PART FIVE

The Tewkesbury Line - 1630 to 1850

(including a new line to North America)

This is the second of three sections of the fifth part of the Collett family

Updated June 2025

The major review of this file in 2025 enlarged the file to such an extent that it needed to be split into two sections, making a total of three sections covering the Colletts of Tewkesbury starting in 1530. It was also in 2025 that the link to members of the family in America was revealed, with a branch carried forward via Part 75 – The London to Kansas Connection.

This section of the Collett family of Tewkesbury contains information gathered during my travels during the 1990s, but which I had no need to progress or develop since it apparently did not contribute towards my own lines of investigation. However, a chance meeting with Neil Collett [Ref. 15P47] of Kenilworth in Warwickshire on 8^th June 1996 during the Collett Reunion at Shepton Mallet resulted in more work being done to provide the details set out in this and the third section of this family line. Other contributors around that same time were Margaret Chadd (author of The Collett Saga), Kate Birkett of Buckinghamshire, and Jeni Rice of Australia.

The link to an earlier line is through Henry Collett [Ref. 1H11] of Charlton Kings who was referred to as ‘Gentleman of Tewkesbury’ in his Will of 1712.

Neil Collett, aforesaid, whose own family line is the subject of Part Fifteen – The Kenilworth Line, provided the detailed information taken from the tombstones within St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. These confirm the accuracy of much of the data provided in this section, and transcripts from the tombstones are provided on this website under Headstone Epitaphs.

In December 2011 it was felt that the time might be right to publish on the Collett website the first draft of Section One of The Tewkesbury Line covering the previous one hundred years from 1530 to 1630. That was compiled many years earlier and was based solely on the records available from the Church of Latter-Day Saints. Therefore, further work is needed to be carried out to validate the information contained herein.

It was also during December 2011 that new information was received from Darcey Slaughter in Columbia, Missouri, USA, which resulted in a major review of this family line. The details received from Darcey resulted in the removal of the line of descendants from Pendock in Worcestershire to a new file Part 61 – The Worcestershire to Utah Line.

5I6	William Collett was born around 1631 at Tewkesbury where he married Eleanor around 1652. All their children were born and baptised at Tewkesbury. However, so far, no connection has been made to confirm that William was a close relative of Henry Collett (below) of Charlton Kings, although some of their children and all their grandchildren were born and baptised at Tewkesbury.
	5J3		Esther Collett						Born in 1653 at Tewkesbury
	5J4		Richard Collett						Born in 1660 at Tewkesbury
	5J5		Ann Collett						Born in 1665 at Tewkesbury
	5J6		Eleanor Collett						Born in 1668 at Tewkesbury
	5J7		Henry Collett						Born in 1670 at Tewkesbury
	5J8		Sarah Collett						Born in 1672 at Tewkesbury
	5J9		William Collett						Born in 1675 at Tewkesbury
5I7	Henry Collett [Ref. 1H11] was born in 1639 and baptised on 6^th November 1643 at Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham, which is about ten miles from Tewkesbury. It was also at Charlton Kings that he married Elizabeth on 20^th March 1669. Elizabeth was considerably younger than Henry having born in 1651 and she died on 17^th August 1724 at the age of 73.
	Henry Collett died on 29^th September 1712, aged 73, and was buried in St Catherine's Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. His Will (see Will in Legal Documents) dated 14^th January 1712 was drawn up in the tenth year of the reign of Our Sovereign Lady Anne Queen of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. It was proved over four years later on 26^th May 1716 and makes no reference to any sons, only his wife and their three daughters, all born and baptised at Charlton Kings.
	In the Will, Henry bequeathed all his free lands lying in the parish of Charlton Kings to his wife as long as she lives, and thereafter to Edmund Goodrich and his wife Sarah, the youngest of Henry’s three named daughters. Of his other daughters, Joyce received £60 and Elizabeth received £70. In addition to that his grandchildren each received ten shillings which, he stated, they be given within two years of his death. All household goods were to remain the property of his wife until her death, when they were to be equally shared between the three daughters.
	However, despite the lack of any mention of sons, the family tombstone in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey includes the name of his son Henry Collett who died in 1722 aged 55. It is therefore that information which indicates he was base-born in 1667, two years before his parents were married, and perhaps that was in some way connected to his exclusion from his father’s Will.
	On the same family tombstone are the details of Henry’s son Benjamin Collett [Ref. 5J14] and his family, who died on 2^nd February 1738 aged 63. That equates to a year of birth of 1675, the same year that his sister Sarah Collett [Ref. 5J13] was baptised, but again there is no mention of Benjamin in Henry’s Will (see Headstone Epitaphs).
	There appears to be another unresolved mystery between Henry’s Will and the family tombstone. Within the Will his daughter Sarah is referred to by her married name of Goodrich, she having married Edmund Goodrich in 1708. However, the family tombstone refers to her as beloved wife of Edmund Bradbury, which may indicate that she was twice married (see Headstone Epitaphs).
	Whilst it is confirmed that the couple’s first four children were born and baptised at Charlton Kings, it is likely that the family moved to live in Ashchurch near Tewkesbury where the remaining children may have been born. Certainly, it is confirmed that the two youngest children were married at Ashchurch, whilst the children of Henry’s son Benjamin were all born and baptised at Tewkesbury and his daughter Eleanor was married there. When Henry Collett was in his thirties, he was recorded in the 1672 Hearth Tax as having three hearths.
	5J10		Henry Collett						Born in 1667 at Charlton Kings
	5J11		Joyce Collett						Born in 1670 at Charlton Kings
	5J12		Elizabeth Collett						Born in 1672 at Charlton Kings
	5J13		Sarah Collett						Born in 1674 at Charlton Kings
	5J14		Benjamin Collett						Born circa 1676 at Ashchurch
	5J15		Eleanor Collett						Born circa 1681 at Ashchurch
	5J16		William Collett						Born circa 1683 at Ashchurch
	5J17		Mary Collett						Born circa 1685 at Ashchurch
5J1	William Collett was baptised at Alstone three miles east of Ashchurch on 16^th November 1669, the son of William and Joan Collett. It would appear that his mother died either during, or just after the birth, since his father married Elizabeth in the June of the following year. William Collett later married Sara Spilman at Tewkesbury on 6^th June 1696 and three months after that their son was born.
	5K1		William Collett			Born in 1696 at Tewkesbury
5J2	Thomas Collett was born at Ashchurch the only known child of Thomas Collett of Ashchurch, where he was baptised on 23^rd March 1646.
5J3	Esther Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 3^rd March 1653, the eldest child of William and Eleanor Collett. It was as Hester Collett that she was married to William Young at Tewkesbury on 9^th June 1684.
5J4	Richard Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1660, the eldest son and second child of William and Eleanor Collett. The later marriage of Richard Collett and Ann Sparks was conducted at Tewkesbury on 6^th June 1683, where all their children were also born and baptised. It is possible another child was born into the family in the five-gap between daughters Elizabeth and Mary, who did not survive.
	5K2		Ann Collett						Born in 1684 at Tewkesbury
	5K3		Elizabeth Collett						Born in 1684 at Tewkesbury
	5K4		Mary Collett						Born in 1689 at Tewkesbury
	5K5		Richard Collett						Born in 1690 at Tewkesbury
	5K6		William Collett						Born in 1693 at Tewkesbury
	5K7		Susannah Collett						Born in 1695 at Tewkesbury
	5K8		Sarah Collett						Born in 1697 at Tewkesbury
5J5	Ann Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 4^th February 1665, another daughter of William and Eleanor Collett.
5J6	Eleanor Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1668 and she married John Kendrick on 11^th August 1689 at Deerhurst, which is less than two miles south of Tewkesbury. John’s brother Richard Kendrick married Eleanor’s sister Sarah Collett (below) five years later.
5J7	Henry Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1670, another son of William and Eleanor Collett, who later married Ann around 1691. Their only known son Benjamin was also born and baptised at Tewkesbury. It cannot be ruled out that Benjamin may have been the third child of slightly older Henry Collett [Ref. 5J10], and his first child by his second wife Ann. That Henry was born at Charlton Kings in 1667, had a younger brother Benjamin [Ref. 5J14], and was married to Elizabeth with their two known children born at Tewkesbury in 1689 and 1690. Only if Elizabeth had died during the birth of their second child, could Henry have taken a second wife Ann.
	5K9	Benjamin Collett						Born in 1692 at Tewkesbury
5J8	Sarah Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1672 and was the youngest daughter of William and Eleanor Collett. Sarah married Richard Kendrick in September 1694, the brother of John Kendrick who married Sarah’s older sister Eleanor Collett (above).
5J9	William Collett was born at Tewkesbury around 1675, the last of the nine children of William and Eleanor Collett. and he married Ann Porter on 14^th April 1696 at Ashchurch, which is one mile east of Tewkesbury. All four children were baptised at Ashchurch where the baptism records confirmed the parents as William and Ann.
	5K10		Ann Collett					Born in 1697 at Ashchurch
	5K11		John Collett					Born in 1699 at Ashchurch
	5K12		John Collett					Born in 1700 at Ashchurch
	5K13		Elizabeth Collett					Born in 1701 at Ashchurch
5J10	Henry Collett from Charlton Kings was the base-born son of Henry Collett and was born in 1667, two years before his father married his mother, Elizabeth. Henry junior married Elizabeth in 1688 with whom he had two children who were both born and baptised at Tewkesbury. Whether Elizabeth died during or just after the birth of the second child is not known, nor can it be confirmed that Henry then married Ann. It is however, possible that the Henry who married Ann, and fathered a son Benjamin in 1692, was the younger Henry Collett [Ref. 5J7].
	Henry was one of His Majesty’s (King George I) Justices of the Peace for the County of Gloucester. He was also a Bencher of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn. Henry died on 26^th July 1722 aged 55 and was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey (see Headstone Epitaphs). Henry, just like his younger brother Benjamin (below), was not mentioned in his father’s Will of 1712, perhaps because both were already financially set-up and successful in their own right.
	5K14		Henry Collett								Born in 1689 at Tewkesbury
	5K15		Sarah Collett								Born in 1690 at Tewkesbury
	The following is the only known child of Henry Collett by his wife Ann:
	5K16		Benjamin Collett – (Ref. 5K9)								Born in 1692 at Tewkesbury
5J11	Joyce Collett was baptised at Charlton Kings on 29^th September 1670, the eldest daughter and second child of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. Judging by the reference in the Will of her father Henry Collett, she never married or at least was not married by 1712 when she was 42 years old. Only youngest sister Sarah (below) was referred to as being married in the 1712 Will.
5J12	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Charlton Kings on 15^th February 1672, another daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. Just like her sister Joyce (above), Elizabeth was still single in 1712 when she was 40, judging by the reference to her in the Will of her father Henry Collett.
5J13	Sarah Collett was very likely born at Charlton Kings in 1674, where she was baptised on 13^th August 1675, another daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. She married Edmund Goodrich on 24^th April 1708 at the Church of St Mary de Lode in Gloucester, and just over four years later her father Henry Collett died. Sarah Collett died at Tewkesbury on 9^th September 1728 and was buried in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey, where she was listed as the wife of Edmund Bradbury. That is curious since Sarah and her husband Edmund Goodrich were both named in the Will of her father as inheriting his land upon the death of Sarah’s mother Elizabeth Collett (see Headstone Epitaphs). That might mean she married Edmund Bradbury after she was had been married to Edmund Goodrich.
5J14	Benjamin Collett was born at Ashchurch in 1676, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. He was married twice, the first time to (1) Elizabeth and after to (2) Jemima Waterworth, whom he wed in the Spring of 1726. All the children came from the second marriage and were born and baptised at Tewkesbury. Elizabeth, who was also born in 1675, died on 25^th November 1725, at the age of 50. Within a few months of her death Benjamin, who was then 51 years old, married twenty-five years old Jemima who was born in 1701, and who died on 22^nd November 1753 at the age of 52.
	Benjamin and his older brother Henry (above) were the only members of his father’s family not to be mentioned in his Will of 1712, although there was reference to each of the grandchildren, who each received ten shillings. One of the possible reasons for that may be because Benjamin Collett of Gloucestershire and the son of Henry Collett received the Freedom of the City of London from his master Thomas Bowell in 1705. Benjamin Collett died on 2^nd April 1738, aged 63, and he and his two wives are listed on the family tombstone in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey (see Headstone Epitaphs).
	5K17		Henry Collett						Born in 1726 at Tewkesbury
	5K18		Benjamin Collett						Born in 1728 at Tewkesbury
	5K19		Joseph Collett						Born in 1729 at Tewkesbury
	5K20		Waterworth Collett						Born in 1731 at Tewkesbury
	5K21		Elizabeth Collett						Born in 1735 at Tewkesbury
5J15	Eleanor Collett was born at Ashchurch around 1681, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. She later married Richard Clark at Tewkesbury on 15^th June 1704.
5J16	William Collett was born at Ashchurch around 1683, the youngest son of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. He was 23 years old when he married Ann Elizabeth Lovett at Ashchurch on 26^th November 1706, where their son was born and baptised.
	5K22		William Collett					Born in 1708 at Ashchurch
5J17	Mary Collett was born at Ashchurch around 1685, the youngest and last child of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. It was twenty-three years later that she married Samuel Savage at Ashchurch on 10^th March 1708.
5K1	William Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 14^th September 1696, the only known son of William Collett and Sara Spilman. He was around twenty years of age when he married Ann Parker at Tewkesbury on 27^th December 1716, where all their children were born and baptised.
	5L1		Elizabeth Collett						Born in 1722 at Tewkesbury
	5L2		William Collett						Born in 1725 at Tewkesbury
	5L3		John Collett						Born in 1730 at Tewkesbury
	5L4		Henry Collett						Born in 1732 at Tewkesbury
	5L5		Elizabeth Collett						Born in 1734 at Tewkesbury
	5L6		Benjamin Collett						Born in 1736 at Tewkesbury
	5L7		Joseph Collett						Born in 1739 at Tewkesbury
	5L8		Joseph Collett						Born in 1740 at Tewkesbury
	5L9		Benjamin Collett						Born in 1741 at Tewkesbury
5K2	Ann Collett was the first-born child of Richard Collett and Ann Sparks and was born at Tewkesbury during the first three months of 1684 where she was baptised on 1^st April 1684.
5K3	Elizabeth Collett was born at Tewkesbury less than a year after her sister Ann (above) was born there, towards the end of 1684 and was baptised there on 4^th January 1685, another daughter of Richard and Ann Collett.
5K4	Mary Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 15^th April 1689, the daughter of Richard Collett and his wife Ann Sparks. It was also at Tewkesbury nearly twenty-four years later that she married William Turfoot on 29^th January 1713.
5K5	Richard Collett was born at Tewkesbury during January 1690, the fourth child and eldest son of Richard and Ann Collett.
5K6	William Collett was born in Tewkesbury during the month of April in 1693 and was the youngest son of Richard and Ann Collett.
5K7	Susannah Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1695 where she was baptised on 8^th December 1695, another daughter of Richard and Ann Collett.
5K8	Sarah Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1697 and was baptised there on 27^th January 1698, the seventh and last child of Richard Collett and Ann Sparks. Sarah was twenty-eight years old when she married later Fernando Wilks on 19^th September 1726 at Kemerton, just to the north of Tewkesbury.
5K9	Benjamin Collett was born in Tewkesbury during the first half of 1692 and was baptised there on 30^th May 1692. He was certainly the son of Henry Collett and his wife Ann, but the question is, which Henry Collett. Henry the elder was born in 1667 at Charlton Kings, whose wife was Elizabeth with whom he had two children by 1690. It would have been at the age of twenty-one, that Benjamin’s father could have married Ann. While Henry the younger is not known to have had a brother Benjamin, Henry the elder did. So did his wife Elizabeth die in childbirth for her widowed husband to marry Ann as his second wife.
5K10	Ann Collett was born at Ashchurch early in 1697, where she was baptised on 4^th April 1697, the eldest child of William Collett and his wife Ann Porter who were married there on 14^th April 1696.
5K11	John Collett was born at Ashchurch in 1698 and was baptised there on 2^nd February 1699, the son of William and Ann Collett, but would appear to have suffered an infant death with the couple’s next child being given the same name.
5K12	John Collett was at Ashchurch in 1700, where he was baptised on 22^nd December 1700, the son of William and Ann Collett. Upon reaching full age, John left the Tewkesbury area, when he moved ten miles to the north-east, where he eventually married Elizabeth Wyatt at Badsey, just to the east of Evesham.
	The continuation of the family line of John Collett of Ashchurch can be found in Part 57 – The Bakers of Abbots Morton in Worcestershire Line, which also incorporates the Colletts of Badsey, both in the introduction and in a separate appendix at the end of that file.
5K13	Elizabeth Collett was born at Ashchurch in 1701 and was baptised there on 8^th February 1702, the last known child of William Collett and his wife Ann Porter.
5K14	Henry Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 7^th November 1689, where he married Elizabeth Webb on 20^th May 1712, and where all their children were born and baptised. Henry died sometime after the birth of their third child, following which Mrs Elizabeth Collett married John Humphreys on 29^th September 1719.
	5L10		Ann Collett						Born in 1712 at Tewkesbury
	5L11		Henry Collett						Born in 1714 at Tewkesbury
	5L12		Elizabeth Collett						Born in 1715 at Tewkesbury
5K15	Sarah Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1690, the daughter of Henry Collett and his first wife Elizabeth who sadly died just after Sarah was born. It was also at Tewkesbury where Sarah Collett married Thomas Brown on 2^nd October 1711.
5K17	Henry Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 4^th March 1726, the eldest child of Benjamin Collett and his second wife Jemima Waterworth. He later married Bridget who was born in 1728. Henry was a Barrister at Law and all the couple’s children were born and baptised at Tewkesbury. Bridget died on 9^th May 1763, at the relatively young age of 35, and that happened around the time of the birth of their last child. Henry passed away just over eleven years later, on 21^st August 1774, when he was 47. They were both buried in the family tomb at St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey, where they were later joined by three of their children, John Waterworth Collett, Jemima Collett, and Frances Collett.
	Not very far away from the family’s tomb, is tomb number 67, the tomb of the couple’s eldest and married daughter Ann Cliffe nee Collett, on which there is a Latin inscription that refers to her brother the Reverend Henry Collett. The Collett tomb is listed as number 72 in the Abbey records and is described as ‘adjoining No 70 on the south side, in line with western part of St Catherine’s Chapel’. The wording on the actual tomb is barely legible, but the verger at the Abbey kindly provided Sue James [Ref. 5N20] with a copy of the record, which confirms the words displayed in the website file Headstone Epitaphs 1 – Tewkesbury.
	The Will of Henry Collet, of Tewkesbury, esquire, was made on 13^th June 1774, in the presence of John Spilsbury, John Frost, and Samuel Whitcomb. The Will, and a codicil also witnessed by the same three men, was proved in London on 3^rd November 1774, by which time four of his children had not reached full age. The Will referred to his property within the parishes of Tewkesbury, Woolstone, Oxenton, Bishops Cleeve, and Deerhurst in the County of Gloucester and in any other place or places. Named in the Will was Henry’s eldest son and namesake Henry Collet, who inherited the majority of the estate, with his four surviving siblings Ann (see below), Jemima, John, and Frances.
	Waterworth Collet of Tewkesbury, gentleman, was the senior executor of the Will of Henry Collett – his brother, who was charged with holding the estate in trust for the children who had not yet attained full age. Henry’s daughters Jemima and Frances Collet, and son John Waterworth Collet, were to receive Five Hundred Pounds apiece, to be paid to them six years after he died. The interest accrued over the six years, was to be paid quarterly to the three of them at the rate of Four Pounds for every One Hundred Pounds, i.e. 4%, with the first payment to be made at the end of the third month after he had passed away.
	Should any of the three of them not survive then, upon their demise, all outstanding monies had to be added back into the main estate for the benefit of his son Henry Collet. Unfortunately, for John Waterworth Collett, he did suffer a premature death, two years short of the six-year period. Three other beneficiaries were named, and they were Henry’s eldest daughter Ann Cliffe, his son-in-law William Cliffe, and their daughter Ann Cliffe.
	5L13		Ann Collett						Born in 1751 at Tewkesbury
	5L14		Jemima Collett						Born in 1752 at Tewkesbury
	5L15		Bridget Collett						Born in 1753 at Tewkesbury
	5L16		Bridget Collett						Born in 1754 at Tewkesbury
	5L17		Henry Collett						Born in 1754 at Tewkesbury
	5L18		John Waterworth Collett						Born in 1757 at Tewkesbury
	5L19		Frances Collett						Born in 1759 at Tewkesbury
	5L20		Benjamin Collett						Born in 1763 at Tewkesbury
5K18	Benjamin Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 9^th October 1728, another son of Benjamin and Jemima. He was a surgeon but died when he was only 28 on 3^rd May 1757, following which he was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey (see Headstone Epitaphs).
5K19	Joseph Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 16^th December 1729, the third of the five children of Benjamin and Jemima Collett. It was also at Tewkesbury where he married Elizabeth Martin on 5^th February 1752. And it was there also where all their children were born and baptised. Joseph Collett died on 4^th June 1771, aged 41, and was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey (see Headstone Epitaphs). Thirty-two years after being widowed, Elizabeth Collett of Birlingham (near Pershore), a widow, and the mother of Susanna Woolley, were named in the 1803 Will of the Reverend Henry Collett, who was the eldest son of Joseph’s oldest brother Henry Collett, hence Elizabeth’s nephew.
	Prior to 2025 Joseph and Elizabeth were credited with having six children, two of them named John. The first John went on the attend Oxford University after he matriculated at the age of eighteen, when he was confirmed as the son of Joseph Collett of Tewkesbury. Therefore, it is highly unlikely that he had a younger brother of the same name who was one year younger. For that reason, the second John has now been removed.
	5L21		Elizabeth Collett						Born in 1753 at Tewkesbury
	5L22		John Collett						Born in 1756 at Tewkesbury
	5L23		Benjamin Collett						Born in 1759 at Tewkesbury
	5L24		Elizabeth Collett						Born in 1760 at Tewkesbury
	5L25		Susannah Collett						Born in 1762 at Tewkesbury
5K20	Waterworth Collett was born at Tewkesbury in September 1731, the son of Benjamin Collett and his second wife Jemima Waterworth. In 1753 the name of Waterworth Collett was included in the book “Freemen of the City of Gloucester 1641-1838” as someone associated with Mayor James Herbert esquire, mayor 1752-53, when he was described as the son of Benjamin Collett esquire, late of Tewkesbury. Twelve years later he was recorded as the master of apprentice William Cliffe to whom payment was made at Tewkesbury on 10^th December 1765. He was a gentleman and an Attorney at Law and he died at Tewkesbury on 18^th November 1791, aged 60, following which he was buried in the family tomb at St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey (see Headstone Epitaphs).
	Eight years before he died, Waterworth Collett was the occupier of a Tewkesbury dwelling which was owned by his nephew, the Reverend Henry Collett, who was the sole executor of his Will – see below. On one occasion during his working life in 1766, Waterworth Collett provided surety of £500 for Prudence Oakey following the death of her husband William Oakey. It is very interesting that their son was named Waterworth Oakey and he died in Tewkesbury, while the family of William Thomas Collett [Ref. 61N2] 1781-1863, of Charlton Abbots near Tewkesbury, had a close association with the Oakey family.
	His Will was made on 24^th December 1789 when he signed his surname with a single letter T. The Will read as follows: “This is the Last Will and Testament of me Waterworth Collet of Tewkesbury in the County of Gloucester gentleman for the disposition of that estate in my world wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me – In the first place I direct that all my just debts, funeral expenses and legacies herein after bequeathed shall be paid by my executor herein after named and I charge the whole of my real and personal estates with the payment thereof
	Item I give and bequeath to my nephew and niece Allan Cliffe and Anna Cliffe the sum of Fifty Pounds each to be paid to them upon them attaining their respective ages of twenty-one years, but in case of the death of either of them before attaining such age, in such case my Will and Meaning is that the legacy or legacies of him, her or them so dying shall link into and become a part of the residium of my personal estate and go to my executor herein after named. Item I give and bequeath to my servants Hannah Powell the sum of Thirty Pounds and to her sister Martha Powell the sum of Ten Pounds and I direct the same to be paid to them respectively within three months next after my decease
	Item I give devise and bequeath into my nephew The Reverend Henry Collet [Ref. 5L17] of Tewkesbury aforesaid clerk who is my presumptive heir at law all my freehold messuages lands tenements and hereditaments situates lying and being in the County of Gloucester or elsewhere and all my estate right title and interest therein to hold unto and to the use of the said Henry Collet his heirs and assigns forever. Item I give devise and bequeath unto the said Henry Collet all my copyhold and leasehold estates situates and lying and being in the County of Gloucester aforesaid or elsewhere and all my estate right title and interest therein respectively to hold unto the said Henry Collett his executors administrators or assigns for and during all such estate for life or lives, term or number of years which shall be to come therein respectively at the time of my decease and all the rent and residue of my money and securities for money, book debt, plate, china, linen, household goods and all other my personal estate of what nature sort or kind so ever which I am possessed of, interested in or entitled unto and have power to dispose of by this my Will I give and bequeath the same and every part thereof unto my nephew the said Henry Collet his executors administrators and assigns
	Lastly, I request that my body may be interred in the vault in which the bodies my late honoured father and mother lie, and that no more than Fifteen Pounds shall be expended by my executor in my funeral; I appoint my said nephew Henry Collet sole executor of this my Will hereby revoking all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made. In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal this Twenty-Fourth Day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Nine.” It was over two years after his death that his Will was proved at the Consistory Court of Gloucester during 1794.
5K21	Elizabeth Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1735 and she died there on 27^th March 1740 at the age of only four years. She was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey (see Headstone Epitaphs).
5K22	William Collett was baptised at Ashchurch on 19^th April 1708. It seems he married Elizabeth, possibly at Tewkesbury, but NOT Elizabeth Johnson. The William Collett who married her on 19^th August 1731 was born at Upper Swell in 1701 where he was baptised at St Mary’s Church on 4^th November 1701, the son of Richard and Mary Collett of Upper Swell, who are listed within Part 64 – The Upper Swell Oddington (Glos) Line. The only child credited to William of Ashchurch and his wife Elizabeth in Henry who was baptised at Tewkesbury, whereas the children of William Collett [Ref. 64K1] and Elizabeth Johnson were all baptised at Upper Swell near Stow on the Wold.
	5L26		Henry Collett						Born in 1733 at Tewkesbury
5L1	Elizabeth Collett was born in Tewkesbury during 1722 and was baptised there on 30^th August 1722 just prior to her infant death. She was the first-born child of William and Ann Collett.
5L2	William Collett was born at Tewkesbury around 1725, the eldest son of William Collett and Ann Parker. He later married Rebecca Godsell on 8^th July 1746 at Tewkesbury, although to date, no record has been found to suggest that they ever had any children. Within the Tewkesbury church records there is a further reference to William and Rebecca Collett for 25^th May 1783 when they were the witnesses at the marriage of Richard Prew and Mary Hughes. The record also indicates that William made the mark of a cross.
	It is possible that William was in some way attached to the church as there were other occasions when a W B Collett was referred to as being a witness at other marriages. With two brothers having the name Benjamin, it is likely that William B Collett was William Benjamin Collett. It is not known when William died except that he was survived by his wife who died in 1812 and was buried at Tewkesbury on 25^th November 1812. The burial record referred to her as Rebecca Collett, the widow of William Collett.
5L3	John Collett was born at Tewkesbury around 1730, where he later married Elizabeth Stephens on 20^th December 1751.
5L4	Henry Collett was baptised Tewkesbury on 12^th December 1732, the son of William and Ann Collett. It was also at Tewkesbury where he married Ann Price on 1^st July 1760, and where all their children were born and baptised. The Tewkesbury burial records include the name of Henry Collett who was buried there on 22^nd October 1811 but, with no age given at the time of his death, it cannot be determined if he was this particular Henry Collett. There is a possibility it may have been his son, listed with his children below, or alternatively it might have even been either of the Henry Colletts Ref. 5L27 or Ref. 5M18.
	5M1		Hannah Collett						Born in 1761 at Tewkesbury
	5M2		Henry Collett						Born in 1763 at Tewkesbury
	5M3		John Collett						Born in 1767 at Tewkesbury
	5M4		Nancy Collett						Born in 1770 at Tewkesbury
	5M5		Sarah Collett						Born in 1772 at Tewkesbury
	5M6		Catherine Smith Collett						Born in 1774 at Tewkesbury
5L5	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 28^th November 1734 as Elis Collett, the daughter of William and Ann Collett. It was there also, on 29^th May 1763, that she married John Rice who was born in 1732. However, it is thought that Elizabeth Rice nee Collett died shortly after the birth of the couple’s first and only child, John Rice, who was born in 1770. He later married Elizabeth Preece on 4^th December 1792 at Tewkesbury in the presence of his father John Rice and Ann Blanch. John and Elizabeth had thirteen children before John Rice died in 1844.
	This is the family line of Jenni Rice of Australia and Andy Rice in Worcestershire
	It now seems very likely that John Rice senior and his wife Elizabeth Collett had more than just the one son John, since new information discovered by Jennie Cordner in March 2014 reveals that John Rice junior had a sister who, in her Will, was curiously referred to as Elizabeth Collett, otherwise Rice, a spinster. Her Will, made on 18^th August 1833, was proved on 1^st March 1834 following her death on 20^th September 1833. That document listed the following beneficiaries: Her brother John Rice, a fisherman of Tewkesbury, and his wife Elizabeth (Preece), her sister Mary Craddock, the wife of shoe-mender Thomas Craddock of Tewkesbury, and her brother James Rice, a porter of Tewkesbury. For all of this to be logically correct, Elizabeth was very likely the base-born daughter of Elizabeth Collett, who took the Rice name after she married John Rice in 1763, placing her birth around 1762. Therefore, the other children of Elizabeth Collett and John Rice, were very likely Mary Rice, and James Rice, the named siblings of John Rice junior.
	5Mx		Elizabeth Collett (Rice)						Born circa 1762 at Tewkesbury
5L6	Benjamin Collett was born in Tewkesbury during 1736 and was baptised there on 3^rd December 1736 and, shortly after, she suffered an infant death
5L7	Joseph Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 28^th May 1739. He was another son of William and Ann Collett, but sadly, also appears to have died just after he was born, since the next child born to William and Ann was also named Joseph (below).
5L8	Joseph Collett was born at Tewkesbury on 3^rd May 1740, the son of William and Ann Collett. It was also at Tewkesbury that he married Jane Lysom on 27^th October 1760, and where all their children were born and baptised.
	5M7		William Collett						Born in 1761 at Tewkesbury
	5M8		John Collett						Born in 1763 at Tewkesbury
	5M9		Joseph Collett						Born in 1764 at Tewkesbury
	5M10		Joseph Collett						Born in 1765 at Tewkesbury
	5M11		William Collett						Born in 1768 at Tewkesbury
5L9	Benjamin Collett was the ninth and last child of William Collett and Ann Parker who was born at Tewkesbury on 29^th December 1741.
5L10	Ann Collett was born in Tewkesbury during 1712, the eldest of the three known children of Henry Collett and Elizabeth Webb. She was baptised at Tewkesbury on 16^th July 1712.
5L11	Henry Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1714 and was the eldest son of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. He married Theodosia Williams on 2^nd November 1734 at Tewkesbury and was baptised there as an adult on 19^th May 1735, prior to the christening of his first child three months later. All the couple’s children were born and baptised at Tewkesbury.
	5M12		Ann Collett						Born in 1735 at Tewkesbury
	5M13		Jane Collett						Born in 1737 at Tewkesbury
	5M14		Mary Collett						Born in 1739 at Tewkesbury
5L12	Elizabeth Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1715, the youngest child of Henry and Elizabeth Collett. There is a possibility that she was the Elizabeth Collett who married Samuel Hawkins at Tewkesbury on 6^th November 1753. It needs to be determined whether she married as a spinster or a widow, so further work is required to resolve this matter.
5L13	Ann Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1751, the eldest child of Henry and Bridget Collett. It was in 1771 that she married William Cliffe, with whom she had a daughter. Ann Cliffe nee Collett died on 16^th October 1777 at the young age of 26, only three years after Ann, William, and daughter Anna Cliffe were named in the 1774 Will of Ann’s father. In two later Collett family Wills, Ann’s husband was named as Allan Cliffe, the first in 1789 for Waterworth Collett, and the second in 1803 for the Reverend Henry Collett of Tewkesbury.
	Following her passing, her body was laid to rest in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey. According to the Abbey records the tomb is listed as being number 67, and is described as ‘adjoining number 66, and on the north of it’. The Abbey record also includes the following words in Latin, which appear on the tomb. ‘Hic inter cineres paternos quod, mortale fuit sui deponi voluit, Revdus Henricus Colleth A. In quod immortale non nisi per, Salvatoris merita deo occipiendurro, et cum plurimo honorum ominium, xx humillime efflavit ix die Julie anno domini MDCCCIII, Etatis suae XLVIII’.
	That is then followed by an epitaph, in English, for her daughter Anna Cliffe, even though she was buried at Dawlish in Devon. The Latin section above is a reference to the brother of Ann Collett, he being the Reverend Henry Collett (below). The website file Headstone Epitaphs 1 – Tewkesbury, contains the words written on the tomb for both Ann Cliffe nee Collett and her daughter Anna Cliffe.
	5M15		Anna Cliffe					Born in 1771 at Tewkesbury
5L14	Jemima Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 13^th April 1752. Upon the death of her father Henry Collett in 1774, Jemima, her sister Frances, and brother John Waterworth (below), were each bequeathed Five Hundred Pounds, to be given to them six years after Henry died. During those six years, starting three months after his death, the executors of his estate was to pay each of them interest of four percent every quarter year. She never married and eventually received her full inheritance, but died three years later, on 10^th April 1783 at the age of 31. She was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey (see Headstone Epitaphs).
5L15	Bridget Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 25^th July 1753 and she died on 30^th August 1754 aged just 14 months. She was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey (see Headstone Epitaphs).
5L16	Bridget Collett was born in Tewkesbury during 1754 another daughter of Henry Collett and his second wife Bridget. She was born a few days after the infant death of her older sister of the same name, and was baptised at Tewkesbury on 2^nd September 1754.
5L17	Henry Collett was born at Tewkesbury and was baptised there on 16^th October 1754, the eldest son of Henry and Bridget Collett. He was educated at Pembroke College in Oxford, from where he matriculated on 27^th May 1772 aged 18, the college record confirming that he was the son of Henry Collett of Tewkesbury. Two years later, Henry’s already widowed father died and was buried at Tewkesbury, his vast land holdings in Gloucestershire, passing in trust to son Henry, who went on to obtain his BA on 19^th April 1776. The next major event in his life was his marriage to Sarah Woodford, which took place at Tewkesbury on 1^st January 1778. The marriage register stated that the wedding was performed after the reading of banns in the presence of James and Elizabeth Lane, and it was also at Tewkesbury that all of Henry and Sarah’s children were born and baptised.
	Henry continued to attend Pembroke College after he was married, where he received his MA on 15^th July 1783, following which he became the Reverend Henry Collett. For both his ordination as deacon at Christ Church in Oxford on 15^th June 1777, and priest at Hereford Cathedral on 30^th May 1779, he was given special dispensation by the Bishop through letters dimissory, granting him permission to depart to another diocese. As a deacon, permission was given by the Bishop of Gloucester and when he was made a priested, permission was given by the Bishop of Coventry & Lichfield. That was very unusual, but it is not known why it was applied to Henry.
	It is also known that, at some time in his life, Henry was the curate at the church of St Martin de Tour in Woolstone near Bishop’s Cleeve, to the east of Tewkesbury, three locations where his father had been a landowner. The church boasts a famous leaning tower, the result of the underlying geologic structure on Crane Hill. In 1471 the opposing armies of Lancaster and York fought the bloody Battle of Tewkesbury, following which the defeated Lancastrians sought sanctuary in the church.
	However, the Yorkists cared nothing for convention and entered the church, where they discovered and slaughtered their prey, causing the church to be re-consecrated.
	It is interesting that St Martin de Tour was the patron saint of soldiers. In addition to the Woolstone connection, there are also parish records at Tewkesbury in which Henry Collett was listed as a witness at some events. The first of them was on 26^th September 1775 at the marriage of Walter Powell of Bourton-on-the-Hill and Hannah Hammond of Tewkesbury. The next was on 9^th April 1793 for the marriage of the Reverend Robert Knight and Harriet Mercy Humphreys. At some time in their lives, Henry and Sarah resided at 82 Church Street in Tewkesbury, just a short distance from Tewkesbury Abbey, as confirmed in the recorded history of the building when it was recently sold to a new owner in 2019. The property was also listed in the Tewkesbury Poor Book of 1803, presumably when Henry gave it up as his home address.
	Henry Collett died on 9^th July 1803 at the age of 48, following which he was buried in St Catherine’s Chapel in the south side of the Ambulatory. His tombstone, number 67, unlike other members of the Collett family, is the only one with the epitaph written in Latin, the rough translation of which is included below, although there are still two sections that have not been fully understood. ‘It was here, between the ruins and the ashes, that our father's mortal body was laid to rest ........ Rev. Henry Collett, MA ........ and with the greatest humility and honour, he passed away 9th day of July, in the year of 1803, at the age of 48’. The same tomb also contains the body of his eldest sister, Anne Cliffe nee Collett, and the tombstone itself includes a mention of her daughter Anna Cliffe who was buried at Dawlish in Devon.
	What is very interesting is the line on his tombstone, “that our father’s mortal body was laid to rest”, which infers it was composed for or by his children, even though none were named in his Will. The Will of the Reverend Henry Collett of Tewkesbury within the County of Gloucestershire, a clerk (in Holy Orders), was made on 20^th June 1803. Whilst it is not being easy to transcribe, clearly there are named persons with whom he had a connection, although there is no mention of his wife or any of his children. This seems rather odd considering the above epitaph and, particularly since in 2008 a DNA Study undertaken in the USA by Barry Collett confirmed that two of the children of Henry and Sarah Collett (Ref. 5M18), sons Henry and George, were positively identified as the grandsons of Henry and Sarah Collett of Tewkesbury.
	Could it be that Henry and Sarah had already set up their children to live a comfortable life-style following the death of his father, from whom he inherited the majority of his considerable estate and land-holding in and around Tewkesbury. The list of beneficiaries included Lady Thomas, wife of Sir George Thomas Baronet, bequeathed the smallest of his silver waiters (as a token of respect), Mrs Knight, the wife of the Rev. Robert Knight, a silver coffee pot, nephew Allen Cliffe a gold watch, Thomas Bradstock a silver mustard pot, the father of God-daughter Eliza Bradstock, Samuel Whitcomb in London a silver tankard, and God-daughter Mary Elizabeth Cliffe another silver coffee pot. Samuel Whitcomb was one of the three witnesses at the signed of the Will of Henry Collett senior in 1774.
	Other’s included Mrs Elizabeth Collett, a widow of Birlingham near Pershore, the mother of Mrs Susanna Woolley, both beneficiaries, with Elizabeth being the wife of Joseph Collett, the younger brother of Henry’s father, after whom he was named. The aforesaid Elizabeth Collett was instructed to permit ‘my dear niece Anna Cliffe’ to occupy a room at the same Tewkesbury dwellinghouse, (an upper back room). Tragically, Anna Cliffe died shortly after Henry had passed away. Others mentioned were Robert Knight (married ten years earlier – see above) and Anna’s father Allan Cliffe. Most of the bequeaths of money amounted to sums of Fifty Pounds, including one for the education of Elizabeth Woolley, the daughter of the aforesaid Susanna Woolley. There were others names like Sarah and Susanna Drew (servants), Elizabeth Oakey (washerwoman) and her husband Jonathan Oakey. The Will and Codicil were proved in London on 8^th June 1804.
	One week after the interment of Henry Collett, a service of remembrance was conducted at Tewkesbury Parish Church on Sunday 17^th July 1803 by the Reverend Robert Knight. Twenty years prior to his passing, according to the 1783 Land Tax Register, the Reverend Henry Collett was the proprietor of a property in Tewkesbury which was occupied by his uncle Waterworth Collett [Ref. 5K20], his father’s younger brother, who died in 1791. In 1774, it was Waterworth Collett who was the executor of the Will of Henry Collett (Henry’s father), his estate held in trust until Henry junior reached full age. The favour was later returned, when the Reverend Henry Collett was the sole executor of the Will of Waterworth Collett which was made in 1789 and proved in 1794.
	5M16		Elizabeth Collett						Born in1778 at Tewkesbury
	5M17		Elizabeth Collett						Born in 1779 at Tewkesbury
	5M18		Henry Collett						Born in 1781 at Tewkesbury
	5M19		Samuel Collett						Born in 1783 at Tewkesbury
	5M20		William Collett						Born in 1785 at Tewkesbury
	5M21		Rebecca Collett						Born in 1789 at Tewkesbury
	5M22		Waterworth Henry Collett						Born in 1791 at Tewkesbury
	5M23		James Collett						Born in 1797 at Tewkesbury
5L18	John Waterworth Collett was born at Tewkesbury where he was baptised on 21^st October 1757, another son of Henry and Bridget Collett. He was a gentleman and member of Brasenose College in Oxford in 1774. That was also the year when his widowed father died, with John Waterworth Collett being one of only five children named in his Will. John and two sisters Jemima (above) and Frances Below) were each named to receive Five Hundred Pounds. However, to receive the full amount they needed to survive their father by six years. Whilst interest at 4% was paid quarterly to each of them, commencing three months after Henry died, John Waterworth Collett did not enjoy the full benefit of the bequeath, when he died on 13^th July 1778 aged 21 and was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey (see Headstone Epitaphs). The residual money that he did not receive, was then absorbed back into the estate trust, managed by his uncle Waterworth Collett on behalf of John’s surviving brother Henry Collett (above).
5L19	Frances Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1759 and was baptised there on 13^th February 1760, the seventh of eight children of Henry and Bridget Collett. Three years later, her younger brother died very shortly after he was born, which may also have been around the same time that her mother died. In 1774, when Frances was fifteen years of age, her father passed away, and his Will included the name of Frances and four of her older siblings. In the case of Frances, her sister Jemima, and brother John Waterworth Collett, they were to each receive Five Hundred Pounds, provided that they survived their father by six years, and by which time Frances would be of full age. During those six years, they were to be paid 4% interest each quarter-year, starting three months after the death of their father. Of the three siblings, only brother John died before the six years were completed, leaving just Frances and Jemima benefitting from their full inheritance. After a further six years Frances Collett aged 27, died at Tewkesbury on 22^nd December 1786 and was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel at Tewkesbury Abbey (see Headstone Epitaphs).
5L20	Benjamin Collett was born at Tewkesbury on 6^th April 1763 and he died there three days later on 9^th April 1763. He was the last child born to Henry Collett and his wife Bridget, and was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey (see Headstone Epitaphs).
5L21	Elizabeth Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 4^th November 1753 and she died on 23^rd June 1760 at the age of just six years. She was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey (see Headstone Epitaphs).
5L22	John Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 30^th December 1756. Together with his cousin John Waterworth Collett (above), he was educated at Brasenose College in Oxford where he matriculated on 8^th December 1774 at the age of 18 and where the college record confirms that he was the son of Joseph Collett of Tewkesbury.
5L23	Benjamin Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 23^rd March 1759 and he died on 31^st October 1773, aged 14. He was buried in the family tomb in St Catherine’s Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey (see Headstone Epitaphs).
5L24	Elizabeth Collett was born in Tewkesbury near the end of 1760, where she was baptised on 22^nd February 1761, the fourth child of Joseph and Elizabeth Collett.
5L25	Susannah Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 31^st May 1762, the last and fifth known child of Joseph Collett and Elizabeth Martin. Joseph died in June 1771 when Susanna was nine years old and, just over twelve years later, she married George Woolley by licence at Tewkesbury on 11^th December 1783. The Tewkesbury register confirmed that Susannah Collett was of this parish, while her husband was from the parish of St Catherine in the City of Gloucester. The witnesses to the marriage were Susannah’s widowed mother Eliza (Elizabeth) Collett and W B Collett. W B Collett may have been attached to the church as his name appears on more than one occasion within the church records. It is therefore possible that he was William Collett [Ref. 5L2] and the cousin of Susannah. Within the later Will of the Reverend Henry Collett [Ref. 5L17], following his death on 9^th July 1803, was a reference to Mrs Elizabeth Collett, a widow, and her married daughter Susanna Woolley. Furthermore, the same Will included a Fifty Pound sum for the education of Susanna’s daughter Elizabeth Woolley.
5L26	Henry Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 16^th August 1733, the only known child of William and Elis Collett. He later married Hannah around 1762 with all their children born and baptised at Tewkesbury. In his Will made on 10^th November 1809 and signed in his own hand in the presence of three witnesses, he was described as Henry Collett of Tewkesbury, a seedsman. However, it was only his four daughters who were named in the Will as being beneficiaries, and they were Hannah, the wife of George Matthews, and spinster Mary Collett, each of whom received one hundred pounds. His two other daughters, spinsters Ann and Charlotte Collett, were named as the joint executors of the Will, and they inherited the residue and remainder of his estate “as tenants in common, but not as joint tenants”. Following his death, it was only Charlotte who attended the proving of the Will on 14^th March 1812, when her father’s estate was valued at under One Hundred Pounds.
	5M24		William Collett						Born in 1763 at Tewkesbury
	5M25		Hannah Collett						Born in 1765 at Tewkesbury
	5M26		Ann Collett						Born in 1767 at Tewkesbury
	5M27		Mary Collett						Born in 1769 at Tewkesbury
	5M28		John Collett						Born in 1771 at Tewkesbury
	5M29		Charlotte Collett						Born in 1774 at Tewkesbury
5M1	Hannah Collett was the first-born child of Henry Collett and Ann Price who was born in Tewkesbury and baptised there on 6^th August 1761.
5M2	Henry Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1763 the eldest of the two sons, in a family of daughters, of Henry and Ann Collett. It was also at Tewkesbury that he was baptised on 5^th December 1763.
5M3	John Collett was the younger son of Henry and Ann Collett who may have been born at Tewkesbury towards end of 1767 where he was baptised on 8^th February 1768.
5M4	Nancy Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1770 where she was baptised on 4^th June 1770, the fourth child of Henry and Ann Collett.
5M5	Sarah Collett was born in Tewkesbury in 1772 and was baptised there on 8^th June 1772 another daughter of Henry and Ann Collett. She was twice married at Tewkesbury within five years of each other. On the first occasion Sarah Collett married (1) Joseph Morris on 15^th August 1802. Joseph was a widower of the parish of Tewkesbury, while Sarah was a spinster. The couple were married by banns in the presence of James Cooper and Elizabeth Collett, both of whom made their mark with a cross. Elizabeth Collett may have been Sarah’s aunt and sister-in-law to Sarah’s father Henry Collett.
	Some tragedy befell Sarah and Joseph when, shortly after they were married, Sarah was made a widow by the death of her husband. It is not known whether the short marriage produced any children. Within the next few years Sarah married (2) James Hill on 14^th April 1807. James was a widower of Tewkesbury as Sarah was a widow, and they were married by banns in the presence of William Tompkins and Ruth Martin. Once again, both the bride and the groom signed the parish register with the mark of a cross.
5M6	Catherine Smith Collett was born at Tewkesbury and baptised there on 31^st July 1774, the last of the six children of Henry Collett and Ann Price.
5M7	William Collett was the first of five sons of Joseph and Jane Lysom of Tewkesbury, where he was born and baptised on 13^th August 1761 and where he suffered an infant death.
5M8	John Collett was born at Tewkesbury on 9^th March 1763, one of the three surviving sons of Joseph and Jane Collett. Two of his brothers died as infants but there is no similar record for John. For some reason his parents, Joseph Collett and Jane Lysom, seem not to have arranged his baptism until he was over six years old, when the records show he was baptised at Tewkesbury on 10^th December 1769. It is possible, having regard to his age, that he may have been married prior to the turn of the century, as there were a number of John Colletts born at Tewkesbury in the 1760s that married there and had children, and this John may have been one of them.
	However, at some time in his adult life, perhaps for work reasons, John seems to have moved west from Tewkesbury towards Hereford where he appears to have settled to the south-east of the town in the village of Frownhope. The fact that he was ‘free to move’ may indicate that he was not married, nor had he any children.
	For the continuation of this family line see Part 40 – The Hereford Line
5M9	Joseph Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1764 where he was baptised on 22^nd December 1764, and died shortly thereafter.
5M10	Joseph Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 29^th December 1765, a surviving son of Joseph and Jane Collett. He later married Margaret Weaver on 13^th October 1796 at St Mary de Lode Church in Gloucester, although there is an earlier date for their wedding at the same church on 27^th May 1796. Four of their five known children were baptised at Tewkesbury, with the exception being their second son Cornelius who was baptised at St Michael’s Church in Gloucester.
	5N1		Joseph Collett						Born in 1797 at Tewkesbury
	5N2		Cornelius Collett						Born in 1799 at Gloucester
	5N3		Frederick Collett						Born in 1802 at Tewkesbury
	5N4		Jane Collett						Born in 1805 at Tewkesbury
	5N5		Eliza Collett						Born in 1807 at Tewkesbury
5M11	William Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 13^th March 1768, the youngest son of Joseph Collett and his wife Jane Lysom. It was twenty-nine years later that he married Mary Crosswell on 5^th March 1797 at St Mary de Lode Church in Gloucester. Once married the couple settled initially in Tewkesbury, where their first three children were baptised. It would very much appear, following the birth of their third known son, that the couple moved to Bredon, approximately three miles north-east of Tewkesbury, since it was there that their two daughters were born and baptised.
	It was also at Malthouse Row in Bredon that the couple was still living in 1841, when William Collett had a rounded age of 75, while his wife Mary was 65. Also living in Bredon, not far from her elderly parents, was their daughter-in-law Catherine Collett, the widow of their late son William, with her three children. No further record of William and Mary has been found after that time, which very likely indicates that they both died during the 1840s. The family’s connection with the village of Bredon was also confirmed by their son John Crosswell Collett who, twenty years later in the census of 1861 said he was born there, having moved there from Tewkesbury with his family when he was a very young child.
	In addition to all the above, there is an unresolved issue surrounding possibly another William and Mary Collett or even the same couple, who had a son William who was baptised at Bredon on 12^th January 1800, the child having been born there on 20^th December 1799. If they were the same William and Mary, it might indicate that the couple’s first-born son William died while an infant, and that their next son was given the same name. Mary Crosswell was born in 1777 and died after 1841, as did William.
	5N6		William Collett						Born in 1798 at Tewkesbury
	5N7		John Crosswell Collett						Born in 1800 at Tewkesbury
	5N8		Joseph Collett						Born in 1802 at Tewkesbury
	5N9		Ann Collett						Born in 1806 at Bredon, Worcs.
	5N10		Sarah Collett						Born in 1807 at Bredon, Worcs.
	Another Joseph Collett [Ref. 13N2] born on 15.02.1803 in Stroud was the brother of James Lyford Collett [Ref. 13N1] who was born at Stroudwater on 14.02.1800. They were the sons of William and Martha Collett. James emigrated to South Africa in 1821, while Joseph went to America. See Part 13 – The Stroud to South Africa and New Zealand Line
5M12	Ann Collett was the eldest of the three daughters of Henry Collett and Theodosia Williams, who was born at Tewkesbury in 1735 and baptised there on 21^st August 1735.
5M13	Jane Collett was born in Tewkesbury in 1737 and it was there also that she was baptised on 7^th July 1737.
5M14	Mary Collett was born in Tewkesbury during 1739 where she was baptised on 13^th September 1739, the third and last daughter of Henry and Theodosia Collett.
5M15	Anna Cliffe was the daughter of Ann Collett and William Cliffe and was born at Tewkesbury in 1771. When her grandfather Henry Collett died in 1774, Anna Cliffe and her parents were beneficiaries under the terms of his Will. However, two years later, with Anna only five years old, her mother died and was buried at Tewkesbury. A church record at Tewkesbury reveals that Anna was still living at Tewkesbury in 1793 when she was listed as one of the witnesses to the marriage of the Reverend Robert Knight and Harriet Mercy Humphreys on the ninth of April that year. Also listed as a witness was clerk (in Holy Orders) Henry Collett, who was very likely Anna’s uncle the Reverend Henry Collett [Ref. 5L17]. Anna Cliffe never married and died in 1803 at the age of 33, having been given a room in the home of the Reverend Henry Collett earlier that same year. She was buried at Dawlish in Devon, although there is an epitaph to her in St Catherine’s Chapel of Tewkesbury Abbey. That is on the tomb which contains the body of her mother Ann Cliffe nee Collett, and her uncle, the aforementioned Reverend Henry Collett, her mother’s younger brother (see Headstone Epitaphs).
5M16	Elizabeth Collett was the first child of Henry and Sarah Collett who was born at Tewkesbury in 1778 who was baptised there on 30^th December 1778 just prior to her premature death.
5M17	Elizabeth Collett was born after her parents had suffered the loss of their first-born daughter of the same name. She was born at Tewkesbury during the month of December at the end of 1779, her older sister having died at the start of that year.
5M18	Henry Collett [75M1] was born at Tewkesbury on 1^st April 1781, where he was baptised on 20^th April 1781, the eldest son of Henry Collett and his wife Sarah Woodford. Henry left Tewkesbury and made his way to London where it is believed he married Sarah (possibly Chapman) at Christ Church in Newgate on 25^th January 1801. The marriage produced two known sons for the couple, both of whom were born at Finsbury in London, and both boys were baptised at St Luke’s Church in Old Street in Finsbury. What is interesting is that those two sons, Henry, and George, have featured in a DNA Study undertaken in the USA by Barry Collett in 2008, and it is through that exercise they have been identified as the sons of Henry and Sarah. Although a further three children were added to the family, Elizabeth, Hester Mary, and Charles, it was only Henry and George who survived. The details of their lives are continued into Part 75 – The London to Kansas Connection.
	The census in 1841 recorded Henry Collett with a rounded age of 60 as residing at Cavendish Street in Shoreditch with his wife Sarah who was 70. Her rounded age, and the ten-year-gap in their ages, are reasons to assume that Sarah was indeed Sarah Stafford, the daughter of Thomas and Ann Stafford, who was baptised in Middlesex on 8^th December 1771. Living with them, at the same address in 1841, were 30-year-old Sophia Keefe and her two children Amelia Keefe aged five, and John Keefe who was two years old, plus Eliza Durant who was 25, and Mary Jarman who was 19. Every member of the household, excluding head of the household Henry, had been born within the County of Middlesex.
	Also residing on Cavendish Street in Shoreditch was the couple’s youngest and only surviving child, married son George Collett, with his wife Rosina, and their three children, George junior six, Rosina who was four, and Henry who was two. From here on, we only follow the life of that surviving son George who eventually emigrated first to Canada before eventually settling at Chase County in Kansas, USA.
	5N11		Henry Collett					Born in 1803 at St Luke’s, Finsbury
	5N12		Elizabeth Collett					Born in 1804 at St Luke’s, Finsbury
	5N13		Henry Collett					Born in 1805 at St Luke’s, Finsbury
	5N14		Hester Mary Collett					Born in 1806 at St Luke’s, Finsbury
	5N15		Charles Collett					Born in 1809 at St Giles’, Cripplegate
	5N16		George Collett					Born in 1811 at St Luke’s, Finsbury
5M19	Samuel Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1783 and was baptised there on 15^th February 1784. And it was there that he married Mary Shepherd on 1^st July 1804. Samuel and Mary both signed the register with the mark of a cross and both were confirmed as being of the parish of Tewkesbury, he a bachelor and she a spinster. They were married by banns in the presence of William Hampton and Mary’s mother Elizabeth Shepherd, and over the following eight years they had four children who were all born and baptised at Tewkesbury. Earlier research into this family is believed to have uncovered information that they eventually emigrated to South Africa. However, the story may have applied to one or more of their children, since new information has been found that places Samuel and Mary Collett from Tewkesbury as living in Cheltenham in 1851. Samuel Collett was 69 and his wife Mary was 68.
	5N17		Mary Ann Collett						Born in 1805 at Tewkesbury
	5N18		William Collett						Born in 1806 at Tewkesbury
	5N19		Thomas Shepherd Collett						Born in 1807 at Tewkesbury
	5N20		Harriett Collett						Born in 1812 at Tewkesbury
5M20	William Collett was born at the end of 1785 and was baptised at Tewkesbury on 26^th March 1786, another son of Henry Collett and his wife Sarah Woodford.
5M21	Rebecca Collett was born during January 1789 at Tewkesbury, the youngest daughter of Henry Collett and Sarah Woodford.
5M22	Waterworth Henry Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1791 where he was baptised on 29^th January 1792, the son of Henry and Sarah Collett. Waterworth, who was named after his great grandmother Jemima Waterworth, married Sally Fowler at Kempsey, just south of Worcester on 11^th August 1824. She was born at Ripple near Naunton, just south-east of Upton-on-Severn, although it was at Naunton where she was baptised as Sally Fowler on 12^th April 1795. She was also recorded as Sally on the day of her marriage, when her husband was mistakenly recorded as Walterworth Collett. At other times in his life, he was named simply as Walter Collett, perhaps of his own choosing.
	The marriage produced three children for Waterworth and Sally, and all of them were born and baptised at Tewkesbury, although the baptism record for the couple’s first child has not been located as yet. In addition to that, their third child and only son died before reaching ten years of age. By the time of the first British census in June 1841, the family was living at Hanley Castle, one mile north of Upton-on-Severn and within the parish of Great Malvern. ‘Walter Collett’ was 50, his wife ‘Sarah Collett’ was 47, and their two surviving children were Mary who was 18, and Charlotte who was 16. Walter was described as working as an agricultural labourer, which seems at odds with the fact that his father was educated at Oxford and held the title of Reverend Henry Collett of Tewkesbury. That therefore raises the question as to whether Waterworth had some sort of falling-out with his parents.
	Ten years later in 1851 Waterworth Collett was 59 and his place of birth was confirmed as Tewkesbury. By that time in his life, he was working as a hose frame knitter and, living with him in the village of North Malvern within the Hanley Castle registration district, was his wife Sally Collett who was 56 and a laundress from Ripple in Worcestershire, together with their daughter Charlotte Collett who was 24 and a laundress from Tewkesbury. The couple’s eldest daughter Mary Ann was married with a family of her own by then, and on her marriage certificate her father was named as ‘Walter Collett’ and his occupation as that of a weaver.
	Just over three years later Waterworth Collett became a widower when his wife Sarah Collett died at Hanley Castle on 20^th May 1854. Her death was reported to the registrar in Great Malvern by her son-in-law John Banner, the husband of Mary Ann Collett, and the death certificate named her husband as Walterworth Collett, a stocking weaver. Waterworth and his daughter Charlotte remained living at Hanley Castle where they were still recorded as living at the time of the census in 1861, when it was once again listed as North Malvern. Walterworth H Collett was 69 and a labourer, while his unmarried daughter was 34 and a laundress.
	Over the following years Charlotte became a married lady but continued to live at Hanley Castle and near to where her elderly father was living. On 3^rd May 1870 the death of ‘Walter Collett’ aged 78 was reported to the registrar in Great Malvern by John Nott, the husband of Charlotte Collett, the death certificate confirming that he had been a stocking weaver. The Will of Walter Collett, late of the parish of Great Malvern, valued at under £20, was proved at Worcester on the 5^th August 1870 by the oath of William Henry Mason, a grocer, one of the executors.
	5N21		Mary Ann Collett							Born in 1824 at Tewkesbury
	5N22		Charlotte Collett							Born in 1826 at Tewkesbury
	5N23		Timothy Collett							Born in 1828 at Tewkesbury
5M23	James Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1797 and was baptised there on 4^th June 1797, the youngest child of Henry Collett and Sarah Woodford. New information came to light during 2011, which raised the question as to whether or not he had a son by the name of Henry Vine Collett. The child, for whom no baptism record has been found, was added to this file sometime between 2002 and 2008 but sadly, no record can now be found to confirm the source of the information. Furthermore, it is now established that a Henry Vine Collett was born in Cornwall during 1832, and it seems unlikely that there were two people with that same name, who were born in the same year.
	For the time being Henry Vine Collett will remain here as the son of James Collett, but at the same time a new file has been opened for Henry Vine Collett, the son of Henry and Ann Collett, who was born at Truro in 1832. For further details go to Part 58 – The Line of Henry Vine Collett [Cornwall to New Zealand].
	What is known for sure about James Collett of Tewkesbury is that he was a soldier and was married to Eliza who was born in Liverpool in 1808. The IGI includes the marriage of James Collett and Eliza Matilda Sweny as taking place at the Church of St Mary the Virgin at Deane in Lancashire on 3^rd April 1827. Once married James’ occupation may have taken him to many places, but it is certainly known that in 1841 the two of them were living in Cheltenham when their daughter was born.
	By the time of the census in 1851 the family was living within the parish of St Michael in Chester. James Collett, aged 52 and from Tewkesbury, was a servant and a Chelsea Pensioner living and working at the Grosvenor Street home of Charles Hervey, aged 36, who was a half-pay captain in the army, who had been born in Mauritius and who was described as a British Subject. James’ wife was Eliza Collett, aged 42 and from Liverpool, who was the cook, while their daughter Jemima Collett from Cheltenham was a ten-year-old school girl. It seems likely that Eliza died during the 1850s, since James Collett, aged 64, was a widower by 1861, when he was living at Market Street in Manchester with just his daughter Jemima, aged 19, for company.
	No record of James or his daughter have been found in the next census of 1871, so by then James had very likely passed away and Jemima was probably married by then.
	5N24		Henry Vine Collett					Born in 1832
	5N25		Jemima Collett					Born in 1841 at Cheltenham
5M24	William Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 9^th October 1763, the eldest child of Henry and Hannah Collett. It is possible that he was not alive at the time his father made out his Will, as it was only his four sisters who were named as beneficiaries.
5M25	Hannah Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 19^th March1765, the eldest daughter of Henry and Hannah Collett. According to her father’s Will, in which she was left one hundred pounds, Hannah was described as the wife of George Matthews.
5M26	Ann Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 25^th August 1767, the daughter of Henry and Hannah Collett. Previously written here it stated that she later married William Pitman on 4^th October 1795. However, that was incorrect because, in 1827 when Ann made her Will, she was still a spinster, as she was fifteen years earlier, following the death of her father. His Will named his two unmarried daughters Ann and Charlotte as executors of the Will and tenants in common who inherited the residue and remainder of his estate after making One Hundred Pound bequeaths to married sister Hannah Matthews (above) and spinster Mary Collett (below). The confirming statement in the later Will of Ann Collett, referred to her younger sister and spinster Charlotte Collett who was the only member of the family named therein, as reproduced below.
	“I Ann Collett spinster of the Borough of Tewkesbury Gloucestershire August 29^th 1827 do make my last Will revoking all former Wills being through God’s mercy in my sound memory and understanding I give to Charlotte Collett my youngest sister and spinster my part of the house we live in No. 9 High Street Tewkesbury to her and to whom she shall appoint her heir or heirs after my decease. Also linen, money, whatever it may be debts, clothes, plate silver, I mean all my little ornaments rings etc, found in my house. Also, my house situated in Church Street in Pittaways Entry to her Charlotte Collett to her and whom she may make her heir or heirs and God Almighty bless her with it was as she is deserving. I also give to my said Charlotte Collett all and every of my effects whatsoever not withstanding they are not mentioned in this Will to which I sign my name”. The signing of the Will was witnessed by Sarah Pennell, Harriet Dudfield and William Ricketts. The Will was eventually proved in 1837.
5M27	Mary Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 29^th June 1769, the daughter of Henry and Hannah Collett. According to the terms of the Will of her father, spinster Mary Collett received One Hundred Pounds, as did her eldest married sister Hannah Matthews (above), while it was her unmarried sisters Ann and Charlotte, the two executors of their father’s estate, who shared the residual of his estate as tenants in common.
5M28	John Collett was born at Tewkesbury and was baptised there on 16^th June 1771, the only son in a family of daughters of Henry and Hannah Collett. He married Jane in 1790 and all their children were born and baptised at Tewkesbury, although no birth or baptism records for the two youngest children have been found. The record for the baptism of surviving son William listed his parents John and Jane Collett as protestant dissenters. John’s father died between 1809 and 1812 when he was already a widower, when the Will of Henry Collett only included the names of John’s four sisters. Upon the occasion of the marriage of John’s son Richard in 1843, his father was named as John Collett whose trade was that of a stocking maker, the same as Richard and his sister Elizabeth. With the father of Richard’s bride being simply described as ‘dead’, it is assumed that John Collett, the stocking maker, was still alive in 1843. What is of interest is that the marriage took place in Cheltenham where two years earlier John Collet (sic) aged 70 years was recorded as living in the census of 1841.
	5N26		Jane Collett					Born in 1790 at Tewkesbury
	5N27		Anne Collett					Born in 1792 at Tewkesbury
	5N28		John Collett					Born in 1795 at Tewkesbury
	5N29		William Collett					Born in 1797 at Tewkesbury
	5N30		William Collett					Born in 1799 at Tewkesbury
	5N31		Elizabeth Collett					Born circa 1800 at Tewkesbury
	5N32		Richard Collett					Born circa 1805 at Tewkesbury
5M29	Charlotte Collett was born at Tewkesbury where she was baptised on 3^rd July 1774, the last child of Henry and Hannah Collett. All that is known about her is that she was still a spinster at the time her father made his Will near the end of 1809. Curiously, it was only Charlotte and her three sisters, Hannah, Ann, and Mary (above), who were named in the Will. Married Hannah Matthews and unmarried Mary Collett were each bequeathed One Hundred Pounds, with Ann and Charlotte named as the joint executors. It was also those two who inherited the residue and remainder of his estate “as tenants in common, but not as joint tenants”, with just Charlotte present on 14^th March 1812, at the providing of the Will.
5N1	Joseph Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1797, the eldest son of Joseph Collett and his wife Margaret Weaver. It was also at Tewkesbury that Joseph junior married Hester Beale on 2^nd February 1817. However, the Tewkesbury baptism record for their son Henry gave the name of the boy’s mother as Elizabeth, rather than Hester or Esther, but with no later record of him it is possible that he did not survive beyond infancy or childhood.
	5O1		Henry Collett					Born in 1817 at Tewkesbury
5N2	Cornelius Collett was baptised at St Michael’s Church in Gloucester on 24^th March 1799, the son of Joseph and Margaret Collett. He married Hester Wither Bale on 31^st May 1822 at Tewkesbury. Both the couple’s known sons were born and baptised at Tewkesbury and the individual baptism records stated that the father was Cornelius, while the mother’s name was given as Hester and Esther respectively. It was previously thought that Cornelius was married twice, the second time to Amelia Harrison in 1833, but that has been proved to be incorrect by the Tewkesbury census in 1841 when Cornelius Collett was still married to Esther.
	That first national census in Great Britain specified adult ages to the nearest five years, so Cornelius and Esther were both recorded as being forty, while their son William Collett was 15. No record for the couple’s eldest son Joseph has been found in 1841 or 1851, so it is possible that he suffered a childhood death.
	Ten years later in 1851 the census that year recorded the couple’s ages more accurately. Cornelius Collett was 51 and his wife Esther was 53. Also, by that time, their son William Collett was listed as being 23 years old. All three of them were confirmed as being born at Tewkesbury where they were living at Gravel Walk. All three members of the household were described as having the occupation of a stock (stocking) frame work knitter. After a further ten years they were still living in Tewkesbury in 1861, when Cornelius was 61 and Esther was 63. It was also just prior to the census in 1861 that their son William had died at Tewkesbury, leaving his widow Charlotte with four young children.
	Following the death of his own wife sometime after 1861, Cornelius went to live at the home of his daughter–in-law, where he was recorded in the census returns for 1871 and 1881. By 1871 Cornelius was 71 when he was living with Charlotte Collett and her two youngest children. Also living with the family in Tewkesbury was Charlotte’s father Charles Scott who was 75.
	According to the next census in 1881 Cornelius Collett, aged 81 and a stocking weaver, was living at 20 Spring Gardens in Tewkesbury, where head of the household was widow Charlotte Collett, aged 55, a cord winder from Tewkesbury. All the children had left the family home by then, but still living with her was her father Charles Scott, aged 83, who was a cord-winder from Painswick. Cornelius Collett was 84 when he died just over three years later, his death recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 300) during the last three months of 1884.
	5O2		Joseph Collett					Born in 1824 at Tewkesbury
	5O3		William Collett					Born in 1828 at Tewkesbury
5N3	Frederick Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 20^th June 1802, the son of Joseph and Margaret Collett. When he was 26 years of age, he married Ann Tarling in Cheltenham during April 1828. Two different dates for the event are indicated on the IGI, the first being 13^th April, and the second being 28^th April. Once married the couple settled in Charlton Kings, to the south and east of Cheltenham, and it was there that their three known children were born and baptised when, on each occasion, the parents were recorded as Frederick and Ann Collett. It was at Ham Road in Charlton Kings that the family was living at the time of the census in 1841. The census return listed the family as Frederick Collett and his wife Ann, both with a rounded age of 35, while their three daughters were Eliza Collett who was eleven, Emma Collett who was eight, and Elizabeth Collett who was six years old. Listed with the family was Hannah Sandall aged 20 and born within the county.
	The family was still living in Charlton Kings at the end of the decade, but by the time of the census in 1851 only the couple’s youngest daughter was still living at the family home in Charlton Kings. The family’s surname on that occasion was spelt with just one t, so Frederick Collet from Tewkesbury was 49, his wife Ann was 51, and daughter Elizabeth Collet was 16. Living and working nearby in Charlton Kings, and under the correct spelling of her name, was the couple’s eldest daughter Eliza Collett who was 22, and whose place of birth was confirmed as Charlton Kings, while the other absent daughter Emma was living and working in Cheltenham at the age of 19, although her place of birth was noted by her employer as Cheltenham, rather than Charlton Kings.
	In 1861 Frederick and Ann were living alone in Charlton Kings, where Frederick Collett from Tewkesbury was 59, and his wife Ann Collett was 61. With no trace of any of their three daughters, it may be assumed that they were all married by that time. The couple was also recorded as still residing in Charlton Kings ten years later in 1871, when Frederick was 69 and Ann was 70. Towards the end of the next decade they both passed away at Charlton Kings within a few months of each other. First was Ann Collett, nee Tarling, who died during the last three months of 1879, with her passing recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 276) at the age of 78. It was there also that the death of Frederick Collett, at the age of 77, was recorded (Ref. 6a 307) during the first three months of 1880.
	5O4		Eliza Collett			Born in 1829 at Charlton Kings
	5O5		Emma Collett			Born in 1832 at Charlton Kings
	5O6		Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1835 at Charlton Kings
5N4	Jane Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1805 and was baptised there on 10^th January 1806, another child of Joseph and Margaret Collett.
5N5	Eliza Collett was born in Tewkesbury and probably around 1807, which means she was eight years old when she was baptised at Tewkesbury on 2^nd April 1815, the fifth and last child of Joseph Collett and Margaret Weaver.
5N6	William Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 1^st April 1798, the eldest child of William Collett and his wife Mary Crosswell. It is also worth noting that a later William Collett, born to William and Mary was baptised at Bredon on 12^th January 1800. It was around the time that he was five years of age that his parents moved to the hamlet of Bredon’s Hardwick in Worcestershire, about than three miles north-east of Tewkesbury. When he was approaching thirty years of age William married Catherine Sutton, following which the couple continued to live in Bredon’s Hardwick where their three children were born. However, it was at nearby village of Bredon that the children were baptised at St Giles’ Church, when the children’s parents were confirmed as William and Catherine Collett.
	Tragically it was around the time of the birth of the couple’s third child when William Collett died during 1839 or 1840, leaving Catherine as a widow with three young children. That sad event for the family was confirmed in the census of 1841 when Catherine Collett, with a rounded age of 30, was still living in Bredon, with her three children, but at the home of Catherine’s older married brother William Sutton and his wife Mary. Her three children that day were John Collett who was ten, William Collett who was six, and Mary Collett who was two years old.
	Ten years later and, following the deaths of her parents-in-law, Catherine Collett appears to have left Bredon, when she moved into the town of Tewkesbury, where she was living in 1851. The only one of her children still living with her at that time was her youngest Mary. Catherine Collett was 48 (sic), while Mary Collett was 12 years of age. Catherine’s age of 48 is known to be an error since she was really 42, having been born around 1808.
	Catherine’s son John had remained living and working in Bredon and was the only Collett still living in the village in 1851, where he was recorded in the census that year as John Collett, aged 19 years. However, Catherine and Mary returned to Bredon during the 1850s, since it was there that they were both living together in the census of 1861. Catherine Collett was 51, her daughter Mary Ann Collett was 21, by which time she had a base-born child George Henry Collett who was just one year old.
	Catherine Collett appears to have remained in Bredon for the rest of her life, since she was still residing there in 1871 at the age of 61 and, on that occasion, she was still living with her unmarried daughter Mary A Collett and her grandson George. Ten years later Catherine was living at 8 Alms House in the village of Bredon in 1881, when she was described as Catherine Collett, an annuitant and from West Stanley in Gloucester who was 72 years of age.
	5O7		John Collett		Born in 1831 at Bredon’s Hardwick, Worcs.
	5O8		William Henry Collett		Born in 1834 at Bredon’s Hardwick, Worcs.
	5O9		Mary Ann Collett		Born in 1839 at Bredon’s Hardwick, Worcs.
5N7	John Crosswell Collett was born at Tewkesbury where he was baptised on 1^st June 1800, the son of William Collett and his wife Mary Crosswell. When he was only around three years old his parents took the family from Tewkesbury to the nearby village of Bredon, where John’s two sisters were born. Whilst the rest of his family appear to have settled in Bredon, by the time of the census in 1841 John Collett was a married man with a family living at Broadwell within the Stow-on-the-Wold registration district and, although no record of him has been found in 1851, it was at Broadwell that he was living in 1861 when he was recorded as John Callett (sic) from Bredon who was 62.
	John was twenty-nine when he married Mary Benfield, the daughter of James and Mary Benfield, who was baptised at Bledington on 28^th August 1808. It was also at Bledington, four miles east of Stow-on-the-Wold, that John and Mary were married on 1^st October 1829. The couple initially settled in nearby Condicote, where their first child was born, before the young family moved a few miles east, to Broadwell just north of Stow-on-the-Wold. According to the Broadwell census in 1841 the family by then comprised John Collett who was 40, Mary who was 32, Joseph who was nine, Arthur who was six, Hannah who was three, and Eliza who was one year old.
	Whilst no record of any member of the family has so far been identified in 1851, it is established that Mary Collett nee Benfield died during the mid-1840s. Three deaths for Mary Collett were recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold in 1843, 1844 and 1846, although it has yet to be determined which of them was the wife of John Collett. It is possible she died during childbirth, since no further children were added to her original four offspring. The loss of his wife, and with a young family to look after, may be the reason for the family’s absence in 1851, while the remaining five members of the family were still recorded at Broadwell on the day of the census in 1861.
	John Collett from Bredon Hardwick was a widower and head of the household, when he was 62 and working as an agricultural labourer. His two unmarried sons Joseph Collett aged 29 and Arthur Collett aged 27 were both agricultural labourers, possibly working alongside their father. Of John’s two daughters, Hannah was 22 and married to labourer William Hooper, also 22, while Eliza Collett was 20 years old and was very likely looking after the home of her father. The last member of the household was John’s base-born grandson William Collett who was under one year old. It was later that William was revealed to be the son of unmarried Hannah Collett, although no registration of birth or baptism has been unearthed. All four of John’s children were recorded as having been born at Broadwell, as was his grandson.
	During the next decade John’s second son Arthur became a married man, and it was with him and his wife and young family that John was living in 1871. At that stage in his life John Collett was described as a widower who was 72 and a disabled labourer, the father of head of the household Arthur Collett. Almost one year later the death of John Collett was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 259) during the first three months of 1872 when his age was thought to have been 74.
	5O10		Joseph Collett		Born in 1832 at Condicote
	5O11		Arthur Collett		Born in 1834 at Broadwell
	5O12		Hannah Collett		Born in 1838 at Broadwell
	5O13		Eliza Collett		Born in 1839 at Broadwell
5N8	Joseph Collett was born at Tewkesbury towards the end of 1802 and was baptised there on 27^th February 1803, the third son of William Collett and his wife Mary Crosswell. He was only a couple of years old when his parents took the family to live in the nearby village of Bredon where his two sisters (below) were born. It was on 27^th May 1827 when Joseph Collett, aged 24, married Mary Louisa Tuson, aged 18, at the parish chapel in St Pancras in London. Around seven years after they were married their first-known child was born at Whitechapel, with an alternative source suggesting it was at Stepney. It is possible there may have been earlier children who did not survive. Mary Louisa Tuson was also born at Whitechapel in 1809, and she gave birth to six children, although only five are listed below. The first three children were born at Whitechapel, with the most of the family residing at Goodmans Field in Whitechapel when the surname was recorded as Collet. Joseph Collet had a rounded age of 35, Louisa Collet was 30, Harriet Collet was seven years of age, and Richard Collet was just one year old. Missing that day was daughter Emma who was three and recorded with Louisa’s Tuson family at Rhodeswell Road in Mile End.
	During the next few years, the family moved to nearby St George-in-the-East where their next two children were born and where they were living at 1 North Street in 1851. By that time in his life Joseph Collett from Tewkesbury was 48 and working as a gun finisher. His wife Louisa was 42, daughter Harriett was 16, son Joseph R Collett was 10 – both recorded as born at Whitechapel, son Henry was six, and daughter Mary Louisa Collett was four years of age. Absent from the family home again, was daughter Emma who was 13 and still living with her elderly grandmother Christina Tuson.
	The family was still living at 1 North Street ten years later when the census in 1861 listed the family as Joseph Collett who was 59 and a gun finisher from Gloucestershire, Louisa Collett who was 51, Harriet Collett who was 25 and working as a servant, Joseph Richard Collett who was 20 and a labourer in a gun factory, Henry Collett who was 15 and an apprenticed gun maker, and Louisa Collett who was 13 and still attending school. Every member of the family, excluding Joseph was noted as having been born in Middlesex.
	During the next decade Joseph Collett died leaving his widow residing at 21 Nelson Street in 1871. On that occasion she was described as Mary L Collett from Spitalfields who was 62 and a householder. The only person living there with her was her grandson Richard Collett, aged seven years from Bethnal Green, who was the eldest child of her son Joseph Richard Collett. He was staying with his grandmother for the simple reason that his own mother had only just given birth to her third child.
	According to the census in 1891 Mary L Collett of London was 82 and living at Bromley in south London where she was a widow living on her own means. The only member of her extended family living there with her was her granddaughter 22-year-old Louisa Cary who was employed as Mary’s housekeeper. She was a daughter of Mary’s eldest child Harriet. It was thirteen years later that Mary Louisa Collett, nee Tuson, aged 86, died in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets with her passing recorded at Poplar register office (Ref. 1c 385) in 1895.
	5O14		Harriet Louisa Collett							Born in 1834 at Whitechapel, London
	5O15		Emma Susan Collett							Born in 1838 at Whitechapel, London
	5O16		Joseph Richard Collett							Born in 1840 at Whitechapel, London
	5O17		Henry Edward Collett							Born in 1845 at St George-in-the-East
	5O18		Louisa Mary Collett							Born in 1847 at St George-in-the-East
5N9	Ann Collett was born at Bredon during May 1806 and was baptised there at the Church of St Giles on 6^th July 1806, the daughter of William and Mary Collett. Sadly, she was only seven months old when she died at Bredon on 21^st January 1807. However, Ann may have had a younger sister with the same name, since in 1826 an Ann Collett of Bredon had a base-born son Charles Collett who was baptised at Bredon on 27^th July 1826. The name of the child’s father was not entered in the parish register.
	5O19		Charles Collett				Born in 1826 at Bredon, nr Tewkesbury
5N10	Sarah Collett was born at Bredon during the early days of October 1807 and it was there also that she was baptised on 25^th October 1807, the daughter of William and Mary Collett from Tewkesbury. When Sarah was around twenty-two-years-of-age she gave birth to a base-born son who was baptised at Bredon who, on more than one occasion later in his life, gave his place of birth as Bredon Norton, midway between Tewkesbury and Pershore. The parish records for the Church of St Giles confirmed that Sarah Collett was the mother, while no name was given for the father.
	Charles Collett was baptised at Bredon on 26^th December 1829 and by the time of the census in 1841 his mother Sarah may well have been married, since no record of a Sarah Collett of the right age has been found anywhere in Great Britain. However, a child of the same name as her son has been identified in the Bredon census of 1841, although that slightly older Charles Collett was 13 years old and the son of Sarah’s sister Ann Collett (above).
	5O20		Charles Collett	Born in 1829 at Bredon Norton, Worcestershire
5N11	Henry Collett was born in London at Finsbury on 24^th November 1803 and was baptised there on 5^th March 1804 at St Luke’s Church on Old Street. He was the eldest of the six children of Henry Collett and Sarah Stafford. He died just prior to his third birthday and was buried at the Quakers Bunhill Fields Burial Ground in Finsbury Manor, within the London Borough of Islington on 12^th October 1806, where her younger sisters Hester, and later Elizabeth, (below) were buried. Henry and Hester Mary died within one month of each other, presumably from the same illness or condition.
5N12	Elizabeth Collett was born within the St Luke’s Finsbury area of London on 30^th September 1804, the eldest daughter of Henry and Sarah Collett. She was possibly the Elizabeth Collett who was buried on 28^th February 1830 at the Quakers Bunhill Fields Burial Ground in Finsbury Manor, within the London Borough of Islington, where her younger sister Hester (below) had been buried.
5N13	Henry Stafford Collett - go to Part 75 - The London to Kansas Connection (75N1)
5N14	Hester Mary Collett was born at St Luke’s, Finsbury on 7^th May 1806, another daughter of Henry Collett and Sarah Stafford. The infant death of Hester Mary Collett happened six months later when she was buried at Bunhill Fields Burial Ground in Finsbury on 13^th November 1806.
5N15	Charles Collett was the only one of the six children of Henry and Sarah Collett to be born at Cripplegate in London on 24^th July 1809 and baptised there at St Giles’ Church on 14^th January 1810. The couples’ other children were born and baptised at St Luke’s in Finsbury.
5N16	George Collett - go to Part 75 - The London to Kansas Connection (75N2)
	APPENDIX
	George Collett (5N16 to 75N2) was born in London in 1811. During the research, another George Collett of a similar age was discovered and his family details, as far as they are known, have been included here in the hope his family line can be investigated and established at a future time
5m1	Richard Thomas Collett was possibly born in London during the 1770s, and it was on 25^th March 1799 that he married Mary Ann Heather at St Bride’s Church in Fleet Street, where their son was later married. Only two children have so far been credited to the couple.
	5n1		Harriet Selina Collett					Born in 1809 at Stepney/Whitechapel
	5n2		George Daniel Collett					Born in 1812 at Bloomsbury, London
5n1	Harriet Selina Collett was born at Altab Ali Park, Whitechapel Road in the Stepney area of London on 8^th July 1809, and was baptised at St Mary’s Church in Whitechapel on 26^th August 1810. She was the only known daughter of Richard Thomas Collett and Mary Ann Heather. No record of a Harriet Selina Collett has been found after 1810.
5n2	George Daniel Collett was born at Bloomsbury within the London Borough of Camden on 29^th May 1812, the son of Richard Thomas Collett and his wife Mary Ann Heather. He was twelve years of age when he was baptised at a non-conformist at Zion Chapel on Union Street in Mile End Old Town on 10^th October 1824. By 1841 and simply as George Collett, he was a married man living on Hackney Road in Bethnal Green, under four miles from where he was born.
	It was nine years prior to that census day when George Daniel Collett married Elizabeth Orton at St Bride’s Church on Fleet Street in London on 17^th January 1832, with their only known child born towards the end of the following year. The three of them were therefore residing at Hackney Road in June 1841, where George Collett was 29, his wife Elizabeth was 28, and their son George Collett was incorrectly recorded as not yet one year old. George junior was almost seven years of age. It may therefore have been an enumerator error, writing six months, and not six years, or an error in transcription.
	Two years later their son was baptised at St Leonard’s Church in Shoreditch, with his baptism record confirming his date of birth. The family was still living in the same area of London in 1851, when the census for Hackney Road in Bethnal Green recorded the three members of the family as George Collett aged 38 who was a bedstead maker from Bloomsbury, his wife Elizabeth also 38 was from Hackney, while their son George Collett was listed as born at Finsbury who was 17 years of age. After a further three years George junior became the father of a son of his own and, in the census of 1861 that grandchild was only person living with George and Elizabeth.
	By that time George and Elizabeth had moved to the parish of St Mary Islington in the London Borough on Finsbury, where they were residing at 12 Richard Street, and from where both were making uniforms for the British Army. George Collett was 49 and an army tailor from St Georges Bloomsbury in Middlesex, his wife Elizabeth was 48 and an army tailoress from St Johns Hackney, and living with the couple was their grandson George Collett, aged six years, a scholar from Shoreditch, whose family was also residing in Islington.
	The possible reason for their grandson to be living with them at that time, was because married son George, and his wife Sarah, were also living nearby in Islington, who had two younger children to look after.
	5o1		George Thomas Collett					Born in 1833 at Bethnal Green, London
5o1	George Thomas Collett was born in London between 1833 and 1840, the only known child of George Daniel Collett and Elizabeth Orton. The uncertain nature of his date of birth was caused by the confused recordings within the following two census returns for 1841 and 1851. In the first of them George junior was under one year old in the Bethnal Green & Hackney Road census, while ten years later he was 17 years old and a bedstead maker whose place of birth was recorded at Finsbury, midway between Bloomsbury and Bethnal Green. That misunderstanding has now been resolved by the discovery of his full name and date of birth, both revealed on the occasion of his much later baptism. The record of that event, which took place at St Leonard’s Church in Shoreditch on 20^th August 1843, confirmed that George Thomas Collett had been born on 15^th October 1833, the son of George Daniel Collett and his wife Elizabeth.
	Just over three years after the census day in 1851 the marriage of George Thomas Collett and Sarah Ann Ford was recorded at Islington (Ref. 1b 363) during the second quarter of 1854. Sarah was the eldest child of David and Sarah Ford of St Luke, Middlesex, and was born there at Old Street in 1831. Knowing that a branch of this family has a continuation in Part 75 – The London to Kansas Connection, it is interesting that in 1831 Henry Stafford Collett [75N1] married Harriet Ford whose children were all born at Shoreditch between 1830 and 1840.
	Over the remainder of that decade Sarah presented George with three children, with the first two children born at Shoreditch, after which the family moved to Islington where their third child was born and where George’s parents were residing in 1861. On the day of that census George and Sarah had their two youngest children were them, with their eldest child recorded nearby in Islington with his paternal grandparents. George T Collett from Shoreditch was 27 and a watch level escapement maker living at William Street in Islington, where Sarah A Collett from St Luke’s was 29, daughter Elizabeth Collett from Shoreditch was four years old, and David Collett from Islington was two years of age.
	5p1		George Collett					Born in 1854 at Shoreditch, London
	5p2		Elizabeth Collett					Born in 1856 at Shoreditch, London
	5p3		David Collett					Born in 1858 at Islington, London
5p1	George Collett was born at Shoreditch in London, perhaps near the end of 1854, the eldest child of George Daniel Collett and Sarah Ann Ford. His birth was registered at Shoreditch (Ref. 1c 162) during the first three months of 1855. With two siblings added to the family before the end of the decade, George was sent to living with his paternal grandparents at 12 Richard Street in Islington where he was six years of age in 1861 and attending school.
	George Collett of Middlesex was married around 1880 and was recorded in the 1881 Census as a married man aged 27 and a labourer living in Mile End Old Town with his just born son William Collett who had been born at nearby Stepney.