park in Hertfordshire.
	Lottie may well have been with-child on the day of the census since, shortly thereafter the census day she gave birth to another daughter. This was confirmed in the next census in 1911 when the family of four were living in the Uxbridge area. On that occasion Lottie Gregory and her husband William were both 44, while their two children were Gladys Lilian Gregory, aged 16, and Winifred Alice Gregory who was nine years old.
41P18	William David Collett was born at Harefield in 1868, the eldest son of David and Charlotte Collett. It was the Harefield census in 1871 in which he was recorded as William David Collett aged three years. In 1881, at the age of 12, he was still living at Harefield with his family, as he was ten years later in 1891, when he was 22. His mother managed the grocer’s shop in Harefield, so it seems logical that by the time of the census in 1901 William, aged 31, was working as a baker and shopkeeper in the village. Living with him at 118 High Street in Harefield were his sisters Alice and Grace (below), who was also working with him as his shop assistants. With no record at all of William in the next census of 1911, when he would have been around 42 years old, it might be assumed that he had either left England for one of the colonies, or had passed away by then.
41P19	Elizabeth Collett was born at Harefield in 1870, and was under one year old in the Harefield census on 1871. She was 10 in 1881 and 20 in 1891, when on both occasions she was still living at Harefield with her parents. One source says that she was described as Clara Beth Collett in the census of 1891, while being simply Elizabeth in both the 1871 and 1881 census records. With no record found of her as Elizabeth Collett in 1901, it may be safe to assume that she was married by then.
41P20	Joseph Collett was born at Harefield in 1872 and in 1881 he was eight years old and living with his family at the grocer’s shop in Harefield. He was still living there with his family in 1891 when he was 18. It seems likely, although not yet proved, that Joseph married Annie Maria Cawdell shortly after the 1891 Census, perhaps in late 1892 or early 1893.
	By 1901 the marriage between Joseph and Annie had produced three children for the couple, but at the time of the census bricklayer Joseph, who was 27, was a patient in hospital in St Marylebone. His wife Annie, who was born at Luton, was 28 and she was living at Willesden in Middlesex with their three children. They were Grace aged seven years and born at Aveley near Thurrock in Essex, Winifred who was four and born at Harefield, and one-year-old Charles who was born at Harlesden, not far from Willesden. The whole family was listed living together at Willesden in the census of 1911, when Joseph and Annie Maria were both 38, Grace Annie Collett was 17, Winifred Lilian Collett was 14, and Charles William Collett was eleven years old.
	At the time of the death of Joseph Collett on 27^th October 1918 he was residing at 35 Winchelsea Road in Harlesden, Middlesex, when administration of his personal effects of £94 6 Shillings 8 Pence was granted to his widow Annie Collett in London on 20^th March 1920.
	41Q26	Grace Annie Collett				Born in 1893 at Aveley nr Thurrock
	41Q27	Winifred Lilian Collett				Born in 1896 at Harefield
	41Q28	Charles William Collett				Born in 1899 at Harlesden
41P21	Alfred Collett was born at Harefield in 1874, another son of David Collett and Charlotte Ward. He was six years old and 16 years of age in the two Harefield census returns for 1881 and 1891, when he was living there with his parents on both occasions. For whatever reason, perhaps due to him taking part in the Boer War, no trace has been found of Alfred in the census that took place at the end of March in 1901. By the time of the census in April 1911, Alfred was once again living with his parents David and Charlotte Collett in Harefield, when he was listed as an unmarried man at 36 years of age, whose occupation was that of a builder. It is therefore very likely that he had taken on the family building company from his father, a retired builder.
	It is possible, although not yet proved that, during the following year, he became a married man, the wedding of Alfred Collett and Mary Elizabeth Ottley (born in 1876) recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 31) during the second quarter of 1912. Eight years after that day, the death of Alfred Collett took place at Harefield on 24^th March 1920, at the age of 46. What is known from his death record is that his last occupation was that of a baker, like his brother William (above) who ran the village bread shop in Harefield in 1901, ably assisted by Alfred’s two younger sisters Alice and Grace (below).
41P22	Alice Collett was born at Harefield on 2^nd March 1876, the daughter of David Collett and Charlotte Ward. Alice’s mother was the shopkeeper at the grocer’s shop in Harefield in 1881, when Alice was five years old. Ten years later Alice was still living there with her parents when she was 15. Just after the turn of the century, and at the age of 25 in 1901, unmarried Alice Collett was working as a shop assistant with her brother William (above) at his baker’s shop at 118 High Street in Harefield.
	Four years later on 24^th April 1905 Alice Collett married Francis Creighton at Uxbridge and later, in 1923, Francis Creighton was one of the trustees in the Will of Alice’s uncle Job Collett (Ref. 41O14). (see Will in Legal Documents). Francis was known as Frank and was born at Uppercleugh, Applegarth in Dumfriesshire, Scotland on 13^th August 1879, the youngest son of William Creighton and Jane Armstrong Ker. At the time of the census in 1901 Francis Creighton was 22 and was working as a builder’s clerk, while living at 74 High Street in Harefield with his widowed father and two older brothers.
	According to the census in April 1911, Alice Creighton nee Collett was recorded staying with her parents in Harefield, with her one-month-old son. Alice Creighton was 35 and from Harefield, while her son was Francis Collett Creighton. Tragically Francis Collett Creighton, who was born at Haringey on 5^th March 1911, only survived for just over three years before he died at Harefield on 6^th October 1914. Where Alice’s husband was at the time of the census in 1911 has not been determined.
	Sixteen months prior to the death of her first child, Alice presented Frank with another son, Norman Collett Creighton, who was born at Harefield on 27^th May 1913, and who died at Beaconsfield on 9^th July 1998. Norman later married Jean Lingard Harrison at Harefield on 4^th January 1936, and they had three children, one of whom was Jane Rosemary Creighton who married Anthony Burrows at Gerrards Cross on 12^th September 1964. And it was Anthony who kindly provided the information about their Creighton family. It was also at Harefield that Alice Creighton nee Collett died on 25^th June 1935 at the age of 59, while her husband Frank Creighton lived on for another twenty-four years, before he passed away at Harefield on 27^th December 1959.
41P23	Grace Collett was born at Harefield in 1878 and was the youngest child of David and Charlotte Collett. In 1881 her family was living at the grocer’s shop in Harefield which was managed by her mother. Grace was two years old at that time, and was 11 years old in 1891. By the time of the next census in 1901 she was 22 and was working as a baker’s assistant in Harefield at the shop run by her brother William (above) at 118 High Street. In 1910 Grace Collett married Evelyn Hurden at Edmonton in North London. Just as her sister Alice’s husband had been a trustee in the Will of her uncle Job Collett, so was Grace’s husband Evelyn. (see Will in Legal Documents)
	Evelyn was five years younger than Grace and was born at Bow in London in 1883, the son of joiner Christopher Hurden and his wife Mary, both of Bosham in Cornwall. In 1901 Evelyn was living at Harefield with his family, where he was also working as a joiner. Not long after they were married Grace and Evelyn were living in Harefield, as confirmed by the census in 1911. Grace Hurden from Harefield was 32, while her younger husband Evelyn Hurden was 27. No record of the death of Grace Hurden has so far been found, but it is established that Evelyn Hurden died at Harefield on 19^th February 1943.
41P24	Arthur Frederick Collett was born at Abbey Road in Merton on 30^th November 1865. His birth certificate for the registration district of Croydon gave the sub-district as Mitcham in Surrey, and his father as Richard Collett, a copper forger. However, not long after he was born, he and his parents were living just one mile from Merton at Wimbledon, where Arthur’s two siblings were born. According to the 1881 Census, and at the age of 15, Arthur and his family were living at 2 Vine Cottages in Hubert Road in Wimbledon, from where he was employed as a draper’s porter.
	The census record also confirmed his place of birth as being Merton. Ten years later in 1891, the census on that occasion placed Arthur living and working within the Wandsworth & Putney registration district of London. However, his name was incorrectly recorded as Arthur Collette, aged 26, although the census return did confirm his place of birth as Merton. The photograph above would appear to have been taken possibly before, or around, the time that he was married in 1908. He later became a master decorator and specialised in ecclesiastical decoration. In association with his work, he travelled to Czechoslovakia to learn everything he could about stained-glass window making and restoration. And it may have been during the spring of 1901 that he was there, as he has not so far been located in the UK national census which took place that year.
	Perhaps it was his work that took him to the Newbury area where he met Edna Digweed, to whom he was later married. Eddie, as she was known within the family, was eighteen years younger that Arthur and was born during 1883 at Yattendon, a village to the north-east of Newbury. At the time they met Edna was living with her parents at Shaw-cum-Donnington on the northern outskirts of Newbury. Edna’s father was Levi Digweed, a blacksmith, who was born at Greenham near Newbury in 1858, who was only seven years older than his future son-in-law. Edna’s mother was Fanny Levi who was also born in 1858. Edna was 17 and was working as dressmaker at the time of the 1901 Census for Shaw-cum-Donnington, when she was living there with her family.
	The marriage between Edna, aged 24, and Arthur, aged 42, took place at St Mary’s Church in Shaw-cum-Donnington on 23^rd September 1908. Arthur’s place of residence was stated as being St Nicholas Road in Newbury and his father was confirmed as Richard Benjamin Collett. Less than three years later, the pair of them were settled in Shaw-cum-Donnington where, according to the census of 1911, Arthur Frederick Collett was 45, and his wife Edna was 27. By that time Edna had presented her husband with their first child, Amy Beatrice, who was one year old.
	Sadly, the marriage only lasted for just less than five years since, tragically on 23^rd May 1913, Arthur fell from a ladder while working on the redecoration of St Mary’s Church and never recovered from his injuries. Around that time the family was living at Shaw Cottage in Shaw-cum-Donnington. However, during their short life together the marriage produced three children for Arthur and Edna, all three being been while the couple were living in Newbury. Edna Collett, nee Digweed, survived for a further thirty-seven years and died at Newbury on 25^th May 1950.
	41Q29	Amy Beatrice Collett				Born in 1909 at Newbury
	41Q30	Raymond Bernard Collett				Born in 1912 at Newbury
	41Q31	Arthur Frederick Collett				Born in 1913 at Newbury
41P25	Clara C Collett was born at Wimbledon in 1868 and was 12 years old and living at 2 Vine Cottages in Hubert Road in Wimbledon in April 1881. During the next ten years the family left Wimbledon, and in 1891, Clara Collett from Wimbledon was 22 and was living and working in the Eton registration district of west London. She married Charles George Page who was born at East Grinstead in 1867, the son of tobacconist George Page of East Grinstead.
	Once they were married the couple settled in East Grinstead where their children were born. They were Leonard Charles Page and Hilda Margaret Page, although there may have been others. According to the East Grinstead census of 1901, their parents were Clara Page from Wimbledon, who was 32, and her husband Charles Page, aged 33, who was working as a town postman at that time. Two further children were added to the family over the next few years, so by 1911 the family living at East Grinstead comprised Charles Page 43, Clara Page 42, Leonard Page 12, Hilda Page 10, Elsie Page who was seven, and Freda Page who was six years old.
41P26	Bernard Bolton Collett was born at Wimbledon on 25^th May 1877, his second name coming from his grandmother’s maiden name. At the age of three years, he was living with his family at 2 Vine Cottages on Hubert Road in Wimbledon. Where Bernard and his parents were living in 1891 has not been discovered, but sometime after 1881, he and his parents moved to Nutfield, south-east of Reigate in Surrey. And it was there that the three of them were living in March 1901. At that time Bernard, aged 23, was working with his father Richard at the local Fuller’s Earth Works, where he was an engine driver.
	It may have been during that period in his life that he met Beatrice Annie Holmes to whom he was married less than two years later. The couple was married by banns at Holy Trinity Church in Wimbledon on 17^th January 1903. Beatrice was born at Clapham on 2^nd October 1877, and was the daughter of cabinet maker John Holmes and his wife Sophia.
	At the time of their wedding, Bernard was 27 and was living at Nutfield, where he was working as an engine driver, while Beatrice was 24 and she was living at 155 Graham Road in Wimbledon. During their life together, the marriage produced five children for Bernard and Beatrice. The first child was born at Merstham, just north-east of Reigate, with the next four born after the family had settled in Nutfield. And it was at Nutfield that the young family was recorded in the census of 1911. On that occasion Bernard Collett from Wimbledon was 32 and a stationary engine man employed in the production of Fuller’s Earth. His wife Beatrice Collett from Brixton was also 32, while their four children were described as, Ethel Collett who was seven and from Merstham, Ivy Collett who was five, Leonard Collett who was four, and Herbert Collett who was just three months old, all born at Nutfield.
	Six months later, during October 1911, Bernard was still working at the Nutfield Fuller’s Earth Works, where his father Richard was still working as a foreman. Sadly, it was Bernard who was on hand to witness his father’s death at Cockley Pits on the ninth of October, and it was Bernard who reported the death to the registrar at the Horley sub-district of Reigate, where his father and mother were then living.
	Tragically, Bernard Bolton Collett died while he was still fairly young, when he passed away on 3^rd April 1915 while he was attending the St James Infirmary in Ouseley Road in Balham. He was just 39 years of age and the cause of his passing was cardiac failure, coupled with chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Immediately prior to him being admitted into hospital, Bernard was living at 118 Penwith Road in Wandsworth, where he was employed as a stoker at a local block of residential flats. His death was reported to the South west Battersea sub-district of Wandsworth by his sister-in-law C Holmes. It is interesting to note that both Ouseley Road in Balham and Penwith Road in Wandsworth are still there in 2008.
	Following Bernard’s death, the family was tragically split up. This resulted in his two oldest boys, Leonard who was eight and Herbert who was not yet five years old, being taken from the family and placed in the care of a local Doctor Barnardo’s Home. Only the two daughters, who were old enough to support their mother, and their baby brother Arthur, who was just over two years of age, remained living with their mother Beatrice, who lived the life of a widow for the next fifty years. Beatrice Annie Collett, nee Holmes, died on 3^rd April 1966, at the age of 89.
	41Q32	Ethel Eveline Collett				Born in 1903 at Merstham, Surrey
	41Q33	Ivy Elizabeth Collett				Born in 1905 at Nutfield, Surrey
	41Q34	Leonard Archibald Collett				Born in 1907 at Nutfield, Surrey
	41Q35	Herbert Charles Collett				Born in 1910 at Nutfield, Surrey
	41Q36	Arthur Richard Collett				Born in 1912 at Nutfield, Surrey
41P27	Emily Mary Collett was born at Harefield on 13^th December 1867 and was the base-born daughter of Mary Ann Collett, her birth recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 3a 190) during the first months of 1868. Following her illegitimate birth, Emily was taken into the care of her widowed grandmother Sarah Collett at Harefield. And it was with her grandmother that Emily Mary Collett from Harefield, aged three years, was living at the time of the census in 1871. During the next few years her grandmother passed away, which resulted in Emily going to live with her aunt Elizabeth Green nee Collett (Ref. 41O16), Elizabeth being her mother’s older sister. The next census in 1881, Emily Collett from Harefield was 13 years old, when she was living at 7 Cumming Street in Clerkenwell, the home of James and Elizabeth Green. Over the following years Emily was reunited with her mother Mary Ann, who was married by then and was residing at Hill End in Harefield. Within the Harefield census of 1891, Emily M Collett of Harefield was 23 when, both she and her base-born brother Herbert (below), were living at the Hill End home of Mary Ann Crook and her husband Thomas Crook. The census return confirmed her relationship to Thomas Crook as stepdaughter, and her brother as stepson.
	Five years after that census day, the marriage of Emily Mary Collett and William Charles Mead was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 79) during the third quarter of 1896. By 1901, the childless couple was living at Hill End in Harefield where Emily’s mother was also living and where Mary Ann Crook died in 1903, with Emily at her bedside. On the census day, William Charles Mead from Rickmansworth was 30, his occupation that of a carpenter, when Emily Mary Mead from Harefield was 33 with no stated occupation. Just thirteen months after attending her mother, when she passed away, Emily Mary Mead died at Hill End on 18^th July 1904, with her husband by her side, her premature death recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 338) when she was only 36 years of age.
41P28	Henry Hawkins Herbert Collett was born at Harefield on 16^th May 1872, his birth recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 3a 234), the second child born to unmarried Mary Ann Collett, no father mentioned. The order of his three forenames changed during the early years of his life, as recorded in various records and indicated below, while later in his life he was known as Harry. The year before he was born his mother Mary Ann was living with her widowed uncle William Hawkins at his home in Rickmansworth. The inclusion of Hawkins in Henry’s name suggests that William was his father, which was later confirm when Herbert became a married man. On the day of the census in 1881, as Henry Crook (sic) aged nine years and from Harefield, he was living with his mother and his stepfather Mary Ann Crook and Thomas Crook at Hill End in Harefield, when he was incorrectly recorded as the son of Thomas Crook.
	The situation had been rectified by the time of Harefield census in 1891 when, as Herbert H Collett, he was again living at Hill End with his mother and stepfather, together with his older base-born sister Emily (above), when both of them were acknowledged as the stepchild of Thomas Crook. Herbert H Collett from Harefield was 19 and a general labourer. On that same census day, Herbert’s future wife, eighteen-year-old Elizabeth Creasey, was lodging at 5 Park Terrace in Harefield, having moved there from Park Road in Luton, Bedfordshire, where she was born on 25^th January 1873. It was very likely that Elizabeth first knew Emily Mary Collett through working together at the Harefield asbestos works, where Elizabeth was an asbestos spinner and Emily was an asbestos cloth weaver.
	Four years later at Harefield, on 25^th December 1895, Henry Herbert Hawkins Collett, aged 23 years and the son of William Hawkins – a farm bailiff, married Elizabeth Creasey, aged 22 and the daughter of James Creasey. It was only five months after their wedding day, that the couple’s first child was born at Harefield, and he was followed by a further eight children, all of them born at Harefield. Only the first two children were living at Hill End with their parents in 1901, when Herbert Collett was 28 and a bricklayer’s labourer, Elizabeth Collett from Luton was also 28 and working as a servant in a local shop, and the two children were Herbert Collett aged four years, and Violet Collett who was two years old. On that occasion, it was originally believed that the couple already had a son Ernest, who was born and died shortly thereafter, although no such birth or death record has been found at the Uxbridge register office. As a result of the lack of evidence, his name has been deleted from the list of children below.
	During the following decade, a further five children were added to the family at Harefield, where they were still living in 1911. Every member of the family had been born at Harefield, except Herbert’s wife, whose place of birth was recorded as Luton in Bedfordshire. Herbert Henry Collett was 38 and a general labourer working with a bricklayer, Elizabeth Collett was 37, and their seven children were Herbert Collett who was 14, Violet Collett who was 12, Gladys Collett who was nine, Ivy Collett who was seven, Ernest Collett who was five, Irene Collett who was two, and Nellie Collett who was just three months old. Despite her advancing years, Elizabeth presented Herbert with two more children over the next seven years, making around forty-five years old for the birth of the couple’s last child at Harefield.
	Much later, when Elizabeth Collett died at the age of 70 years on 23^rd December 1943, while residing at 8 Breakspear Road, West Ruislip in Hillingdon, she was described as the wife of Henry Herbert Collett. Present at her death was George W Coster, son-in-law, of Oakleigh, Breakspear Road in Ruislip. A month later, an additional note had been written on her death certificate as follows: “A clerical error in column 5 has been corrected on 27^th January 1944 by me (the deputy registrar) in the presence of H Collett, widower of the deceased, on the authority of the registrar general”. It would appear that Henry had gone out of his way to include ‘Hawkins’ into his list of forenames, seemingly wishing to acknowledge the name of his father.
	Eight years after being widowed, Henry Hawkins Herbert Collett died at 8 Breakspear Road in Ruislip on 2^nd August 1951, when he was 79 years old. Present at his death was his son Ernest R Collett of 54 Hatherleigh Road in Ruislip. His death was recorded at Harrow register office (Ref. 5f 82) under the name Henry H Collett. The sons and daughters of Sidney Arthur Collett, his youngest son, were never told of the illegitimacy of their paternal grandfather, which appears to have been a secret that has only been revealed by researching the family history.
	41Q37	Herbert Alfred Collett				Born in 1896 at Hill End, Harefield
	41Q38	Thirza Winifred Collett				Born in 1897 at Hill End, Harefield
	41Q39	Violet Lilian Collett				Born in 1899 at Hill End, Harefield
	41Q40	Gladys May Elizabeth Collett				Born in 1902 at Hill End, Harefield
	41Q41	Ivy Emily G Collett				Born in 1904 at Hill End, Harefield
	41Q42	Ernest Reginald Collett				Born in 1905 at Hill End, Harefield
	41Q43	Percy James Collett				Born in 1905 at Hill End, Harefield
	41Q44	Irene Vera Collett				Born in 1908 at Hill End, Harefield
	41Q45	Elinor Creasey Collett				Born in 1910 at Hill End, Harefield
	41Q46	Sidney Arthur Collett				Born in 1914 at Hill End, Harefield
	41Q47	May Hilda Collett				Born in 1918 at Hill End, Harefield
41P29	Margaret Sarah Collett was born at Marston Moretaine near Bedford, either at the end of 1867 or early in 1868. It was also at Marston Moretaine that she was baptised on 3^rd March 1868, the daughter of James Collett and Ann Smith Fells. In 1881 she was 13 when she was living with her family at Park Lane in Harefield. She was still living with her parents after the start of the new century when she 33, unmarried, and working as a domestic nurse in March 1901.
41P30	Harriet Collett was born at Harefield in 1868, another daughter James and Ann Collett, her birth recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 3a 159) during the third quarter of that year. No record of her or her family has been found for the census conducted in 1871, while by 1881, eleven-year-old Harriet Collett from Harefield was living with her family at Park Lane in Harefield. She was not living with her family at Harefield ten years later in 1891. During the previous year, a certain Harriet Collett married Philip Joseph Poulter, the event recorded at Brentford in Middlesex (Ref. 3a 279) during the third quarter of 1890. However, she may not have been Harriet from Harefield, because she was said to have been born at Brentford.
41P31	Sarah Ann Collett was born at Harefield towards the end of 1871, the third child of James and Ann Collett. In 1881 Sarah was nine years old when she and her family were living at Park Lane in Harefield. However, on leaving school she left her family in Harefield when she took up employment as a domestic servant at a private house in the High Street in Rickmansworth. The census in 1891 recorded that Sarah A Collett from Harefield was 18 years old and a general servant, where she was working alongside Edith Heard, aged 22, who was nurse supported by nursemaid Minnie Allum who was only 11 years of age.
	It may have been around three years later that Sarah Ann married George Henry Nicholls, who was born at Hayes in Middlesex in 1867, the son of Benjamin and Mary Nicholls. One year later Sarah presented George with what appears to be their only child, George Henry Nicholls junior. By 1901 the family of three was living in the Ruislip area where George was 35 and a labourer at a brick field, Sarah was 29, and their son George was seven. Ten years later the same family was still residing within the Ruislip registration district. George Henry Nicholls from Hayes was 43, Sarah Nicholls was 38, and their son George Henry Nicholls was 16, both of them having been born at Harefield.
41P32	Rosina (Rose) Collett was born at Harefield in 1876 and was five years old in the census for Harefield in 1881. Upon leaving school Rose entered into domestic service, which caused her to leave her family home in Harefield to take up employment in the Watford, where she was listed at Rosina Collett, aged 16 and from Harefield, who was employed as a general servant with the Andrews at their Queens Road home. The only other members of the Collett family from Harefield that were living in that same area on that occasion were Rosina’s aunts, the cousins Mary A Collett (Ref. 41O1) and Harriet Collett (Ref. 41O22). By the time of the census in 1901 Rose was recorded in the St George Hanover Square area of London as Rosina Collett from Harefield who was 25. It was just over three years later that she married John Oakley from Harpenden in Hertfordshire at All Saints Church in St John’s Wood within the London Borough of Westminster on 15^th June 1904. The record of the marriage confirmed that Rosina Collett was 28 and the daughter of James Collett, while John Oakley was 25 and the son of James Oakley.
	Over the remainder of that decade Rosina gave birth to four children although tragically only two were still alive by the time of the census in 1911. On that occasion the family of four was residing in St Albans where it was Rosina Oakley from Harefield who was 35 who signed the census return. Her husband of six years was farmer labourer John Oakley who was 33 and their three-roomed accommodation may have been provided by his employer. Their two surviving children had both been born at Redbourn in Hertfordshire and were Dorothy Oakley who was five and already attending school and Ivy Oakley who was two years old. Whether she was a casualty of the Great War or a victim of the flu pandemic that followed, the death of Rosina Oakley was recorded at St Albans register office (Ref. 3a 1661) during the last three months of 1918 when she was 42.
41P33	Walter Herbert Collett was born at Harefield near the end of 1877, with his birth recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 3a 267) during the first three months of 1878. He was the sixth child of James Theophilus Bolton Collett and Ann and was three years old in the 1881 Census for Harefield. He was still there with his family ten years later in 1891, when his age was recorded as 15 (sic). Nine years later, the marriage of Walter Herbert Collett and Florence Bedford was recorded at the Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 367) during the last three months of 1900. It was as Flora Bedford that her birth was recorded at Derby (Ref. 7b 132) during the second quarter of 1878 who, by 1881, was living within the Camberwell area of London. A few months after their wedding day the pair was residing at Hallowell Road in Ruislip where, in the census conducted in 1901, they were recorded as Walter H Collett from Harefield who was 23 and working as a domestic coachman, and Florence Collett from Derby who was 24, with no stated occupation. It would also appear that the couple had a long wait for the birth of their first child, who was born nearly ten years later, although it is possible there had been earlier children born to the couple who did not survive. Certainly, the census in the April 1911, confirmed that the family of three was living in the Lambeth district of London. Walter H Collett from Harefield was 32 and employed by a railway company as an electrical machine attendant. His wife Florence Collett from Derby was also 32, while their son Herbert Collett was just one year old and had been born at nearby Stockwell. Staying with the family that day was Florence’s younger brother Frederick Bedford from Derby who was 30.
	Between 1901 and 1910, quite a few births of Collett children were recorded at Uxbridge, where their deaths were also recorded shortly after they were born, some of which may have been the children of Walter and Florence. It is also curious that son Herbert was recorded as being only one year old, when the birth of Stockwell born Herbert Collett could be one of two children. The birth of Herbert Collett was recorded at Lambeth register office (Ref. 1d 211) during the third quarter of 1908, while the later birth of Herbert David F Collett was recorded at Lambeth register office (Ref. 1d 19) during the second quarter of 1909 who would have been under two years of age in 1911. With war raging in Europe during the following decade, in which Walter may have been involved, it is not surprising that the couple’s last child was born in 1917, with his birth recorded at the Marylebone register office (Ref. 1a 97) during the third quarter of 1917. Many years later, Walter was living in Kent when he died, the death of Walter Herbert Collett recorded at Maidstone register office (Ref. 5b 10) during the third quarter of 1955, when he was 77 years old.
	41Q48	Herbert David F Collett						Born in 1909 at Stockwell
	41Q49	Reginald J Collett						Born in 1917 at Marylebone
41P35	Reginald Richard Collett was born at Harefield on 12^th February 1887 where he was baptised on 24^th April 1887, the son of gardener James Collett and his wife Ann. He was living there at Park Lane with his family at the time of the census in 1891 when he was incorrectly recorded as Bignal Collett aged four years. Ten years after that he was still living with his parents at Harefield where he was working as a farmer’s boy at the age of 14. After a further ten years, according to the census in 1911, Reginald Collett of Harefield said he was 28, unless that was a misinterpretation of 23, which was his actual age. By that time, he was still a single man living at Harefield with his parents James and Ann Collett.
41Q1	Herbert Henry Collett was born at Soho in 1882. This may have taken place at Golden Square in Soho where his parents Henry James Collett and Harriet Goodman were living at the time of their wedding in the latter part of 1881. Ten years later the family was living at 6 Monkton Street in Lambeth, where Herbert was incorrectly recorded as being ten years old. After another ten years Herbert was still living with his parents, by which time the family had left Lambeth and instead was living in Block 6 at Victoria Dwellings in Battersea, as confirmed by the census in 1901. Herbert Collett from Soho was more accurately described as being 19 and his occupation was that of a plumber’s labourer.
	Two years later, the marriage of Herbert Henry Collett and Edith Young was recorded at Wandsworth register office (Ref. 1d 156) during the second quarter of 1903. Their marriage produced eight children, the first three of which were born while the couple was living in Battersea, where Edith had been born, the daughter of Richard and Martha Young. In 1911, the family of five was still living in Battersea and was recorded as Herbert Collett from Westminster who was 29 and whose occupation was that of a rougher at an optical glass works, his wife Edith Collett who was 26, daughters Louise Collett who was five and Rose Collett who was three, and son Herbert Collett who was one year old.
	The births of the couple’s last five children were also recorded at Wandsworth register office, when their mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Young, and they too may have been born at Battersea. Interestingly, a child named Kate Collett was credited to the couple, but no record of such a child has been found. Edith Louise Collett of 22 Westover Road in Wandsworth was already a widow when she died there on 10^th December 1946, her death recorded at Wandsworth register office Ref. 5d 83), when she was 61 years old, but only as Edith Collett. The administrator for her estate of £73 12 Shillings 6 Pence in London on 23^rd January the following year, was her son Herbert Henry Collett, a moulder. It was five years prior to her passing that the death of her husband Herbert Henry Collett was recorded at Barnstaple register office in North Devon (Ref. 5b 12) during the first quarter of 1941, when he was 59.
	41R1	Louise Margaret Collett				Born in 1905 at Battersea
	41R2	Harriet Rose Collett				Born in 1907 at Battersea
	41R3	Herbert Henry Collett				Born in 1909 at Battersea
	41R4	Leonard S Collett				Born in 1911 at Battersea
	41R5	George A Collett				Born in 1913 at Battersea
	41R6	Edmund Victor Collett				Born in 1915 at Battersea
	41R7	Nellie E Collett				Born in 1917 at Battersea
	41R8	Ruby Isabel Collett				Born in 1919 at Battersea
41Q2	Louisa Ellen Collett was born at St Martin’s in Soho in 1884, the eldest daughter of Henry James Collett and his wife and cousin Harriet Goodman. By the time she was seven years old her family was living at 6 Monkton Street in Lambeth. Louisa was in her teenage years when she married William Joyce, although this had not happened by the time of the March census in 1901, when she was still Louisa E Collett, aged 16. She had left the family home by then and was employed as a general domestic servant while was living and working in the Battersea area, not far from where her parents were living.
	Her marriage to (1) William Joyce, took place sometime during the early years of the new century, and produced four children for the couple. Louisa and William were living in the Wandsworth area by 1911, not far from her older brother Herbert Collett (above) and his family. However, it was during the First World War that William Joyce died, leaving his widow Louisa with her four children, Dorothy Joyce, Kitty Joyce, Billy Joyce, and Jessie Joyce. This picture of Louisa was taken during the war and, with her in the larger picture from which it was extracted, was her mother, her father, and her brother Ted, who was home on leave from the army. Two of her mother’s Goodman nieces were also included in the photograph.
	After the war, Louisa married (2) Harry Palmer and moved, with her four children and his two sons from his previous marriage, to 62 Landseer Street in Battersea, to be near to her parents at 31 Landseer Street and right next door to her sister Irene at 60 Landseer Street. Unfortunately, Harry Palmer turned out to be a terrible alcoholic, so when Louisa died her mother Harriet Collett could not face Palmer being responsible for her grandchildren. Instead, she persuaded the war office to treat them as war orphans and so they were removed from Palmer. As a direct result of that action the children grew up much happier under the guardianship of their grandmother Harriet and their Uncle Ted Collett, Louisa’s younger brother (below) who jointly took responsibility for their future welfare.
41Q3	Harry Collett was born at St Martin’s in Soho in 1885. Apart from being recorded as six years old in the Lambeth census of 1891, when he and his family were living at 6 Monkton Street in Lambeth district of Newington, no further record of him has been found, and his absence from the family in 1901 would suggest that he may have died during the 1890s.
41Q4	Dorothy Mary Collett was born at Westminster in 1888, although her birth was recorded at the Islington register office (Ref. 1b 248) during the fourth quarter of that year. She was three years old in 1891 when she was living at 6 Monkton Street in Lambeth with her family. During the 1890s the family moved again, so by March 1901 Dorothy was twelve years old and was living with her family at 6 Victoria Dwellings in Battersea. Like most of the other members of her family, the whereabouts of Dorothy has not been traced in the census of 1911. However, before she was 20 years old, she had given birth to two illegitimate daughters following relationships with two American soldiers during the Great War. Happily, the second of the two GIs returned to England from America after the war to marry Dorothy, and to take her and her two daughters, Maisie and Sybil, back to America to live with him.
41Q5	Edmund John Collett was one of a set of twins born at Battersea on 29^th July 1895 and throughout his life he was known as Ted. In the census of 1901 Ted was listed as Edmund Collett and at that time he and his family were living at 6 Victoria Dwellings in Battersea. As stated earlier in this family line, and rather strangely, no record of Ted or any member of his Collett family has been found in the census of 1911. It is known that he served with the British Army during the war. However, while on front-line duty, he was injured and had to have a silver plate put into his head. The operation was carried out at Northallerton in Yorkshire in 1916.
	It was also around that time when his brother-in-law William Joyce, the husband of his sister Louisa (above), was killed in action. Whilst his sister Louisa re-married after the war, she too died after a few years, at which point Ted, and his mother Harriet, took over the care of Louisa’s four children. By November 1925, he had found work as a part-time postman in Wandsworth. This eventually became a full-time job, which he loved, and he eventually received a long-term Service Medal from Queen Elizabeth II during 1961.
	It was in October 1926 that Ted married Doris Carlotta at Grampound in Cornwall. The couple had moved to Cornwall to be nearer to Doris’ family. Their marriage produced no children of their own, but this was compensated for by the couple continuing to look after the welfare of Ted’s sister Louisa’s orphaned children as if they were their own.
41Q6	George A Collett was born at Battersea on 29^th July 1895 and was a twin with his brother Ted (above). In March 1901 he and his family were living at 6 Victoria Dwellings in Battersea, when he was listed in the census as being George Collett of Battersea aged five years. As with the other members of his family, no record of George has been found in the census of 1911. However, at the outbreak of war, when George was 19, he joined the Royal Fusiliers. He became Private G A Collett No. 134918 and served on the frontline, but was taken prisoner and was put to work in the salt mines. He returned to England after the war but was very weak and died on 20^th November 1920 during the flu-pandemic which killed so many of the men who had survived the war. His army record showed that his next-of-kin was his farther Henry James Collett and his mother Harriet Elizabeth Collett of 31 Landseer Street in Battersea.
41Q7	Irene Harriet Rose Collett was born at Battersea on 28^th September 1896 and was four years old by the time of the March census in 1901. At that time Irene and her family were living at 6 Victoria Dwellings in Battersea. Irene would have been 14 in April 1911 but so far, no record of her has been found. What we know however, is that Irene was still living in the Battersea area in 1914, since it was there on 4^th April 1915 that she married Joseph Holland Malins, who was a lorry driver and a porter. He was partially disabled while still a child, when a costermonger’s large wheelbarrow ran over his leg. The broken leg was incorrectly set at the time of the accident, and as a result he had a raised boot to level out his walking. Irene therefore took in ironing to earn extra money for the family.
	Irene and Joseph both loved music; Irene sang and knew all the latest songs, while Joseph played the piano in the local pubs. Immediately after they were married Irene and Joseph lived first at 60 Landseer Street, right next door to her sister Louisa, and not far from her parents at 31 Landseer Street. They had eight children and, after living at Landseer Street, the family moved to a house in the adjacent road of Longhedge Street. Landseer Street has been replaced by Parkfield Industrial Estate, while Longhedge Street survived the redevelopment and is still there today, just off Battersea Park Road (A3205).
	During the Second World War Joseph Malins was employed in the Home Guard and also worked for the American Army, driving trucks out of the large Blandford camp in Dorset. Irene and the Malins family were evacuated from London and placed in the relative safe of Bournemouth, to be nearer to her husband. After the war Joseph was diagnosed with cancer at St Guy’s Hospital in London. On being discharged from the hospital, he went and played the piano in the Duke of Cambridge public house on Battersea Bridge Road. Joseph Holland Malins died in 1947 while he was living at 87 Stewart Road in Bournemouth. Irene knew that he would prefer to be buried in London, so she arranged for his body to be taken to South London, to be buried at the Garrett Lane Cemetery in Tooting.
	Following the death of her husband, Irene continued to live at 87 Stewarts Road, which she shared with her second youngest daughter and her husband. Eventually four of her daughters emigrated to America with their husbands so, in the early 1960s, Irene decided to follow them in order to be able to visit them when she wanted. A few years later in 1965, when she was living in America, Irene received the news that her eldest son Walter was to become the first Mayor of Battersea and Wandsworth. She then made a permanent returned to England in 1966, just in time to attend the mayor’s reception and dinner-dance with the Lord Mayor of London.
	And it was sixteen years later that Irene Harriet Rose Malins nee Collett died at Bournemouth in May 1982. Of her children, Irene’s eldest son Walter Malins married Johanna Sheehan and was the first Mayor of Battersea and Wandsworth during 1965-1966. On his retirement he moved to Bournemouth, and at the start of the twenty-first century he was living in Tunbridge Wells. Walter Malins is the grandfather of Rebecca Humphreys who, together with her grandfather and her father Peter, kindly provided all the family details and photographs for the family of Henry James Collett and his descendants.
	Irene’s eldest daughter Violet Malins married Bill Halliday and the couple lived in London with her sister Irene and her husband. Violet and Bill later moved to Bournemouth and then to York, where widow Violet was still living in 2010. Daughter Irene Malins married Ted Andrews and lived in London with her sister Violet, before she and Ted emigrated to America, where they settled in Indianapolis. Joining them in America were Irene’s three sisters: (a) Sylvia who married American GI Herman Paige, who initially lived in Arkansas, before settling in Indianapolis; (b) Loretta, known as Mickey, who married Ken Symes who lived in Bournemouth before moving to Indianapolis; and (c) Dorothy who married another GI, Richard Clifton, this couple settling first in Texas, and then in Michigan. The remaining two children were Edmund Malins who married Joan Fletcher, and Josephine Malins who married Ian Drummond, both siblings making their respective homes in Bournemouth.
41Q8	Violet Collett was born at Battersea in 1899 and was two years old and living at 6 Victoria Dwellings in Battersea in March 1901. Violet later married Harry Jennings, a Canadian who had stayed on after the end of the First World War, and they later moved back to Canada. Harry Jennings eventually became a Major in the Canadian Army. The marriage of Harry and Violet produced one daughter for the couple, Betty Jennings, and all three of them returned to England to visit the Collett family during the 1930s. The family recall that they appeared to be extremely glamorous, with their fancy clothes and luggage, in comparison to their poorer English relations.
41Q9	Laura Julia Collett was born at 6 Victoria Dwelling in Battersea on 19^th March 1901 and was just twelve days old at the time of the census on 31^st March that year. During the middle of the Great War, and unbeknown to anyone in the family, Laura fell pregnant and to everyone’s amazement she went into labour during 1916, giving birth to her first son, Johnny Collett. The identity of the boy’s father has always remained a secret.
	Laura eventually married John Levis with whom she had a further two sons, George Henry Levis and Jimmy Levis. Laura and her family occupied the top floor of her parents’ house at 31 Landseer Street. John Levis was an ardent communist who had lively debates with his father-in-law Henry James Collett. George Henry Levis was born in 1922 and at the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the Royal Marines. Two years into the conflict he was attached to the cruiser HMS Galatea which was part of the Mediterranean Battle Fleet for Operation Landmark supporting the Libyan offensive.
	The ship sailed out of Alexandra on 6^th December 1941 and one week later was the subject of a concerted assault by enemy aircraft on 14^th December 1941. The attack from the air lasted seven hours, by which time a German U-boat had arrived on the scene under cover of darkness and fired torpedoes into the cruiser, sinking the vessel in the early hours of 15^th December. Of the 600 crew on board HMS Galatea, only 120 men were rescued by two destroyers from the same fleet. Sadly, George Henry Levis was one of those who lost their life on that fateful night, at the tender age of 19.
	The naval record confirmed that he was a Marine from Plymouth, with his service number being PLY/X3729. The record also confirmed that his next-of-kin was Simon John George and Laura Julia Levis of Battersea, and that his name is one of many on Panel 59 of the Plymouth Naval Memorial on The Hoe in Plymouth.
	41R9	John H Collett				Born in 1916 at Battersea
41Q10	George William Collett was born at Harefield on 22^nd April 1875 and was five years old in the Harefield census of 1881. Sometime during the next decade George accompanied his parents when the family emigrated to North America prior to the census of 1891. Around the turn of the century, he and his family were living at Minnesota, but at the time of his death on 7^th March 1907 the family was living at Washington DC where George was buried. His grave at the Glenwood Cemetery in Washington was also used for the burials of his parents in 1913 and 1929, and his brother Lewis in 1914. George never married and was 32 years old when he died. During his short life he worked as a printer in a print shop with his younger brother Lewis (below).
41Q11	Lewis John Collett, who was one half of a set of twins, was born at Harefield on 31^st January 1878. He accompanied his parents when the family emigrated to North America sometime before 1891. Just like his brother George (above), Lewis also worked as a printer at the same print shop as his brother before his untimely death in 1907. Lewis never married and died at Washington DC on 22^nd January 1914, aged 36, just four months after his father had died, with whom he was buried at Glenwood Cemetery. His older brother George had been buried in the same grave seven years earlier, and his mother was buried there fifteen years later.
41Q12	Beatrice Maude Collett, who was one half of a set of twins, was born at Harefield on 31^st January 1878. Around the age of ten years, she sailed to America with her family. They initially settled to live in Minnesota, but later moved to Washington DC. Beatrice married Eugene Karl Pestell, with whom she had three children. It may be that Beatrice and her family also lived in Washington since, upon her death on 24^th January 1957, she too was buried at Glenwood Cemetery in the Collett family grave with her parents, two of her brothers and her husband.
41Q13	Cyril Henry Collett was born at Watford on 15^th December 1885 and shortly after, he and his family sailed to America and initially settled down to live in Minnesota. Some years later the family move from Minnesota to live in Washington, where both his older brothers and his parents died and were buried. At the age of just 20 years and eight days, Cyril Henry Collett married Narcissa Laura Frazier on 23^rd December 1905. After they were married the couple lived in Washington DC and the marriage produced six children for Cyril and Narcissa, all of whom were born in the District of Columbia. During his life Cyril was employed by the Internal Revenue Service. He was also a part-time motion picture operator, a trade that was later taken up by his son Robert. When they died Cyril and Narcissa were buried in the family grave at Glenwood Cemetery in Washington.
	41R10	Cyril Edward Collett				Born in 1907 at Washington
	41R11	Emily E Collett				Born in 1909 at Washington
	41R12	Marguerite I Collett				Born in 1914 at Washington
	41R13	Robert Lee Collett				Born in 1919 at Washington
	41R14	Ralph William Collett				Born in 1921 at Washington
	41R15	Bradley Lewis Collett				Born in 1926 at Washington
41Q14	Isaac Collett (Isaac the younger)* was born at Sculcoates in Kingston-upon-Hull (Ref. 9d 142) during the third quarter of 1892, the eldest child of Isaac Collett and Mary Ann Gubby. It was there he was still living with his family in 1901 at the age of nine and again in 1911 when he was 19 and employed as a labourer at a manure works. It was four years later that the marriage of Isaac Collett and Margaret Cain was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 118) during the last three months of 1915. Four children were born to the couple at Harefield, their births recorded at Uxbridge, when their mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Cain. Their only son, Isaac, was a beneficiary in the 1923 Will of his father’s uncle Job Collett (Ref. 41O14). In the Will (see Will in Legal Documents) Isaac was named as the son of nephew Isaac Collett. The Codicil to the Will in 1925 also referred to Isaac Collett, as the son of Isaac the younger*.
	The discovery of the administration of the personal effects of Isaac Collett on 10^th October 1939 in London, revealed that he and his wife Margaret lived at Plough Cottage at Hill End in Harefield. However, it was actually at Springfield House on Beechcroft Road in Wandsworth where he died on 19^th August 1939. That would mean he was only 47 when he died, whereas his father Isaac Collett was still alive at that time, although his wife was Mary.
	41R16	Winnie Collett				Born in 1916 at Harefield
	41R17	Isaac Collett				Born in 1924 at Harefield
	41R18	Mary Collett				Born in 1926 at Harefield
	41R19	Kathleen Collett				Born in 1928 at Harefield
41Q15	George Thomas Collett was born at Sculcoates near Hull on 6^th August 1896. He was five years old and 14 years of age in the two Sculcoates census returns for 1901 and 1911. It appears that he never married and died at Hillingdon in London during the first quarter of 1971 at the age of 74.
41Q16	Thomas Alfred Collett was born at Sculcoates during the last three months of 1898. He was three years of age in the Sculcoates census of 1901 and was 12 ten years later in 1911 when he and his family were still residing in Sculcoates. As soon as he was old enough, and while he was still living in Hull, he enlisted with the 23^rd Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers with which he became Private Collett G/71552. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission listed him as T A Collett. Tragically, at the age of 19, he was killed in front line action at Mesnil in France on 1^st April 1918 and was buried in the Mesnil Communal Cemetery Extension. At the time of his death, Alfred’s parents Isaac and Mary had returned to Harefield in Middlesex, where his father had been born, their address there being 6 Waterloo Villas.
41Q17	William Collett was born at Sculcoates on 19^th October 1900 and was five months old in the Sculcoates census on 1901. He and his family were still living there in 1911 when William was 10. He possibly never married, like his brother George (above) and Sidney (below), and all three of them may have been living together at Hillingdon in the early 1970s when first George died in 1971 and was followed by William who also died there during the second quarter of 1972. Two years after that the death of Sidney was also recorded there.
41Q18	Edward Joseph Collett or Edward Joe Collett was born at Sculcoates on 1^st February 1903 and was eight years old in 1911. Once again it seems that he too never married and at the time of his death during the final quarter of 1977 he was living in the Haverfordwest area of Dyed in Wales.
41Q19	Sidney Collett was born at Sculcoates on 16^th April 1905 and was six years of age in the Sculcoates census of 1911. It seems logical that Sidney, and his two older unmarried brothers George and William, eventually left the East Riding of Yorkshire to seek their fortunes in London. Since it was in the Hillingdon area of Middlesex that Sidney died during the third quarter of 1976.
41Q20	Thomas Alfred Collett was born at Harefield either at the end of 1916, or early in 1917, the first-born child of Thomas Alfred Collett and Lily Eunice Woodley. His birth was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 145) during the first quarter of 1917, when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Woodley. He was a carpenter, like his brother David (below), and in 1925 he was named as the son of Thomas Alfred Collett in the Codicil to the 1923 Will of Job Collett (Ref. 41O14). It was with his brother David that they built their two homes on the High Street in Harefield around 1963. The marriage of Thomas A Collett and Jean P Lofty was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 5f 64) during the first three months of 1947. Their marriage produced one son who was born at the end of that same year, whose birth was also recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 5f 94) during the last three months of 1947. Thomas and Jean were both living at 59 High Street in Harefield when they passed away.
	41R20	Alan Thomas Collett				Born in 1947 at Harefield
41Q21	Joan Eunice Collett was born at Harefield in 1919, the second child and eldest daughter of Thomas and Lily Collett. Her birth was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 88) during the last three months of that year. Through her life she was known as Pink, even though there is no such recorded name for her. The main clue, within the present-day family, is that it is known that Pink married Jack Newton. The marriage record at Uxbridge register office confirmed that Jack Newton wed Joan E Collett during the final quarter of 1949 (Ref. 5f 76). Within a very short time, Joan had presented Jack with their only child, with the birth of Leslie J Newton recorded during the first three month of 1950 at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 5f 88), for the birth either at the end of 1949 or early in 1950.
41Q22	John Edward Collett was born at Harefield on 11^th May 1922 and was another son of Thomas and Lily Collett. His birth was also recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 4) during the second quarter of the year. He later married Jane Hearn, with whom he had a daughter, their wedding day in Harefield recorded at Uxbridge register office during the last three months of 1945 (Ref. 3a 114). At some time in his life, John worked at the Denham Film Studios and was living with his wife and their daughter in the Staines area at the time of his death. The death of John Edward Collett was recorded at Slough register office in December 2006, when he was 84 years old. Following his passing, Jane and Madelaine were subsequently believed to be living somewhere in Spain.
	41R21	Madelaine J Collett				Born in 1947 at Watford
41Q23	Constance Gwyneth Collett was born at Harefield in 1924, when previously her parents Thomas and Lily, had been credited with two daughters, one Constance and a separate child being Gwyneth. However, no such Gwyneth has been found, so maybe she was known in the family by the two names, either together or separately. Where there is further confusion is she was referred as Gwyn, while as Constance, she gave birth to a base-born son at Harefield. The birth of Constance G Collett was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 140) during the last quarter of 1924.
	41R22	Kevin J Collett				Born in 1947 at Harefield
41Q24	Eunice Evelyn Collett was born at Harefield on 4^th April 1927, the youngest daughter of Thomas and Lily Collett, whose birth was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 119) during the second quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Woodley. The later marriage of Eunice Evelyn Collett and Peter I Pavey was recorded at Hillingdon register office (Ref. 5c 35) during the third quarter of 1965, when Eunice was already expecting the birth of their one and only child. The birth of Susan J Pavey was also recorded at Hillingdon register office (Ref. 5c 92) during the fourth quarter of 1965, when her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Collett. Sometime later in her life, Eunice was living in the Rickmansworth area of Hertfordshire, while it was at Watford register office, that the death of Eunice Evelyn Pavey was recorded during the summer of 2006, when she was 79.
41Q25	David George Collett was born at Harefield on 6^th May 1929 and was the last of the six identified children of Thomas Alfred Collett and Lily Eunice Woodley. As with all his older siblings, his birth was also recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 148) during the second quarter of the year, with his mother’s maiden name confirmed as Woodley. He was only two years old when his father died, his mother being much younger than his father. David was a carpenter and he later married Doreen Mary Ryder with whom he had a son and a daughter. Their wedding was recorded at Watford register office (Ref. 4b 85) during the third quarter of 1953, where Doreen had been born at the start of 1933. At the time of his death, he was living at 57 High Street in Harefield, next door to his brother Thomas (above). The two adjacent houses of 57 and 59 High Street were built by the two brothers just after 1962. The death of David George Collett was recorded at Hillingdon register office when he died at Harefield on 17^th June 2004, at the age of 75.
	41R23	David George Collett				Born in 1962 at Harefield
	41R24	Michelle Georgina				Born in 1969 at Harefield
41Q26	Grace Annie Collett was born at Aveley near Thurrock in Essex in 1893, the eldest child of Joseph Collett and Annie Maria Cawdell. Her birth was recorded at Orsett in Essex (Ref. 4a 41) during the third quarter of that year. Not long after she was born, the family moved to Harefield where her father was born and where her sister Winifred (below) was born, before they settled in Harlesden by the end of the century. It was at Buckingham Road in Harlesden, Middlesex, that the family was living in 1901, when Grace Annie Collett from Aveley was seven years of age and recorded with her mother and two younger siblings, her father in hospital in London. After a further ten years, and having left school, 17-tear-old Grave Annie was employed by the local electricity company as an electric filament paster, when she was once again one of the three children living with her parents in the Willesden registration district of Uxbridge. Just over three years later, the marriage of Grace Annie Collett and William Charles Towers was recorded at Willesden register office (Ref. 3a 100) during the second quarter of 1914. William was born at Wanstead in 1890, the son of Charles B Towers and Martha A Towers from West Ham in Essex.
	It may have been the onset of war that placed Grace and William in a difficult position, since it seems highly likely that Grace was already carrying the first of the couple’s four children on their wedding day. It was during the third quarter of 1914 when the birth of Grace N E Towers was recorded at Willesden register office (Ref. 3a 152). The births of the other three children were also recorded there and in each case the mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Collett. They were Rose H W Towers at the end of 1916, recorded in the first months of 1917 (Ref. 3a 11), Charles W C Towers in the summer of 1918 (Ref. 3a 131), and Derek J Towers in the second quarter of 1926 (Ref. 3a 111). It was within the Thurrock area of Essex that the couple was living when William passed away, the death of William Charles Towers was recorded at Thurrock register office (Ref. 4a 41) during the first three months of 1958, when he was 67. At some time later in her life, Grace moved to Wiltshire with the death of Grace Annie Towers recorded at Swindon register office (Ref. 7c 134) during the quarter of 1965, at the age of 71.
41Q27	Winifred Lilian Collett was born at Harefield on 11^th August 1896, the second of the third children of Joseph and Annie Collett, her birth recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 3a 233) during the third quarter of the year. She was four years old in the census of 1901 when she and her family were residing at Buckingham Road in Harlesden. They were again living with in the Willesden registration of Middlesex in 1911, by which time Winifred had completed her education, but was still living at the home without a stated occupation. Ten years later, when Winifred was twenty-four years of age, she became a married woman, with the marriage of Winifred Lilian Collett and Frederick C Salter was recorded at Willesden register office (Ref. 3a 120) during the last quarter of 1921. The births of their two children were also recorded at Willesden, Doris J A Salter during the third quarter of 1923 (Ref. 3a 54), and Charles H F Salter during the fourth quarter of 1924 (Ref. 3a 76), on both occasions their mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Collett. The youngest child was only thirteen when the father his father, Frederick C Salter was recorded at Willesden register office (Ref. 3a 34) during the last three months of 1937, when he was only 37 years old. Eight years after being widowed, the marriage of Winifred Lilian Salter and William J Evans was recorded at Willesden register office (Ref. 3a 136) in the last quarter of 1945. Winifred was living in the Brent area of London when she died, her passing recorded there, early in 1987 when she was 90.
41Q28	Charles William Collett was born at Buckingham Road in Harlesden in 1899, the third and last child of Joseph Collett and Annie Maria Cawdell, his birth recorded at Hendon register office (Ref. 3a 335) during the second quarter of that year. He was approaching two years of age on the day of the census in 1901, when he was recorded as being one-year-old and was living at Buckingham Road within the Willesden registration district of Middlesex. With him was his mother Annie and his two sisters, while his father was a patient in hospital at St Marylebone, London. Ten years later, Charles William Collett from Harlesden was eleven years old and would appear to have left school, but was not credited with a job of work, in the Willesden (Harlesden) census of 1911. After another eight years, the marriage of Charles William Collett and Lilian Emma Kuhn was recorded Willesden at register office (Ref. 3a 60) during the second quarter of 1919.
	Over the following years, Lilian presented Charles with six children, all as listed below, their births also recorded at Willesden, when the mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Kuhn. It was again at Willesden register office (Ref. 5f 53) that the death of Charles William Collett was recorded during the last three months of 1957, when he was 58 years old. No record of the death of his wife has been found.
	41R25	Muriel Blanche Annie Collett				Born in 1920 at Willesden
	41R26	Stanley Charles William Collett				Born in 1921 at Willesden
	41R27	Joyce Emma Collett				Born in 1923 at Willesden
	41R28	Leslie A Collett				Born in 1927 at Willesden
	41R29	David J Collett				Born in 1931 at Willesden
	41R30	Vera R Collett				Born in 1934 at Willesden
41Q29	Amy Beatrice Collett was born at Newbury in 1909 and was one year old in the April census of 1911 when she was living with her parents at Shaw-cum-Donnington, where it is likely that she was born. Following the accidental death of her father Arthur Frederick Collett in 1913 at the age of 48, Amy was cared for by her much younger mother Edna who was 30 at the time of his death. Sadly, for whatever reason, it was only daughter Amy that stayed with her mother. When she was 13 her two brothers Raymond and Arthur were both taken into the care of the local Doctor Barnardo’s Home for orphaned children, even though they were not strictly speaking orphans.
	Amy married Norman Parker with whom she had a son Derek. What happened to her husband is not known, but Amy and Derek sailed to Canada, where Derek died while in Northumberland County. Amy later married Herbert Kane who was born in 1897 and who died in 1974. Amy was eventually reunited with her brothers who had been subject to a Barnardo’s Home children’s transfer to Canada. It was after Amy had met up with her brothers that Arthur decided to add the e to the end of their surname which upset Amy so much that she did not speak to him for almost ten years. Amy Beatrice Kane, nee Collett, died at Campbellford in Ontario on 30^th April 1994.
41Q30	Raymond Bernard Collett, who was referred to as Ray, was born at Newbury on 18^th February 1912, just over one year before his father died from a work-related accident. That tragic event ultimately resulted in both Raymond and his brother Arthur (below) being taken into a Barnardo’s Home, leaving just their older sister Amy still living with their mother. Doctor Thomas John Barnardo opened the first of his establishments for the homeless and destitute at Stepney Causeway in London in 1870 and by the time of his death in 1905 there were 96 homes across England, and he had ‘rescued’ 60,000 children.
	Ray was one of many children sent to Canada as part of the Barnardo’s Homes children’s transfer to that country. At that point in his life, having already been parted from his sister, he was separated from his younger brother, who travelled to Canada on another ship a year later. Both boys were at the same home in September 1922, that being at 4 Hillade Road in Luton. At the age of ten Ray left Luton that month and travelled to Southampton, where he boarded the ship Minnedosa on 14^th September and arrived in Quebec eight days later on 22^nd September 1922. The immigration record for Ray stated that his ultimate destination was Toronto. He grew up in Hastings township near Havelock in Ontario and, before the Second World War, he worked as a reporter for the Toronto Star newspaper. In 1938 he joined the Canadian Army as a public relations officer and later served overseas, returning to Canada in 1946 as a Major Ray Collett.
	A little while later he appears to have settled in Toronto where he married Reta Mary Ratz on 22^nd November 1947. Reta was born in Huron County in 1918, the daughter of Jacob and Martha Ratz. The couple met while they were both in the service of the Canadian Army with whom Reta was a nurse and, like Ray, was a commissioned officer having the rank of Lieutenant Nursing Sister. Ray and Reta first lived at Oakville and later moved to Toronto where they raised their two adopted children Robert and Catherine, until their retirement. At that time, they moved from North York to Thornhill and then to Lakefield in 1983. Both were active members of the church and within the local community. Ray was an ardent curler and was a life-time member of the Lakefield Curling Club.
	Following her death at Lakefield on 14^th September 2004, Reta was buried in the United Church Cemetery at Crediton in Ontario. And it was there also that Ray was buried on 3^rd November 2007 following his death from an extended illness on 26^th October 2007 at South Lake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, Ontario. For the six months prior to his passing, Ray lived with his daughter Kathy and son-in-law Wayne Mundy in Keswick. At the time of his death, he had two granddaughters and three great grandchildren. Ray's career in business and consumer-relations spanned nearly fifty years. Following the war years, he worked in advertising, marketing and was a management executive in Toronto and Montreal. When he retired in 1979 Ray was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Better Business Bureau of Canada.
	41R31	Robert Collett				Date of birth unknown
	41R32	Catherine Collett				Date of birth unknown
41Q31	Arthur Frederick Collett, who was referred to as Art, was born at Newbury on 27^th April 1913. Just one month after he was born his father tragically died from a fall off a ladder while at work on 23^rd May 1913. When only nine years old, Art and his brother Ray (above) were taken from their mother and sister Amy (above) and placed in the care of a Barnardo’s Home. After just a short time spent together with his brother at the Barnardo’s Homes at 4 Hillade Road in Luton, Ray was sent to Canada as part of the child emigration scheme which saw children sent to Australia and Canada after the First World War. That happened in September 1922 when Ray was just ten years of age, leaving nine years old Art at the home.
	The following year, upon reaching his tenth birthday, Art was also sent to Canada. Just as his brother had, Art travelled to Southampton from Luton and boarded the ship Melita bound for Quebec. The ship departed on 7^th April and arrived at Quebec on 15^th April 1923. The immigration form for Art stated that his final destination was Toronto and Peterborough in Ontario. The ships log also stated that 132 boys and 12 girls made the crossing.
	Once in Canada, Art was employed on various farms in Ontario and, when he was in his early twenties, he met his future wife Reta Hutcheon. Just over eighteen months before the outbreak of World War Two, he married Florence Reta Hutcheon on 19^th February 1938 at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Campbellford, Ontario. The photograph of Art (above), was taken on the day of his wedding.
	By the time of their marriage Art had already elected (in the 1930s) to add an ‘e’ at the end of his surname. The reason for this was to avoid the name being incorrect pronounced and incorrectly spelt, which is probably a sentiment shared by many of those worldwide with the Collett surname. And it was in that way that the marriage was registered in the name of Arthur Frederick Collette, as was the later registration of the births of the couple’s two children, who were both born in Ontario.
	Reta’s family had originally emigrated from Scotland to Canada and came from Aberdeenshire. It was also said that the vast majority of the settlers at Northumberland County were made up of her ancestors. Reta was born at Northumberland County in Ontario on 22^nd July 1912, and once they were married the couple made their home in Campbellford, where Art worked in the local industry and the insurance business. He felt compelled to volunteer to join the forces against the Germans, but was rejected for medical reasons.
	Following the arrival of their two sons, the family of four later moved to Peterborough, where Art opened a grocer’s shop. And it was while there that a surprised Art received his call-up papers to enter the war. He joined the Cameron Highlanders and was part of the occupation force in Germany, for which he was awarded the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar, and the Victory Medal. The Cameron Highlanders were disbanded upon completion of their duties.
	Art is known to have driven ammunition trucks during the war and at the end of which he was working in Signals tracking down German units which refused to surrender. By the time he returned to Canada he was fairly fluent in the German language. After the war the family returned to Campbellford and Art open his own insurance and real estate business. He joined the British Empire Service League which eventually became the Royal Canadian Legion with whom he served in various roles over fifty-five years, and for which he received the Legion’s Certificate of Merit.
	In 1954 the family moved again, on that occasion to Trenton, where Art ran his successful real estate business until 1965, at which time, he joined the Federal Government’s Department of Public Works. During that time, he worked in Timmins, North Bay and Toronto until his retirement, when he and Reta moved to Belleville.
	Although it was never mentioned by him, Art was probably unhappy and bitter, like his brother Ray, about being separated from their mother and sister at such an early age. However, the two brothers were reunited for the first time since their separation and that joyous event happened during the Second World War. Their sister Amy also eventually sailed to Canada to be reunited with them. This seems likely to have happened in the 1930s since it was after they were reunited that Art decided to change his surname which greatly upset Amy. In fact, she did not speak to her brother for almost ten years after the name change.
	Towards the end of the twentieth century Art and Reta were living at Belleville in Hastings County where Reta died on 29^th January 1998 and was cremated and buried at the Burnbrae Cemetery. Just over four years after the death of his wife, Arthur was returning home from his brother Ray’s birthday party when he was killed in a motoring accident in wet driving conditions. And it was at Campbellford, where his sister Amy had lived and died eight years earlier, that Arthur died on 22^nd February 2002. And like his wife, Art was cremated and buried at Burnbrae Cemetery.
	41R33	John Arthur Collette				Born in 1938 at Ontario
	41R34	Gerald Irvine Collette				Born in 1944 at Ontario
41Q32	Ethel Eveline Collett was born at Merstham on 23^rd July 1903, with her birth recorded at the nearby Reigate register office (Ref. 2a 265), the first of the five children of Bernard Bolton Collett and Beatrice Annie Holmes. Soon after she was born, her parents moved to Nutfield, where her siblings were born and where they were all living in 1911, when Ethel was seven years old. She later married Alfred William Spall who was born on 19^th November 1903, the wedding of Ethel Eveline Collett and Alfred William Spall recorded at Lambeth register office (Ref. 1d 111) during the third quarter of 1936. The marriage resulted in a son, Dennis Spall, who was born on 3^rd May 1939 and who later married Beryl Christine Witherick. His birth was recorded at the Surrey North-Eastern register office (Ref. 2a 55), when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Collett. Ethel Eveline Spall died on 14^th February 1959; her death recorded at the Surrey North-Eastern register office (Ref. 5g 2). Twenty years after being widowed, the death of Alfred William Spall was recorded at Sutton Surrey register office (Ref. 15 31) after he had died on 29^th December 1979.
41Q33	Ivy Elizabeth Collett was born at Nutfield on 24^th May 1905, her birth recorded at Reigate register office (Ref. 2a 125). She was living with her family at Nutfield in 1911 aged five years. Twenty-two years later the marriage of Ivy Elizabeth Collett and Rodney Jackson Beaumont was recorded at Lambeth register office (Ref. 1d 43) during the last three months of 1933, with whom she had two children. Rodney was a few years older than Ivy having been born at Dulwich on 26^th May 1899. Their daughter Thelma Beaumont, who was born on 5^th January 1935, married Michael Holliday who was born on 29^th January 1930. Ivy and Rodney’s son Rodney Charles Beaumont, who was born on 15^th November 1941, later married (1) Stephanie Crimmins and (2) Delia Hindmoor. All of Ivy’s and Rodney’s four grandchildren came from their son’s first marriage. Ivy Elizabeth Beaumont died at Canterbury in January 1985 and was followed by Rodney Jackson Beaumont, who died two years later on 29^th August 1987 at Chatham in Kent.
41Q34	Leonard Archibald Collett was born at Nutfield on 5^th March 1907, his birth recorded at Reigate register office (Ref. 2a 248), the third child of Bernard Bolton Collett and Beatrice Annie Holmes. He later married Lilian Maud Holiday, the event recorded at the London Lambeth register office (Ref. 1d 108) during the first three months of 1933. The first of their two children was born in London nine months later, with the second born after the family settled in Surrey. Lilian had been born in London on 15^th June 1909, her birth recorded at Camberwell register office (Ref. 1d 252). and who presented her husband with two children. Leonard Archibald Collett died on 27^th December 1969, with his passing recorded at the Surrey Sutton register office (Ref. 5e 30) during the first quarter of 1970, when he was 62 years old. Just under nine years after being widowed, Lilian died on 19^th July 1978, her death also recorded at Sutton register office (Ref. 15 122), when she was 69 years of age.
	41R35	Brian Arthur Collett				Born in 1933 at Wandsworth, London
	41R36	Valerie Jill Collett				Born in 1947 in Surrey
41Q35	Herbert Charles Collett was born at Nutfield on 30^th December 1910, his birth recorded at Reigate register office (Ref. 2a 104) during the first quarter of 1911, another child of Bernard and Beatrice Collett. During the Second World War he served with the Merchant Navy and was involved with the Atlantic and Russian convoys. He later married Jean Sophia Kemish whose birth was recorded at Lambeth register office (Ref. 1d 94) during the third quarter of 1921, being nearly ten years younger than Herbert. Their marriage was recorded at the Surrey North-Eastern register office (Ref. 2a 48) during the second quarter of 1944, and resulted in the birth of two children. The birth of the first of them at Bath register office, the second at Lambeth. The mother of Jean Sophia Kemish had the surname Holmes who is understood to have been related to Herbert’s mother Beatrice Annie Collett, nee Holmes. Herbert Charles Collett died on 9^th December 1988, his death recorded at the Surrey Sutton register office. His widow Jean Sophia Collett was still alive in 2009.
	41R37	Paul Charles Collett				Born in 1946 at Bath, Somerset
	41R38	Margaret Ann Collett				Born in 1950 at Lambeth, London
41Q36	Arthur Richard Collett was born at Nutfield on 23^rd December 1912, his birth recorded at Reigate register office (Ref. 2a 29) during the first quarter of 1913, when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Holmes. He was the last child born to Bernard Bolton Collett and Beatrice Annie Holmes. Arthur was twenty-five years old when his marriage to Doris May Hawkins was recorded at St Margaret’s Church in Westminster, London, during the second quarter of 1938. Their two children were born either side of the Second World War, suggesting that Arthur served in one of the armed forces. The births of their children were recorded in Bristol, where their daughter was later married, that being the part of the country where Arthur and Doris they spent the rest of their life. Arthur was only 54 years old when he died on 27^th December 1966, the death of Arthur Richard Collett recorded at Bristol register office (Ref. 7b 120) during the first quarter of 1967. It was at Keynsham Cemetery where he was buried on 4^th January 1967. Doris died just over five years later on 8^th March 1972 and was laid to rest with her husband at Keynsham Cemetery. The death of Doris May Collett was also recorded at Bristol register office (Ref. 7b 104) when she was 56 years of age, her earlier birth recorded at the London Lambeth register office (Ref. 1d 92) during the last three months of 1915.
	41R39	Carol Joan Collett				Born in 1939 at Bristol
	41R40	Mark Francis Collett				Born in 1945 at Bristol
41Q37	Herbert Alfred Collett was born at Hill End in Harefield on 24^th May 1896, only five months after his parents Henry Hawkins Herbert Collett and Elizabeth Creasey was born there. His birth was recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 3a 9), as were those of his eight younger siblings. He was four years of age in 1901 when he was living with his family at Hill End in Harefield. By 1911, he had completed his schooling, when he was 14 and was employed as a textile worker at the local asbestos mill in Harefield, where he was still living with his family. Ten years later, Herbert Alfred Collett had married Ellen Elizabeth Sims at St Peter’s Church in Mill End, Hertfordshire, on 14^th May 1921, Ellen having been born at Watford on 7^th June 1894. They had been married for thirty-one years when Herbert Alfred Collett died at Watford on 27^th November 1952, his death recorded there (Ref. 4b 50), when he was 56 years old. As far as the research goes in 2021, no record of any children has been found for Herbert and Ellen.
41Q38	Thirza Winifred Collett was born at Hill End in Harefield on 19^th August 1897 and died of bronchial pneumonia on 11^th January 1889 at the age of only 15 months. Her birth and her death were recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 100) and (Ref. 3a 219) respectively, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett.
41Q39	Violet Lilian Collett was born at Hill End in Harefield on 6^th April 1899, her birth recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 362) during the second quarter of the year, the third child and eldest surviving daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. She was living with her parents at Hill End in 1901 and again in 1911, while it was after a further ten years that the marriage of Violet Lilian Collett and George Douglas was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 25) during the third quarter of 1921. They were married at Harefield on 9^th July 1921, when their wedding photograph shows all of the surviving members of the Henry Herbert Hawkins Collett and Elizabeth Collett family. George was also born at Harefield on the 10^th September 1897 and died 14^th June 1985, with Violet Lilian Douglas having died five years earlier on 1^st February 1980. The couple’s only known child, Audrey M Douglas, was born at Harefield during the spring of 1922, her birth recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 116).
41Q40	Gladys May Elizabeth Collett was born at Hill End in Harefield on 14^th May 1902, her birth also recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 92), another daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. As simply Gladys Collett, she was listed with her family at Hill End in 1911. She never married, but had lived a long life when she passed away in Harperbury Hospital at London Colney on 6^th September 1992. Her death was subsequently recorded at St Albans register office in Hertfordshire, when her name was stated to be Gladys May Elizabeth Collett, unlike her name at birth when, in error her first name was recorded as Gladdys.
41Q41	Ivy Emily G Collett was born at Hill End in Harefield on 11^th April 1904, with her birth was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 352) during the second quarter of the year, the fifth child of Henry and Elizabeth Collett recorded as Ivy Collett in the census return 1911, when she and her family were residing at Hill End. It was near the end of 1927 that she married George W Coster who had also been born at Harefield, on 31^st May 1899, their wedding day at Harefield recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 137). In 1943, it was George W Coster of Oakleigh, Breakspear Road in Ruislip who was with his mother-in-law when she died. There were six children born to a Coster whose wife was a Collett, but only the birth of one of them was recorded at Uxbridge, and she was Barbara J Coster born towards the end of 1932 (Ref. 3a 86). The death of George William Coster was recorded at Hillingdon register office (Ref. 13 58) during the second quarter of 1976, following his demise at Denham in Buckinghamshire at the age of 76. Less than four years after losing her husband Ivy was living at Ladygate Lane in Ruislip, where she died on 6^th January 1980, just short of her seventy-second birthday.
41Q42	Ernest Reginald Collett was born at Hill End in Harefield on 10^th September 1905, only the second son of Henry and Elizabeth Collett, whose birth was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 115) during the last three months of the year. The later marriage of Ernest Reginald Collett and Norah Gertrude Gillett took place at Hendon in Middlesex on 8^th January 1935, Norah having been born on 10^th July 1912. It was also at Hendon register office where their wedding day was recorded (Ref. 3a 3). The first of their seven children, Leslie Charles Collett, was born only six weeks after the couple’s wedding day, on 21^st February 1935, his birth recorded at Uxbridge, as were the next two children and the last child. The births of the other three children were recorded at Hendon and Harrow, and for all seven children the mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Gillett. By the time Ernest passed away, he would appear to have been retired and living in Lincolnshire, with the death of Ernest Reginald Collett taking place in Lincoln on 11^th April 1990 at the age of 84.
	41R41	Leslie Charles Collett				Born in 1935 at Uxbridge
	41R42	Jennifer M Collett				Born in 1940 at Uxbridge
	41R43	Peter J Collett				Born in 1942 at Uxbridge
	41R44	Marian Collett				Born in 1943 at Hendon
	41R45	Jean Collett				Born in 1946 at Hendon
	41R46	Linda Collett				Born in 1948 at Harrow
	41R47	James Collett				Born in 1950 at Uxbridge
41Q43	Percy James Collett was born at Hill End in Harefield on 25^th July 1907, the seventh child of Henry and Elizabeth Collett, who tragically only survived for just six days, when he died at Harefield on 31^st July 1907. His birth and his death were both recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 303) and (Ref. 3a 146) respectively.
41Q44	Irene Vera Collett was born at Hill End in Harefield on 15^th July 1908, another daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett, her birth recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 212) during the third quarter of that year. Just like her older sister Gladys, Irene was another member of the family who never married, while it was at Harrow register office (Ref. 5f 112) that the death of Irene Vera Collett was recorded during the second quarter of 1963 when she was 54. She died on 30^th April 1963 at 8 Breakspear Road in Ruislip with her brother Ernest (above) by her side, with Irene suffering from TB for most of her life and died because of it.
41Q45	Elinor Creasey Collett, who was named as Nellie Collett aged three months in the Harefield census of 1911, was born on 26^th December 1910 at Hill End, another child of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. Her birth was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 91) during the first weeks of 1911. She later married Albert Henry Glue at Harefield on 5^th June 1933, Albert having been born at West Wittering in Sussex, his birth recorded at Westhampnett register office (Ref. 2b 42) during the last three months of 1909. No record of any children has been found. The death of Albert Henry Glue was recorded at the Sussex Chichester register office during the month of June in 1990, when his date of birth was confirmed as 18^th September 1909. Five years later Elinor Creasey Glue died at Chichester on 7^th December 1995, just two weeks short of her eighty-fifth birthday, after which her ashes were interred at the Chichester Crematorium and Garden of Remembrance.
41Q46	Sidney Arthur Collett was born at Hill End in Harefield on 30^th July 1914, his birth recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 141), his mother’s maiden name confirmed as Creasey. The later marriage of Sidney Arthur Collett and Alice May Dent took place at Sporle in Norfolk on 1^st August 1938, the event recorded at Swaffham register office (Ref. 4b 137) during the third quarter of 1938. Their marriage produced four children for Sidney and Alice, their births recorded at Uxbridge register office, when the mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Dent. Sidney was 83 when he died at Northwood on 26^th January 1998, the death of Sidney Arthur Collett recorded at Hillingdon register office that year. During his life, he insisted that he was one of thirteen children although only eleven have been positively identified. Six years after he died, his widow Alice May Collett passed away at Northwood on 30^th October 2004, when her date of birth was confirmed as 29^th October 1911. It was Sidney’s eldest child, Terry, of Plumpton Green in East Sussex who kindly provided a great deal of new information at the start of 2020 and inserted for the 2021 update of this family line.
	41R48	Terence A Collett				Born in 1939 at Uxbridge
	41R49	Elizabeth M Collett				Born in 1941 at Uxbridge
	41R50	Gillian M Collett				Born in 1942 at Uxbridge
	41R51	Derrick S Collett				Born in 1945 at Uxbridge
41Q47	May Hilda Collett was born at Hill End in Harefield on 26^th April 1918, the last of the eleven known children of Henry Hawkins Herbert Collett and Elizabeth Creasey. As with all of her older sibling, the birth of May Hilda Collett was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 126) during the second quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Creasey. She too never married and suffered an early death, which was recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 3a 42) during the fourth quarter of 1937, when she was only 19 years old. She was killed by a car on Ducks-Hill Road in Ruislip whilst cycling from her home at 8 Breakspear Road in Ruislip towards Harefield. The motorist was summoned for dangerous and careless driving, was found guilty, and was fined £5 with £1 5 Shillings 6 Pence costs.
41Q49	Reginald J Collett was born in 1917 with his birth recorded at Marylebone register office (Ref. 1a 97) during the third quarter of 1917, the youngest of the two sons of Walter Herbert Collett and Florence Bedford. Reginald was 23 when his marriage to Lily V Kerridge was recorded at the Kent Dartford register office (Ref. 2a 119) during the second quarter of 1940. He and Lily were living in the Newbury area of Berkshire when he died, either at the end of 1961 or early in 1962, the death of Reginald J Collett recorded at Newbury register office (Ref. 6a 3) during the first three months of the latter year, at the age of only 44. Their first child and namesake was born within the Tonbridge area of Kent, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 2a 5) during the second quarter of 1942. Their second, and only other known child was also born there, with her birth recorded at Tonbridge register office (Ref. 5b 62) during the last three months of 1949. In both cases, the mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Kerridge.
	41R52	Reginald F W Collett				Born in 1942 at Tonbridge, Kent
	41R53	Jane Collett				Born in 1949 at Tonbridge, Kent
41R1	Louise Margaret Collett was born at Battersea on 20^th October 1905, the eldest of the eight children of Herbert Henry Collett and Edith Louise Young, her birth recorded at Wandsworth register office (Ref. 1d 128). As simply Louise Collett, she was five years old in the Battersea census of 1911. It was also within that area of London that she was still living, when the marriage of Louise M Collett and Leonard Weymouth Franklin was recorded at Wandsworth (Ref. 1d 120) during the first quarter of 1932. And it was there also, that the death of Louise Margaret Franklin was recorded during December 1993, when she was 88 years old. Seven years after their wedding day, Louise gave birth to a son Colin L Weymouth Franklin, whose birth was recorded at Cirencester register office (Ref. 6a 77) during the third quarter of 1939, when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Collett.
41R2	Harriet Rose Collett was born at Battersea on 26^th November 1907, with her birth recorded at Wandsworth register office (Ref. 1d 15) during the first three months of 1908. By 1911, when as Rose Collett aged three years, she was living with her parents Herbert and Edith Collett in Battersea. One year after her older sister was married, the marriage of Harriet R Collett and Herbert G Kinzett was recorded at Wandsworth (Ref. 1d 108) during the third quarter of 1933. No children have been identified for the couple, while it was at Wandsworth register office that the death of Harriet Rose Kinzett was recorded during the month of April in 1988, when she was 80 years of age.
41R3	Herbert Henry Collett was born at Battersea in London during the summer of 1909, the first son of Herbert Collett and his wife Edith Young. His birth was recorded at Wandsworth register office (Ref. 1d 16) during the third quarter of the year. It was also at Battersea that his mother and two older sisters were born, and where the family was residing on the day of the census in 1911, where Herbert Collett was one year old. The only other facts known about him at this time are that his later occupation was that of a moulder, and that was how he was described when Herbert Henry Collett was named as the administrator for his widowed mother’s personal effects in 1948, following her death at 22 Westover Road in Wandsworth during the previous December. The later death of Herbert Henry Collett was recorded at Fulham register office (Ref. 5c 12) during the first three months of 1964, when he was 54 years of age. Apparently, he had been swimming in the River Thames, where he drowned.
41R4	Leonard S Collett was born at Battersea in 1911, another son of Herbert and Edith Collett. Like all of his seven siblings, his birth was also recorded at Wandsworth register office (Ref. 1d 81) during the last three months of the year, when his mother’s maiden name was Young. Tragically, he was around sixteen years of age when he died, his premature death was recorded at the Surrey Richmond register office (Ref. 2a 147) during the third quarter of 1928.
41R5	George A Collett was born at the end of 1913, most likely in Battersea, with his birth recorded at Wandsworth register office (Ref. 1d 123) during the quarter of 1914, when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Young. Unlike his older brother, who was a teenager when he died, George A Collett was still an infant when his death was recorded at Wandsworth (Ref. 1d 132) during the same three months that his birth was recorded there.
41R6	Edmund Victor Collett was born on 12^th February 1915, the sixth child and youngest son of Herbert and Edith Collett. Although his birth was recorded at Wandsworth register office (Ref. 1d 16) during the first quarter of that year, where his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Young, he may have been born in Battersea where, certainly, his older siblings were born. The later death of Edmund Victor Collett in Surrey was recorded at Sutton register office (Ref. 15 1) during the final three months of 1976, when he was 61 years old. It is possible that he was twice married, the first time in 1938 and then again in 1955. On both occasions the event was recorded at Wandsworth register office (1) when Edmund V Collett married Nellie D Shabbon (Ref. 1d 105) in the second quarter of 1938, and (2) when Edmund V Collett married Helena Makey (Ref. 5d 10) in the third quarter of 1955.
	Only one child resulted from the first marriage, with the birth of Terence Victor Eugene Collett recorded at Hammersmith register office (Ref. 1a 112) during the second quarter of 1939. He did not survive beyond a few weeks, when he died and was buried at Streatham Cemetery in Surrey on 13^th May 1939, his death recorded at Chelsea register office (Ref. 1a 150).
41R7	Nellie E Collett was born in 1917, perhaps at Battersea, another daughter of Herbert and Edith Collett, her birth recorded at Wandsworth register office (Ref. 1d 68) during the second quarter of that year, when her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Young.
41R8	Ruby Isabel Collett was the last child of Herbert Henry Collett and Edith Young who was born on 5^th September 1919, her birth recorded at Wandsworth register office (Ref. 1d 103) during the final three months of the year, her mother maiden name confirmed as Young. In addition to this, it is possible that she was born at nearby Battersea, where many of her older siblings were definitely born. She was still under twenty years of age when the marriage of Ruby Isabel Collett and Arthur Worrall was recorded at Wandsworth (Ref. 1d 84) during the second quarter of 1939. The first of their two children, Jack Worrall, was born at Battersea (Ref. 1d 142) during the second quarter of 1943, Arthur likely to have serving King & Country for the first four years of their married life. By the time of the birth of their second child, peace had been achieved, so Geoffrey A Worrall was a ‘war-baby’ his birth recorded at Hammersmith register office (Ref. 1a 50) during the second quarter of 1946. In both cases, their mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Collett. Her youngest son was thirty years old, when the death of Ruby Isabel Worrall was recorded at Wandsworth register office (Ref. 15 41) during the summer of 1976, when she was nearly 57 years old.
41R9	John H Collett was born at Battersea in London, towards the end 1916, and was the base-born son of Laura Julia Collett who later married Simon John George Levis. The birth of John H Collett was recorded at Wandsworth register office (Ref. 1d 18) during the last three months of that year, when his mother’s maiden name was Collett. He was later known as Johnny and served with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Although not proved, it is possible that among the many marriages of men named John H Collett, in and around the London area just prior to WW2, the wedding between John H Collett and Hilda F Eldridge at Battersea register office (Ref. 1d 116) in the summer of 1939, could be the son of Laura J Collett.
41R10	Cyril Edward Collett was born at Washington DC on 19^th January 1907. He was a banker and also took an active part in World War Two with the US Navy. Cyril never married and died on 7^th September 1969.
41R11	Emily E Collett was born at Washington DC on 10^th July 1909. She married Walter Tobin, but the marriage produced no children for the couple. Like her older brother Cyril (above), Emily also worked in a bank. She lived a long life and on 25^th April 1994, aged 85.
41R12	Marguerite I Collett was born at Washington DC on 16^th February 1914. She married Paul Smith with whom she had two children. It is understood that she did not have a full-time occupation but perhaps enjoyed part-time work during her life. Like her older sister (above) she too lived a long life and was just three months short of her ninety-first birthday when she died on 19^th November 2004.
41R13	Robert Lee Collett was born at Washington DC on 9^th December 1919. He was a motion picture operator during his life and he married Virginia Webster on 14^th April 1940, with whom he had three children and about whom no details are currently available. Robert Lee Collett died on 19^th September 1997 and Virginia was still alive at the time of writing in March 2008.
41R14	Ralph William Collett was born at Washington DC on 18^th December 1921. He married Lois Chisholm on 3^rd January 1942 and that the marriage produced at least one child, who tragically died while still a minor. Ralph served with the US Army during World War Two, but was captured by enemy forces and spent some time as a prison of war in Germany. Just like his older brother Robert (above), Ralph also worked in the film industry and was employed by the US Archives in their film division. Longevity must have been a familiar trait for this particular Collett family, as Ralph was almost 85 years of age when he died on 27^th June 2006.
41R15	Bradley Lewis Collett was born at Washington DC on 16^th June 1926 and was celebrating his eighty-second birthday in 2008. He married Verona Duckwall on 2^nd September 1947 when Veronica was 17 years of age, she having been born on 24^th May 1930. The marriage produced just the one daughter for Bradley and Veronica, who celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary in 2007.
	Before he was marriage Bradley served with the US Navy and saw action during the Second World War. During his civilian working life, he was employed by the credit card companies of Diner’s Club and Carte Blanche. Bradley’s brothers and his father were huge fans of the sport of horseracing, as Bradley was, and they spent many happy hours together at the racetrack, a habit that has also been acquired by Bradley’s daughter Cheryl. Sadly, it was on 26^th January 2012 that Bradley Lewis Collett padded away at the age of 85.
	41S1	Cheryl Collett				Born in 1954 at Washington DC
41R16	Winnie Collett was born at Harefield in 1916, the eldest of the four children of Isaac Collett and Margaret Cain, whose birth was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 23) during the first quarter of that year. Tragically, it was during that same three months of 1916 that her death was also recorded (Ref. 3a 104).
41R17	Isaac Collett was born at Harefield on 3^rd December 1923, his birth recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 88) during the first month of 1924. He was the only son amongst the four children of Isaac and Margaret Collett. His father was referred to as Isaac Collett the younger in the 1925 Will and Codicil of Job Collett (Ref. 41O14) in which Isaac born in 1923, the son of Isaac the younger, was a named beneficiary (see Will in Legal Documents) Little more is known about Isaac, except that his death was recorded at nearby Hillingdon register office in December 1990, when he was 67 years of age.
41R18	Mary Collett was born at Harefield in 1926, another daughter of Isaac and Margaret Collett. Her birth was also recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 37) during the first three months of the year. Mary later married Leonard W Jennings at Harefield, their wedding recorded at Uxbridge (Ref. 5f 15) during the third quarter of 1951.
41R19	Kathleen Collett was born at Harefield in 1928, the last of the four children of Isaac Collett and Margaret Cain. Her birth was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 3a 146) during the first three months of that year. Sadly, she was the second of the four children to suffer a premature death, which was recorded at nearby Willesden register office (Ref. 3a 82) during the second quarter of 1943, at the age of only 15 years. She may have been a casualty of the Second World War, although there is no record of a Kathleen with the civilian section of the total casualty listing for the Collett name.
41R20	Alan Thomas Collett was the only child of Thomas Alfred Collett and Jean P Lofty, and was born at Harefield, with his birth recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 5f 94) during the last quarter of 1947, just nine months after his parents were married there, at the start of the year.
41R22	Kevin J Collett was born at Harefield in 1947. He was the base-born son of Constance Gwyneth Collett, about whom very little is known. Kevin’s birth was recorded at Uxbridge register office (Ref. 5f 52) during the third quarter of 1947, when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Collett. There was no mention of his father’s name. It is understood that he was married twice during his life, on one occasion to Lesley A Clancy, their wedding recorded at Hillingdon register office (Ref. 13 59) soon after the start of 1983. Eighteen months later the first of their children was born within the Hillingdon area of Middlesex, before the couple moved to Cornwall. Thereafter the births of the next two children were recorded at Hillingdon, with the final child again born in Cornwall. On every occasion the mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Clancy.
	41S2	Kevin Michael Collett				Born in 1984 at Hillingdon
	41S3	Danielle Grace Collett				Born in 1986 at Truro
	41S4	Natalie Maria Collett				Born in 1988 at Hillingdon
	41S5	Maria Chantelle Collett				Born in 1990 at Hillingdon
	41S6	Shannon Emily Collett				Born in 1998 at Truro
41R23	David George Collett, who is known as Dave, was born at Watford on 20^th July 1962, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 4b 91), when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Ryder. He was the eldest child of David George Collett and his wife Doreen Mary Ryder. Father and son worked together as carpenters up until 1983 when David junior became a member of the Ministry of Defence Police for the next nine years. Although no record of his marriage has been found within the British Isles, he did marry Marion Lesley Pinkstone, who was born at Ealing on 27^th September 1957. In 2013, he was a police officer in Surrey, living there with his two sons, who were born in the county. And it was Dave from Grayshott in Hampshire, who kindly provided the details that opened up his family’s branch of this line of the Collett family.
	41S7	Christopher David Collett				Born in 1988 in Surrey
	41S8	Jonathan Andrew Collett				Born in 1989 in Surrey
41R24	Michelle Georgina Collett was born at Harefield on 10^th January 1969, the second of the two children of David George Collett and Doreen Mary Ryder. Her birth was recorded at Hillingdon register office (Ref. 5c 14), when her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Ryder. It was near the end of 1993 when the marriage of Michelle Georgina Collett and Christopher D Thorpe was recorded at St Albans register office. Michelle was a police officer and lived in Welwyn Garden City, where she died on 28^th September 2011. Their son Matthew George Thorpe was born in 1995, his birth recorded at Dacorum register office (Hemel Hempstead) during the month of February, when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Collett.
41R25	Muriel Blanche Annie Collett was born at Willesden in Middlesex on 22^nd January 1920, the eldest of the six children of Charles William Collett and Lilian Emma Kuhn. Her birth was recorded there (Ref. 3a 43), when her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Kuhn. She was twenty-two years of age when her marriage to Stanley W J Smith was recorded at Willesden register office (Ref. 3a 7) during the third quarter of 1942. It was nearly six years after their wedding day that the couple’s only child was born, the birth of Doreen A Smith recorded at Ealing register office (Ref. 5e 10), just a few miles south-west of Willesden, during the third quarter of 1948, when her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Collett. Muriel was 82 when she passed away, with the death of Muriel Blanche Annie Smith was recorded at Watford register office in the month of June 2002.
41R26	Stanley Charles William Collett was born at Willesden on 12^th August 1921, the eldest son of Charles and Lilian Collett, whose birth was recorded at Willesden register office (Ref. 3a 9), when his mother’s maiden was confirmed as Kuhn. All that is currently known about Stanley is that he was known as Sandy and, prior to being married, he served with the British Army during the Second World War and saw active service in North Africa and Italy. Once peace was declared in Europe, Stanley returned to London, and it was at Willesden register office (Ref. 3a 115) that his marriage to Jane Agnes Saville was recorded during the third quarter of 1945.
	Jane, who was known as Joan, was born on 23^rd August 1923 and also had her birth recorded at Willesden (Ref. 3a 4), when her mother’s maiden name was Lattimer. Following their wedding in London, and after the birth of the first of their two sons, the couple left the city, when they moved just north of London to Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, where their second son was born. During his working life in Hemel, Stanley was employed as a welder at Lucas Industries, making car headlights and other automotive parts. It was simply as Stanley Collett that he died at Hemel Hempstead on 21^st September 2011, at the age of 90. He had been widowed eight years earlier, when Jane Agnes Collett died at Hemel Hempstead on 14^th June 2003, who she was nearly 80 years old.
	41S9	Richard John Collett				Born in 1947 at Willesden, London
	41S10	William Stanley Collett				Born in 1954 at Hemel Hempstead
41R27	Joyce Emma Collett was born in 1923 with her birth recorded at Willesden register office (Ref. 3a 14) during the third quarter of the year, another child of Charles and Lilian Collett, whose maiden name was Kuhn. By 1948, Joyce’s eldest sister Muriel (above) was married and living in the Ealing area of west London where, during the following year, the marriage of Joyce Collett and Kenneth Marchant was recorded (Ref. 5e 101) in the second quarter of 1949. No record of any children has been found, while Joyce E Marchant was living in Kent, when she died at New Romney on 1^st December 1998, at the age of 75.
41R28	Leslie A Collett was born in 1927 and was the fourth child of Charles and Lilian Collett, whose birth was recorded at Willesden register office (Ref. 3a 102) during the third quarter of that year. Once again the mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Kuhn.
41R29	David J Collett was born in 1931, the third son out of the six children of Charles and Lilian Collett. Like all of his siblings, his birth was also recorded at Willesden register office (Ref. 3a 101) during the second quarter of the year, when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Kuhn.
41R30	Vera R Collett was born at Willesden, where her birth was recorded during the third quarter of 1934 (Ref. 3a 50), the last child of Charles William Collett and Lilian Emma Kuhn.
41R33	John Arthur Collette was born at Campbellford in Ontario on 9^th August 1938. In 1960 he married (1) Wanda Lee Towns with whom he had a son who was born while the couple were living at Kingston in Ontario. Wanda Lee Towns was born on 4^th January 1940. Some years later John married (2) Gloria Donovan. In 2008 John was living at Barrie in Ontario and where he was a retired government tax auditor, while Wanda lives near her son in Kingston and is retired from her work with the Ministry of Health. It was on 2^nd July 2019, that Wanda Lee Collett passed away.
	41S11	Trevor Arthur Collette				Born in 1966 at Kingston, Ontario
41R34	Gerald Irvine Collette was born at Campbellford on 30^th October 1944. He married Patricia Boyle on 26^th June 1965 at St George’s Anglican Church in Trenton, Ontario. Patricia was born at Peterborough in Ontario on 30^th July 1946 and the married produced two children for the couple. Both of the children were born while Gerald and Patricia were living at Trenton. In 2008 Gerald and Pat were living in Trenton where Gerald used to work as a guard for the correction service before he retired. Their daughter Diane currently lives in Ottawa.
	41S12	Stephen Collette				Born in 1971 at Trenton, Ontario
	41S13	Diane Collette				Born in 1973 at Trenton, Ontario
41R35	Brian Arthur Collett was born in London on 8^th September 1933, the older of the two children of Leonard Archibald Collett and Lillian Maud Holiday, his birth recorded at Wandsworth register office (Ref. 1d 74) when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed at Holiday. He later married Shirley Iris Watson on 18^th August 1956, with whom he had two children. Shirley was born on 1^st June 1935 and their wedding was recorded at the Surrey North-Eastern register office (Ref. 5g 127). From 1947 to 1949, Brian spent time at technical college and, on leaving, he took up employment as an apprentice printer. Two years later he entered National Service with the Royal Navy with whom he served for two years. In 1981 Brian went into partnership with two other like-minded people and together they set up their own printing company, where he worked until he retired in 1993. And it was thanks to new information received from Brian about his family that has enabled his line to be extended from Bernard Bolton Collett (1877-1915), which had previously been a ‘dead end’.
	41S14	Alan Collett				Born in 1963 in Surrey
	41S15	Ian Collett				Born in 1965 at Sutton, Surrey
41R36	Valerie Jill Collett was born on 15^th March 1947, her birth recorded at the Surrey Mid-Eastern register office (Ref. 5g 147), where her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Holiday, the second and last child of Leonard Archibald Collett and Lillian Maud Holiday. She first married (1) Christopher J Torrance who was born on 24^th March 1941, their wedding day recorded at Bristol register office (Ref. 7b 119) during the first three months of 1968. She subsequently married (2) Philip Maillard who was born on 12^th June 1948, although no recorded of that second marriage has been found within the British Isles.
41R37	Paul Charles Collett was born on 1^st February 1946, his birth recorded at Bath register office (Ref. 5c 115), when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Kemish. He was the first of the two children of Herbert Charles Collett and Jean Sophia Kemish. It would appear that he may have been married twice in his life, on the first occasion when the marriage of Paul C Collett and (1) Lesley A Lee was recorded at Swindon register office (Ref. 7c 9) during the second quarter of 1969. The later marriage was recorded at Sutton register office in Surrey during August 1999, for Paul Charles Collett and (2) Pamela M Hart. Pamela M Hart was born in Surrey on 21^st August 1949.
41R38	Margaret Ann Collett was born in London on 22^nd July 1950, her birth recorded at Lambeth register office (Ref. 5c 111), when her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Kemish. She was the younger of the two children of Herbert and Jean Collett. She later married Graham Bernard McLeod who was born on 17^th October 1947, his birth recorded at Battersea in London. Their wedding day was recorded at Wandsworth register office (Ref. 5e 39) during the first quarter of 1971. The marriage produced two sons for the couple, the births of whom were recorded at Lambeth register office, when their mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Collett. They were David Robert McLeod who was born on 25^th September 1972, and Simon John McLeod who was born 31^st July 1974.
41R39	Carol Joan Collett was born in Bristol on 18^th December 1939, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 6a 112) during the first months of 1940, when her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Hawkins. She was the older of the two children of Arthur Richard Collett and Doris May Hawkins. It was also at Bristol where Carol married John William Cartwright towards the end of 1965, the event recorded there (Ref. 7b 105). John was born on 10^th November 1934 and their marriage produced three sons for the couple. Their births were recorded at the Somerset Bathavon register office, when the mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Collett. First were the twins Stephen Richard Cartwright and Martyn Richard Cartwright, who were born on 31^st May 1967, followed by Spencer Mark Cartwright who was born on 13^th October 1970.
41R40	Mark Francis Collett was born in Bristol on 8^th March 1945, the only son and second and last child of Arthur and Doris Collett. However, there is an unsolved mystery about the recording of his birth at Bristol register office (Ref. 6a 120), when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Hawkins, and that is that he was named as Francis R B Collett. However, later on in his life, it was as Mark Francis Collett that he married Roberta Cotterill, who was born on 9^th November 1942, but no record of the day and place of their wedding has been found in England, nor has the birth of his wife. Therefore, it seems more than likely they did not meet or married here. Two children from a Collett/Cotterrill marriage had their births recorded at Dacorum register office in Hertfordshire were Emma Caroline Collett in 1976, and Christopher James Collett in 1979. Whether or not they were the children of Mark and Roberta has still to be confirmed.
41R52	Reginald Frank W Collett was born on 22^nd June 1942, his birth recorded at Tonbridge register office in Kent (Ref. 2a 5) during the second quarter of 1942, when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Kerridge. He was the eldest of the two children of Reginald J Collett and Lily V Kerridge, and it seems likely that he never married. It would also appear that he may have lived his whole life in Kent, since his death was recorded at the Thanet with Dover register office during the month of October in 1998.
41S1	Cheryl Collett was born at a hospital in Washington DC on 20^th October 1954, but grew up in Maryland where she lives today at Mount Airy. Thanks go to Cheryl for kindly providing the details of her family line back to her great grandfather George James Collett of Harefield.
41S7	Christopher David Collett was born in Surrey on 10^th March 1988, the eldest of the two sons of David George Collett and his wife Marion Lesley Pinkstone, his birth recorded at Surrey North-Western register office during the first quarter of 1988. In 2013, Chris was an accountant from Knaphill in Surrey.
41S8	Jonathan Andrew Collett was born in Surrey on 13^th December 1989, the youngest of the two sons of Dave and Marion Collett, whose birth was recorded at Surrey North-Western register office. Today Jon is a mechanic at West End, Woking in Surrey.
41S9	Richard John Collett was born at Willesden on 15^th August 1947, the eldest of the two sons of Stanley Charles Collett and Jane Saville. It was also at Willesden register office (Ref. 5f 62) where his birth was recorded and where his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Saville. During the following years, the family moved out of London and settled in Hemel Hempstead, where Richard’s young brother was born. It was also at Hemel Hempstead that the marriage of Richard J Collett and Margaret R Maycock was recorded (Ref. 4b 48) during the third quarter of 1969. Over the following decade, Margaret presented Richard with two daughters when they were still living within the Hemel Hempstead area of Hertfordshire. Their births were recorded at the Dacorum register office, where their mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Maycock.
	41T1	Claire Iris Collett				Born in 1976 at Hemel Hempstead
	41T2	Hayley Jayne Collett				Born in 1978 at Hemel Hempstead
41S10	William Stanley Collett was born at Hemel Hempstead in 3^rd August 1954, the younger of the two sons of Stanley Charles Collett and Joan Saville. His birth was recorded at Hemel Hempstead register office (Ref. 4b 21), when his mother’s maiden name was confirming as Saville. He was known as Bill and trained as a mechanic and engineer at Hemel Hempstead, and it was there that the marriage of William S Collett and Elaine M Austin took place during the spring of 1976. The wedding was recorded at Dacorum register office (Ref. 10 80) and their two children were born at Hemel Hempstead before the family moved to Scotland in 1985. It was in 1996 that Bill travelled south from Scotland, to settle in Northamptonshire.
	41T3	Paul Philip William Collett		Born in 1979 at Hemel Hempstead
	41T4	Jennifer (Jenni) Elaine Collett		Born in 1983 at Hemel Hempstead
41S11	Trevor Arthur Collette was born at Kingston in Ontario on 17^th June 1966, the son of John Arthur Collette and his first wife Wanda Lee Towns. And it was at the romantic setting of Niagara Falls in Ontario that he married Carie Anne Whiteman on 22^nd July 2006. Carie was also born at Kingston on 15^th September 1971 and it was there that the couple settled after they were married. It was Trevor who kindly provided the details of his family that has enabled this extension of the line from Richard Benjamin Collett (Ref. 41O17) to be completed.
	Their son Rhys was born at Kingston General Hospital on 3^rd November 2011, and his birth was registered using the more traditional spelling of the surname, as Collett. The photograph on the right, provided by Trevor, shows baby William Arthur Rhys Collett in the arms of his proud grandpa, John Arthur Collette.
	41T5	William Arthur Rhys Collett				Born in 2011 at Kingston, Ontario
41S12	Stephen Collette was born at Trenton, Ontario, on 9^th April 1971, the first of the two children of Gerald Irvine Collette and Patricia Boyle. He married Laurie Webb at the home of the bride’s grandparents in Ontario on 19^th September 1998. Laurie was also born at Trenton, but on 17^th May 1971. The marriage of Stephen and Laurie produced two children for the couple. The first was born while the couple were living at Peterborough in Ontario, and the second while they were living at Lakefield in Ontario. By 2008 the family was back living at Peterborough.
	41T6	Malaika Collette			Born in 2003 at Peterborough, Ontario
	41T7	Nadarra Collette			Born in 2006 at Lakefield, Ontario
41S13	Diane Collette was born at Trenton on 20^th January 1973, the daughter of Gerald Irvine Collette and Patricia Boyle, who was living in Ottawa during the second decade of the twenty-first century.
41S14	Alan Collett was born in Surrey on 13^th February 1963, his birth recorded at the Surrey North-Western register office (Ref. 5g 29), where his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Watson. He was twenty-four when he married Caroline Mary Brown who was born in Surrey on 1^st June 1962. The marriage took place in July 1987 and was recorded at the Surrey South-Eastern register office (Ref. 5g 126). Their marriage produced two children for the couple in England, before Alan and Caroline emigrated to Australia during the month of April in 2001. Prior to that, Alan was a chartered accountant, while today the family live at Geelong in Melbourne, where Alan is a migrating officer with ‘Go Matilda’, a company set up to help people settle in Australia.
	41T8	Matthew James Collett				Born in 1990 at Sutton, Surrey
	41T9	Natalie Louise Collett				Born in 1996 at Sutton, Surrey
41S15	Ian Collett was born in Surrey on 27^th November 1965, with his birth recorded at the Sutton register office (Ref. 5e 133), and his mother’s maiden name confirmed as Watson. It was during July 1990 when the marriage of Ian Collett and Nicola Garwood was recorded at the Surrey South-Western register office, with whom he had two children. Nicola was also born in Surrey on 31^st March 1967, with her birth recorded at the Mid-Eastern register office (Ref. 5g 27). Once married, the couple settled in the south-west area of Surrey, where the births of their two children were recorded. In 2009, Ian was a senior aircraft engineer working at Farnborough in Hampshire, while living just over the county boundary at Milford in Surrey.
	41T10	Lydia Rose Collett					Born in 1994 in Surrey
	41T11	Lawrence Albert Collett					Born in 1996 in Surrey
41T1	Claire Iris Collett was born at Hemel Hempstead on 27^th August 1976, the eldest of the two daughters of Richard J Collett and Margaret R Maycock. Her birth was recorded at the Hertfordshire Dacorum register office (Ref. 10 115), when her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Maycock. She was around twenty-six years of age when the marriage of Claire Iris Collett and Neil Stanton was recorded at Dacorum register office during the summer of 2002.
41T2	Hayley Jayne Collett was born at Hemel Hempstead on 9^th June 1978, the youngest child of Richard and Margaret Collett, whose birth was also recorded at Dacorum register office (Ref. 10 2). Once again, the mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Maycock.
41T3	Paul Philip William Collett was born at Hemel Hempstead on 13^th August 1979, the eldest of the two children of William Stanley Collett and Elaine Austin. His birth was recorded at the Hertfordshire Dacorum register office (Ref. 10 91) when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Austin. Paul was six years old when his family went to live in Scotland, returning to Northamptonshire in 1996. He trained as a school teacher and lived in Oxfordshire from 1999 to 2014, after which he and his family moved to Exeter. He married Victoria May Smith and the births of their three Oxfordshire born children were recorded at Oxford register office, when their mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Smith. It was Paul who made contact in November 2015, which resulted in new information being added to his branch of the family back to his grandfather Stanley Charles Collett.
	41U1	Tristan Peter Collett				Born on 31.10.2005 at Oxford
	41U2	Benjamin Frederick Collett (adopted)				Born on 04.01.2006 at Oxford
	41U3	Frederick William Collett				Born on 04.04.2011 at Oxford
41T4	Jennifer Elaine Collett, who was known as Jenni, was born at Hemel Hempstead on 31^st May 1983, the daughter of William Stanley Collett and Elaine Austin. Like her brother Paul (above), her birth was also recorded at Dacorum register office (Ref. 10 91) when her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Austin.
41T5	William Arthur Rhys Collett was born on 3^rd November 2011 at Kingston in Ontario, the son of Trevor Arthur Collette and Carie Anne Whiteman. This photo of Rhys was taken in May 2014.
41T6	Malaika Collette was born at Peterborough in Ontario on 25^th June 2003, the first of the two children of Stephen Collette and Laurie Webb. Not long after she was born, her parents moved to Lakefield, where her younger sister was born, before the family returned to live in Peterborough.
41T7	Nadarra Collette was born at Lakefield in Ontario on 12^th July 2006 prior to her family returning to Peterborough where her older sister was born three years earlier, the second child of Stephen and Laurie Collette.
41T8	Matthew James Collett was born at Sutton in Surrey on 20^th November 1990, the son of Alan Collett and Caroline Mary Brown. His birth was recorded at the Sutton register office, when his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Brown.
41T9	Natalie Louise Collett was born at Sutton in Surrey on 30^th November 1996, the daughter of Alan and Caroline Collett, with her birth also recorded at Sutton register office, but at the start of 1997, and with her mother’s maiden name confirmed as Brown.
41T10	Lydia Rose Collett was born in Surrey on 21^st March 1994, the first-born child of Ian Collett and Nicola Garwood. Her birth was recorded at the Surrey South-Western register office, when her mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Garwood.
41T11	Lawrence Albert Collett was born in Surrey on 24^th July 1996, the son of Ian and Nicola Collett, his birth also recorded at South-Western Surrey register office, where his mother’s maiden name was confirmed as Garwood.
APPENDIX ONE
The following passage is a brief glimpse of village life in Harefield in 1910 as told by Alfred Harman (see Ref. 41P10) There were orchards in the village, like Mr Collett’s in Church Hill, where Alfred Harman got his first job after passing the labour examination. When I was thirteen the teacher said to the class “Well there’s only two of you passed the examination”, and this was a girl and me, so I left school that morning to seek work. Mr Collett had a row of houses, what we used to call Casey Court, and in that piece of ground he had some trees, apple trees, and he kept looking at them. I went there after I had had my dinner and he was there in this orchard and he said “Do you want a job?” “Alright” I says, because my grandfather used to work for him in past times. “Go and tell your Granfer, and be here at six in the morning and I’ll give you five shillings a week” he said. He had a big orchard and three or four Welsh ponies and he used to sell this fruit hereabouts. I got given one of the Welsh ponies with a covered van which I used to load. I used to catch my horse up at Vernon Drive, that was his field, in the morning at six o’clock and bring it down to the orchard and put it in the van. I’d then go and load up my van with fruit and off I‘d go to Northwood, Pinner and Harrow, selling this here fruit at fourteen years of age. Building and Brickmaking Harefield’s population was growing and with it the demand for houses. Two families did particularly well out of this demand. Charles Brown, who first appeared as a small builder in the 19^th century and also farmed at Conduit Farm and Whitehead Farm in the 1880s and 1890s. His greatest rivals were the Colletts who built several of the cottages in the village and rented them out, and in the words of one informant ‘they owned Harefield in the years before the First World War’. The Colletts built a large house called Cumberland House, now the vicarage, and became substantial local figures. Alfred recalled “My father’s brothers were two bricklayers and they built the Vicarage as it is now and the Colletts gradually got on and borrowed money and then they bought nearly all the old houses in Harefield” Quote by unknown source “My grandfather came with his two brothers from Gloucestershire to Harefield because there was no work there and they had heard there was work going on in this district in the building line. So being bricklayers, they came this way and started up in the village.” An adapted extract from ‘Life and Work in a Middlesex Village’ by Geoffrey Tyack
APPENDIX TWO
SUNDAY PICTORIAL October 1937 HE’LL EARN HIS FORTUNE Miser Makes Heirs Go On Working Riches are coming to Isaac Collett, bricklayer of Harefield in Buckinghamshire but he must work hard to earn them. The eccentric bachelor uncle, whose fortune he is to share, saw to that. Working yesterday on the roof of his cottage, which he has nearly restored, Isaac told the Sunday Pictorial that it will be nearly eight years before he and other nephews will receive the fortune left to them by eighty-nine-year-old Job Collett. “My uncle lived in this cottage and left it to me when he died” he said. “He hoarded thousands of pounds, but his only worry was his grave. To make sure that he would have a good funeral, he supervised the building of an expensive marble vault in our churchyard sixteen years before he died. Once a year he took flowers to his own grave. He walked about like a tramp and wore my old clothes. Candles were his only light at night and he spent hours sticking the ends of wicks together to burn again. I have seen him boil apple and orange peel and drink the juice.” “He got up at two o’clock every morning to walk to work, rather than go by train. He started as a bird-scarer but later he became a master builder. Every penny he earned he invested in Government stocks.” “During the war he kept all his money at home in case he should have to escape to a foreign country. I have seen him carrying about £1,500 in gold in a bag. Once he sent me to the bank in Uxbridge to withdraw £100. When I brought it home he told me to take it back and bank it again; he only wanted to make sure it was there.” Must Work On “He said no one would ever inherit his fortune unless he earned it by the sweat of his brow. That is why I must never stop working. After I have finished my job in the day I am working here on my cottage. When that’s finished I shall have to start another job. I don’t know how much money is to come to me, but it will be many thousands of pounds.” “I have three children and we are looking forward to the day when we will be rich. I am the Executor to the Will. My uncle appointed me because I was the eldest nephew to benefit. He always told me that I must see that the beneficiaries had married and that they had worked hard all their lives to earn the money before they inherit it.” For Job Collett see Ref. 41O14 For Isaac Collett see Ref. 41P8