PART FIVE

The Tewkesbury Line - 1850 to 2020

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

Updated June 2025

5N17	Mary Ann Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 21^st April 1805, the first-born child of Samuel Collett and Mary Shepherd. It was also Tewkesbury that she later married Charles Heaven on 14^th September 1846.
5N18	William Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 19^th October 1806. Tragically he died in 1818 at the age of 11, while he was living with his family at Church Street in Tewkesbury. William was buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s Church in Tewkesbury on 15^th February 1818 and was the eldest son of Samuel and Mary Collett
5N19	Thomas Shepherd Collett was the surviving son of Samuel Collett and Mary Shepherd, who was born at Tewkesbury in 1807 and baptised there on 3^rd December 1807. A Thomas Collett, born in the County of Gloucestershire had a rounded aged of 30 in the Cheltenham census of 1841, when he was residing at Mitre Field, the home of the Barnard family, with his wife Mary Collett who was 23 and son Thomas Collett who was under one year old. No record of a Thomas Shepherd Collett, either marriage or death, has been found, nor has anything of Thomas, Mary, and son Thomas junior has been identified after 1841.
5N20	Harriett Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1812 where she was baptised on 6^th December 1812, the youngest of the four children of Samuel Collett and Mary Shepherd.
5N21	Mary Ann Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1824, the eldest daughter of Waterworth Collett and Sally (Sarah) Fowler. Although no baptism record for her has been found to date, she was living with her parents at Hanley Castle in Worcestershire in 1841, when she was 18 years old. Although it is known that adult ages were not accurately recorded in that first British census, Mary appears to have been given an age that was two years older than her actual age, judging by her recorded age in the subsequent census returns.
	It was on 28^th August 1843 that Mary Ann Collett married John Banner at Malvern, when her father was confirmed as ‘Walter Collett’, a weaver. John Banner was the son of Richard and Mary Banner and he was baptised at Leigh with Bransford on 27^th October 1819. Over the following two decades Mary Ann presented John Banner with eight children. The first two children were born prior to the census in 1851 when the Banner family was recorded as living at the village of Leigh, to the west of Worcester. John Banner was 30 and a coach wheelwright from Leigh, his wife Mary Ann Banner from Malvern (sic) was 26, and their children at that time were Mary Matilda Banner who was six, and Amelia Banner who was under one year old. Both daughters had been born at Leigh.
	A further four children were added to the family during the 1850s, so by 1861 the family still living at Leigh, at Link Road, comprised John Banner aged 41 continuing his occupation as that of a coach wheelwright, Mary Ann Banner aged 36, and their children Mary Matilda Banner who was 16, Amelia Banner who was 10, George Walter Banner who was seven, Sarah Selina Banner who was four, Harry Banner who was two, and Alice Banner who was not yet one year old. In 1865 the couple’s eldest daughter Mary Matilda married John Allen. Two more children were born into the family during the next ten years and by the time of the Leigh census in 1871, the family was listed at Malvern Link in Leigh as John Banner 51, Mary A Banner 46, George W Banner 17, Harry T Banner 11, Alice Banner 10, Frances A Banner who was five, and Arthur J Banner who was two years old. Sadly, just over two years after that census day, the death of Mary Ann Banner was recorded at Martley (Ref. 6a 171) during the last three months of 1873, at the age of 49. She was then buried at Malvern Link on 5^th November 1873.
	The next census in 1881 gave the family’s address as 2 Cooks Cottages, on the Main Road through the village of Leigh in Worcestershire, from where sixty-one-year-old widower John Banner was working as a coach-builder. Living there with him was four of his children, they being Sarah 24, coach-builder Harry 21, laundress Alice 20, and errand boy Arthur who was eleven. Also living with the family was John Banner’s grandson, William Banner who was seven years old. William Banner was baptised at Leigh with Bransford on 14^th June 1874, the son of William and Harriet Banner. That is curious since at no time was John Banner credited with a son by the name of William, unless he was from an earlier marriage. Six years later, the death of John Banner aged 68 was recorded at Martley (Ref. 6c 144) during the fourth quarter of 1887.
	By the time of the 1881 Census, John Banner’s eldest daughter Mary Matilda and her family were living at Crooks Cottage on Pump Street in Great Malvern with her aunt Charlotte Nott, her mother’s younger sister. Mary Matilda Banner had married John Allen on 23^rd July 1865 at St. Matthias Church in Malvern Link. Over the years between 1865 and 1881, Mary had presented her husband with seven children, and all of them born while the family was living in Malvern. The census in 1881 confirmed that John was a plasterer from Gloucester and that he was 41, while his wife Mary M Allen was 37 and a nurse from Malvern. Their seven children were listed as labourer Alfred C Allen aged 15, apprentice plumber Frederick G Allen who was 14, Laura L Allen, who was nine, Albert E Allen, who was eight, Elizabeth E Allen, who was five, Fanny M Allen who was three, and Walter J Allen who was just one year old.
	John’s and Mary’s daughter Laura Louisa Allen was born at Malvern on 25^th June 1870 and she married William Henry Hooper Booth on 1^st December 1889 with whom she had five children. William was a professional golfer from Twyning in Gloucestershire and travelled extensively across southern England. The couple’s first child was born at Minehead in Somerset, and the next two at South Norwood in London, but by the end of the century the family had settled in South Wales.
	By the time of the April census in 1911 the family living in the Gower area of Wales was made up of William Henry Hooper Booth 42, Laura Louisa Booth 41, Florence May Booth 18, Violet Dorothy Booth 16, Daisy Blanche Booth 14, Lilian Rose Booth who was eight, and Edgar Walter Booth who was seven years old. It was their son Edgar who was born on 7^th July 1903 who had a son of his own, William Henry Booth who was born on 6^th November 1931, and he was the father of Sue James nee Booth, who kindly provided all the information regarding her family back to Waterworth Collett. We are also very grateful to Sue who, in 2019, generously provided copies of the Wills of Henry Collett [Ref. 5K17] in 1774, his son Henry Collett [Ref. 5L17] in 1803, plus that of Henry Collett (a seedsman) in 1812.
5N22	Charlotte Collett was born in 1826 at Tewkesbury where she was baptised on 21^st May 1826, the daughter of Waterworth and Sarah Collett. She was still living in the Tewkesbury area in 1828 when her baby brother Timothy (below) was born, but sadly he did not survive. It may have been that family tragedy that prompted the family to leave Tewkesbury and move to the neighbouring county of Worcestershire where Charlotte’s mother had been born. By the time of the census in 1841 Charlotte and her sister Mary (above) were living at Hanley Castle with their parents.
	Charlotte was incorrectly listed as being sixteen years of age, rather than fifteen, which she was in June 1841. Ten years later in the census of 1851 her age was more accurately given as twenty-four, when she was working as a laundress while still living with her parents at Hanley Castle near Upton-on-Severn. Just over three years after that Charlotte’s mother died in May 1854, leaving her to look after her aging father. By 1861 Charlotte was still unmarried at thirty-four-years of age and was living with her father at Hanley Castle.
	There were two major events in Charlotte’s life during the next decade, the first being her marriage to bricklayer John Nott, and the second being the death of her father in May 1870 for which his son-in-law John Nott was the informant. Just less than a year later in April 1871, Charlotte and John Nott were still living in Hanley Castle. The census revealed that Charlotte was 44, while her husband John was thirteen years old at 57.
	Charlotte’s marriage was short lived, when sometime during the 1870s John Nott died leaving Charlotte alone and a widow by the time of the census in 1881. At that time in her life, she was living at Bedford Cottage in Pump Street in Great Malvern. She was described as a former laundress who was aged 54 and from Tewkesbury. Living at the same address, and listed separately but on the same census return, was the family of John Allen and his wife Mary Matilda Allen who was the eldest daughter of Charlotte’s sister Mary Ann Banner nee Collett. It would appear from the absence of Charlotte Nott in the next census in 1891 that she had died at Great Malvern during the 1880s.
5N23	Timothy Collett was born at Tewkesbury and it was there that he was baptised on 30^th March 1828, the son of Walterworth and Sarah Collett. It would appear from the census in 1841 that Timothy had died some years earlier since he was not listed with the rest of his family which was living at Hanley Castle in Worcestershire by that time.
5N26	Jane Collett was born in Tewkesbury during 1790 and was baptised there on 16^th August 1790, the eldest of the seven children of John and Jane Collett.
5N27	Anne Collett was another daughter of John and Jane Collett who was born at Tewkesbury, where she was baptised on 24^th January 1792 and most likely born there near the end of 1791.
5N28	John Collett was born at Tewkesbury towards the end of 1794, and it was there that he was baptised on 24^th February 1795, the eldest son of John and Jane Collett. It was also at Tewkesbury where he married (1) Judith Poole on 22^nd June 1815. John’s occupation as a lace maker may have been the reason for the family moving between Tewkesbury and Nottingham. An indication of this is given by the birth place of the first, fourth and fifth child being Tewkesbury, with the second and third child being born at St Mary in Nottingham. The sixth and last child was not from the marriage of John and Judith. She was the base-born daughter of the relationship between John Collett and (2) Julia Snape, formerly Julia Gabbitas, who was born at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire.
	In the census return for June 1841 John, with a rounded age of 40, was confirmed as living in the Mansfield area of Nottinghamshire with Julia who was 28, and four of John’s children from his first marriage, together with the child born out of wedlock. They were Mary aged 15, Eliza aged 14, Joseph who was nine, Ellen who was seven, and baby Harriet who was just one year old. However, although Julia was named in that census as Julia Collett, she was not married to John for another six years. The wedding of John Collett and Julia Snape was recorded at Nottingham (Ref. xv 784) during the third quarter of 1847.
	During the next three years John took his family to Hull in Yorkshire where they were living in 1851, by which time all but two of the children had left home. The reduced family was recorded in the census that year in the parish of Sutton within the Sculcoates registration district of Kingston-upon-Hull. John Collett from Tewkesbury was 57, Julia Collett was 46, Mary A Collett was 30, and Harriet Collett was 14, when in fact she would have been only 11. Four other people were with the family on that day and they were Margaret Pickham who was 40, George Pennington who was 36, Mary Pennington who was 42, and Sarah Pennington who was 10.
	The death of John Collett was recorded at Sculcoates (Ref. 9d 4) during the first three months of 1858, following which his widow Julia returned to Nottingham where she married John Warner in the third quarter of 1859.
	This is the family line of Kate Birkett of 28 The Spinney, Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire.
	5O21	William Haynes Collett		Born in 1816 at Tewkesbury
	5O22	Mary Ann Collett		Born in 1822 at Nottingham
	5O23	Richard Collett		Born in 1825 at Nottingham
	5O24	Eliza Collett		Born in 1827 at Tewkesbury
	5O25	Joseph Collett		Born in 1831 at Tewkesbury
	5O26	Ellen Collett		Born in 1834 at Tewkesbury
	The following child was the daughter of John Collett by Julia Snape:
	5O27	Harriet Snape Collett		Born in 1839 at Mansfield
5N29	William Collett was the second son of John and Jane who was born at Tewkesbury in 1797 and baptised there on 4^th June 1797, but suffered a premature death just after.
5N30	William Collett was born at Tewkesbury just over a year after his brother and namesake died as an infant. He was born at Tewkesbury towards the end of 1798 and was baptised at Tewkesbury on 7^th January 1799. The baptism record indicated that his parents, John, and Jane Collett, were protestant dissenters.
5N31	Elizabeth Collett was born at Tewkesbury just after the start of the new century, although no record of her being the daughter of John and Jane Collett has been found. What places her with this family is her brother Richard (below), whose father is known to have been John Collett. In fact, in the census returns for 1841 and 1851, Elizabeth was living with her brother Richard Collett and, later in 1861, she was staying with Richard’s widow. Elizabeth never married and, in the census conducted in June 1841, she was living at Davies Alley off Barton Street in Tewkesbury. Today Barton Street is the main road A438. That year Elizabeth Collett had a rounded age of 35 and was sharing the dwelling with her brother Richard Collett whose rounded age was 30. Richard was a stocking maker, while Elizabeth, with no stated occupation, was presumably keeping house.
	During the following decade Richard became a married man and, in the census of 1851, he was head of the household at Barton Street in Tewkesbury, where he was living with his wife Silvia and their daughter. Also living with the family were four other people, the first of whom was unmarried Elizabeth Collett, aged 49, who was a stocking maker from Tewkesbury. On that occasion she was simply described as a relation of Richard Collett, while the other three were described as lodgers.
	Ten years later unmarried Elizabeth Collett from Tewkesbury was 60 and her occupation was that of a cotton dealer. She was still living at Barton Street in Tewkesbury, although by then she was living at the home of Silvia Collett – her brother’s widow, who was head of the household and another cotton dealer. On that occasion Elizabeth Collett was recorded as being the sister-in-law of Silvia Collett. After a further ten years the census in 1871 placed Elizabeth Collett aged 76 (sic) as still living at the home of her sister-in-law Silvia Collett at 26 Barton Street in Tewkesbury. She was not credited with an occupation on that day and was simply described as a boarder. It seems likely that the enumerator incorrectly recorded her age, since she would have been nearer to 70 than 76. Nine year later, the death of 90-year-old Elizabeth Collett was recorded at Tewkesbury in 1880 (Ref. 6a 339).
5N32	Richard Collett was born at Tewkesbury around 1805, his father confirmed as John Collett, a stocking maker, on the day that he married. It is that fact which places him here as the son of John and Jane Collett. Richard too was a stocking maker like his father and sister Elizabeth (above). By the time of the census in 1841 Richard Collett and with his sister Elizabeth Collett were living at Davies Alley off Barton Street in Tewkesbury. The census that year gave Richard a rounded age of 30, while his occupation was that of a stocking maker. His sister Elizabeth had a rounded aged of 35 when they were both recorded as having been born within the county of Gloucestershire.
	It was just over two years later that Richard Collett, a bachelor of full age and a hosier who signed his name, was married by banns to Silvia Collett, a spinster of full age who made her mark, the wedding taking place at St Mary’s Church in Cheltenham on 27^th August 1843. Richard’s father was named as John Collett, a stocking maker, who in 1841 had been living in Cheltenham. While Silvia’s father was described as John Collett, dead. So far though it has not been determined who she was, nor has it yet been established who was her father and to which branch of the family he belonged. The address given for both the bride and the groom was Hartley House, which may have been the residence of Richard’s father.
	It was nearly four years later when the birth of their daughter was registered at Tewkesbury, during the second quarter of 1847. It is therefore possible that there may have been other children born to the couple during those years whose birth and baptism records have still to be discovered. According to the census in 1851 Richard Collett, aged 44 and from Tewkesbury, was again working as a stocking maker, while he was still living in a dwelling on Barton Street in Tewkesbury with his family.
	His wife Silvia Collett from Tewkesbury was 40 and was also working as a stocking maker, while their daughter Elizabeth Collett was three years old. Living with the family was Elizabeth Collett, Richard’s older sister, who was another stocking maker from Tewkesbury who was described as an unmarried relation to head of the household Richard. Also living with the family on that day in 1851 were three lodgers and they were, Samuel Wearing an annuitant of 78 from Fairford, Frederick Martin aged 40 and a pauper from Tewkesbury, and Maria Golding from Pendock in Worcestershire who was 20 and a dressmaker. Although no record of his death has found, his absence from any later census would appear to indicate that Richard Collett died at Tewkesbury sometime during the 1850s.
	According to the census in 1861 the family’s home was still on Barton Street in Tewkesbury, but by then Silvia Collett was head of the household and was a cotton dealer at the age of 50. Living there with her was her daughter Elizabeth Collett who was 13, together with her unmarried sister-in-law Elizabeth Collett from Tewkesbury who was 60 and a cotton dealer. Lodging with the family on that occasion was Hannah Brooking, a widow of 56 from Warwickshire.
	Curiously in the Tewkesbury census of 1871 Silvia Collett was recorded as being 58 years old when she was residing at 26 Barton Street in Tewkesbury from where she was working as a hosier. Still living there with her was her unmarried daughter Elizabeth Collett who was 23, and the older Elizabeth Collett – her sister-in-law, who was simply described as a boarder, with all three of them confirmed as having been born at Tewkesbury.
	By the time of the census in 1881 the widow Silvia Collett was 64. That conflicts with her stated age in the previous census return when she was more than likely nearer 70 years of age. By that time in her life, she was living at Woods Court in Tewkesbury, where she was the keeper of the Independent Chapel. Living there with her was her unmarried daughter Elizabeth Collett who was 33 and born in Tewkesbury, like her mother. It was just over five years later that the death of Silvia Collett was recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 263) during the second quarter of 1886 when it was noted that she was 75 years old.
	5O28	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1847 at Tewkesbury
5O1	Henry Collett was baptised at Tewkesbury on 19^th October 1817, the only known child of Joseph Collett and his wife Hester Beale, although on the baptism record his mother was named as Elizabeth. No further details regarding Henry or his parents are known after that time.
5O2	Joseph Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1824, and was baptised there on 16^th December 1824, the first-born son of Cornelius Collett and Hester Wither Bale. Joseph never reached full-age, with the death of Joseph Collett recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. xi 319) after which he was laid to rest in Tewkesbury on 8^th April 1843.
5O3	William Collett was possibly born around 1827 and was baptised at Tewkesbury on 21^st December 1828, the second son of Cornelius and Esther Collett. By 1841 he was living with his parents in Tewkesbury at the age of 15 and was still there ten years later in 1851 when he was 23. Three years later William married Charlotte Scott at Tewkesbury on 14^th May 1854; he was 27 and she was 29. The record of their marriage confirmed that the groom’s father was Cornelius Collett. Charlotte was born in 1825 at Tewkesbury and was the daughter of Charles Scott of Painswick, near Gloucester. Judging by the fact that couple’s eldest daughter was born later that same year or very early in the following year, Charlotte may have already been with-child on their wedding day.
	Over the next few years Charlotte presented her husband with a total of four children, but tragically around the time of the birth of the last child William Collett died. By the time of the census in 1861, Charlotte was a widow and had just four children living with her at a dwelling on the High Street in Tewkesbury. Charlotte Collett, aged 34, was earning a living as a seamstress to support her young family, who were recorded as Emma Collett, who was six, Charles Collett, who was five, Eliza Collett, who was three, and Sarah Collett who was one year old. All occupants of the house were confirmed as having been born at Tewkesbury, while the census return also confirmed that the three older children were all attending the local school.
	Ten years later, in 1871, Charlotte Collett was 46 when she was still living in Tewkesbury. By that time her two eldest children had left home, but still living with Charlotte were her daughters Eliza Collett who was 13, and Sarah A Collett who was 11. Following the death of her mother-in-law Esther Collett sometime after 1861, Charlotte took into her home her widowed father-in-law Cornelius Collett. In addition, she also had her own widowed father Charles Scott living with her in 1871.
	It was a similar situation in 1881, except by then all of Charlotte’s children had left the family home. According to that year’s census return Charlotte Collett, aged 55, was working as a cord winder, while living with her at 20 Spring Gardens in Tewkesbury was her father Charles Scott who was 83 and a cord winder, together with her father-in-law Cornelius Collett who was 81, and a stocking weaver. Living next door to them, at 18 Springs Gardens in Tewkesbury, was Charlotte’s married son Charles Collett with his family. Also, on that occasion, Charlotte’s youngest daughter Sarah was 21 and was living and working in Wolverhampton where she was joined by Charlotte a few years later, presumably after the deaths of her two elderly relatives.
	With no corresponding records having been found for her two other daughters Emma and Eliza, it may be assumed that they were both married before 1881. As mentioned above, Charlotte left Tewkesbury during the 1880s and in 1891 she was living in Wolverhampton at the age of 65, and by which time her daughter Sarah was married. Her place of birth was confirmed as Tewkesbury, as it was in March 1901 when she was still living in Wolverhampton at 75. With no record of Charlotte Collett of Tewkesbury in the census in April 1911, it is highly likely that she died sometime between 1901 and 1911, and probably at Wolverhampton.
	5P1	Emma Collett	Born in 1854 at Tewkesbury
	5P2	Charles Collett	Born in 1855 at Tewkesbury
	5P3	Eliza Collett	Born in 1857 at Tewkesbury
	5P4	Sarah Ann Collett	Born in 1859 at Tewkesbury
5O4	Eliza Collett was the first of the three daughters of Frederick Collett and Ann Tarling. She was born in Charlton Kings in 1829, where she was baptised on 5^th July 1829. Within the Charlton Kings census of 1841 Eliza was eleven years old and by 1851 she had left the family home but was living nearby in the Leckhampton district of South Cheltenham where she was employed as a domestic servant, when her place of birth was confirmed as Charlton Kings. Three years later the married of Eliza Collett and James Walkley was recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 817) during the last three months of 1854. James was some years younger than Eliza, as a consequence, her age was reduced in subsequent census returns.
	Once they were married, they initially settled in Glamorganshire where the couple’s first two children were born. The four members of the family were recorded in the Glamorgan census in 1861 at the High Street in Swansea, where James Walkley from Cheltenham was 27, Eliza Walkley from Cheltenham was 30, and their daughters were Eliza A Walkley who was four, and Agnes E Walkley who was two years old, who had been born in Swansea.
	With the passing of ten years, and according to the following census return in 1871, Eliza Walkley from Cheltenham was said to be 38 years of age when she and her family were residing at Steynton, just north of Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire. Her husband James was 36 and a commercial traveller, when their children were Eliza Alice Walkley from Swansea aged 14, Agnes Emma Walkley from Swansea was 12, William Frederick Walkley was six, all three children attending school, Ellen Mary Walkley was three, and Charlotte Annie Walkley was one year old. The three youngest children had been born at Milford Haven.
	No more children were added to the family which was still living in Steynton in 1881. By then James was 47 and a commercial traveller in wines and spirits, his wife Eliza was 50, when just four of their five children were still living there with them. They were Agnes who was 22 and employed as a dressmaker, William who was 16, Ellen who was 13, and Charlotte who was 11, all three attending school.
5O5	Emma Collett was born in 1832 at Charlton Kings and baptised there on 5^th July 1832, the second daughter of Frederick and Ann Collett. Emma was eight years old in the census of 1841 for Charlton Kings but on completing her schooling she too left the family home. In 1851, at the age of 19 years, she was living with the family of grocer and tea merchant Jabez Chambers in Cheltenham where she was described as a house servant.
5O6	Elizabeth Collett was the last of the three daughters of Frederick and Ann Collett who was born in 1834 at Charlton Kings where she was baptised on 3^rd May 1835. She was recorded in the 1841 census as living with her family in Charlton Kings aged six years, and was the only child still living with her family in Charlton Kings in 1851.
5O7	John Collett was born during 1831 in the hamlet of Bredon’s Hardwick in Worcestershire, just north of Tewkesbury. It was at St Giles’ Church in the nearby village of Bredon that he was baptised on 5^th June 1831, the eldest known child of William Collett and Catherine Sutton. With the death of his father just before 1840, John was 10 years old and living with his widowed mother at Bredon in 1841 and his two younger siblings at the home of his mother’s older brother William Sutton. Curiously no obvious record of John has been found from that time until 1881, by which time he had married Phoebe Whittall and had two children. Prior to their wedding day Phoebe had already given birth to a base-born a son James Whittall, who was born in 1854, father unknown, and he was still very young when he married Ann Cooper in 1871.
	On the day of the census in 1881 John was 49 and he and his wife and their two young children were living at Wyche in Great Malvern, from where John Collett of Bredon was employed as a labourer. His wife Phoebe Collett was 50 and from Collington in Herefordshire, while their two children were Alice Collett who was eight, and Fred J Collett who was six years old. Both were attending the local school, and both had been born at Colwall, midway between Ledbury and Great Malvern. It now seems highly likely that the couple had a third child Richard Collett who was born in 1876, but where he was in 1881 and 1891 is a mystery.
	Ten years later the family was still living at Upper Wyche in Great Malvern at a four-roomed dwelling listed as Mine Pits. The census in 1891 recorded John Collett as being 60 and a gardener from Bredon when his wife Phoebe from Collington was 62. Still living with the couple was their son Fredk Collett who was 16 and a bricklayer’s labourer from Colwall. One other person was recorded at their home and that was John’s granddaughter Nellie Collett who was one year old and born in Malvern.
	During the next decade Frederick left the family home and in 1901 John and Phoebe were still living in Great Malvern and still had their granddaughter living there with them. John Collett from Bredon was 69 and was working as a jobbing gardener, while his wife was confirmed as Phoebe Collett but from Colwall who was 70. On that occasion their granddaughter was named as Nellie L Collett who was ten years old. At that time the family was still occupying the property referred to as Mine Pits in Malvern. Leaving three dwellings from their home was a certain Alice Collett who was six years old and the stepdaughter of George Handy. She was the daughter of his wife Alice Handy who was John’s eldest child Alice Collett. With no other children, it seems logically that Nellie was the first base-born child of John’s only daughter Alice.
	It is established that Phoebe Collett nee Whittall was 72 when she passed away six years later and that her death was recorded at Upton-on-Severn register office (Ref. 6c 213) during the first three months of 1907. John survived his wife by around thirty months when he died in 1909 at the age of 78, with his death also recorded at Upton-on-Severn register office (Ref. 6c 136) during the third quarter of that year.
	5P5	Alice Collett	Born in 1872 at Colwall, Worcestershire
	5P6	Frederick John Collett	Born in 1874 at Colwall, Worcestershire
	5P7	Richard Collett	Born in 1876 in Worcestershire
5O8	William Henry Collett was born in the hamlet of Bredons Hardwick in Worcestershire during 1834, following which he was baptised at St Giles’ Church in Bredon on 24^th August 1834, the son of William and Catherine Collett. He was around four years old when his father died, and at the age of six he was living at Bredon with his mother and two siblings John (above) and Mary (below) at the home of William and Mary Sutton. Ten years later he had left the family home in Bredon and instead was working as a farm labourer within the parish of Twyning, one mile to the west of Bredon. William Collett from Hardwick (Bredons Hardwick) was 15 was described as the servant of widow Maria Preater, who had living with her two children from her previous marriage Lucy Hale aged 15, and William Hale aged 12, plus seven-years old son Thomas Pleater from her second marriage.
	It is unclear what happened in his life immediately after that, since it was just his sister Mary who continued to live with William’s widowed mother, with no record of William identified in the census returns for 1861, and 1871. However, it was during the second quarter of 1874, when William Henry Collett married Theresa Emily Maria Marshall, the event recorded at Worcester (Ref. 6c 419). It was at the Church of St Paul in Worcester that the couple was married on 12^th May 1874, where the church register stated that William was 37 and the son of William Collett and Emily (as she was known) was 25 and the daughter of Thomas Marshall. Both the bride and groom were single, even though Emily had already given birth to a base-born son, seven years earlier. John Marshall was baptised, across the county boundary in Worcestershire, at Tibberton on 31^st March 1867, when the only parent named was Theresa Emily Maria Marshall. Her own birth was recorded at Winchcombe (Ref. xi 509) during the last three months of 1851 using her full name as written above.
	Emily presented William with a total of three known children, the first two of which were recorded with them on the day of the census in 1881. Their daughter was born while the couple was living in Worcester, with their son born after they had settled in (Great) Malvern, not far from where William’s older brother John was living. In 1881 William Collett from Bredons Hardwick was a general domestic gardener at the age of 45, when he and his family was residing at 15 Lansdowne Terrace, Great Malvern, within the Upton-on-Severn registration district. His wife Emily Collett from Winchcombe was 31 and her son John Marshall was 14 and not in employment. The couple’s two children were recorded as Sarah A Collett from Worcester who was six years old and Henry Collett from Malvern who was two years of age. His birth had been recorded at Upton-on-Severn under the name of William Henry Collett. Living with the family at 15 Lansdowne Terrace in Great Malvern in 1881 was lodger and widower John D Thomas who was 61 and from Llanastadwell in Pembrokeshire, who was a general labourer.
	The couple’s final child was added to their family two years later while they were still living in Malvern, her birth also recorded at Upton-on-Severn. Sometime after she was born the family left (Great) Malvern and was recorded at Cradley, West Malvern in Herefordshire on the day of the next census in 1891, but without their eldest daughter. This raises the question, did the family move after Sarah Ann Collett had suffered a premature death? - since no record of her has been found in 1891 or at any time thereafter. The census return that year listed the family as William H Collett who was 55 and a gardener, his wife Emily who was 40, their son William H Collett who was 12, and their daughter Helen Collett, who was seven years old, while her birth name was Rose Ellen. During the next decade the couple’s son left the family home to make his own way in the world in South Wales and, at the same time, William and Emily returned the area of Great Malvern with their surviving daughter.
	According to the census of 1901 William H Collett, aged 65 and from Bredons Hardwick, was a non-domestic gardener living and working at Cowleigh Road in Malvern Link, with Link Common separating it from Great Malvern. Living there with him was his wife Emily Collett, aged 50 and from Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, together with their daughter Rose E Collett who was 17 and a general domestic servant who had been born at Malvern. William and Emily were still living in Malvern area in April 1911, but at Kemmerton Cottage in Upperton, North Malvern, when William Henry Collett from Bredon was 76 and an old age pensioner, and his wife Emily was 61. None of their children were living with them by that time and, it was the following year that, the death of William Collett aged 77 was recorded at Upton-on-Severn register office (Ref. 6c 294) during the final quarter of 1912.
	5P8	Sarah Ann Collett	Born in 1875 at Worcester
	5P9	William Henry Collett	Born in 1879 at Malvern
	5P10	Rose Ellen Collett	Born in 1883 at Malvern
5O9	Mary Ann Collett was born at Bredon in 1839 where she was baptised on 23^rd June 1839, the last child born to William Collett and Catherine Sutton following the death of her father around that same time. She was two years old and was living at Bredon with her widowed mother and her two older brothers in June 1841, when the family was living with the family of William and Mary Sutton, Mary Ann’s mother’s older brother. Over the following years, Mary Ann and her mother moved into nearby Tewkesbury, where the two of them were living in 1851 when Mary Collett was 12. A little while later the Mary and her mother made a return to Bredon and the reason for that may have been because Mary Ann was with-child. According to the next census in 1861 Mary Ann Collett, aged 21, was living at Bredon with her base-born son George Henry Collett, who was one year old, at the home of her mother Catherine Collett.
	Mary Ann’s son was born at Bredon, where he was baptised on 17^th July 1859, while it was just Mary Ann Collett who was named as the child’s lone parent. Mary Ann was still not married ten years later in 1871, when she and her son were still sharing accommodation with her mother. Mary A Collett was 31, while her son George Collett was 11. By the time of the next census in 1881 her son was a married man and had already started of a family of his own at Bredon. The census in 1881 is particularly interesting with regard to Mary Ann Collett since, like her brother William (above), she too gave her place of birth as Bredons Hardwick. At that time in her life, she was living alone in Bredon village, where she was recorded as Mary Ann Collett, aged 39, who was employed as a gloveress.
	5P11	George Henry Collett		Born in 1859 at Bredon
5O10	Joseph Collett was born at Condicote in 1832 prior to his parents John Collett and Mary Benfield settling in nearby Broadwell. He was named as Jos Collett in the Broadwell census of 1841 when he was nine years old, indicating that he was born during the summer of 1832. Also listed with the family was David Jarvis who was around 20 years old and he may well have been the older brother of William Jarvis who eventually married Sarah Boulter, the sister of Joseph’s future wife. He was around thirteen years of age when his mother suffered a premature death, following which no record of any member of his family has been identified in the census on 1851.
	Ten years later unmarried Joseph Collett was 29 and an agricultural labourer who was still living with his widowed father at Broadwell. It was just over three years after that when Joseph married the much younger Emma Boulter of Longborough, who was born there in 1846. Their marriage very likely took place in Broadwell, where their first three children were born, and was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 747) during the last three months of 1863. Emma was the fifth child of William and Mary Boulter. The birth of the couple’s first three children were all recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold, while the last four children were born at Kineton, their births recorded at Stratford-on-Avon.
	According to the census return completed in 1871 the couple’s second child John Collett, aged three years from Broadwell, was a visitor at the Kineton home of his aunt Sarah Jarvis from Longborough, Sarah being the wife of William Jarvis and formerly Sarah Boulter, Emma’s younger sister. The Broadwell family that day therefore comprised Joseph Collett from Condicote who was 38 and a labourer, his wife Emma from Longborough who was 22, and their two Broadwell born children William G Collett who was five and Agnes A Collett who was one year old. Within twelve months, the family had left Gloucestershire when they moved north into Warwickshire, where they initially settled in the village of Tredington, close to Fosse Way [Roman Road], to the north of Shipston-on-Stour. It was at Tredington that the couple’s fourth child was baptised, before their family set up home in the village of Kineton, ten miles from Stratford-on-Avon, where a further four children completed their family.
	These facts were confirmed in the next census conducted in 1881 when the family was recorded residing in a property on Banbury Street in Kineton. Joseph was still working as a labourer at the age of 48 when his place of birth was confirmed as Condicote. Emma Collett from Longborough was 34 and their seven children were recorded as William who was 15, John who was 13, Agnes who was 11 (all born at Broadwell), Arthur who was eight and born at Tredington, Frank who was six, Sarah A who was three and Jacob who was two (the three of them born at Kineton). It was around twelve months after that day when Emma presented Joseph with their last child.
	The family continued to live in Kineton although there was a change of address sometime during the 1880s because they were living at Market Place in 1891 from where Joseph, aged 58, was employed as an agricultural labourer. His wife Emma was 44 and, on that census day, only five of their eight children were still living there with them. They were Arthur George Collett who was 18, Frank Thomas Collett who was 15, Sarah Ann Collett who was 13, Jacob Collett who was 12, and Albert Percy Collet who was eight years old.
	Curiously the family’s address ten years later was once again Banbury Street in Kineton, by which time it was just their son Frank who was the only child still living with Joseph and Emma, most likely in poor health because he died a few months later. Even at the age of 69, Joseph Collett from Condicote was working as a roadman, while Emma from Longborough was 54, and Frank from Kineton was 26 just prior to his premature death. However, after a further ten years, it was just the elderly couple who were living alone in Kineton in April 1911. Joseph was described as a non-working old age pensioner who was 77, while his wife Emma was 67, to whom he had been married for forty-seven years.
	Just over one year later the death of Joseph Collett at Kineton was recorded at Stratford-on-Avon register office (Ref. 6d 666) during the second quarter of 1912 when he was 80 years old. His widow survived for nearly seven years, when the death of Emma Collett nee Boulter was recorded at Stratford (Ref. 6d 1296) during the first three months of 1919. It is likely that the couple was buried in the graveyard of the Church of St Peter in Kineton.
	5P12	William George Collett	Born in 1865 at Broadwell
	5P13	John Collett	Born in 1867 at Broadwell
	5P14	Agnes (Eliza or Mary) Collett	Born in 1869 at Broadwell
	5P15	Arthur George Collett	Born in 1872 at Tredington
	5P16	Frank Thomas Collett	Born in 1875 at Kineton
	5P17	Sarah Ann Collett	Born in 1877 at Kineton
	5P18	Jacob Collett	Born in 1879 at Kineton
	5P19	Albert Percy Collett	Born in 1882 at Kineton
5O11	Arthur Collett was born at Broadwell in 1834, the second of the four known children of John and Mary Collett. He was six years old in the Broadwell census of 1841, following which his mother died when Arthur was around ten years of age. With no record of him, or any member of his family in 1851, Arthur Collett was 27 and an agricultural in the Broadwell census of 1861 when he was still living there with his family. Four years later the marriage of Arthur Collett and the much younger Elizabeth Newman was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 667) during the second quarter of 1865. Elizabeth was the third child and eldest daughter of Frederick and Ann Newman and was born at Broadwell, her birth recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. xi 380) during the second quarter of 1847.
	During the remainder of that decade Elizabeth presented Arthur with two children, both born at Broadwell where the family was still living in 1871. Arthur Collett was 35 and a labourer, Elizabeth was 24, and their two children were Sarah A Collett who was five and Frederick W Collett who was one year old. Completing the household was Arthur’s elderly father John Collett, who died there within the next twelve months. However, before that, and just a few months after that census day, the death of Arthur’s son was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 235) during the third quarter of 1871 when Frederick William Collett was only one year old and when Elizabeth was expecting the birth of her third child.
	By the end of 1871 the loss of their son was offset by the birth of another daughter who, four years later, was following by the birth of a son. Further tragedy struck the family, either late in 1879 or early in 1880, when Elizabeth gave birth to another son, but neither of them survived the ordeal. The death of Elizabeth Collett nee Newman, aged 32, and her son Henry Collett, of no age, were recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 295 and 6a 296) during the first quarter of 1880. All of this was confirmed in the Broadwell census of 1881 when Arthur Collett from Broadwell was a widower and a general labourer at the age of 45. Living there with him were his three surviving children, Sarah who was 15, Henrietta who was nine and Albert who was five.
	Two and a half years later, widower Arthur Collett married spinster Elizabeth Cross, the event recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 791) during the last quarter of 1883. Elizabeth was the daughter of Robert and Hannah Cross of Clapton Row in Bourton-on-the-Water who birth was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 342) during the second quarter of 1854. That second marriage for Arthur produced at least one child for the couple who was living with them on the day of the Broadwell census of 1891. That year the family was residing at Broadwell Hill from where Arthur Collett was 57 and a shepherd, his wife Elizabeth was 38, and their daughter Gertrude M Collett was under one year old. Only Arthur’s son Albert Collett, aged 15 and born at Broadwell, from his first marriage was still living with his father.
	Ten years later, the census in 1901, Arthur was 65 and a general farm labourer who was still living at Broadwell with Elizabeth, who was 48, and their daughter Gertrude who was 10 years of age. Gertrude eventually left the home of her parents and it may have been around that time when Arthur and Elizabeth moved to the nearby village of Donnington, immediately north of Broadwell, where the pair of them were living alone in 1911. However, three years early, Arthur Collett, a shepherd, was named as the father of widow Henrietta England, when his daughter was married for the second time, in London. In 1911 Arthur was 75 and Elizabeth was 58 on the that census day and it was during the following year that the death of Arthur Collett was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 465) during the fourth quarter of 1912 when he was said to be 75. He was survived by his wife for a further sixteen years, when the death of Elizabeth Collett nee Cross was also recorded at Stow register office (Ref. 6a 722) during the first quarter of 1929 when she was 74.
	5P20	Sarah A Collett	Born in 1866 at Broadwell
	5P21	Frederick William Collett	Born in 1869 at Broadwell; died 1871
	5P22	Henrietta Collett	Born in 1871 at Broadwell
	5P23	Albert Edward Collett	Born in 1875 at Broadwell
	5P24	Henry Collett	Born in 1880 at Broadwell; died 1880
	The following is the daughter of Arthur Collett by his second wife Elizabeth Cross:
	5P25	Gertrude Mary Collett	Born in 1890 at Broadwell
5O12	Hannah Collett was born at Broadwell in 1838, the eldest of the two daughters of John Collett and Mary Benfield, while it was at Stow-on-the-Wold where her birth was recorded (Ref. xi 353) during the fourth quarter of that year. She was three years of age in the Broadwell census of 1841 when living there with her family. Around the middle of the 1840s her mother died and no record of the young family has been found within the census of 1851. After a further ten years the whole of her family was still residing in Broadwell, by which time Hannah had given birth to a base-born son and had subsequently become a married woman. The marriage of Hannah Collett and William Hooper had only just taken place, with the event recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 473) during the first quarter of 1861.
	The census return that year described Hannah Hooper from Broadwell as being 22, a labourer’s wife, and a visitor at the Broadwell home of her widowed father John Collett. Living there with her was her labourer husband William who was also 22 and from Moreton-in-Marsh and her son William Collett, born out of wedlock. Whether he was the son of her husband has still to be determined. William Hooper was the son of John and Mary Hooper and was baptised at Moreton on 1^st November 1840. Over the following decade Hannah presented her husband with four children, all of them born in Broadwell, where the family was again recorded in the census of 1871.
	William Hooper was 33 and a labourer, Hannah was also 33, and their four children were Tom Hooper who was nine, Mary Ann Hooper who was six, George Hooper who was three, and Alice Hooper who was one year old, all of them born at Broadwell. Completing the family was William Hooper of Broadwell who was 11 years old who, ten years earlier, was recorded as William Collett. Another three children were added to their family during the 1870s and, by the time of the next census, the older children had left the family home in Broadwell. According to the Broadwell census in 1881, general labourer William was 44, Hannah was 43, and living with the couple were their six youngest children. Mary was 16, George was 13, Alice was 11, Edna (Anna) Hooper was seven, Fanny Hooper was five, and Norah Hooper was two years of age.
	Just less than five years later the death of Hannah Hooper nee Collett was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 296) during the first three months of 1886, when she was 48 years old. It would have been at Broadwell where Hannah died and where her family continued to live after her passing. Just after the start of the new century William Hooper was 61 and employed as a carter on a farm when he was still residing in Broadwell. On the census day in 1901 only two of his daughters were living with him, the elder of the two being married Edna Anna who had her two children with her. She was described in error as Ada Annie from Broadwell who was 26, her two children named as Norman F W Walker, aged three years, and Doris Elfreda Walker who was two, both born in Oxfordshire, the children of Henry Walker from Shutford near Banbury. William’s youngest daughter Norah Hooper was 22.
	During the next decade, and with all his children having left the family home in Broadwell, elderly William Hooper moved in with his eldest married daughter Mary Brooks at her home in Stow-on-the-Wold. That situation was confirmed in the Stow census of 1911, when widower William was 72 and a boarder with Arthur and Mary Brooks from Broadwell who was 46 and their two children, Spencer Lionel Brooks aged 16, and Hector Cecil Brooks who was 10.
	5P26	Henry William Collett	Born in 1859 at Broadwell
5O13	Eliza Collett was born at Broadwell in 1839, the last child of John Collett and Mary Benfield who died when Eliza was around five years old. The birth of Eliza Collett was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. xi 357) during the last three months of 1839 and was one year old in the Broadwell census of 1841. The next record of Eliza from Broadwell, was twenty years after that, when she was most likely acting as the housekeeper at the Broadwell home of her widowed father and her two older brothers in census of 1861. She was described as unmarried and a farm servant, when her older married sister, her husband and son William, were also staying with the family.
5O14	Harriet Louisa Collett was born at Stepney on 18^th September 1834 shortly after which the family moved to Whitechapel in London, the eldest of the five known children of Joseph Collett and Mary Louisa Tuson. The Whitechapel census in 1841 recorded Harriet Collett as being six years of age who was living with her family at Goodmans Field in Whitechapel. By 1851 the family was residing at 1 North Street in St George-in-the-East, when Harriet from Whitechapel was 16 and at school, and again in 1861 when she was 25 and working as a domestic servant, while still living with her family.
	Six years after that census day, the marriage of Harriet Louisa Collett and widower Charles Cary was recorded at Stepney (Ref. 1c 1031) during the last three months of 1867. Charles was born in 1826 and was the eldest son Charles and Martha Cary of Ravencroft Street in Bethnal Green, London. On their wedding day, Charles had still living with him, three children from his previous marriage. One year later, the birth of their only known child, daughter Louisa Cary, was registered at Whitechapel (Ref. 1c 379) in the final quarter of 1868. According to the 1871 census the family was residing at Mile End Old Town, where Charles Cary from London was 45 and a cabinet maker. His wife Harriet was 36 and their daughter Louisa was two years of age. Charles’ three Mile End Old Town born children were Elizabeth aged 16, Caroline was 14, and Charles junior was eleven.
	It was only a few months later, towards the end of 1871, that first Harriet died, followed shortly after by her husband, early in 1872. Harriet Louisa Cary, nee Collett, died on 11^th December 1871 at the age of 37, with her death recorded at Mile End Old Town (Ref. 1c 407). It was there also that Charles passed away, when his death was recorded at Mile End Old Town (Ref. 1c 319) at 46 years. Because of a family dispute within the Cary family, it was almost 25 years after Harriet had passed away that her Will was eventually proved at the Diocese of London, Canterbury in Kent on 2^nd May 1896. The probate documentation described her as the wife of Charles Cary, when the main beneficiaries of her Will were Louisa Wall and William Stedman Wall.
	Five years earlier, Louisa Cary, the only child of Harriet Louisa Cary Collett, married William Stedman Wall at Mile End Old Town, where their wedding was recorded (Ref. 1c 829) during the summer of 1891. They appear not to have had any children, with the childless couple recorded in both the census of 1901 and 1911. In the first of them Louisa Wall from Mile End Old Town was 32, and William Wall was 34 and a shirt cutter, when they were living at Limehouse in London. By 1911 they had moved to Essex and were residing in Ilford, East London, where William from Aldgate was 44 and continuing to work as a shirt cutter. His wife of twenty-years Louisa Wall from Mile End was 42.
5O15	Emma Susan Collett was born in Whitechapel on 13^th January 1838, where her birth was registered during the first quarter of that year, the second child of Joseph and Mary Louisa Collett. She was not recorded with her family at Goodmans Field in Whitechapel in 1841, instead on that census day, Emma Collett was three years old and living with her mother’s Tuson family at Rhodeswell Road in Mile End, Limehouse within the Tower Hamlets district of London.
	by 1851 Emma S Collett from Whitechapel was 13 year of age and attending school, when she was living with her maternal grandmother, widow Christina Tuson, aged 73 and annuitant, at her home in Mile End Old Town. Also listed at the property, in addition to Christina’s two daughters, Christina White, 44 and a widow, and unmarried Harriet Tuson aged 33 – both annuitants, was visiting artist Henry Broughton 45 and his wife Mary A Broughton 35, and their travelling companion unmarried Eliza E Dennis who was 30 and, like Mary A, had been born at St George-in-the-East, so very likely her sister. Completing the household was house servant Julia Gilligan who was 16.
	While no record of Emma has been found in 1861, it was around that same time that she married Thomas John Hogg who was born in Scotland in 1835. The first of their four known children was born in Crewe with the birth of Louisa Mary Hogg registered at Nantwich (Ref. 8a 300) during the first three months of 1863. It was Thomas’ occupation as an engine fitter that forced a return to London for Emma and her family with the births of the last three children recorded at West Ham. The next census in 1871 identified the family living in West Ham where Thomas was 37 and an engine fitter from Scotland, and Emma S Hogg from Stepney was 34. Their three children were described as Louisa Mary Hogg from Crewe aged eight, Thomas John Hogg who was five, and Emma Hogg who was two years old.
	Nine months later the birth of Ellen Margaret Hogg was recorded at West Ham (Ref. 4a 23) during the first quarter of 1872, after which the family moved to Poplar in Tower Hamlets, London. The 1881 census for Poplar revealed that the eldest daughter was no longer living in the family home. That year Thomas was 47 and an “engine fitter at the works”, Emma was 42, Thomas was 15 whose birth was registered at West Ham (Ref. 4a 1) during the third quarter of 1865, Emma was 12 whose birth was registered at West Ham (Ref. 4a 12) during the last quarter of 1868, when Ellen was nine years old.
	The only child still living with his parents in the family home in Poplar by 1891, was Thomas Hogg junior aged 25 who was a married man working with his father as a steam engine maker and fitter. Thomas Hogg senior was 57 with the same occupation, while his wife Emma Hogg was 56. Where the couple was in 1901 is not currently known, but by 1911, Emma Susan Hogg from St George-in-the-East was 73 and a widow living on a private account in Ilford, Essex. Twelve years after that census day the death of Emma S Hogg, nee Collett, was recorded at Surrey register office (Ref. 2a 305) at the age of 85.
5O16	Joseph Richard Collett was born at Whitechapel in London and his birth was registered there (Ref. ii 508) during the second quarter of 1840. It was simply as Richard Collet (sic), that he was one year old in the census of 1841 when recorded at Goodmans Field in Whitechapel. He was the third known child and eldest son of Joseph and Mary Louisa Collett and by that time in their lives the family was living at Goodmans Field in Whitechapel. Within a couple of years, the family moved to 1 North Street in the St George-in-the-East area of Tower Hamlets, where they were residing in 1851 when Joseph Collett from Whitechapel was 10 years of age. His father was a gun finisher so, on leaving school, Joseph went to work with his father and in 1861 he was a labourer in the gun factory at the age of 20, while still living with his family at 1 North Street. On that occasion he was listed in the census return as Joseph Richard Collett.
	During the following year Joseph Richard Collett, aged 22, married (1) Elizabeth Mary Alice Holdsworth, from Bethnal Green who was 21, at St Peter’s Church in Stepney on 23^rd September 1862. Joseph was confirmed as the son of Joseph Collett and Elizabeth’s father was named as Godfrey Holdsworth, a painter. Elizabeth was the daughter of Godfrey and Elizabeth Holdsworth and her birth had been recorded at Stepney in 1846, under the same name as on her wedding day. In 1861 the Holdsworth family was living at Coventry Street in Bethnal Green, when Elizabeth was 15 and a shoe binder and the only sibling living there were her and her parents was her younger sister Esther Holdsworth who had only just been born. Initially the couple settled in Bethnal Green, where their first child was born, before moving to St George-in-the-East, where their subsequent children were born. Curiously, no record of the family has yet been identified within the census of 1871. Two years prior to that census day Elizabeth gave birth to their third child who died just over one year later and then, on the day of the census in 1871, she was nearly full-term with the couple’s fourth children, given the same name. That difficult time for Joseph and Elizabeth resulted in the couple’s eldest child, their son Richard aged seven years and from Bethnal Green, being placed with his widowed grandmother Mary Louisa Collett at 21 Nelson Street in Mile End Old Town.
	According to the next census in 1881, the family was recorded at 14 Fairclough Street in St George-in-the-East, from where Joseph R Collett aged 40 and from Whitechapel was a gun barrel browner. His wife Elizabeth M A Collett was 34 and from Stepney, and their five children were Richard J Collett from Bethnal Green who was 17 and a gun barrel browner (presumably working with his father), Elizabeth Collett who was 15 and a domestic servant, James A Collett who was 10, Louisa H Collett who was seven and Joseph H Collett who was four years old.
	Five other people were boarding with the family, plus two visitors. Two of the boarders were members of Elizabeth’s family, her sister Esther A Holdsworth who was 21 and a tailoress and her brother Godfrey J Holdsworth who was 18 and a gun barrel browner (presumably working with father and son Joseph and Richard Collett), both born at Bethnal Green. It is therefore likely that Elizabeth was running a boarding house, helped by her daughter Elizabeth. Another boarder was John Evans aged eleven who was still living with the family in 1891 and 1901. Sadly, it was on 30^th May 1882, that Joseph’s wife died at 14 Fairclough Street. With a large family to carry for, Joseph married his live-in sister-in-law, the marriage of Joseph Richard Collett and (2) Esther Alice Holdsworth was recorded at Whitechapel (Ref. 1c 794) during the last quarter of 1882.
	Not long after they were married, Esther provided Joseph with the first of their three children, two of whom were recorded with the family in 1891. Joseph R Collett was 50 and Esther A Collett was 31, when they were residing at Philpot Street in Mile End Old Town. The five children living with the couple that year at Philpot Street in Mile End Old Town were James A Collett who was 19, Louisa H Collett who was 16, Joseph H Collett who was 13, William Collett who was seven, and Florence Collett who was four years of age. By that time the couples’ eldest son Richard was a married man, with son James leaving the family home during the next few years to be married. Once again in 1891 John Evans aged 20 and from London was staying with the family, while under occupation was recorded the words ‘foulder tea packer’.
	One more child was added to the family during the next decade and by the time of the March census in 1901, the family was living at 55 Philpot Street, within the Stepney registration district, where employer Joseph R Collett was 60 and a gun barrel browner from Whitechapel. His wife Esther A Collett was 41 and from Bethnal Green, and the four children still living with the couple were Joseph H Collett who was 23 a gun barrel browner working at home, William Collett who was 17 and a pianoforte tuner with his own account, Florence Collett who was 14, and Mabel R Collett from Stepney who was just three years of age. Boarding with the family, as he had been in 1881 and 1891, was John Evans a tea packer grocer aged 30, together with his brother James Evans who was 25 and a tea packer, both born at St George-in-the-East.
	Two weeks after that census day, Joseph Richard Collett died at 55 Philpot Street in Mile End Old Town on 14^th April 1901. It is perhaps surprising that no trace of his widow or other members of family has been found in the April census of 1911, by which time the two brothers Richard John Collett and Joseph Henry Collett were both married and living in London with their own families.
	5P27	Richard John Collett	Born in 1863 at Bethnal Green
	5P28	Elizabeth A Collett	Born in 1865 at St George-in-the-East
	5P29	James Augustine Collett	Born in 1869 at St George-in-the-East
	5P30	James Augustine Collett	Born in 1871 at St George-in-the-East
	5P31	Louisa Harriet Collett	Born in 1874 at St George-in-the-East
	5P32	Joseph Henry Collett	Born in 1877 at St George-in-the-East
	The following are the child of Joseph Collett by his second wife Esther Alice Holdsworth:
	5P33	William Collett	Born in 1883 at St George-in-the-East
	5P34	Florence Collett	Born in 1886 at St George-in-the-East
	5P35	Mabel Ruby Collett	Born in 1897 at St George-in-the-East
5O17	Henry Edward Collett was born at St George-in-the-East within the Tower Hamlets area of London, where his birth was registered (Ref. ii 85) during the third quarter of 1845, another child of Joseph and Mary Louisa Collett. He was simply named as Henry Collett aged six years in the census of 1851 when he and his family were living at 1 North Street. It was at that same address that Henry was living with his family in 1861 when he was 15 and an apprenticed gun maker, presumably working with his father and older brother Joseph (above). It was on 19^th March 1867 when Henry Edward Collett married (1) Sarah Ann Greenhough at Stepney in the Church of St Dunstan & All Saints. Both the bride and the groom said they were 21, Henry confirmed as the son of Joseph Collett and Sarah being the daughter of Wyatt Greenhough.
	By 1871 Sarah had presented Henry with two children. The census that year located the family of four at Mile End Old Town in London, where Henry Edward Collett was 25, Sarah Ann Collett was also 25, and their two children were Henry Herbert Collett who was three and Alice Cecilia Collett who was not yet one year old. It was the same situation in 1881 when the family was recorded at 70 Myrdle Street in Mile End Old Town. Henry E Collett was 35 and a master plumber employing one man and one youth, Sarah A Collett was 35, Henry H Collett was 13, and Alice C Collett was 10, all described as having been born in London, Middlesex.
	Six years later, the death of Sarah Ann Collett, aged 41, was recorded at Mile End Old Town (Ref. 1c 343) during the first three months of 1887. Within the next twelve months Henry Edward Collett married (2) Rosina Smith, their wedding recorded at Islington (Ref. 1b 485) during the first quarter of 1888. That second marriage produced another son for Henry, with his family again recorded at Myrdle Street in Mile End Old Town in 1891. The census return that year listed the family as Henry Edward Collett who was 44 and a plumber and decorator from London, Rosina Collett who was 35, Henry H Collett who was 23, Alice C Collett who was 20 and Edward P Collett was one year old.
	During the following years the family left London and settled in the Croydon suburb of Beddington, to the west of the town. It was there, at Stafford Road in Wallington, that they were living in 1901, by which time Henry’s eldest son was already married. The household therefore comprised Henry from London who was 54 and a plumber and house repairer, Rosina who was 45, Alice who was 30 and Percy who was 11, all three of them were said to have been born at Stepney.
	Just less than two years after that, the death of Henry Collett was recorded at Croydon register office (Ref. 2a 229) during the first three months of 1903, when he was 57. Probate of the personal effects of Henry Edward Collett of 1 Croham-Hurst Villas, Stafford Road in Wallington, valued at £1,382 13 Shillings and 8 Pence, was granted to his son Henry Herbert Collett, a sanitary engineer, in London on 20^th March following his passing on 26^th February 1903. Rosina Collett from Stepney was again living in Wallington in 1911, but at 9 St Michael’s Road, when she was described as 55 years of age and a widow who was living by private means. Still living with her was her son Edward Percy Collett from Stepney who was 21 and an electrical engineer with an undertaking to the tramway. Completing the family group was Rosina’s unmarried stepdaughter Alice Cecilia Collett who was 40 and employed as a clerk.
	Nearly twenty-nine years after that census day in 1911, Rosina Collett was still residing at 9 St Michael’s Road, Wallington in Surrey, when she passed away on 19^th February 1940 at the age of 84. Her death was recorded at Surrey register office (Ref. 2a 543), with her Will proved in London on 11^th April 1940, when the sole beneficiary was her son Edward Percy Collett, an electrical engineer. The personal effects of Rosina Collett were valued at £1,609 0 Shillings and 9 Pence.
	5P36	Henry Herbert Collett	Born in 1868 at Mile End Old Town
	5P37	Alice Cecilia Collett	Born in 1870 at Mile End Old Town
	The following is the only child of Henry Edward Collett by his second wife Rosina Smith:
	5P38	Edward Percy Collett	Born in 1889 at Mile End Old Town
5O18	Louisa Mary Collett was born in London on 4^th September 1847, the last child born to Joseph Collett and Mary Louisa Tuson whose birth was registered at St George-in-the-East (Ref. ii 88) during the last three months of 1847. Under her full name, she was four years old in the St George in the East census of 1851, the youngest of the four children living there with their parents. At the age of 21, Louisa Mary Collett married William Perry Deller, with their wedding recorded at Stepney (Ref. 1c 999) during the fourth quarter of 1868. The death of Mary Louisa Deller was recorded at St George Hanover Square (Ref. 1a 283) in 1884.
5O19	Charles Collett was born at Bredon during 1826 and was baptised there on 7^th July 1826, when his mother was named as Ann Collett, father unknown. At the time of the Bredon census in 1841 a certain Charles Collett was 13 years old, although it is not clear which of the two Charles Colletts born at Bredon in 1826 and 1829 (below) it relates to.
5O20	Charles Collett was born in the small settlement of Bredon Norton during 1829 and was baptised at Bredon parish church to the south of Bredon Norton on 26^th December 1829. He was the son of Sarah Collett and an unnamed father, for whom no record of him or his mother has been found in 1841 or in 1851. However, according to the census in 1841 a Charles Collett was living and working on Mitton Farm in the hamlet of Bredons Hardwick within the parish of Bredon. At thirteen years of age Charles was the youngest of six agricultural servants and the only one born within the county.
	No record of him has been found within the census of 1851, while it was probably around three or four years later that, at St Giles’ Church in Bredon, he married Mary Hemming of Bredon, the daughter of Ann Hemming by her first husband. Three children were subsequently born and baptised at Bredon prior to the next census in 1861. That year Charles Collett was 30 and an agricultural labourer who gave his place of birth as Norton (see later census returns below). On that occasion he and his wife and their young family were staying with Mary’s widowed mother at Bredon who had re-married by then. Head of the household was George Bartlett who was 36 and a waterman from Bredon. His wife was Ann Bartlett who was 47 and from Overbury. Charles Collett was described as son-in-law, while his wife Mary who was 26 and from Bredon was listed as Ann’s daughter. The three children of Charles and Mary Collett on that occasion were Charles Collett who was five, Ann Collett who was three, and Jane Collett who was one year old, all three born at Bredon. The dwelling in which the Bartlett and Collett families were living was next door to the village shop, and next to that was the railway station.
	Four more children were added to their family during the next decade and, although they were baptised at Bredon, it seems they were born in the hamlet of Hardwick (Bredons Hardwick) within the parish of Bredon. By the time of the census in 1871 the two oldest children, Charles and Ann, were no longer living with the family. The family was certainly living at Bredons Hardwick in 1871 when Charles Collett was 40 and born at Bredons Norton, his wife Mary was 36 and from Bredon, while their five children that day were Jane Collett aged 10, Mary Collett who was eight, George Collett who was six, Emma Collett who was two, and Martha Collett who was four months old. Seven years after that census day, the death of Mary Collett was recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 286) during the second quarter of 1878, when she was 44 years old.
	It is rather puzzling that, following the loss of their mother, no record of any member of the family has been located in the next census conducted in 1881. However, during the 1880s, daughter Emma gave birth to two base-born children and that embarrassing situation may have been why the family had broken up by 1891. At that time, Charles Collett, aged 60 and from Bredon, was still living in the hamlet of Bredons Hardwick near Tewkesbury, where he was described as a widower and an agricultural labourer. The only children still living with Charles were his two youngest offspring. William Collett was 17 and an agricultural labourer who had been born at Hardwick (Bredons Harwick) , while Caroline Collett, also born at Hardwick (Bredons Harwick), was 14 with no occupation, so was very likely acting at housekeeper for her father. By that time his daughter Emma Collett of Bredon was 21 and was living and working at the Union Workhouse within the Tewkesbury registration district.
	Ten years later it was only his daughter Caroline Collett, aged 25 and from Bredons Norton, who was living with her father as his housekeeper. By that time the pair of them had left Bredons Hardwick and had moved into the village of Deerhurst, two miles south-west of Tewkesbury. That census day in 1891, Charles Collett was 71 when he gave his place of birth as Bredons Norton, midway between Tewkesbury and Pershore, when he was a cattleman on a farm, most likely Wallow Hill Farm next door to Wallow Hill Cottage where Charles and Caroline were the sole occupants. His age on that occasion, unlike in the earlier census returns, was more in keeping with his birth in 1829, thus validating him as the son of Sarah Collett.
	Just over two years after that census day in 1901, Charles’ daughter left home to be married, but not long after Charles went to live with the family of his youngest married daughter Caroline. And it was there in 1911 that Charles Collett aged 81, an old age pensioner and former labourer, was living with Walter and Caroline Williams and their three children in the Leigh area of Cheltenham. He survived for another three years, when the death of Charles Collett was recorded at Tewkesbury register office (Ref. 6a 555) during the last three months of 1914 when he was 85 years of age.
	5P39	Charles Hemming Collett		Born in 1855 at Bredon
	5P40	Ann Hemming Collett		Born in 1857 at Bredon
	5P41	Jane Hemming Collett		Born in 1860 at Bredon
	5P42	Mary Hemming Collett		Born in 1862 at Bredon
	5P43	George Collett		Born in 1865 at Bredon
	5P44	Emma Collett		Born in 1868 at Bredon
	5P45	Martha Collett		Born in 1870 at Bredons Hardwick
	5P46	William Collett		Born in 1872 at Bredons Hardwick
	5P47	Caroline Collett		Born in 1875 at Bredons Hardwick
5O21	William Haines Collett was born at Tewkesbury on 19^th November 1815, the eldest of the six children of John Collett and Judith Poole. His parents had been Presbyterians, but at the time of his baptism in Tewkesbury they were Protestant Dissenters, and it was as William Haynes that he was named on 8^th March 1816.
5O22	Mary Ann Collett was born in Nottingham in 1822 and was the eldest daughter of John and Judith Collett who was baptised there on 8^th December 1822.
5O23	Richard Collett was born at Nottingham and was baptised at St Mary’s Church on 8^th May 1825, the third child of John and Judith Collett. Sadly, he survived for only four months after his baptism, when he died and was buried at Nottingham on 4^th September 1825.
5O27	Harriet Snape Collett was born at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire on 20^th November 1839 at a time when her parents were not married. Her father was John Collett from Tewkesbury and her mother was Julia Snape and they were not married until 1847. Six years earlier Harriet Collett was just one-year-old when she and her family were still living in Mansfield. By 1851 she and her parents, together with an older half-sister were living at Sculcoates in Kingston-upon-Hull where Harriet Collett was incorrectly recorded as being 14 rather than 11. Her father died there at the start of 1858 and it was later that same year when the marriage of Harriet Snape Collett and William Holderness was recorded at Sculcoates during the last three months of 1858. About nine months after that her mother re-married.
	According to the census in 1881 Harriet S Holderness from Mansfield was 41 when she and her family were recorded at 31 Clement Street within the St Mary Bishopshill district of the City of York. Living there with her was her husband William who was 44 and a carriage fitter with the Northern & Eastern Region Railway from Hull, and their four children. They were William Holderness junior who was 21 and from Hull who was a carriage fitter like his father, John Holderness who was 12, Joseph Holderness who was 10, and Annie Holderness who was four, all three born at York. Two more children were added to the family over the next ten years and they were Ernest Holderness and Ethel Holderness.
	By the time of the census in 1901 William Holderness was 64, Harriet was 61, and the only child still living with them at Holgate St Paul in York was Ethel Holderness who was 11. William Holderness passed away during the next decade, so in 1911 it was just Harriet, aged 71, and Ethel aged 21, who were still living in York.
5O28	Elizabeth Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1847, where her birth was registered during the second quarter of the year. She was the only known child of Richard Collett by his wife Silvia Collett (of a so far unidentified Collett family). In 1851 she was living with her parents at Barton Street in Tewkesbury, when she was three years old. It is likely her father died during the 1850s since, ten years later in 1861, when Elizabeth was 13, it was her mother, a cotton dealer, who was the head of the household, even though she was described as still being married. The two of them were still living at Barton Street in Tewkesbury, where her maiden-aunt Elizabeth Collett, another cotton dealer, her father’s older sister, was also living with them.
	By the time of the census in 1871, unmarried Elizabeth Collett, aged 23 and with no stated occupation, was still living with her widowed mother at 26 Barton Street in Tewkesbury, together with her maiden-aunt Elizabeth Collett who was 76 and no longer working as a stocking maker. After a further ten years it was a similar situation in 1881, except by then it was just Elizabeth, aged 33, and her mother who were living at Woods Court in Tewkesbury where, as in the previous census returns, Elizabeth was not credited with having an occupation.
	The lack of an acknowledgement that she was able to work may have been due to an inability, such as an illness or other affliction. What is known is that, following the death of her mother five years later in 1886, Elizabeth was taken into an institution within the Gloucester Kingsholm registration district, where she was recorded in 1891 as Elizabeth Collett from Tewkesbury, when she was 43. No record of her as Elizabeth Collett has been found after that time.
5P2	Charles Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1855, the only son of William and Charlotte Collett. Following the death of his father when he was around five years old, Charles was still living at Tewkesbury with his mother and three sisters in 1861. Ten years later in 1871, Charles was listed as living with his mother and sister in Tewkesbury when he would have been only fifteen years old. However, it was at Tewkesbury around four years later that he married Sarah and by 1881 the marriage had produced the couple’s first three children. According to the census that year, Charles was a general labourer aged 25, living at 18 Spring Gardens in Tewkesbury right next door to his widowed mother. Living with him was his wife Sarah aged 23 and of Tewkesbury, together with their first three children Annie aged four years, William aged two years, and Ada who was just two months old, all of whom were also born at Tewkesbury.
	During the next ten years the family was increased by the addition of a further three children, all born while the family continued to live in Tewkesbury. The Tewkesbury census of 1891 listed the family as Charles aged 35, his wife Sarah A Collett aged 33, and four of their six children. They were William who was 12, Ernest who was eight, Charles junior who was two, and Lizzie who was one year old. The only one of Charles’ children missing from the census return on that occasion was Annie who would have been fourteen. With no record of her found anywhere in the census that year, it perhaps can be safely assumed that she had suffered a childhood death sometime during the 1880s.
	A further three children were added to the family during the next decade, so by March 1901 the family living at Tewkesbury was made up of Charles 45, Sarah A Collett 43, Ernest 18, Charles 12, Lizzie 11, Elsie who was nine, Cornelius who was seven and Doris who was two years old. Charles was working as a general labourer, while Sarah Ann was supplementing his income was by working as a machinist. On that occasion it was the two oldest surviving children who were missing from the family home. William would have been twenty-two, while his sister Ada would have been twenty. William’s brother Ernest was a private in the army, so as the older brother William may have also been a military man and out of the country at that time. It is also possible that Ada was married by then.
	In April 1911 the Collett family was still living in Tewkesbury when Charles was 55 and Sarah Ann was 53. Still living with the couple was four of their children, they being Charles 22, Lizzie 21, Cornelius 17, and Doris who was twelve years old. Also living with them was three-year-old Gladys Collett who was the granddaughter of Charles and Sarah Ann, being the base-born child of their unmarried daughter Lizzie.
	5Q1	Annie Collett	Born in 1876 at Tewkesbury
	5Q2	William Collett	Born in 1878 at Tewkesbury
	5Q3	Ada Collett	Born in 1881 at Tewkesbury
	5Q4	Ernest Collett	Born in 1882 at Tewkesbury
	5Q5	Charles Collett	Born in 1888 at Tewkesbury
	5Q6	Lizzie Collett	Born in 1890 at Tewkesbury
	5Q7	Elsie Collett	Born in 1891 at Tewkesbury
	5Q8	Cornelius Collett	Born in 1894 at Tewkesbury
	5Q9	Doris Collett	Born in 1898 at Tewkesbury
5P4	Sarah Ann Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1859, the youngest child of William and Charlotte Collett. Sadly, just after she was born her father died, so by 1861, when Sarah was one year old, she was living at Tewkesbury with her mother and her three siblings. By 1871 she was recorded as Sarah A Collett aged 11 years, when she was still living in Tewkesbury with her mother and her sister Eliza. Upon leaving school in Tewkesbury, she moved north to Wolverhampton to secure work, and it was there she was recorded in 1881 at the age of 21 as Sarah A Collett. It was also there that she met and married Samuel Henry Tilsley of Ettingshall.
	Once married the couple settled in the Ettingshall area of Bilston where their first four children were born. Around 1890 the family moved into Bilston, where their next two children were born. And it was within the Wolverhampton & Bilston registration district that the family was recorded as living in 1891. Samuel Henry Tilsley was 37, Sarah Ann Tilsley was 35, and their children at that time were Samuel Tilsley aged 10, Sarah Jane Tilsley who was nine, Mary Ann Tilsley who was seven, Sarah Ann Tilsley who was five, Esther Tilsley who was four, and Florence Tilsley who was one year old. The age Sarah gave for that census and the next two censuses was inflated by four years, perhaps out of embarrassment because she was six years younger than her husband. Ten years later Samuel and five of his six children were living in Wolverhampton, where he was working as an iron strip roller at the age of 44. His wife Sarah was 44 and from Tewkesbury, and their children were Samuel who was 20 and a furnace helper at the iron works where his father was employed, Mary aged 17, Sarah aged 15, Esther aged 12, and Florence who was 11.
	After another ten years had passed, a reduced Tilsley family was living in the Dudley area of Wolverhampton in 1911. The family comprised Samuel Henry who was 57, Sarah Ann who was 54, Esther who was 23, and Florence who was 21, together with the latest addition of daughter Sarah Jane Tilsley who was eight years old. That perhaps confirms Sarah Ann was inflating her age which, had she given her correct age of 51, she would have given birth to Sarah Jane when she was around forty-three, rather than forty-six as indicated by the difference in their ages in April 1911.
5P5	Alice Collett was born at Colwall in Worcestershire during 1872, the eldest of the three possible children of John Collett of Bredon and his wife Phoebe Whittall. Alice Collett was eight years old in the census of 1881 when she was living at Wyche in Great Malvern with her family. Where she was in 1891 is not currently known, although it is established that she had left home by then and had already given birth to the first of her two base-born daughters, the first child living with her parents in 1891 at the age of one year. Around three years later she gave birth to a second base-born daughter, the child being born in Malvern of an unknown father like the first, whose birth was recorded at Upton-on-Severn (Ref. 6c 318) during the second quarter of 1890.
	It was after the birth of her second daughter that Alice Collett from Colwall married George Handy from Hanby Castle, and it was with him that she and her youngest daughter were living at Wyche Tree Cottage in Malvern in 1901, her older daughter still living with her parents. George Handy was 30 and was a gardener with his own account working from home, Alice Handy from Colwall was also 30 and a laundress having her own account and working from home. The only child living with the couple was Alice Collett aged six years who had been born at Malvern, who was described as the stepdaughter of George Handy.
	Alice eventually had two children by George Handy although he was not with the family on the day of the census in 1911. By that time the young Handy family was residing within the Upton-on-Severn district of Worcestershire and was listed as follows. Mrs Alice Handy from Colwall was 40, her daughter Dorothy Handy was five, and her son Wilfred Handy was one year old. Still living with her mother, was daughter Alice Collett who was 15.
	5Q10	Nellie Louisa Collett	Born in 1890 at Malvern
	5Q11	Alice Collett	Born in 1894 at Malvern
5P6	Frederick John Collett was born at Colwall during 1874, the eldest son of John Collett and Phoebe Whittall. In 1881 at the age of six he was named as Fred J Collett when he and his family were living in Wyche in Great Malvern. Ten years later Fredk Collett was 16 when he was the only child still living with his parents who, by that time were residing in Hanley Castle near Upton-on-Severn. It was around 1895 that Frederick married Ellen from Worcestershire, although where she was in 1901 has not yet been determined. By that time, she had presented Frederick with a son of the same name who was with his uncle on the day of the census that year. The only possible record of his father in 1901 was married corporation navvy Frederick Collett, aged 26, whose place of birth was recorded as Calwell in Worcestershire, which was probably meant to be Colwall. On that occasion he was a boarder at the Harborne home of John Round and his family at 85 Northfield Road. In lodgings nearby at 137 Side Street off Northfield Road in Harborne was unmarried Richard Collett from Worcestershire who was 24 and a labourer working on the sewers who had with him his nephew Frederick Collett from Worcestershire who was five years, who appears to be the son of Frederick John Collett, with Richard being his younger brother (below).
	Ten years later the two Fredericks were living together at 14 Tennal Road in Harborne in the Kings Norton area of Birmingham with Ellen Collett who has still not been located anywhere within the census of 1901. Whilst the head of the household was recorded as Frederick John Collett, a general labourer from Worcestershire who was 36 who had been married to Ellen for fifteen years, the census return was curiously signed in the name of Frederick George Collett. That raises the question, was it his son Frederick George Collett, aged 14 and an apprenticed gas fitter who completed the census return, because his father was unable to fill in the details, since all entries on the form were in the same handwriting. The boy’s mother was described at Ellen Collett from Worcestershire who was 37. To supplement the family income Ellen had taken in two boarders Arthur George aged 19, and Samuel John Hill who was 16, both carpenters. Nothing further is currently known about the family, while the only death recorded for a Frederick Collett was that of Frederick James Collett, detailed below, who may not be the same Frederick despite the Worcestershire connection.
	Frederick James Collett died on 27^th July 1955 in Worcestershire, while his Will was proved in London on 27^th October that same year. His personal effects valued at of £3,948 5 Shillings and 7 Pence were placed in the hands of the Midland Bank Executor and Trustee Ltd. From this it seems that he was a widower by the time of his death and, with his only known child having died during the Great War of the injuries he sustain in Belgium, there was no living relative to whom his estate could be left.
	5Q12	Frederick George Collett	Born in 1896 in Worcestershire
5P7	Richard Collett was born in Worcestershire during 1876 and may have been the third child of John Collett and Phoebe Whittall. He has not been identified within the two census returns for 1881 and 1891, but by 1901 his older brother Frederick (above) was married and had already produced a son by then. It is therefore curious why Richard Collett aged 24 and a labourer working on sewers was a lodger at 137 Side Street off Northfield Road in Harborne, where he had with him his nephew Frederick Collett who was five years old.
5P8	Sarah Ann Collett was born at Worcester in 1875, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 6c 315) during the first quarter of 1875, the eldest of the three known children of William Henry Collett and Theresa Emily Maria Marshall. By the time of the census in 1881 Sarah A Collett from Worcester was six years old and living with her family at 15 Lansdowne Terrace in Malvern. No further record of her has been found after that time, when she was absent from the family thereafter.
5P9	William Henry Collett was born at Malvern in 1879, the only known son of William Henry Collett and his wife Emily. His birth was recorded at Upton-on-Severn (Ref. 6c 355) during the first three months of the year. At the time of the census in 1881 William was recorded as Henry Collett aged two years who was living with his family at 15 Lansdowne Terrace in Great Malvern. Ten years later in 1891 he was listed as William H Collett, aged 12 and working as an errand boy, when he was living with his family at Ebenezer Terrace within the parish of Cradley, West Malvern across the county boundary in Herefordshire.
	Just after the start of the new century William H Collett from Malvern was 23 and was living at Danygraig Terrace in Ystradyfodwg, Glamorganshire, where he was working as a coal hewer, while being a boarder at the family home of Frederick Foxwell. Also living there at Ystradyfodwg, but at East Road, on that census day, was another Collett family, that of shoemaker William Collett [Ref. 29n5] from Turkdean and his wife and two of their children who were both born at Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham, where his wife had also been born. Their two sons Christopher Henry and Frederick Ernest Collett were both working as coal hewers. That family is featured in the appendix to Part 29 – The Cirencester to Australia Line
	By 1911, the family of William Collett, shoemaker, had moved to Tylorstown Rhondda, and it was there too that unmarried William Collett, a coal hewer from Worcester Terrace, was living at Aberrhondda Rhondda. According to the census return William Collett from Worcestershire was 31 and boarder at the home of Fred and Caroline Keeling from Bath. There was only one William Henry Collett living in South Wales that year and he was a married man residing in Pwllgwaun Pontypridd in 1911. He was another coal hewer who said he was only 29, perhaps because he was some years older than his wife. His place of birth was recorded as ‘Weeden Sheffield’ (no place of that name exists), which may be a mistaken error for Bredon, where his father had been born. His wife was Matilda Kate Collett nee Truman from Binstead Road, Ryde on the Isle of Wight, who was 27. Living there, with the couple, was Matilda’s younger brother Henry Charles Truman from Ryde.
	The marriage of William Henry Collett and Matilda Kate Truman had taken place on the Isle of Wight (Ref. 2b 937) during the first quarter of 1908. She was the daughter of Charles Henry and Elizabeth Truman and was baptised at the Wesleyan Church in Ryde on 2^nd January 1884, having been born there on 13^th October 1883. On the census day in 1911, Matilda was expecting the birth of the first of the couple’s two children, who was born just over six months later. Both of their children were born at Pwllgwaun Pontypridd and, on the birth of their daughter, it was at Morgan Street in Pwllgwaun that the family was living, the child named after William’s grandmother Catherine Sutton.
	In 1914 William Henry Collett, aged 34, enlisted for military service and was allocated the service number 16483 with the Royal Horse & Field Artillery, 5^th Depot Battalion of the 125^th Battery. At that time in his life, he was described as having been born in Worcestershire, while currently residing in South Wales. He survived the war and, although no death of his wife has been identified, it was in 1924 that William H Collett married Mary Conniff, the event recorded at Pontypridd (Ref. 11a 1521) during the third quarter of that year.
	5Q13	Henry Clifford Collett	Born in 1911 in Pontypridd
	5Q14	Catherine Hilda Collett	Born in 1913 in Pontypridd
5P10	Rose Ellen Collett was born at Malvern in 1883, her birth recorded at Upton-on-Severn (Ref. 6c 331) during the second quarter of the year, the last of the three children of William Henry Collett and Theresa Emily Maria Marshall. It was as Helen Collett, aged seven years, that she was living with her family at Cradley, West Malvern in Herefordshire in 1891. Upon leaving school Rose entered domestic service and, in 1901, she was 17 and a general domestic servant, the only child still living with her parents at Cowleigh Road in Malvern Link. Seven years after that census day, Rose Ellen Collett married William Thomas Harris, their wedding recorded at the Worcestershire register office in Kings Norton (Ref. 6c 862) during the third quarter of 1908. William was the son of John and Harriet Harris, born at All Saints in Worcester.
	Less than three years later, the couple was residing at Worcester with their first child. William Harris was 32 and a brewer’s labourer, his wife Rose Harris was 27, and their son William John Harris was only a few days old. Both his, and his mother’s place of birth, were recorded as Ter Worcester. It has not been determined whether further children were added to their family, while the death of William T Harris was recorded at Kings Norton register office (Ref. 6d 201) during the first three months of 1923 when he was 45.
5P11	George Henry Collett was born at Bredon in 1859, the base-born son of Mary Ann Collett, and was baptised there on 17^th July 1859 with just his mother’s name included in the parish records. He was living with his unmarried mother at the Bredon home of his grandmother in 1861 when he was two years old and was still living there ten years later in 1871 when he was 11. By the time of the next census in 1881, George was a married man living in the village of Bredon with his slightly older wife and their son. George Collett, aged 21 and from Bredon, was a general labourer, his wife Sarah Collett from nearby Westmancote was 22, and their son Albert was just ten months old and had also been born at Bredon. Sarah Collett was the former Sarah Susannah Deakins who was born at Westmancote Hill, Bredon in 1858, the eldest child of Joseph Deakins and Eliza Trenfield whose birth was recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 361) during the third quarter of that year. The marriage of George Henry Collett and Sarah Susannah Deakins most likely took place at parish church in Bredon, although the event was recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 754) during the second quarter of 1879.
	During the following ten years a daughter and three more sons were added to their family, and all of them born at Bredon, where the family was still living in 1891. On that occasion the family comprised George H Collett aged 31 who was working as a hay trusser, Sarah S Collett aged 32, Albert H Collett who was 10, Kate Collett who was eight, Frank G Collett who was five, Ernest J Collett who was two, and Raymond Collett who was under one year old. A second daughter was born into the family four years later.
	However, sometime after the census day, the couple’s eldest daughter may have died since she was the only member of the family missing from the Bredon census in 1901, nor has she been located elsewhere. The family on that occasion was recorded as George Collett aged 41 and a gardener, Sarah Collett who was 42, Albert Collett aged 20 who was working as a navvy, Frank Collett who was 15 and a gardener’s apprentice – presumably working with his father, Ernest Collett who was 12, Raymond Collett who was 10, and Alice Collett who was six years old. All the male members of the family were confirmed as having been born at Bredon, as was daughter Alice.
	Ten years after that there were only three of the six children still living at Bredon with George and Sarah. Frank was living and working in Cheltenham, while no record of Raymond or Kate have been found anywhere in Great Britain at that time. George Henry Collett was 51 and employed as a labourer at a local market garden, Sarah Susannah Collett was 52, Albert Henry Collett was 30, Ernest Joseph Collett was 22, and Alice Collett was 16. It was during the summer of 1917 that George and Sarah received the tragic news that their son Private Albert Henry Collett had been killed in action with the Worcestershire Regiment.
	The death of George Henry Collett was recorded at the Worcestershire Pershore register office (Ref. 6c 540) during the first three months of 1941 when he was 81 years of age. It was also at Pershore, nearly six years earlier, that the death of Sarah Susannah Collett nee Deakins was recorded during the third quarter of 1935.
	5Q15	Albert Henry Collett	Born in 1880 at Bredon
	5Q16	Kate Collett	Born in 1883 at Bredon
	5Q17	Frank George Collett	Born in 1886 at Bredon
	5Q18	Ernest Joseph Collett	Born in 1888 at Bredon
	5Q19	Raymond John Collett	Born in 1891 at Bredon
	5Q20	Alice Collett	Born in 1895 at Bredon
5P12	William George Collett was born at Broadwell in 1865, the first child of Joseph Collett and Emma Boulter, whose birth was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 344) during the third quarter of that year. William G Collett was five years old in the Broadwell census of 1871, when living there with his family, and it was a similar situation in 1881 when William was 15 and living at Banbury Street in Kineton. As the oldest member of the family, William was the first to leave the family home, when he went to Nuneaton in North Warwickshire, where he secured work as a labourer at a brickyard. That was confirmed in the next census of 1891, when unmarried William was 25 and a boarder with the Garnett family at Arbury Road in Nuneaton.
	Four years later William Collett married Mary Ann Blythe at Nuneaton, where the event was recorded (Ref. 6d 730) during the second quarter of 1895. She was the eldest of the five children of Edward and Charlotte Blythe of Coton Road in Chilvers Coton, Nuneaton, and was baptised on 19^th May 1872 and was a wool comber in the census of 1891 when she was 19. After being married for around nine months, Mary gave birth to her first child, very likely a honeymoon baby. A second child followed just prior to the next census day.
	According to that census in 1901, William Collett from Broadwell was 34 and still working as labourer at the nearby brickyard, while living at Dugdale Street in Chilvers Coton, within the Borough of Nuneaton. Recorded there with him was his wife Mary A Collett of Nuneaton, aged 28, their two Nuneaton born children Albert E Collett who was five and Ernest Collett, not yet one year old, together with boarder Jacob Collett aged 22, also a brickyard labourer, from Kineton who was William’s younger brother (below). Another Collett family was also recorded at Dugdale Street in the census that day, and that was the young family of Arthur George Collett, another brickyard labourer, William’s younger brother (below).
	William’s occupation in 1911 was once again that of a labourer at the brickworks, when he was 44 and still settled in Chilvers Coton. No more children had been added to his family, or if they had, they did not survive, because it was again just his wife Mary Ann who was 39, and sons Albert Edward who was 15 and Ernest who was 10 years old, all three of them born at Nuneaton. Two years after that, the death of William Collett was recorded at Nuneaton register office (Ref. 6d 785) during the first quarter of 1913, when he was 47. His wife survived him by nearly forty years, when the death of Mary A Collett was also recorded at Nuneaton (Ref. 9c 713) during the second quarter of 1952, when she was 80 years old.
	5Q21	Albert Edward Collett	Born in 1896 at Nuneaton
	5Q22	Ernest Collett	Born in 1901 at Nuneaton
5P13	John Collett was born at Broadwell on 28^th August 1867, the second son of Joseph Collett and Emma Boulter, his birth recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 345) during the fourth quarter of that year. In 1871 John was not living with his family, instead he was a visitor at the Kineton home of his married aunt Sarah Jarvis nee Boulter, his mother’s younger sister. He was three years of age and his place of birth confirmed as Broadwell. Ten years after that the Collett family had swapped Broadwell for Kineton, where John aged 13 was then living with his parents on Banbury Street.
	Nine years later the marriage of John Collett and Mary Ann Pratt was recorded at Stratford-on-Avon (Ref. 6d 1095) during the last three months of 1889, the wedding taking place at St Peter’s Church in Kineton on 19^th December 1889, when John’s father was confirmed as Joseph Collett and Mary Ann’s father was named as William Pratt. Mary Ann was born at Brailes, near Shipston-on-Stour, on 8^th July 1866, where she was baptised on 29^th July 1866, the youngest daughter of agricultural labourer William Pratt and his wife Angelina Pratt, both of Brailes. Upon completing her education, Mary Ann entered domestic service and in 1881, at the age of 14, she was working as a servant at the Cherington (on Stour) home of farmer Charles Holtom and his wife Emilia.
	At an earlier time, unmarried Mary Ann Pratt gave birth to a base-born daughter, the father of which is not known, nor has a record of the birth or baptism been found. What is known, is that child was recorded in the census of 1891 as Margaret E Pratt aged four years, a scholar, and an inmate at Shipston-on-Stour. It seems that she was subsequently adopted by John Collett, as confirmed in a later census return. The birth of that child at Brailes may well have been the reason why Mary Ann was not married within her own parish.
	The couple’s first legitimate child was born shortly after they were married, with the three members of the family recorded in the Kineton census of 1891 as residing at Southam Street in the village. John was 23 and working as a carter for a coal merchant, Mary Ann was 24 and their son George Henry Collett was one year old. Four more children were added to their family at Southam Street during the next decade, and it was there that the enlarged family was still living in 1901. By then John from Broadwell was 33 and a foreman for a corn and coal agent. Mary Ann was 34 and had been reunited with her first child, who was described as Margaret E Collett aged 13 and born at Brailes, like her mother.
	The five children of John and Mary Ann Collett were listed in the census return in 1901 as George H Collett who was 11, Catherine A Collett who was nine, John E W Collett who was six, Albert E Collett who was five, and Florence D Collett who was one year old, and all of them born at Kineton. Over the following years John Collett became the coal agent and with that secure business he and Mary Ann extended their family by a further four children.
	Coal agent John was 43 in the Kineton census of 1911 and Mary Ann was 44, when the couple’s six youngest children were recorded with them. Albert Edward Collett was 15, Florence Daisy was 11, Ethel May Collett was nine, Frank Thomas Collett was eight, Beatrice Hannah Collett was six, and Frederick Charles Collett was four. It is interesting to note that John’s seventh child was named in honour of his late brother Frank Thomas Collett who had suffered a premature death less than two years prior to the birth. The 1939 Register includes the name of John Collett who, by that time, was a retired coal merchant’s agent living on the Market Square in Kineton with his wife Mary A Collett and their two sons Frank and Frederick.
	It was four years later, when the couple was still living on the Market Square in Kineton, that John Collett died on 12^th January 1944, his death recorded at Stratford-on-Avon register office (Ref. 9c 1071) during the first three months of 1944, when he was 76. However, it was over thirteen months later when his Will was proved at Birmingham on 14^th February 1945. The sole beneficiary was his widow Mary Ann Collett, who received £463 18 Shillings and 6 Pence. His wife outlived him by eleven years, when the death of Mary Ann Collett nee Pratt was recorded at Stratford (Ref. 9c 922) during the second quarter of 1955 when she was 88 years of age.
	5Q23	Margaret E Pratt - later Collett				Born in 1887 at Brailes
	5Q24	George Henry Collett				Born in 1890 at Kineton
	5Q25	Catherine Ann Collett				Born in 1892 at Kineton
	5Q26	John Ernest William Collett				Born in 1895 at Kineton
	5Q27	Albert Edward Collett				Born in 1896 at Kineton
	5Q28	Florence Daisy Collett				Born in 1900 at Kineton
	5Q29	Ethel May Collett				Born in 1901 at Kineton
	5Q30	Frank Thomas Collett				Born in 1902 at Kineton
	5Q31	Beatrice Hannah Collett				Born in 1904 at Kineton
	5Q32	Frederick Charles Collett				Born in 1906 at Kineton
5P14	Agnes (Eliza or Mary) Collett was born at Broadwell, possibly at the end of 1869 or early in 1870. She was a daughter of Joseph and Emma Collett and was included in the 1871 census as Agnes A Collett aged three years. No baptism for her has been found, as well as no birth record for Agnes A Collett, the A perhaps being a census error. However, there are two births for Agnes Collett recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold, both in 1870, the first for Agnes Mary (Ref. 6a 400) during the first quarter, and the second for Agnes Eliza (Ref. 6a 376) during the second quarter. Her family moved to Kineton during 1873 and it was there at Banbury Street that Agnes Collett from Broadwell was 11 years of age.
5P15	Arthur George Collett was born at Tredington in 1872, where he was baptised on 25^th August 1872, the son of Joseph and Emma Collett. Not long after he was born his father’s work took the family to the Warwickshire village of Kineton where they were living in 1881 at Banbury Street, where Arthur Collett from Tredington was eight years old. By the time he was 18 he was an agricultural labourer, most likely working with his father and his younger brother Frank (below). Seven years later, Arthur George Collett married Jane Elizabeth Sansome at Hinckley (Ref. 7a 154) during the second quarter of 1898. Jane was born at Hinckley (Ref. 7a 63) during the first three months of 1876, the fourth child of the ten children of painter Thomas Sansome and his wife Charlotte of Ten Acre in Hinckley, where Jane was 15 in 1891.
	Shortly after their wedding day, Jane presented Arthur with their first child, while the couple was still living in Hinckley although, by the time of the birth of their second child, the family was residing in the Chilvers Coton area of Nuneaton. On the day of the next census in 1901 three members of the same Collett family were residing in Dugdale Street in Chilvers Coton and they were the families of brothers, and their wives, Arthur and Jane, and William and Mary, plus unmarried brother Jacob, who was staying with the latter family. Arthur G Collett from Tredington was 28 and a labourer employed at the local brickyard, who was working there with his two brothers. His wife Jane E Collett from Hinckley was 25, Agnes May Collett was two and Thomas S Collett was one year old.
	One more known child was added to their family nine years later, while there were a number of other children born at Nuneaton during the first decade of the new century whose parents have yet to be confirmed. This is an ongoing project. That additional child was recorded with the family at Chilvers Coton in 1911, when Arthur was a brick maker at 38, Jane Elizabeth was 35, Agnes May was 12, Thomas Sansome was 11 and Arthur George Collett junior was under one year old.
	The death of Arthur G Collett was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 640) during the first quarter of 1933 when his age was estimated to be 58.
	5Q33	Agnes May Collett	Born in 1898 at Hinckley
	5Q34	Thomas Sansome Collett	Born in 1900 at Nuneaton
	5Q35	Arthur George Collett	Born in 1910 at Chilvers Coton
5P16	Frank Thomas Collett was born at Kineton in 1875, the fifth child of Joseph and Emma Collett, whose birth was recorded at Stratford-on-Avon (Ref. 6d 586) during the first quarter of that year. It was later that same year when Frank Thomas Collett was baptised at St Peter’s Church in Kineton on 10^th October 1875, the child of Joseph and Emma Collett. He was possibly born at Banbury Street in Kineton, where six-year-old Frank was living with his parents in 1881. Ten years later he had left school and, at the age of 16, was working as an agricultural labourer, most likely alongside his father. By 1901 he was unable to work and was the only child still living with his parents at Kineton, when he was 26. Whatever had happened to him prior to that census day, whether it was an illness or the result of an accident at work, or perhaps even during military service, the death of unmarried Frank Thomas Collett was recorded at Nuneaton register office (Ref. 6d 333) during the third quarter of 1901 when he was 26.
5P17	Sarah Ann Collett was born at Kineton in 1877, her birth recorded at Stratford (Ref. 6d 646) during the second quarter of 1877, another daughter of Joseph and Emma Collett. As Sarah A Collett, she was three years old in the Kineton census of 1881 when she and her family were still living in Kineton on Banbury Street in the village. After a further ten years Sarah Ann Collett was 13 and still with her family in Kineton. No trace of Sarah, aged 23 in 1901 and 33 in 1901, has been found but, in nearby Stratford-on-Avon, the marriage of Sarah A Collett and Charles Clifford was recorded towards the end of 1936 (Ref. 6d 2239) when she would have been nearly sixty, so perhaps this was not Sarah of Kineton.
5P18	Jacob Collett was born at Kineton in 1879 and it was at Stratford-on-Avon (Ref. 6d 652) during the first three months of the year. He was baptised at St Peter’s Church in Kineton on 22^nd March 1879, the son of Joseph and Emma Collett. It was at Banbury Street in Kineton that he and his family were living in 1881, when Jacob was two years old. The family’s home address in the census of 1891 was said to be Market Place in Kineton, very likely part of Banbury Street, where Jacob was 12 years of age. Upon leaving school, Jacob eventually secured through his older married brother, resulting in a move north to Nuneaton.
	In March 1901, when Jacob Collett from Kineton was 22, he was unmarried and living at the Chilvers Coton home of his eldest brother William Collett (above), with whom he was working as a labourer at a nearby brickyard in Nuneaton. Ten years later he was still a bachelor when he was boarder with the Bull family at their home in Attleborough, just south-east of Nuneaton, by which time he was 32 and was a clay-miner. It therefore seems highly likely that he never married and remained living in the Nuneaton area, where his death was recorded (Ref. 9c 790) during the last three months of 1953, when he was 74
5P19	Albert Percy Collett was born at Banbury Street in Kineton in 1882, the last child of Joseph Collett and Emma Boulter. His birth was recorded at Stratford-on-Avon (Ref. 6d 629) during the second quarter of that year, while he was nearly one year old when Albert Percy Collett was baptised at the Church of St Peter in Kineton on 9^th February 1883. Albert Percy Collett of Kineton was eight years of age in the Kineton census of 1891 when living there, with his family, at Market Place on Banbury Street. Like his sister Sarah Ann (above) no record of him has so far been found after 1891, although the death of Albert P Collett was recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 9c 885) during the second quarter of 1947 when he was 65 years old.
5P20	Sarah A Collett was born at Broadwell in 1866, the first child of Arthur Collett and Elizabeth Newman, her birth recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 373) during the first three months of the year. Again, as Sarah A Collett, she was five years old in the Broadwell census of 1871. Her mother died in 1880 and in the Broadwell census of 1881 Sarah was 15 and the oldest of the three children living with their widowed father, Sarah very likely as the housekeeper. Curiously no record, of any sort, has been found for Sarah and her sister Henrietta (below) in 1891 or thereafter in the case of Sarah.
5P22	Henrietta Collett was born at Broadwell in 1871 while it was at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 376) where her birth was recorded during the last three months of that year, the daughter of Arthur and Elizabeth Collett. She was nine years of age in the Broadwell census of 1881 but, tragically during previous year, her mother had passed away during childbirth. Where Henrietta and her older sister Sarah (above) were in 1891, has still not been resolved. It was six years later, on 4^th October 1897, that the marriage of Henrietta Collett, the daughter of Arthur Collett, took place at the Church of St Peter Ad Vincula in Ratley village in Warwickshire, near Kineton and midway between Stratford-on-Avon and Banbury in Oxfordshire, when the groom was named as (1) Martin England, the son of William England, who was a blacksmith.
	Martin had been born at Ratley, his birth recorded at Banbury (Ref. 3a 694) during the last three months of 1870, and was baptised at Ratley on 22^nd January 1871, his parents William and Sarah England. Sadly, for Henrietta, the marriage last for just over two years, when the death of Martin England was recorded at Banbury register office (Ref. 3a 553) during the second quarter of 1900 when he was 29. According to the census in 1901 Henrietta England was working as a cook at a house on Bayham Street in the St Pancras area of London, when she was 29 and born at Broadwell, Gloucestershire. A few years later she remarried, the marriage of Henrietta England, a widow of 36 years, and (2) George Wright was recorded at St Pancras (Ref. 1b 8) during the last quarter of 1907. The wedding ceremony was conducted at All Saints Church in Camden Town on 8^th December 1907 when, again, the bride’s father was confirmed as Arthur Collett, a shepherd. During the following year, at Forest Hill in Kent, Henrietta gave birth to a son, as confirmed by the census in 1911. By that time the family of three was residing at Lewisham, where George Wright from Somersham near Huntingdon was 35, Henrietta Wright from Broadwell was 39 and John William Wright was two years of age.
5P23	Albert Edward Collett was born at Broadwell on 1^st December 1875, with his birth recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 431) during the first quarter of the year. He was only still very young when his mother died and in 1881 Albert was five years old when he was one of three children living with their widowed father at Broadwell. Following the remarriage of his father in 1883, Albert was 15 in 1891 when he was the only child from his father’s first marriage still living with him, his new wife and their daughter, Albert’s half-sister Gertrude. At the age of 23, in 1900, he enlisted with the R H & R S A Field Regiment of the British Army service number 5660 and, according to the census in 1901, Albert E Collett from Broadwell was 24 years of age when he was an artillery driver based at Nether Hallam in Sheffield, Yorkshire. During the following decade, Albert returned to the army barracks at Aldershot and married Annie Maria in 1904, with whom he had a son who was born there.
	The completed Aldershot census return for 1911 listed the family of three living at Foleys, Cargate Terrace, as follows. Albert Edward Collett from Broadwell was 34 and a driver with the Royal Horse Artillery, his wife Annie Maria Collett, from High Barnet in Hertfordshire, was 29 and their son Charles Frederick Collett was one month old. The document also confirmed that the couple had been married for six years but, that sadly, the first of their two children had not survived. By the time of the 1939 Register the same three were residing in Birmingham, where Arthur E Collett was 64 and a power press operator, while still living with him was Annie M Collett and Charles F Collett who was 28 and a mathematical instrument maker (steel rules). A fourth member of the household was Jane Cook.
	5Q36	Collett child who died	Born in 1906 at Aldershot
	5Q37	Charles Frederick Collett	Born in 1911 at Aldershot
5P25	Gertrude Mary Collett was born at Broadwell on 22^nd July 1890, the only child of Arthur Collett by his second wife Elizabeth Cross. The birth of Gertrude Mary Collett was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 379) during the third quarter of that year and was under one year old in the Broadwell census conducted during the following year. That census return stated that she had been born in Oxfordshire but was residing with her parents at Broadwell Hill. Just after Gertrude was ten years old, in the census of 1901, her parents left Broadwell and settled in nearby Donnington, but Gertrude was not living with them in 1911. Instead, she was employed as a domestic housemaid at Bexhill in Sussex. Simply as Gertrude Collett from Broadwell in Gloucestershire she 20 years of age, a single lady, who was described as a patient. So, was she a patient in hospital on that day? It seems that she never married and died when living in Kent, with her death recorded at Canterbury register office (Vol. 16 0336) during the early part of 1978 when she was 86.
5P26	Henry William Collett was the base-born son of Hannah Collett and was born at Broadwell with his birth recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 320) during the third quarter of 1859. However, it would appear that he was known as William Collett up until sometime after his mother married William Hooper early in 1861. Perhaps to avoid any embarrassment on the census day in 1861, William Collett was said to be under one year old when he was living at the Broadwell home of his elderly grandfather, widower John Collett from Bredon. Also living there, in addition to three of John’s grown-up children, was William’s mother Hannah Hooper and her husband William Hopper. Ten years later he was he was the eldest of the five children of Hannah Hooper, when he was recorded as William Hooper aged 11 years.
	Neither as Henry, or William, has he been positively identified in the census of 1881, by which time he was no longer living with his mother’s Hooper family. However, just over four years later, the married of Henry William Collett and Helen Haynes was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 771) during the last three months of 1885. Helen was born at Adlestrop near Broadwell, the daughter of Thomas and Maria Haynes, her birth recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 364) during the first quarter of 1862. Tragically, Helen died during the birth of the couple’s second child, when the death of ‘Ellen’ Collett was recorded at Stow (Ref. 6a 257) during the fourth quarter of 1890, together with the birth of a daughter Helen Hope Collett (Ref. 6a 343), having given birth to a son just over twelve months earlier.
	A few months after her death, William Collett was described as a widower and a baker from Broadwell, who was 30 and a lodger staying with Joseph (aged 50) and Mary Collett (aged 47) and their daughter Edith May Collett (aged 10) at their home on Park Street in Stow-on-the-Wold, as detailed in Part 33 – The Bourton-on-the-Water Line. On that same census day in 1891, the two children of William and his late wife were living with the Haynes family. Son Harry Collett was one year old and was being looked after by his maternal grandparents Thomas and Maria Haynes at their home in Adlestrop, while daughter Helen Hope Collett was in the care of the Haynes’ married daughter Maria Jeffries and her husband Harry Jeffries at Cross Street in Winchester, where she was described as their niece and just a few months old.
	Just over six months after the census day in 1891, widower Henry William Collett married Annie Brooks, the event recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 842) during the last three months of that year. Thereafter Annie gave birth to three children who were all born at Stow-on-the-Wold, where the family was living at Well Lane Farm, Oddfellows Row, in March 1901. Henry W Collett from Broadwell was 41 and a baker, his wife Annie was 37 and from Broadwell, Harry Collett was 11, and his three half-siblings were Emily S Collett who was eight, Daisy E Collett who was four, and William C Collett who was one year old. All four children had been born at Stow-on-the-Wold.
	During the next decade Henry’s occupation made a slight change from baker to journeyman baker, as confirmed in the Stow census of 1911, when Henry William Collett from Broadwell was 51. On that day the only three persons listed there with him were his wife Annie who was 47, and their two youngest children William Charles Collett who was 11, and Kathleen Mabel Collett who was six years of age.
	5Q38	Harry Collett	Born in 1889 at Stow-on-the-Wold
	5Q39	Helen Hope Collett	Born in 1890 at Stow-on-the-Wold
	The children of Henry William Collett by his second wife Annie Brooks are:
	5Q40	Emily Sarah Collett	Born in 1892 at Stow-on-the-Wold
	5Q41	Daisy Eliza Collett	Born in 1896 at Stow-on-the-Wold
	5Q42	William Charles Collett	Born in 1899 at Stow-on-the-Wold
	5Q43	Kathleen Mabel Collett	Born in 1905 at Stow-on-the-Wold
5P27	Richard John Collett was born at Bethnal Green on 21^st May 1863, the eldest child of Joseph Richard Collett and his first wife Elizabeth Mary Anne Alice Holdsworth. His birth was recorded at Bethnal Green (Ref. 1c 289) during the second quarter of 1863. He was seven years old when his parents were expecting the arrival of their fourth child, so Richard stayed with his paternal grandmother, the widow Mary Louisa Collett at 21 Nelson Street in Mile End Old Town. Upon leaving school he joined his father as a gun barrel browner and was back living with his family at 14 Fairclough Street in St George-in-the-East in 1881. That was confirmed in the census that year when Richard J Collett from Bethnal Green was 17 and employed as a gun barrel browner. It was within the next two years that Richard John Collett married Mary Eliza Chandler at Christ Church in Spitalfields on 25^th December 1882, with whom he had a total of nine children. The witnesses were his stepmother Esther Alice Collett and James Chandler, Mary’s father. On the day of the census in 1891 the family was residing at Blakesley Street within the parish of Christ Church in St George-in-the-East. Richard J Collett who was 27 was still working as a gun barrel browner, his wife Mary E Collett was also 27, while their three children were Mary L Collett who was seven, Amy M Collett who was four, and Richard G Collett who was three years old. Staying with the family on that census day was Mary’s younger sister, Emily L Chandler who was 22.
	At the time of the next census in 1901 the enlarged family was recorded at 37 Rutland Street, Mile End Old Town in Stepney where Richard John Collett, aged 37 and from Bethnal Green, was continuing his work as a gun barrel browner. His wife Mary Eliza was 37 and their children were Mary Louisa Collett who was 17 with no stated occupation, presumably helping her mother with the large family, Amy Maud Collett who was 14 and working as an envelope folder, Richard George Collett who was 12, Esther Emily Collett who was eight, Hannah Elizabeth Collett who was six and Winifred Elsie Collett who was two years of age. Only the two youngest children had been born after the family had moved to Stepney, all the others at St George-in-the-East including their mother. The last two children were added to the family while they were still living in Stepney but, by the time of the census in 1911, the completed family was residing in the Wanstead area of West Ham and within the parish of Low Leyton in Essex, at the seven roomed dwelling that was 385 High Street in Leytonstone.
	According to the census that year, Richard John Collett and Mary Eliza Collett were both 47 and had been married for 28 years, during which time they had given birth to nine children, eight of whom were still living. Richard, from Bethnal Green, was still a gun barrel browner and an employer working at home. The only other absentee from the family home that day was their daughter Amy Maud, who was very likely married by then. The remainder of the children were recorded as Mary Louisa Collett who was 27, Richard George Collett who was 23, Esther Emily Collet who was 18, Hannah Elizabeth Collett who was 16, Winifred Elsie Collett who was 12, John Henry James Collett who was nine, and Sydney George Collett who was seven years old. The place of birth of the three eldest children was confirmed as St George-in-the-East, with the four youngest children confirmed as born at Stepney.
	Some years later Richard left the Leytonstone area of London, when he returned to Stepney. And it was while he was still living at 385 High Street in Leytonstone that Richard J Collett died on 4^th February 1927, his passing recorded at Stepney register office (Ref. 1c 271) during the first quarter of that year, when he was 63. After twelve years as a widow, Mary Eliza Collett nee Chandler passed away on 4^th February 1939, when she was still residing at the family home at 385 High Street in Leytonstone.
	5Q44	Mary Louisa Collett			Born in 1883 at St George, London
	5Q45	Amy Maud Collett			Born in 1886 at St George, London
	5Q46	Richard George Collett			Born in 1888 at St George, London
	5Q47	Joseph Richard Collett			Born in 1891-1892 at St George
	5Q48	Esther Emily Collett			Born in 1892 at St George, London
	5Q49	Hannah Elizabeth Collett			Born in 1895 at Stepney, London
	5Q50	Winifred Elsie Collett			Born in 1899 at Stepney, London
	5Q51	John Henry James Collett			Born in 1901 at Stepney, London
	5Q52	Sydney Charles George Collett			Born in 1904 at Stepney, London
5P28	Elizabeth A Collett was born at St George-in-the-East in London on 15^th December 1865, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 1c 428) during the first quarter of 1866. She was the second child of Joseph and Elizabeth Collett. Curiously no record of Elizabeth or any member of her family except her older brother Richard (above) has been identified within the census of 1871, when Richard was living with his paternal grandmother. Sometime during the 1870s the reunited family settled in 14 Fairclough Street in St George-in-the-East, where they were recorded in the census of 1881 when Elizabeth was 15 years of age and already working as a domestic servant. During the mid-1880s her mother died, perhaps giving birth to her younger brother William (below), following which her father married his sister-in-law Esther A Holdsworth, all as confirmed in the Mile End old Town census in 1891. However, on that occasion, Elizabeth was no longer living with her father and stepmother (also her aunt), when she was very likely married by then.
5P29	James Augustine Collett was born at St George-in-the-East on 20^th January 1869, the birth recorded there (Ref. 1c 401) during the first three months of that year. It was during the second quarter of 1870 that the death of James Augustine Collett was recorded at St George-in-the-East (Ref. 1c 276), when he was one year old.
5P30	James Augustine Collett was named after his late brother (above) and was born at St George-in-the-East where his birth was recorded (Ref. 1c 367) during the second quarter of 1871. It was at 14 Fairclough Street in St George-in-the-East that James A Collett was 10 years old in the London census of 1881, although during the next decade the family moved to Philpot Street in Mile End Old Town, Stepney, where James A Collett was 19 and working as a moulder picture frame maker. Within six months of the census day in 1891 the marriage of James Augustus Collett and Phoebe Elizabeth Neal was recorded at Mile End Old Town (Ref. 1c 820) during the third quarter of 1891. It is unclear whether there were any children both to the couple, who were living alone together 1901 at Ratcliff within the Stepney registration district of London. James Augustus Collett from St George-in-the-East was 29 and a window cleaner, while his wife Phoebe E Collett from nearby Mile End Old Town was 32. Tragically, both died during the next ten years, when first, the death of Phoebe Collett was recorded at Mile End Old Town (Ref. 1c 226) during the third quarter of 1907 at the age of 38. Three years later the death of James Collett was also recorded at Mile End Old Town (Ref. 1c 218) during the third quarter of 1910, when he was also 38.
5P31	Louisa Harriet Collett was born at St George-in-the-East, her birth recorded there during the second quarter of 1874 (Ref. 1c 398), another child of Joseph and Elizabeth Collett. Louisa H Collett aged seven years was living with her family was 14 Fairclough Street in St George-in-the-East on the day of the census in 1881, but ten years later it was at Philpot Street in Mile End Old Town that Louisa H Collett was 16. Five years later Louisa Harriet Collett married William Edward Harrison at Stepney (Ref. 1c 656) during the second quarter of 1896. However, by 1901 Louisa Harriet Harrison was a widow at the age of 27, when she was living on her own means at Atalanta Street in Fulham with her three-year-old son Frank H Harrison who had been born at Twickenham. Sometime later she was married for a second time, when she became Louisa Harriet Hollis, the name with which her death was recorded at on 20^th October 1960, after which she was buried at Wandsworth.
5P32	Joseph Henry Collett was born at St George-in-the-East on 30^th May 1877 and was another son of Joseph Richard Collett by his first wife Elizabeth M A Holdsworth, his birth recorded there (Ref. 1c 387) during the second quarter of 1877. He may have been born at Fairclough Street in St George-in-the-East, where he and his family were living in 1881 when Joseph H Collett was four years old. Ten years after that Joseph H Collett was 13 and still attending the local school when he was living with his family which was recorded in the 1891 Census at Philpot Street in Mile End Old Town, Stepney.
	In March 1901 Joseph H Collett was 23 and a gun barrel browner working at home with his father which by then was at 55 Philpot Street in Stepney. It was around two years later that he married Elizabeth Margaret Markham, although on the day of the census in 1911 it was just Joseph who was recorded with their first two children living at Cann Hall, which was the name of the workhouse in West Ham. Joseph Henry Collett was 33, his daughter Elizabeth Louisa Collett was six, and his son Henry Richard Collett was one year old. On that day Joseph’s wife Elizabeth was a patient at the Isolation Hospital in Low Leyton in Essex. During the following year Elizabeth presented Joseph with their third child and second son, but tragically neither of the sons survived beyond ten years.
	The birth of couple’s second son was recorded at West Ham register office (Ref. 4a 646) during the third quarter of 1912 when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Markham, while no registration of the birth of their first son has yet been unearthed. However, the death of Henry R Collett aged 10 years was recorded at West Ham register office (Ref. 4a 23) during the second quarter of 1920, the death of his younger brother Sidney W Collett having been recorded at Halstead (Ref. 4a 644) during the third quarter of 1919, aged seven years. It seems highly likely that both sons suffered premature deaths during the flu pandemic which swept across the country after the Great War.
	5Q53	Elizabeth Louisa Collett	Born in 1905 in London
	5Q54	Henry Richard Collett	Born in 1910 in London; died 1920
	5Q55	Sidney William Collett	Born in 1912 in London; died 1919
5P33	William Collett was born at St George-in-the-East on 22^nd June 1883, with his birth recorded there during the third quarter of 1883 (Ref. 1c 351) and it may have been at 14 Fairclough Street that he was born, where his family was residing in 1881. He was the first child born to Joseph Richard Collett by his second wife Esther A Holdsworth, following the death of his first wife and the older sister of Esther Holdsworth.at the end of 1882. His father’s sister-in-law Esther had been living with the Collett family for some years prior to William’s birth. By 1891 William, aged seven years, was living with his father and his mother at Philpot Street in Mile End Old Town in Stepney. After a further ten years William Collett was 17 and a self-employed piano tuner, with his own account, who was still living with his family at 55 Philpot Street in Stepney.
5P34	Florence Collett was born at St George-in-the-East on 10^th November 1886, the second of the three children born to Joseph Richard Collett by his second wife Esther A Holdsworth, her father’s former sister-in-law. The birth of Florence Collet was recorded at St George-in-the-East (Ref. 1c 356) during the last three months of 1886. She was four years old in the Mile End Old Town census of 1891 when living at Philpot Street. It was also at 55 Philpot Street that 14-year-old Florence was living in 1901, although by 1911 it is most likely that she was married.
5P35	Mabel Ruby Collett was born at St George-in-the-East on 26^th April 1897, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 1c 470) during the second quarter of 1897, the last child of Joseph and Esther Collett. Mabel R Collett was three years old in the census of 1901 when she was living with her parents at 55 Philpot Street in Stepney.
5P36	Henry Herbert Collett was born at Mile End Old Town on 7^th January 1868, the eldest of the two known children of Henry Edward and Sarah Ann Collett. His birth was recorded at St George-in-the-East (Ref. 1c 441) during the first three months of the year. The Mile End census in 1871 included him under his full name at the age of three years. By the time he was 13 in 1881, Henry H Collett and his family were residing at 70 Myrdle Street in Mile End old Town. Following the death of his mother in 1887 and the subsequent remarriage of his father a year later, Henry H Collett, aged 23 and a plumber and decorator working with his father, was still living with him and his stepmother at Myrdle Street in 1891. Four years after that he married Fanny Cutting, with the event recorded at Southampton register office (Ref. 2c 42) during the second quarter of 1895. Fanny was born in the Hampshire village of Penton Mewsey near Andover and, after their wedding, the couple settled in Snaresbrook within the London Borough of Redbridge, where their two known children were born, their births recorded at West Ham register office.
	It was also in Wanstead, at Chaucer Road, within the London Borough of Redbridge, that the family was living in 1901 when Henry Herbert Collett, aged 33, was a sanitary engineer, while his place of birth was given as St George-in-the-East. His wife Fanny from Penton, Andover, was 35 and their two children were Sidney Herbert Collett who was five, and Edith Lillian Collett who was one year old, both said to have been born at Wansford. Ten years later the same four members of the family were living at Low Leyton in Leytonstone, within the West Ham registration district, where Henry Herbert Collett was 43 and a master builder, Fanny was 44, Sidney Herbert was 15, and Edith Lillian was 11, both of whom were said to have been born at Snaresbrook in Essex.
	Upon the earlier death of his father in 1903, probate of his personal effects, valued at £1,382 13 Shillings and 8 Pence, was granted to Henry Herbert Collett, a sanitary engineer. In the electoral roll of 1908, Henry Herbert Collett’s office was at 50 Chaucer Road in Wansford, when his residential address was 68 Myrdle Street in Stepney. From 1909, certainly through to 1912, the office was at Testwood on Woodford Road in Snaresbrook, when Henry’s home address was still 68 Myrdle Street. The 1939 Register identified the couple as residing at 51 Byron Avenue within the Wanstead and Woodford area of Essex, where Herbert H Collett was again described as a master builder. Just over two years later, the death of Henry Herbert Collett, aged 74, was recorded at the Eton register office (Ref. 3a 1888) in Buckinghamshire during the last quarter of 1941.
	5Q56	Sidney Herbert Collett	Born in 1896 at Snaresbrook, Essex
	5Q57	Edith Lillian Collett	Born in 1899 at Snaresbrook, Essex
5P37	Alice Cecilia Collett was born at Mile End Old Town in 1870, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 1c 541) during the second quarter of the year, and where she was living with her family in 1871 when Alice was just under one year old. It was a 70 Myrdle Street in Mile End Old Town that 10-year-old Alice and her parents were living in 1881. Six years later her mother died and during the following year her father was remarried. The new family was still living at Myrdle Street in 1891 when Alice C Collett was 20, but with no stated occupation. Before the end of the century, the family left London, when they moved to Wallington to the west of Croydon and it was at Stafford Road that they were recorded in 1901, where Alice Collett from Stepney was 30 when she was still living with her father, her stepmother, and her half-brother Edward Percy Collett (below). Alice was still not credited with a paid job of work so, maybe, she was supporting her plumber and decorator father with some clerical duties.
	Two years later, her father passed away, with Alice continuing to live with her widowed stepmother at Wallington after that sad event. According to the following census in 1911, Alice Cecilia Collett from Stepney was 40 years of age and working as a clerk, while her stepmother Rosina Collett was living on her own means and her half-brother Edward was an electrical engineer. Despite what is written below, it is now established that Alice never married, and continued to live with her stepmother Rosina at 9 St Michael’s Road in Wallington, Surrey, where they were recorded in 1911, and again in 1935 when Alice died on 23^rd March 1935. The passing of Alice Cecilia Collett that day, took place at the Woodcote Nursing Home on Woodcote Road in Wallington, while it was during the probate process that her residential address was confirmed as 9 St Michael’s Road, where her stepmother died in 1940. The Will of Alice Cecilia Collett, spinster, was proved at London on 15^th May 1935, the two beneficiaries being her older brother Henry Herbert Collett, a builder, and her younger half-brother Edward Percy Collett, a chartered electrical engineer. The Will had a value of £1,891 14 Shillings and 9 Pence.
	Previously written here, it was reported that the possible marriage of Alice C Collett and Maximilian Armbruster was recorded at St Pancras register office (Ref. 1b 306) during the third quarter of 1911. Nine months later the couple’s first child was born, the birth of Eric M Armbruster recorded at Islington (Ref. 1b 280) during the second quarter of 1912. Eighteen months after that, their second son was born, with the birth of John R Armbruster recorded at Islington (Ref. 1b 284) during the last three months of 1913. In both cases, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett.
5P38	Edward Percy Collett was born at Myrdle Street in Mile End Old Town in 1889, his birth recorded there (Ref. 1c 467) during the fourth quarter of 1889. As Edward P Collett, he was one-year-old in the census of 1891 when he and his parents were still living at Myrdle Street. Over the following years, the family moved to Stafford Road in Wallington near Croydon, where Percy Collett from Stepney was 11 in 1901. His father died at 1 Croham-Hurst Villas, Stafford Road in Wallington in 1903 and by 1911, he and his widowed mother were living at 9 St Michael’s Road in Wallington with his half-sister Alice (above), where Edward Percy Collett from Stepney was 21, whose occupation was that of an electrical engineer with an undertaking to the tramway. The marriage of Edward Collett and Mary A Charters three years later was recorded at Croydon register office (Ref. 2a 762) during the third quarter of 1914.
	As far as is known, their marriage produced a son, Edward W Collett whose birth was recorded at the Monmouth Newport register office (Ref. 11a 385) during the fourth quarter of 1915, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Charters. By the time his mother died at 9 St Michael’s Road in Wallington, Surrey, in February 1940, Edward and Mary, and son Edward, were living in the Caerleon district of Monmouthshire, where the marriage of Edward W Collett and Grace D Parsons, was recorded (Ref. 11a 489) during the first three months of the following year. Nine months earlier, Edward Percy Collett, an electrical engineer, was named as the only beneficiary under the terms of his mother’s Will proved in London in April 1940 and valued at just over £1,600.
	5Q58	Edward W Collett	Born in 1915 at Newport, Monmouthshire
5P39	Charles Hemming Collett was born at Bredon in 1855 and it was there that he was baptised on 6^th January 1856, the eldest of the nine known children of Charles Collett and his wife Mary Hemming. As Charles Collett, he was five years old in the Bredon census of 1861, but by 1871 he had left the family home but was recorded in the census that year as still living and working in Bredon. Whether or not the census enumerator made an error, or the error was the fault of his employer, but Charles was incorrectly listed at the home of magistrate Nathan Dyer, as Charles C Hemming aged 15 and born at Bredon, the only male domestic servant of the four at the Dyer household. He eventually worked on the railway and this took him north to Carlisle, where Charles Hemming Collett married Maxwell Robison, the event recorded at Carlisle (Ref. 10b 652) during the second quarter of 1877. Maxwell was born in Scotland during 1854, so was twenty-three years of age when she married Charles on 21^st June 1877, he being twenty-one.
	Once married, the couple settled in Carlisle where, it appears they had no children. This assumption has been made on the contents of the census returns completed by Charles and Maxwell in 1881 and 1891. It was at 89 London Road in the Carlisle parish of Botchergate that the pair of them when Charles Hemming (sic) from Bredon in Worcestershire was 25 and a fireman on the railway. His wife was described as Maxwell Hemming from Scotland who was 28. It was in the same area of Carlisle that the couple was residing in 1891, but at 38 Fusehill Street which runs parallel to London Road, between Rydal Street and Brook Street. The pair of them were still using the Hemming surname, despite being married as Collett. Charles Hemming was 35, a railway engine driver, and Maxwell Hemming was 37. What happened during the following decade is not known.
	However, by March 1901 Charles had taken up a relationship with recently widowed Jane Simpson, who gave birth to her third child five months later – see Note 1 below. The pair of them were residing at 21 Midland Cottages in the parish of Carlisle St Cuthbert Without, when Charles Hemming from Bredon in Worcestershire was 45, single and a railway engine driver. Jane Simpson was head of the household following the death of her husband Charles Simpson, a railway engine fitter, within the previous six months, when he was 49. The mainline railway in Carlisle was just a short distance from where they were living, in a railway cottage.
	On the day of the earlier census in 1891, the Simpson family was recorded at Lindisfarne Street in Carlisle, where Charles was 39 and a steam engine fitter, his wife Jane was 30, their daughter Kate Simpson was six and their son Frederick W Simpson was three. On her birth record Kate was named as Katie Simpson (Ref. 10b 482) born during the last quarter of 1884. The birth of Frederick William Simpson was also recorded at Carlisle (Ref. 10b 488) during the third quarter of 1887.
	It is possible that the property at Lindisfarne Street, with its close proximity to the railway line, was a railway cottage which, upon the later death of her husband, was taken back, resulting in a short move for Jane and her two children to nearby 21 Midland Cottages on Petteril Terrace in Carlisle St Cuthbert Without, where in 1901 widow Jane was 40 years of age with no occupation, Katie Simpson was 16 and a shop assistant, and Frederick Simpson was 13 and also with no occupation. Around two years later Katie Simpson from Carlisle gave birth to a son, seemingly out of wedlock since no father was named. Charles may have arranged for Katie to be taken to Worcester, where her base-born child was born. What is very interesting though, it was as Katie Hemming that she was named as the mother of William Hemming who was born on 23^rd March 1903 at Suttons Yard, off New Street in Worcester, adjacent to the Pheasant Inn on New Street. This raises the question, was Charles Hemming Collett the father of William Hemming, which seems highly likely – see Note 2 below
	While in Worcester the child would appear to have been adopted, with the address for Katie Hemming stated to be Petteril Terrace in Carlisle, Cumberland, where her mother and Charles were living in 1911. This is very likely good enough evidence to assume that Katie Hemming was indeed Katie Simpson. According to the census in 1911, William Hemming aged eight years from Worcester was described as a visitor at the Bilston home of widower George Johnson, aged 47 and a locomotive fitter’s labourer, and his two unmarried daughters Lily and Maud who was 21 and 20 respectively. William Hemming was the grandfather of Janice Thomas of Wombourne in Staffordshire, who requested help tracing her family in 2017.
	On that same day in April 1911, the census for Carlisle St Cuthbert Without recorded the family still living at Petteril Terrace, with Charles established as head of the household following his marriage to Jane Simpson in 1906. It is very interesting to see that the original census return has been corrected with Charles surname, beginning with a H, being erased and replaced by Collett. His place of birth was again confirmed as Bredon in Worcestershire, when he was 55 and still working on the railway as an engine driver. His wife of four years, Jane Collett from Brampton was 50, the census record confirming she had no children with Charles, but not mentioning her three Simpson children who were all still alive, two of them living with the couple. Katie Simpson was 25 and a shop assistant for a milliner, and Charles Simpson was nine years old and attending school. Frederick W Simpson had left home and joined the Canadian army by then, and it was in Canada that he was a plumber, married and had a family. It was also there that he died during 1962.
	That was also the same year that Frederick’s half-brother Charles Hemming Simpson died on 18^th January 1962, his home address being 14 Newlands Road in Carlisle. Administration of his personal estate, valued at £1,789 9 Shillings and 6 Pence, was granted at Carlisle on 29^th March 1962 to his widow Dorothy Simpson. His father died on 15^th February 1926 when Charles Hemming Collett was living at 3 Petteril Terrace in Carlisle. However, it was in London, on 15^th March 1926, that probate was granted to his widow Jane Collett for £637 17 Shillings and 7 Pence. Nine years later his wife, Jane died on 17^th September 1935 in her home at 3 Petteril Terrace on Harraby Street, in Carlisle, where probate was granted on 5^th October 1935 in favour of her daughter Katie Simpson, a spinster, in the sum of £848 10 Shillings.
	NOTE 1: Jane Simpson gave birth to a second son on 4^th September 1901 at 21 Midland Cottages, the birth possibly within nine months of the death of her first husband. This seems more likely than the father being Charles Hemming Collett, her second husband, unless the child was conceived while Jane’s husband was still alive, or perhaps it was in the arms of Charles Collett that she sought solace after her loss. Certainly, the birth of the child was recorded at Carlisle register office (Ref. 10b 531) within the month of October 1901, under the name of Charles Hemming Simpson. That was also the name used three years later when the child was baptised at Upperby Methodist Church in Carlisle on 28^th August 1904, when the parents were named as Charles Hemming Collett and Jane Simpson. It was two years later, during the third quarter of 1906, that the marriage of Charles Hemming Collett and Jane Simpson was recorded at Carlisle (Ref. 10b 949). If the father of her son was Charles Collett, why then was he not using the Collett name on the day of the census in 1911, when surely Jane’s entry would have confirmed she had one child with her second husband. This makes you wonder whether they were embarrassed that their son was nine, when they had only been married for only four years.
	NOTE 2: In addition to all of this, the recent DNA screening of Debbie Simpson in Canadian, a direct descendant of Frederick William Simpson and Janice Thomas – the granddaughter of William Hemming, the adopted former base-born child of Katie Simpson, has confirmed that they share the same DNA. Janice’s screening also highlighted a connection with the DNA for the Worcestershire and Gloucestershire Collett DNA, most likely through Charles Hemming Collett being the father of William Hemming, Katie’s child. Katie Simpson, born in 1884, died in 1990, when she was living at 6 Henderson Gardens in Carlisle, where she was found dead by her nephew Raymond Hemming Simpson.
5P40	Ann Hemming Collett was baptised at Bredon on 27^th December 1857, her birth recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 405) during the first quarter of 1858. As simply Ann Collett aged three years, she was living at Bredon with her family in 1861 but was no longer living with them ten years later. It was however just over five after the census day in 1871 that the marriage of Ann Hemming Collett and Charles Alfred Smart was recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 897) during the final quarter of 1876. Charles’ birth was recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 377) during the first three months of 1858. He may have been orphaned early on his life because in 1871 he and his two younger siblings were living at the home of their elderly maternal grandparents Thomas and Sarah Jones.
	Just over three years after their wedding day, Ann Hemming Smart and her husband Charles were the witness at the Tewkesbury marriage of Ann’s younger sister Jane (below) who was only 19, perhaps marrying without the consent of her parents. One year later, the census in 1881, identified Charles A Smart and Annie H Smart residing at New Street in the Aston area of Birmingham. They were both 23 years of age and already had two children, Birmingham born Edith M J Smart who was three and Cheltenham born Florence E Smart who was one year old. Completing the family was Charles’ maternal grandmother Sarah Jones, a widow, and Annie’s sister Emma Collett (below) from Bredon who was 12 and incorrectly named as Emily Collett.
	Sometime during the early to mid-1880s, Charles’ work resulted in the family living in India for at least the best part of a decade, since it was there that the couple’s next three children were born. Upon returning to England, the family settled at Fairview Street in Cheltenham, where their last child was born, and where Annie’s brother-in-law George Thatcher (below) was living when he married Jane Hemming Collett. According to the next census in 1901 the family was still residing at Fairview Street, where Charles Smart was 43 and a commercial clerk and his wife Annie from Bredon was 43. The couple’s two eldest children (Edith and Florence, who would have been 23 and 21 respectively) were no longer living at the family home, perhaps married by then. However, of the seven young people living with Charles and Annie, only three of them were theirs, and they were Charles Smart aged 13, William Smart aged 10, and Mabel Smart who was five, all born in India, plus Reginald Smart from Cheltenham who was three years old. Two of the other three residents were the nephews of Annie H Smart, being the two sons of her married sister Mary Hemming Daffern (below). William Daffern was 18 and his brother Henry Daffern was 14, both born at Bredon. The last occupant was boarder William Dunn aged 23 from Birmingham.
	It was the Cheltenham census in 1911 which revealed that Charles Alfred Smart had served with the British Army, hence the reason for their time in India. By that time, he was 53 and described as an army pensioner, as well as being a commercial clerk, as he had been ten years earlier. Annie Hemming Smart from Bredon was also 53, when only two of her children were still living with her and her husband. They were Mabel Dorcas Smart aged 15, and Reginald Sydney Smart who was 13. Twenty-one years later the death of Charles A Smart was recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 516) during the second quarter of 1932, when he was 74. .
5P41	Jane Hemming Collett was baptised at Bredon on 24^th June 1860 and was one year old in the Bredon census of 1861, although by 1871 her family had moved the short distance to the nearby hamlet of Bredons Hardwick, where Jane was 10 years old. It was nine years after that, when Jane Hemming Collett married George Thatcher at St Mary’s Church in Cheltenham on 28^th March 1880. Jane was only 19 years of age and her father was confirmed as Charles Collett, a labourer. George was 22 and a carter residing at 33 Fairview Street. There was no groom’s father named on the marriage certificate, while the two witnesses were Jane’s married sister and her husband, Jane Hemming Smart and Charles Alfred Smart. The bride and the groom both signed the certificate in their own hand.
	One year after they were married, Jane and George Thatcher were living in the village of Overbury, just east of Bredon. On the day of the census in 1881, the only person living with the childless couple was elderly George Parker, when George was 23 and Jane was 20. However, during the next decade Jane gave birth to three children while the family was still residing in Overbury, where the family was recorded in 1891. George Thatcher was 33, Jane H Thatcher was 30, and their three children were Alice Thatcher who was nine, Charles Thatcher who was six, and Frederick Thatcher who was one year old.
	Three more children were added to the family at Overbury during the following decade and, by the time of the Overbury census in 1911, George was 53 and a farm labourer and Jane was 50 – who had been married for 31 years, during which time she had given birth to eight children, seven still living. Their two eldest children had left home by then, leaving Frederick who was 21, Lewis Thatcher who was 19, Eunice Thatcher who was 15, Arthur Thatcher who was 13, and Amy Thatcher who was nine years of age.
5P42	Mary Hemming Collett was born at Bredon, where she was baptised on 6^th July 1862, a daughter of Charles Collett and Mary Hemming. Simply as Mary Collett, she was eight years old in the Bredons Hardwick census of 1871 and only just over eight years later she married George Daffern from Bredon, who was born there in 1850, being many years older than Mary. It was at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 856) that they were married during the final three months of 1879. George had been in the navy for some years prior to that and, upon becoming a married man, his occupation was that of a carpenter, both details confirmed in the subsequent census records. One year later their first child was born at Bredon and in 1881 the family of three had settled in Bredons Hardwick village where George Daffern was 30 and a Chelsea pensioner and a carpenter, Mary Daffern was 19 and Thomas George Daffern was only a few months old.
	Severn more children were added to the family, the first three of them born at Bredons Hardwick, as confirmed by the next census in 1891. By then the enlarged family was residing at Bredon where carpenter George was 40, Mary was 28, Thomas was 10, William was seven, Henry was four, and Albert was two. It was a similar situation in 1901 when George was 50, Mary was 38, Thomas was 20, Albert Daffern was 12, Frank Daffern was nine, and Arthur was five. The couple’s two absent sons William P Daffern aged 18 and Henry Daffern aged 14, and both from Bredon, were staying with Mary eldest sister Annie Hemming Smart and her family at Fairview Street in Cheltenham. However, around three or four years after that, the family left Bredon and moved into the nearby town of Cheltenham, where their last child was born and where the family was recorded in 1911.
	The census that year described George Daffern as being 61 and a naval pensioner and a carpenter from Bredon. His wife Mary Daffern from Bredon was 48 and living with the couple were their three youngest children. Arthur Daffern was 15, Mary Daffern was nine, and Walter Daffern was four years old. Thirteen years later the death of George Daffern was recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 591) during the first three months of 1925 when he was 74. Mary lived the next five years as a widow, with her death also recorded at Cheltenham register office (Ref. 6a 417) during the third quarter of 1930, when she was 68.
5P43	George Collett was born at Bredon during 1864, where he was baptised on 11^th December 1864, the fifth child and second son of Charles Collett and his wife Mary Hemming. He was also the first of their children not to be baptised using Hemming as a second forename. George was six years old at the time of the Bredon census in 1871, but tragically it was exactly one year later that he died there on 29^th March 1872.
5P44	Emma Collett was born at Bredon in 1869, with her birth registered at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 463) during the first quarter of the year. and was also baptised there on 28^th March 1869, the daughter of Charles Collett and Mary Hemming. She was two years old in the Bredon census of 1871 but, just seven years later, her mother died. Then, rather strangely, no record of Emma’s family has been found within the census of 1881 when Emily Collett (sic) from Bredons Hardwick, aged 12 years, was living with her eldest married sister Annie Hemming Smart at New Street in the Aston district of Birmingham. Where her father and her younger siblings were that day is still very much a mystery, although in 1891 Emma’s two youngest siblings were still living with her father at Bredon.
	Perhaps Emma had disgraced herself by having two children out of wedlock during the 1880s and, as a result, had been banished from the family’s home by that time since, in 1891, she was a resident at the Tewkesbury Union Workhouse and with her, her two children, all of them described as inmates. The census return confirmed that she was Emma Collett from Bredon who was 21, William Collett from Bredons Hardwick was five, and Louisa Collett from Tewkesbury was three years of age. Nine years later the marriage of Emma Collett and William Henry Payne was recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 983) during the third quarter of 1900. Six months after her wedding day, Emma Payne from Bredon was 30 when she and her husband, William Henry Payne, aged 25 and a railway porter from Overbury, north-east of Tewkesbury, were residing at Stoughton Street in Leicester. Also listed with the couple, was Emma’s daughter Louisa Collett from Tewkesbury, who was 12 and described as a visitor.
	William Payne was the son of William and Mary A Payne, while the births of Emma two base-born children were registered at Tewkesbury; William Reeves Collett (Ref. 6a 445) during the third quarter of 1886, and Louisa Collett (Ref. 6a 419) during the fourth quarter of 1888.
	No record of Emma and William Payne has been found within the census of 1911. However, it may have been during her visit to Leicester ten years earlier, that secured a position for Louisa Collett with the Townsend family from Leicester which was residing in Cheltenham in 1911. Servant Louisa Collett was 22 and single, although the head of the household had entered her place of birth as Tredington near Tewkesbury.
	5Q59	William Reeves Collett	Born in 1886 at Bredons Hardwick
	5Q60	Louisa Collett	Born in 1888 at Tewkesbury
5P45	Martha Collett was born at Bredons Hardwick in 1870 where her family was living in 1871. She was baptised at the parish church in Bredon on 11^th December 1870 so was fourth months old in the census of 1871, another child of Charles and Mary Collett. Her birth was registered at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 417) during the last three months of 1870.
5P46	William Collett was born in the hamlet of Bredons Hardwick within the parish of Bredon and was baptised at the parish church in Bredon on 23^rd February 1873, the son of Charles and Mary Collett. His birth was registered at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 466) during the first three months of 1873. No record of him or his family has been discovered within the census of 1881, but by 1891 his mother had passed away and William was still living with his widowed father and his younger sister Caroline (below) but at Deerhurst south of Tewkesbury. He was 17 and an agricultural labourer like his father, while the census also confirmed he had been born at Hardwick. Curiously no record of William has been found in either of the census returns for 1901 or 1911.
5P47	Caroline Collett was born on 21^st December 1875 at Bredons Hardwick with her birth registered at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 487) during the first quarter of 1876. She was the youngest child of Charles Collett and Mary Hemming and, with no record of any member of the family in 1881, and following the loss of her mother when she was only two years old, Caroline was 14 and one of only two children still living with her widowed father at Deerhurst in 1891. After her brother William left the family home before the end of the century, it was just Caroline and her father who were still living at Deerhurst in 1901 when she was 25 and described as her elderly father’s housekeeper. In assisting the census enumerator to complete the census return her father incorrectly gave the place of birth for himself, and his daughter, as Bredon Norton, which lies midway between Tewkesbury and Pershore.
	Just over two years after the day of the census in 1901, the marriage of Caroline Collett and Caleb Walter Williams was recorded at Tewkesbury register office (Ref. 6a 1023) during the third quarter of 1903. The next census in 1911 identified Caroline Williams from Bredons Hardwick as 35 and the mother of three children living with her family in the village of Leigh, on the outskirts of Cheltenham. Her husband of seven years Walter from Cranmore, near Shepton Mallet in Somerset, was 33 and working as a domestic gardener, daughter Martha Williams was six, Doris Williams was two years of age, and Walter Williams had only just been born. All children had been born after the couple made their home in Leigh.
	By that time Caroline’s father was living with the young family, when Charles Collett from Bredon Norton was 81 and an old age pensioner and a former labourer. Also staying there that day was the married brother of Caleb Walter Williams, Jethro Williams who was 25 from Elmstone Hardwick in Cheltenham, a member of Her Majesty Queen Victoria’s Coldstream Guards with whom he was a private. His wife of four years was Evelyn May Williams aged 24 and from Bury-St-Edmunds.
	Three more children were added to the family after 1911 and they were Edith C Williams during the second quarter of 1914 (Ref. 6a 782), Wilfred C Williams during the third quarter of 1917 (Ref. 6a 584), and Harold L Williams during the first three months of 1920 (Ref. 6v 1018). In each case the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed at Collett when the births were registered at Cheltenham.
	The family continued to reside in Cheltenham where first Caleb died in 1947, followed seven years later by his wife. Caleb Walter Williams was baptised at West Cranmore on 25^th July 1876, the son of Caleb and Elizabeth Williams, who was 71 years old when he died. The death of Caleb Walter Williams was recorded at Gloucestershire register office (Ref. 7b 269) in 1947. The death certificate provided the information that he had been born at Cranmore on 28^th June 1876 and died in Cheltenham on 15^th September 1947. The Will of Cabel Walter Williams was proved at Gloucester on 21^st November 1947 with the main beneficiary named as Caroline Williams. Her later death was recorded at Cheltenham register office (Ref. 7b 413) in 1954 when she was 78 years old.
5Q3	Ada Collett was born at Spring Gardens in Tewkesbury in February 1881 and was just two months old at the time of the census on the third of April that year. She was the third child of Charles and Sarah Ann Collett who were living at 18 Spring Gardens in Tewkesbury, where Ada was most likely born. Ada was ten years old in 1891 when she was still living with her parents in Tewkesbury. However, ten years later in March 1901, she had moved out of the family home in Tewkesbury having just recently married William Booth. The census that year confirmed that both William and Ada were born at Tewkesbury; William was 25 and a general labourer, while Ada was 20 and a collar factory machinist.
	Over the next decade the marriage produced five children for the couple, and all of them born at Tewkesbury where the family was living in 1911. William Booth was 34, his wife Ada Booth was 30, and their children were Florence Booth who was nine, Gladys Maud Booth who was seven, Ethel Booth who was five, Cecil Booth who was two, and Edith Annie Booth who was just two months old.
5Q4	Ernest Collett was born at Spring Gardens in Tewkesbury in 1882 and was the second eldest son of Charles and Sarah Ann Collett. His birth was recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 448) during the final three months of that year. In 1891 Ernest was eight years old and ten years later in March 1901 he was eighteen and still living with his family at Spring Gardens in Tewkesbury, albeit as a private soldier with the 61^st Gloucestershire Regiment. Towards the end of that decade Ernest married Elsie and once married the couple settled initially in Gloucester where their only known child was born. It was at Tuffley, just south of Gloucester that their son was born, but by April 1911 the family of three was living at Whaddon, south of Gloucester. The census return listed the three of them as Ernest Collett who was 28, Elsie Collett who was 20 and Christopher Lionel Collett who was one-year old. Tragically not long after that census day the couple’s son passed away.
	5R1	Christopher Lionel Collett	Born in 1910 at Tuffley, Gloucester
5Q5	Charles Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1888, another son of Charles and Sarah Collett, whose birth was recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 429) during the third quarter of that year. He and his family lived at Spring Gardens, where he was born, and where Charles was two in 1891, 12 in 1901 and 22 in 1911.
5Q6	Lizzie Collett was born at Spring Gardens in Tewkesbury on 13^th February 1890, a daughter of Charles and Sarah Collett. She was listed in the following Tewkesbury census returns as being one year old in 1891 and 11 years of age in 1901. While in her late teenage years she gave birth to a base-born daughter, with mother and child living with Lizzie’s parents at Tewkesbury in 1911. Unmarried Lizzie Collett was 21 and her daughter Gladys Collett was three years old. The child’s birth was recorded at Tewkesbury register office (Ref. 6a 438) during the first three months of 1908 as Gladys Elizabeth Collett. It was just over two years later when she married William New on 25^th December 1913 with whom she had two children. The marriage was recorded at Aston in Birmingham, when William New aged 25 was named as the son of John New, and Lizzie Collett was 23 and confirmed as the daughter of Charles Collett. One of the witnesses was Lizzie’s younger brother Cornelius Collett (below).
	In addition to Gladys Elizabeth, who took the surname New, the couple’s two children were William Thomas New who was born on 22^nd November 1915, and Marjory New who was born on 26^th August 1919. Daughter Margery was 20 when, on 20^th January 1940, she married John Carr who was born on 9^th July 1912. Their marriage resulted in the birth of seven children, and all of them born at Raeburn Road in Great Barr, Birmingham. They were Annette (born 1940), Margaret and Mary (born 1942, Irene (born 1946), John M Carr (born 1949), Anthony A Carr (born 1950) and Rosalind who was born during 1961. And it was Rosalind Pickering, nee Carr, who made contact in 2016 and kindly provided lots of new information about her Collett family.
	5R2	Gladys Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1908 at Tewkesbury
5Q7	Elsie Collett was born at Spring Gardens in Tewkesbury towards the end of 1891 or very early in 1892, with her birth recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 416) during the first three months of 1892. She was one of the five daughters of Charles and Sarah Ann Collett and was nine years old in 1901 when she and her family were still living in Tewkesbury. By April 1911 Elsie Collett of Tewkesbury was twenty years old and was living at Whaddon near Gloucester with her widowed older brother Ernest (above), where she was supporting him in raising his son.
5Q8	Cornelius Collett was born at Spring Gardens in Tewkesbury on 17^th March 1894 and was the youngest son of Charles and Sarah Collett. The birth was recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 397) during the second quarter of 1894 and was seven years of age in the census of 1901 when he and his family were still residing at Spring Gardens. It was there also that he was again living with his family in 1911 when he was 17. Just over three years later he married Frances Washbrook Bounds at Aston in Birmingham on 19^th July 1914, when Cornelius said he was 22 and the son of Charles Collett. On that day he was only 20 years old when Frances, the daughter of Thomas Bounds, was 24 years of age. Frances was born at Rugby in Warwickshire around 1889 and was living and working at The High School in Tewkesbury at the time of the census in 1911. The couple settled in Birmingham soon after they were married and their daughter was born there within the next nine months. It is possible that Dora Collett was either a honeymoon baby or conceived prior to the couple’s wedding day.
	A couple of years after the First World War, Frances presented Cornelius with a second daughter, Winifred Collett, who was born in 1920 when the family was living at 17 Pool Street in the Aston area of Birmingham. In Electoral Roll of 1935 the family was recorded as living at 74 Thomas Street in Birmingham and it was twenty-nine years after that when Frances Washbrook Collett nee Bounds died in Birmingham at the age of 76, where her death was recorded (Ref. 9c 319) during the last three months of 1964. And it was also in Birmingham where the death of Cornelius Collett was recorded thirteen years later (Vol. 32 0830) during the summer of 1976.
	The birth of Dora Collett was recorded at Aston register office (Ref. 6d 1140) during the first quarter of 1915, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Bounds. Dora Collett, the daughter of Cornelius Collett, was married to George Frank Hensley Harrison in Birmingham on 2^nd July 1938. Their marriage resulted in the birth of Valerie Harrison whose birth was recorded at Birmingham register office (Ref. 6d 508) during the last quarter of 1941 when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. The death of Dora Harrison nee Collett was recorded at Birmingham (Ref. 32 0973) during the third quarter of 1975.
	The birth of the second daughter of Cornelius and Frances was recorded at Aston register office (Ref. 6d 1097) during the third quarter of 1920. Winifred Collett went on to marry Jack Young in Birmingham on 18^th November 1944, when the bride’s father was confirmed as Cornelius Collett, and the groom’s father was named as Percy Allan Young. No record of any children for the couple has been found.
	5R3	Dora Collett	Born on 21.04.1915 at Birmingham
	5R4	Winifred Collett	Born on 13.05.1920 at Aston
5Q9	Doris Collett was born at Spring Gardens in Tewkesbury either at the end of 1898 or during the first few weeks of 1899. She was the last child born to Charles and Sarah Ann Collett, when her birth was recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 501) during the first three months of 1899. She was two years of age in 1901 and was 12 years old in the Tewkesbury census of 1911 when, on both occasions, she was living with her family at Spring Gardens.
5Q12	Frederick George Collett was born in Worcestershire during 1896, the only known child of Frederick John Collett and his wife Ellen. Although all three members of the family were not together on the day of the census in 1901, they were residing at 14 Tennal Road in Harborne, Kings Norton, Birmingham, in April 1911. The census return that year was signed by Frederick George Collett who was 14 and an apprenticed gas fitter who was still living with his parents. Five years later Frederick George Collett enlisted with the British Army at Birmingham. He was assigned to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment with the original service number 2458 and was later a Lance Corporal with the infantry Battalion of the Machine Gun Corps, service no. 23105, and tragically died on 24^th November 1916 from the wounds he sustained during frontline action on Flanders Field. His military record confirmed that he had been born at Malvern in Worcestershire.
5Q13	Henry Clifford Collett was born at Morgan Street in Pwllgwaun Pontypridd on 26^th August 1911, the son of William Henry Collett and Matilda Kate Truman. His birth, as Henry C Collett, recorded at Pontypridd register office (Ref. 11a 1157) during the last three months of 1911, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Truman. On the day he was baptised as Henry Clifford Collett at St Catherine’s Church in Pontypridd in 1911, his parents were named as William Henry Collett, a collier, living at Morgan Street with his wife Matilda Kate.
	Henry appears to have lived his whole life in Glamorgan, since it was there that her was married in 1937, the event recorded at Pontypridd register office (Ref. 11a 1137) during the third quarter of that year, when his bride was Gladys M Burrows. Henry was 25 and there is every possibility that they had, although none has been found so far. The death of Henry Clifford Collett was recorded at Ogwr register office in Glamorganshire (Vol. 27 633) at the end of 1991 when he was 80 years of age.
5Q14	Catherine Hilda Collett was born at Morgan Street in Pwllgwaun in 1913 and was named after her father’s mother Catherine Sutton, the daughter of William Henry Collett and Matilda Kate Truman. Her birth was recorded at Pontypridd register office (Ref. 11a 1237) as Catherine H Collett during the first quarter of 1913, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Truman. It was at her baptism in the Church of St Catherine, Pontypridd, that she was named as Catherine Hilda Collett, when her parents were still living at Morgan Street, from where her father was a collier.
5Q15	Albert Henry Collett was born at Bredon in 1880, the eldest of the six children of George Henry Collett and his wife Sarah Susannah Collett. His birth was recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 491) during the second quarter of that year. He was ten months old in the census of 1881, placing his month of birth as May, and was 10 years old in 1891. By the time he was 20 he was working as a navvy from his family’s home at Bredon in 1901. He was still unmarried at the age of 30 in 1911 when he was again living with his parents at Bredon. With the outbreak of war, Albert joined the 2^nd/7^th Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment as Private Albert Henry Collett, service number 203515. Tragically, it was on 19^th August 1917 at Ypres in Belgium that he was killed in action, his military record confirming that his next-of-kin was his parents George Henry and Sarah Collett of Bredon near Tewkesbury. His body was buried at the White House Cemetery in St Jean-les-Ypres, grave reference II.A.26.
5Q16	Kate Collett was born at Bredon in 1882, possibly at the end of that year or early in the next, while her birth was recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 473) during the first three months of 1883. She was eight years of age in the Bredon census of 1891 and was absent from her Bredon family home in 1901. No record of her has been found anywhere in 1901 and again in 1911.
5Q17	Frank George Collett was born at Bredon on 27^th January 1886, one of the four sons of George Henry Collett of Bredon and Sarah Susannah Deakins of Westmancote. Like all his siblings, his birth was recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 465) during the first quarter of 1886. Frank G Collett was five years old in the Bredon census of 1891 and was 15 years of age in March 1901 when he was working with his father at Bredon as a gardener’s apprentice. Seven years later the banns of marriage for Frank George Collett of the parish of Bredon, and Emily Pittman of the parish of Tewkesbury, were recorded at Tewkesbury during the last three weeks of May in 1908. It was also at Tewkesbury that their marriage was recorded (Ref. 6a 1001) during the second quarter of that year.
	By the time of the next census in 1911, head of the household Frank George Collett from Bredon was 25 and a married man living in Cheltenham at 21 Leicester Terrace off Naunton Road, where he was employed as domestic gardener. On that same day, his wife Emily Collett was 26 when she was visiting her parents, Thomas, and Jane Pittman, at the family home in Kemerton, north-east of Tewkesbury. So far as is known, the marriage produced at least one child, who was born after the First World War, his birth recorded at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 885) during the third quarter of 1920, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Pittman.
	The later death of Frank George Collett was recorded at Cheltenham register office (Vol. 22 1605) during the month of March in 1980, when he was 94 years of age. The last thirteen years of his life he was a widower, following the death of Emily Collett, nee Pittman, at the age of 75, which was recorded at Cheltenham register office (Ref. 7b 279) during the second quarter of 1967.
	5R5	Ronald George Collett	Born in 1920 at Cheltenham
5Q18	Ernest Joseph Collett was born at Bredon in 1888, the fourth of the six children of George and Susannah Collett. His birth was recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 420) during the last quarter of that year. In 1891 he was named as Ernest J Collett and was two years old. In 1901 he was simply Ernest Collett, aged 12, while in 1911 he was recorded with his family still living at Bredon as unmarried Ernest John Collett who was 22, his second forename perhaps an error by the enumerator. Over six years later, the marriage of Ernest Joseph Collett and Nellie Neachell took place at Kings Norton in Worcestershire and was followed by the birth of three children. Their son was only ten years old when Nellie Collett nee Neachell suffered a premature death at the age of 44, when her passing was recorded at Pershore register office (Ref. 6c 285) during the first quarter of 1937. Nine years after losing his wife, Ernest was married for a second time but one year later Ernest Joseph Collett died at Cheltenham, where his death was recorded (Ref. 7b 272) during the second quarter of 1947, at the age of 58.
	It was at 3 Glenfall Street in Cheltenham that Ernest Collett was living when he passed away on 8^th May 1947. Administration of his personal effects, valued at £513 6 Shillings and 5 Pence, was granted at Gloucester on 15^th July 1947 in favour of his widow Edith Nellie Collett. Edith Nellie Poulton was Ernest’s second wife, to whom she was married at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 1173) during the second quarter of 1946.
	5R6	Nellie Collett	Born in 1918 at Kings Norton
	5R7	Olive J Collett	Born in 1920 at Bredon
	5R8	George Henry Collett	Born in 1926 at Bredon
5Q19	Raymond John Collett was born at Bredon in 1891 and his birth was recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 448) during the second quarter of that year. His inclusion in the Bredon census of 1891, with no recorded age, means he was born just before 5^th April that year. He was 10 years old in the next Bredon census of 1901 and on both those occasions he was simply described as Raymond Collett. Nine years later the death of Raymond John Collett was recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 255) during the second quarter of 1910 at the age of 19, when his family was still residing in Bredon.
5Q20	Alice Collett was born at Bredon in 1895, the last child of George Henry Collett and Sarah Susannah Deakins. The birth of Alice Collett was recorded at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 400) during the second quarter of that year and in the Bredon censuses of 1901 and 1911 she was six years of age and 16 years old respectively when she was living there with her parents. What happened to her after that time has not been determined.
5Q21	Albert Edward Collett was born at Chilvers Coton, Nuneaton, in 1896, and it was at Nuneaton where his birth was recorded (Ref. 6d 470) during the first quarter of the year and around nine months after his parents William and Mary Ann were married. He was five years old in the census of 1901 and was 15 in 1911 when, on both occasions, he was living with his family at Chilvers Coton. The married of Albert E Collett, aged 31, and Edith G Roberts was recorded at Nuneaton (Ref. 6d 1384) during the second quarter of 1927. He was just short of his twentieth wedding anniversary when the death of Albert E Collett was recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 9c 1323) during the first quarter of 1947 when he was 50 years old.
	Edith Gertrude Collett was 85 years old when she passed away, with her death recorded at Warwickshire register office (Vol. 31 131) where her date of birth was reported to be 23^rd April 1903.
	5R9	Gordon J Collett	Born in 1930 at Nuneaton
	5R10	Beryl M Collett	Born in 1932 at Nuneaton
5Q22	Ernest Collett was born at Chilvers Coton, Nuneaton, in early 1901, his birth recorded at Nuneaton register office (Ref. 6d 499) during the first quarter of that year. He was therefore only a month or two old in 1901 and was 10 years of age in 1911 while he and his family were still residing in Chilvers Coton. Ernest was nearly twenty-eight when he married Matilda L Bowles at Nuneaton (Ref. 6d 1413) during the last three months of 1927.
	5R11	Roy Collett	Born in 1928 at Nuneaton
5Q23	Margaret E Pratt was born at Brailes near Shipston-on-Stour around 1888. Although no record of her birth or her baptism has been found, it is the lack of those records that results in the assumption that she was the base-born daughter of Mary Ann Pratt of Brailes who eventually married John Collett. Where she spent the first years of her life has not been determined, perhaps at Brailes with her grandparents William and Angelina Pratt. However, in the census of 1891 Margaret E Pratt was said to be four years of age and a scholar and an inmate at Shipston-on-Stour. On that same day her mother, with her husband, was residing at Southam Street in Kineton with the first of their nine children following their wedding day fifteen months earlier.
	Sometime after 1891, Margaret joined her mother’s Collett family at Southam Street in Kineton, from whence she was known as Margaret Collett. That was confirmed in the next census of 1901 when Margaret E Collett from Brailes was 13 and the eldest child living there with John and Mary Ann Collett, when her status was confirmed as daughter. With the Collett family still increasing in number, it was not long before Margaret left Kineton to make her own way in the world and, by April in 1911, she was a domestic servant at the home of the Terry family in Ipsley in Redditch. The census return that year described her as Maggie Collett from Brailes near Banbury who was 23.
5Q24	George Henry Collett was born at Southam Street in Kineton in 1890, the first of the nine children of John Collett and Mary Ann Pratt. His birth was recorded at Stratford-on-Avon (Ref. 6d 623) during the first quarter of 1890, following which he was baptised at Kineton on 13^th July 1890, when his father was named as John Collett. It was also at Southam Street that George was one year old in the Kineton census of 1891. He and his family were still at the same address in 1901 when George H Collett was 11 years of age. On leaving school he entered the same profession as that of his uncle Henry William Collett [Ref. 5P26] and in 1911 he had left Kineton when he was a lodger at the Solihull home of William and Blizzard. From where he was employed at a local bakery. The census that year confirmed that George Collett was 21 and had been born at Kineton. Nothing more is known about him after that day, except that the death of George H Collett was recorded at Coventry register office (Ref. 9c 811) during the last quarter of 1962 when he was 73.
5Q25	Catherine Ann Collett was born at Southam Street in Kineton, either towards the end of 1891 or very early in 1892. Her birth was recorded at Stratford-on-Avon (Ref. 6d 633) during the first three months of 1892, after which she was baptised at Kineton on 3^rd February 1892, her parents confirmed as John and Mary Ann Collett. As Catherine A Collett she was nine years old in the Kineton census of 1901.
5Q26	John Ernest William Collett was born at Kineton in 1895, his birth recorded at Stratford (Ref. 6a 659) during the first quarter of that year. He was later baptised at Kineton in a joint ceremony with his younger brother Albert (below) on 14^th June 1896, when their parents were confirmed as John and Mary Ann Collett. It was as John E W Collett aged six years that he was listed with his family at Southam Street in Kineton in 1901. His family was still residing in Kineton in 1911, when John, recorded simply as Ernest Collett from Kineton, was living with the Dabbs family at Belle Vue, Brandwood Road in Kings Heath (Kings Norton, Worcestershire) from where he was working as a farm labourer at the age of 16.
	What is known is that he was a member of the King’s army and played an active part in the First World War. He was Lance Corporal John E W Collett, service number 13313, with the 3^rd Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment and was killed in action on 11^th November 1915. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission confirm he was the son of John and Mary Ann Collett of Market Place in Kineton, where his name, as J E W Collett, is one of many listed on the War Memorial in that village.
5Q27	Albert Edward Collett was born at Kineton on 8^th March 1896, with his birth registered at Stratford-on-Avon (Ref. 6d 643) during the second quarter of that year. He was baptised with his older brother John (above) on 14^th June 1896 at the Church of St Peter in Kineton, two of the sons of John and Mary Ann Collett. The Kineton census in 1901 described him as Alfred E Collett aged five, who was living with his family on Southam Street in the village. By 1911 Albert Edward Collett was 15, the eldest child still living at Kineton with his family. At the time of the 1939 Register, Albert E Collett was described as a general labourer out of work, when he was 43 and still living with his family at the Market Square in Kineton. Less than six years later, Albert E Collett was still residing within the county of Warwickshire when he died, his death recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 9c 1323) during the first quarter of 1947, when he was 50 years old.
5Q28	Florence Daisy Collett was born at Kineton in 1900 the fifth child of John Collett and Mary Ann Pratt. Her birth was recorded at Stratford (Ref. 6d 724) during the first three months of that year. It was on 25^th March that same year that she was baptised, when she was confirmed as the daughter of John and Mary Ann Collett and, six days later, in the census of 1901, Florence D Collett was one year old. It was a similar situation in 1911 when Florence Daisy Collett was 11. The marriage of Florence D Collett and Harold G Hancock was recorded at Stratford-on-Avon (Ref. 6d 1935) during the second quarter of 1927.
5Q29	Ethel May Collett was born at Kineton towards the end of 1901, her birth recorded at Stratford (Ref. 6d 677) during the last three months of that year. She was baptised at Kineton on 8^th December 1901, the daughter of John and Mary Ann Collett, who was nine years old in the Kineton census of 1911.
5Q30	Frank Thomas Collett was born at Kineton on 24^th December 1902, another son of John and Mary Ann Collett, whose birth was recorded at Stratford (Ref. 6d 700) during the first quarter of 1903. Under his full name, he was included with his family at Kineton in 1911 when he was eight years old. He was still living with his parents on the Market Square in Kineton in 1939, when the register that year described him Frank T Collett, aged 37, single, and working as a builder’s labourer. Forty-one years later, the death of Frank Thomas Collett was recorded at Cheltenham (Vol. 22 1469) during the summer of 1980 when he was 77.
5Q31	Beatrice Hannah Collett was born at Kineton, her birth recorded at Stratford (Ref. 6d 702) during the third quarter of 1904, who was six years of age in the Kineton census in 1911. Twenty years later, the marriage of Beatrice H Collett and Walter R Hutson was recorded at Stratford-on-Avon (Ref. 6d 2373) during the third quarter of 1931. Their only known child, Geoffrey R Hutson, was born two years later, his birth recorded at Oxford (Ref. 3a 1710) during the third quarter of 1933, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett.
5Q32	Frederick Charles Collett was born at Kineton on 26^th September 1906, his birth recorded at Stratford (Ref. 6d 655) during the fourth quarter of that year, the last child of John Collett and Mary Ann Pratt, who was four years old in Kineton. The 1939 Register identified Frederick C Collett, aged 33 and single, whose occupation was that of a gardener, who was still living with his parents at the Market Square in Kineton. Not long after that, the marriage of Frederick C Collett, aged 39, and Marjorie L Bambrook, aged 23, was recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 6d 2884) during the second quarter of 1940, Marjorie having been born in 1917 at Rugby (Ref. 6d 1322). Within two years, Marjorie presented Frederick with a son, whose birth was recorded at Warwick register office (Ref. 6d 1674) during the first three months of 1942, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Bambrook.
	Whether their marriage was cut short by the death of his wife is not known for sure, but a later record at Stratford-on-Avon (Ref. 9c 1855) states that Frederick C Collett married Mary F Coleman during the fourth quarter of 1959.
	5R12	Michael A Collett	Born in 1942 at Warwick
5Q33	Agnes May Collett was born at Hinckley in 1898 where her birth was recorded (Ref. 7a 57) during the fourth quarter of the year. It was at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Hinckley that she was baptised on 27^th November 1898, when her parents were confirmed as Arthur George and Jane Elizabeth Collett. Within a short while her parents moved to Chilvers Coton in Nuneaton, and it was there at Dugdale Street that the family was living in 1901 where Agnes May Collett from Hinckley was two years old. Ten years later she was 12 years of age when she was still living there with her family. However, it was after a further seventeen years that the marriage of Agnes May Collett and Charles H Beasley, the event recorded at Nuneaton register office (Ref. 6d 1467) during the second quarter of 1928.
5Q34	Thomas Sansome Collett was born in 1900 at Dugdale Street in Chilvers Coton, Nuneaton, just after his family moved there from Hinckley. His birth, using his full name, which was derived from his mother’s maiden-name, was recorded at Nuneaton (Ref. 6d 537) during the first three months of that year. In the census the following year, Thomas S Collett was one-year-old and in the Chilvers Coton census of 1911 he was 11 years of age. So far, no record of him ever being married has been found, although the death of Thomas S Collett was recorded at Nuneaton (Ref. 9c 719) during the third quarter of 1962, when he was 62 years old.
5Q35	Arthur George Collett was born at Chilvers Coton, in Nuneaton where his birth was recorded (Ref. 6d 436) during the fourth quarter of 1910. He was the last known child of Arthur George Collett senior and his wife Jane Elizabeth Sansome and was around six months old in the Chilvers Coton census of 1911. It was just before the outbreak of hostilities in Europe when Arthur G Collett married Phyllis M Hughes, their marriage recorded at Stratford-on-Avon register office (Ref. 6d 2746) during the second quarter of 1939.
5Q37	Charles Frederick Collett was born at Aldershot on 11^th February 1911, the surviving child of Arthur Ernest Collett and his wife Annie Maria. His birth was recorded at Farnham (Ref. 2a 145) during the first quarter of 1911. His father was a soldier at Aldershot Barracks and in 1911, when Charles Frederick was one month old, the family was living at Foleys on Cargate Terrace. For the 1939 Register the same three members of the family were residing in Birmingham, where Charles F Collett from Aldershot was 28 and a mathematical instrument maker (steel rules). It is possible that he never married, while the death of Charles Frederick Collett was recorded at Birmingham register office (Ref. 9c 560) during the summer of 1973, when he was 62.
5Q38	Harry Collett was born in 1889 at Stow-on-the-Wold where his birth was recorded (Ref. 6a 383) during the last three months of that year. He was the first child of Henry William Collett and his first wife Helen Haynes. Harry was around one year old when his mother died giving birth to her second child and namesake Helen (below) who survived the ordeal. The shock of losing his wife, and with very two children, resulted in Harry’s father having to place his two babies in the care of their mother’s family, although not together, as confirmed in the census of 1891.
	His mother’s parents, Thomas and Maria Haynes, lived at Adlestrop between Stow and Chipping Norton, and it was there that grandson Harry Collett, aged one year, was recorded in the census return, together with son Charles Haynes 25 and daughter Ada Haynes 23. Harry’s baby sister Helen, that day, was being looked after by Thomas Haynes’ married daughter Maria Jeffries many many miles away in Hampshire. Following his father’s marriage to Annie Brooks two years after being widowed, Harry returned to live with him and, in 1901, he was 11 years old when living at Well Lane Farm, Oddfellows Row, in Stow, with his father, his stepmother and their three children, Harry’s half-siblings.
	The family was extended by a fourth half-sister around the time that Harry was finishing his schooling and that may have been when he sought employment in London, where he was living in 1911. On that occasion Harry Collett from Stow-on-the-Wold was 21 and a printer’s compositor who was boarding with the Spracklan family at Islington.
5Q39	Helen Hope Collett was born on 2^nd November 1890 at Stow-on-the-Wold, the second of the two children of Helen Collett nee Haynes, the wife of Henry William Collett, who tragically died that same day. Her birth was recorded at Stow (Ref. 6a 343) during the last three months of the year. With her father unable to care for Helen and her one-year-old brother Harry (above), the two children were separated and placed in the care of their late mother’s Haynes family. While brother Harry stayed in the Stow area, Helen was taken in by Maria Haynes and her husband Harry Jeffries, who already had two young children of their own. On the day of the census in 1891, Helen Hope Collett from Gloucestershire was described as niece, under six months old, living at Cross Street, Winchester in Hampshire, the home of the Jeffries family. Harry Jeffries from Wantage in Berkshire, was 38 and a lock fitter, his wife Marie Jeffries was 32 and from Adlestrop in Gloucestershire, and their two children were Margaret Jeffries who was three and William Jeffries who was two, both born at Wantage.
	Helen’s time with the Jeffries family was limited and, by the time she was 10 years old, she was living with her grandfather Thomas Haynes at his Adlestrop home, midway between Stow-on-the-Wold and Chipping Norton. Granddaughter Helen Hope Collett, aged 20, was again living with Thomas Haynes in 1911, a widower aged 78, and his unmarried daughter Ada Haynes, aged 43, a dressmaker with her own account, in 1911 when she was 20. Around eighteen months after that census day, the marriage of Helen Hope Collett and George Vincent was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold register office (Ref. 6a 899) during the last three months of 1912. No record of any children has been found and, much later in her life, Helen Hope Vincent was residing in Suffolk when she died at the age of 84 during 1975, her death recorded at Suffolk register office (Vol 10 2558). George was nearly ten years older than Helen, with his earlier death also recorded at Suffolk (Ref. 4b 775) in 1963 when he was 82.
5Q40	Emily Sarah Collett was born at Stow-on-the-Wold in 1892, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 6a 378) during the third quarter of 1892, the daughter of Henry William Collett by his second wife Annie Brooks. On the day of the next census in 1901, Emily S Collett was eight years old when living with her family at Well Lane Farm, Oddfellows Row, in Stow-on-the-Wold. After leaving school Emily entered domestic service and, in 1911, Emily Collett from Stow was 18 and a general domestic servant at the Upper Swell home of Cornish man John Henry Nankivel and his wife Catherine from Redruth. Just over three years later the marriage of Emily S Collett and Irwin M Sobey was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold register office (Ref. 6a 931) during the fourth quarter of 1914.
5Q41	Daisy Eliza Collett was born in 1896 at Stow-on-the-Wold, the second daughter of Henry and Annie Collett. It was also at Stow that her birth was recorded (Ref. 6a 373) during the second quarter of 1896. She was four years of age in the Stow census of 1901 when living with her family at Well Farm Lane, Oddfellows Row. Like her sister Emily (above), Daisy also entered the world of domestic service when she had completed her schooling. In 1911, it was for farmer George Fawdry, a widower from Salford, that she was working as a nursemaid. On that census day Daisy Eliza Collett from Stow was 14 and living with his family at Cornwell, just west of Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire.
	Ten years later, the marriage of Daisy E Collett and William J Wilkes was recorded at Stow register office (Ref. 6a 941) during the last three months of 1921. Within three years, Daisy presented her husband with a son while the couple was still living in the Stow area of Gloucestershire. The birth of Terence W Wilkes was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 646) during the second quarter of 1924, when the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett.
5Q42	William Charles Collett was born at Stow-on-the-Wold on 5^th May 1899, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 6a 442) during the second quarter of 1899. As William C Collett he was one year old in the Stow census of 1901 when living with his family at Well Farm Lane, Oddfellows Row. After a further ten years William, aged 11, and his younger sister (below) were the only children still living with their parents Henry and Annie Collett. He joined the Royal Navy around his sixteenth birthday and initially served with HMS Impregnable and was transferred to the HMS Hyacinth on 18^th February 1916. Hyacinth was the cruiser which sank the German SS Tabora at Dar-Es-Salaam on 23^rd March 1916. His time with the navy appears to have continued ten years after peace was declared, while it was when he was based at Devonport in Plymouth that he married Edith R Claridge at Devonport (Ref. 5b 826) during the last quarter of 1921 and it was there also that their only known child was born during the following year.
	However, many years later, the 1939 Register described William C Collett as being married to Edith R Collett and a Royal Navy Chief Signaller D/J35097 with HMS Drake. Two years into the Second World War, William joined HMS Victory III on 1^st June 1941 and completed his term of office on 31^st September 1945, his last ship being HMS Drake I, his service number confirmed again as J35097, when he and Edith’s home address was in Bristol. The death of William Charles Collett was recorded at Weston-super-Mare (Vol. 22 1612) during the early months of 1975, when he was 75.
	5R13	Charles Fernleigh Collett		Born in 1922 at Devonport
5Q43	Kathleen Mabel Collett was born in 1905 at Stow-on-the-Wold, the last child of Henry William Collett and Annie Brooks. Her birth was recorded Stow register office (Ref. 6a 437) during the second quarter of 1905 and she was recorded in the Stow census in 1911 under her full name, at the age of six years, when just Kathleen and her brother William (above) were the only children living with their parents. Twenty-four years later the marriage of Kathleen M Collett and Daniel J Davis was recorded at Stow-on-the-Wold (Ref. 6a 1121) during the second quarter of 1935.
5Q44	Mary Louisa Collett was born at St George-in-the-East in London on 16^th October 1883, the eldest of the nine children of Richard John Collett and Mary Eliza Chandler. Her birth was recorded at St George-in-the-East (Ref. 1c 361) during the last three months of 1883. The family was living at Blakesley Street in 1891 when Mary L Collett was seven years old. In the census of 1901 Mary Louisa Collett, as the eldest child, was 17 and with no occupation, so she may have been assisting her mother look after the large family. That day the family was recorded at 37 Rutland Street in Mile End Old Town, to where they had moved sometime during the previous six years. Mary Louisa Collett, aged 27, was still unmarried and living at the family home in 1911 which, by then, was situated at 385 High Street in Leytonstone in Essex. On that occasion she was described as assisting at home with housekeeping. She never married, with her death recorded at Leytonstone (Ref. 4a 225) during the first three months of 1938, when she was 54 years old.
5Q45	Amy Maud Collett was born at St George-in-the-East on 30^th April 1886, her birth recorded there (Ref. 1c 376) during the second quarter of that year, the second child of Richard and Mary Collett. It was as Amy M Collett aged four years that she was living with her family at Blakesley Street in 1891. Around 1894 the family moved to Mile End Old Town in Stepney and it was at 37 Rutland Street that Amy was living with her family when she was recorded under her full name at the age of 14 and was already working as an envelope folder. The marriage of Amy Maud Collett and George James Cadman was recorded at West Ham (Ref. 4a 107) during the second quarter of 1906. She was not living far away from her parents in Leytonstone in 1911, when George Cadman aged 29 and from Bethnal Green was a leather cutter in the manufacture of leather handbags. His wife Amy Cadman was 24 and born at St George-in-the-East, and their son George Cadman junior was four years of age, having been born at Leytonstone in 1907.
	The birth of George James Cadman was registered at Bethnal Green (Ref. 1c 270) during the first three months of 1882, and he was 42 years of age when his death was recorded in London (Ref. 1c 220) during 1924. George may have been born at Florida Street in Bethnal Green, where he was nine years of age in 1891, the youngest of the two children of printers’ compositor George Cadman and his wife Elizabeth. It was six years after being widowed, and during the fourth quarter of 1930, that the death of Amy M Cadman aged 44 was recorded at West Ham register office (Ref. 4a 424).
5Q46	Richard George Collett was born at St George-in-the-East on 16^th January 1888 and was the third child and eldest son of Richard and Mary Collett. His birth was recorded there (Ref. 1c 390) during the first three months of that year, following which he was baptised there on 12^th February 1888, when his family was living at 29 Sheridan Street. By 1891 Richard G Collett was three years old and living in Blakesley Street with his family. Richard was still attending school in 1901 when he was 12, although by then the family home was at 37 Rutland Street in Mile End Old Town. Ten years after that the census in 1911 identified the family residing at 385 High Street in Leytonstone, where bachelor Richard George Collett was 23 and working as an optician.
	Just over one year later, on 11^th August 1912 at St Paul’s Church in Upper Holloway, Islington, Richard George Collett married Dorothy Hannah Taylor, who had been born on 12^th June 1891. It is understood that Dorothy gave birth to one child, whose details have not been revealed at this time. In 1950, at the age of 62, Richard’s occupation was that of a scientific instrument maker, when he and Dorothy were residing in Croydon. They were still there when Richard died in 1970. Dorothy Hannah Collett nee Taylor died during the spring of 1983, her death recorded at Croydon register office (Vol. 11 1498), when she was 91.
	5R14	a Collett child	Date of birth unknown
5Q47	Joseph Richard Collett was born at Blakesley Street in St George-in-the-East on 4^th November 1891 but died there within the following year.
5Q48	Esther Emily Collett was born at St George-in-the-East on 21^st November 1892, her birth recorded at St George-in-the-East (Ref. 1c 349) during the last quarter of 1892. It was most likely at Blakesley Street that she was born, where her family had been living on the day of the 1891 census the year before she was born. When she was just a few years old her family moved to Stepney and in 1901 they were recorded at 37 Rutland Street when Esther Emily Collett was eight years old. By the time she was 18 years old the family home was at 385 High Street in Leytonstone in the census of 1911, when she was working as an export clerk. She died in 1974.
5Q49	Hannah Elizabeth Collett was born at Stepney in London on 22^nd March 1895 and was the fifth child of Richard and Mary Collett. It was at Mile End Old Town in Stepney that her birth was recorded (Ref. 1c 476) during the second quarter of 1895. And it was at 37 Rutland Street in Stepney that she was living with her family in 1901 at the age of six years and was still living with her family at 385 High Street in Leytonstone in the census of 1911 when, at the age of 16, she was working as a blouse maker. She died in 1988.
5Q50	Winifred Elsie Collett was born at Stepney on 9^th March 1899, her birth recorded at Mile End Old Town (Ref. 1c 508) during the first quarter of the year. She was two years old in 1901 and living at 37 Rutland Street in Stepney. By 1911 Winifred Elsie was 12 and living with her parents at 385 High Street in Leytonstone. She later married William J Moss, with the event recorded at West Ham (Ref. 4a 846) during the last three months of 1928. They were married for twenty-one years, when Winifred E Moss died on 18^th September 1949 at Leytonstone.
5Q51	John Henry James Collett was born at 37 Rutland Street in Stepney on 2^nd May 1901, the birth recorded at Mile End Old Town (Ref. 1c 473) during the second quarter of that year, when his parents Richard John and Mary Eliza Collett were living at 37 Rutland Street, from where his father was a gun barrel browner. During the second half of the following decade the family moved to Low Leyton where they were residing at 385 High Street in Leytonstone in 1911 when John Henry James Collett was nine years of age. It was during the third quarter of 1929 when the marriage of John H J Collett and Martha H Thorogood was recorded at West Ham register office (Ref. 4a 1224). Martha Helen Thorogood was born at St Pancras on 23^rd December 1902, the daughter of Samuel Charles and Martha Louisa Thorogood. Ten years later, the couple was listed in the 1939 Register, as residing at Leyton in Essex, where John H J Collett was described as a fine salvage man undertaking private heavy work. He died in 1979.
5Q52	Sydney Charles George Collett was born at 55 Philpot Street in Stepney on 29^th January 1904 and his birth was recorded at Mile End Old Town (Ref. 1c 464) during the first three months of 1904 under the name Sidney Charles Collett, the last child born to Richard John Collett and Mary Eliza Chandler. Upon registering the birth, his parents’ residence was 55 Philpot Street, from where his father was a gun barrel browner. He was baptised at St Philip’s Church in Stepney on 17^th February 1904. Not long after he was born his family moved to their long-term home at 385 High Street in Leytonstone, where they were living in 1911 and where his mother was still living when she passed away in 1939. That census day in 1911, he was recorded at Sydney George Collett from Stepney who was seven years of age.
	He was thirty years old when he married Alice May Watson at St John’s Church in Stratford, Essex, on 1^st September 1934. The witness at their wedding were Lucy Watson and A W Brown, while Alice had been born at Stratford in 1901, the daughter of James Stephen Watson and his wife Helen Maud Watson. Tragically, son David was only three years old when Sidney’s wife died on 13^th October 1943 at Langthorne Hospital in Leytonstone. Just less than fourteen years after losing his wife, Sydney C Collett died at the Whipps Cross Hospital in Leyton on 6^th January 1957, his death recorded at the Essex South-Western register office (Ref. 5a 217).
	5R15	Douglas S Collett		Born in 1936 at West Ham
	5R16	David J Collett		Born in 1940 at Leyton, Essex
5Q53	Elizabeth Louisa Collett was born in London during 1905, the eldest child of Joseph Henry Collett and his wife Elizabeth Margaret Markham, whose birth was recorded at Mile End Old Town in Stepney (Ref. 1c 471) during the first quarter of that year. She was six years old in the West Ham census of 1911, and on that day she and her brother, together with their father, were staying at the union workhouse while their mother was in hospital. Tragically both of her brothers were victims of the flu pandemic that swept across the country just after the First World War. Elizabeth Louisa Collett was 21 when she married Percy Charles Tawton at Cardiff (Ref. 11a 669) in Glamorgan, South Wales, during the third quarter of 1926, and just prior to their emigration to Ontario in Canada, where their children were born. Percy was born at Pentyrch in Glamorganshire in early 1901 and on the day of the census at the end of March that same year he was living with his grandparents at Garth Hill in Pentyrch. He later served with the Merchant Navy. Elizabeth Louisa Tawton nee Collett, who died in 1972, and Percy Charles Tawton, who passed away twelve years earlier during 1960, were both buried in the Spring Creek Cemetery at Mississauga in Ontario.
5Q56	Sidney Herbert Collett was born at Snaresbrook in Essex on 31^st March 1896, his birth recorded at West Ham (Ref. 4a 296) during the second quarter of the year, the son of Henry Herbert Collet and his wife Fanny Cutting. Interestingly, his baptism, like that of his sister Edith (below), took place at the Church of St Nicholas in Great Yarmouth, on 11^th August 1897. It was at Chaucer Road in Wanstead, that Sidney was five years old in 1901 and in 1911 he and his family were recorded at Low Leyton in Leytonstone, when Sidney was still at school at the age of 15. In 1901 his place of birth was said to be Wanstead, whereas in 1911 it was Snaresbrook, both locations lie within the London Borough of Redbridge.
	Not much more is known about Sidney, except that he was still living in the Redbridge area of London when he died on 1^st October 1978, his death recorded at Redbridge register office (Vol. 14 1232), when he was 82 years old. It was a very sad and mysterious end to his life, which was reported in the following way. Sidney Herbert Collett of 51 Byron Avenue (his parents’ home in 1939 within the Wanstead and Woodford area of Essex) last known to be alive on 1^st October 1978, whose dead body was found on 5^th October 1978. Administration of his personal effects, resolved in London on 20^th March 1979, revealed that he left a considerable fortune of £45,169.
5Q57	Edith Lillian Collett was born at Snaresbrook on 29^th September 1899, the daughter of Henry and Fanny Collett, whose birth was recorded at West Ham register office (Ref. 4a 322) during the last quarter of the year. Whether or not there was a family connection to Great Yarmouth, it was there at St Nicholas’ Church that she was baptised on 15^th August 1900. Coincidentally, her brother Sidney (above) was also baptised there in the same month, but three years early. She was one year old in 1901 when, in the census return that year, her place of birth was recorded as Wanstead, where she and her family were residing at Chaucer Road. Ten years later her place of birth was said to be Snaresbrook, near Wanstead, when Edith was 12 years old and still at school. By that time the family was living at Low Leyton in Leytonstone. Fifteen years later, the marriage of Edith L Collett and Cecil B Pitts was recorded at West Ham register office (Ref. 4a 619) during the third quarter of 1926. Edith presented Cecil with two children, the births of both children recorded at West Ham, Roy B Pitts (Ref. 4a 465) during the last three months of 1928, and Clive B Pitts (Ref. 4a 454) during the third quarter of 1931. In each case, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett. Edith L Pitts was 63 when her death was recorded at Essex South Western register office (Ref. 5a 332) during the first quarter of 1963.
5Q59	William Reeves Collett was the base-born son of Emma Collett and the first of her two children born out of wedlock. His second forename may have been the surname of his unknown father. He was born on 17^th June 1886 at Bredons Hardwick with his birth registered at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 445) during the summer of that year. In 1891 William was five years old and living with his unmarried mother and his younger sister Louisa Collett aged two years as inmates at the Tewkesbury Union Workhouse. His mother became Emma Payne during the summer of 1900, the wife of Henry William Payne, who nine months later were living at Stoughton Street in Leicester, with William’s sister living there with them.
	By the end of March in 1901, William Collett had left school and was working as a domestic servant at the home of the Stuckey family in the village of Elmstone Hardwicke, north-west of Cheltenham. In addition to his role as a live-in servant at that address, William Collett from Bredons Hardwick also earned some extra money as a carter’s boy. On that day his sister Louisa Collett had returned to Gloucestershire and was also living in Cheltenham where she was still in domestic service with a family from Leicester.
	According to the census in 1911, William Reeves Collett was serving overseas with the 11^th Ammunition Column of the Royal Field Artillery at Jubbulpore in India. He was 25 and a single man who had been born at Tewkesbury. It was towards the end of the First World War that William Reeves Collett was back in Tewkesbury where his marriage to Alfreda E Robinson was recorded (Ref. 6a 1085) during the third quarter of 1918.
	Alfreda Emily Robinson was born in the village of Apperley near Tewkesbury in 1895, one of the six children Alfred Robinson, a carpenter, and his wife Mary who, by 1901 were living in nearby Deerhurst where Alfreda was six years of age. By the time she was 16, and as Alfreda Emily Robinson, she was employed as a general servant at the Tewkesbury home a grocer John William Tysoe and his wife Edith.
	During the first seven years of their life together, Alfreda gave birth to two children, with both births recorded at Tewkesbury register office when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Robinson. William Reeves Collett died on 7^th May 1963 at Cheltenham when he was very nearly 77 years of age. His passing was recorded at Gloucestershire register office (Ref. 7b 332) aged 76. Four years after being made a widow, Alfreda was residing in the Stroud area of Gloucestershire when she died during the month of July in 1967. The death of 62-year-old Alfreda Emily Collett was recorded at Gloucestershire register office (Ref. 7b 510).
	5R17	Marjorie E Collett		Born in 1920 at Tewkesbury
	5R18	Alfred C Collett		Born in 1925 at Tewkesbury
5R1	Christopher Lionel Collett was born at Tuffley to the south of Gloucester in 1910, the only known child of Ernest Collett by his wife Elsie. The child’s birth was recorded at Gloucester register office (Ref. 6a 307) during the first three months of 1910. By the time of the census in 1911 the three of them were recorded in that year’s census at Whaddon, Gloucester, where Christopher Lionel Collett was one-year old. Tragically, within the next few days or weeks Christopher Lionel Collett died at the age of one year, his death recorded at Gloucester register office (Ref. 6a 199) during the second quarter of 1911.
5R2	Gladys Elizabeth Collett was born at Tewkesbury on 16^th January 1908, the base-born daughter of Lizzie Collett by an unknown father. Her birth as Gladys Elizabeth Collett was recorded at Tewkesbury register office (Ref. 6a 438) during the first quarter of that year. However, it was simply as Gladys Collett aged three years that she was with her mother, living at the home of her paternal grandparents at Tewkesbury in April 1911.
5R5	Ronald George Collett was born at Cheltenham on 20^th September 1920, the only known child of Frank George Collett and Emily Pittman. The marriage of Ronald George Collett and Elizabeth Dorothy Brittle took place in Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 1735) during the last three months of 1939. They had a fifteen wait for the birth of their only known child, when their daughter Jacquelyn Dorothy Collett was born at Cheltenham, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 7b 475) during the second quarter of 1954. The death of Elizabeth Dorothy Collett was recorded at Cheltenham (Vol. 4791c c44d) towards the end of 1993, when her date of birth was recorded as 21^st May 1921. Her husband survived her by ten years, when the death of Ronald George Collett was also recorded at Cheltenham (Vol. 4791c c67d) at the end of 2003.
	5S1	Jacquelyn Dorothy Collett	Born in 1954 at Cheltenham
5R6	Nellie Collett was born at Kings Norton in Worcestershire, where her birth was recorded (Ref. 6d 237) during the second quarter of 1918, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Neachell. She was the first of the three children of Ernest Joseph Collett and Nellie Neachell, as confirmed when she was baptised on 14^th July 1918 at Smethwick in Staffordshire, six miles north of Kings Norton. An unconfirmed source suggests that Nellie Collett died in 1994.
5R7	Olive J Collett was born at Bredon in 1920, her birth recorded at Tewkesbury register office (Ref. 6a 1041) during the first three months of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Neachell. Olive was twenty-seven years old when she married Trevor L Wells, the event recorded at Pershore (Ref. 6c 467) during the first quarter of 1947. Again, an unconfirmed source states that Olive died in 2009.
5R8	George Henry Collett was born at Bredon on 15^th August 1926, although the record of his birth was registered at Tewkesbury (Ref. 6a 691) during the third quarter of that year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Neachell. He was the youngest of the three children of Ernest Joseph Collett and Nellie Neachell who, in the 1939 Register, as simply George Collett, was 13 and at school in Pershore, when he was living with his recently widowed father at No. 9 Council House in the town. Also living at the same address was Elizabeth Collett, but who she was has not yet been determined, since it is established that his father only remarried in 1946, one year before he died. The death of George Henry Collett, born in 1926, was recorded at Sandwell (Vol. a63 0701a) in June 2000, when he was 73.
5R9	Gordon J Collett was born in 1930, his birth recorded at Nuneaton register office (Ref. 6d 1066) during the second quarter of the year, the eldest child of Albert Ernest Collett and Edith G Roberts. It was also at Nuneaton where his marriage to Vera Sutton was recorded (Ref. 9c 1549) during the second quarter of 1962.
	5S2	Martin J Collett	Born in 1963 at Nuneaton
	5S3	Richard Ian Collett	Born in 1966 at Nuneaton
5R10	Beryl M Collett was born in 1932 at Nuneaton, where her birth was recorded (6d 1009) during the second quarter of the year, when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Roberts, the daughter of Albert and Edith Collett. Twenty-one years later, the marriage of Beryl M Collett and Brian R Cox was recorded at Nuneaton register office (Ref. 9c 1604) during the second quarter of 1953. Their marriage produced two children, Paul A Cox who was born in 1956, his birth recorded at Nuneaton (Ref. 9c 1398) during the third quarter of that year, and Keith J Cox whose birth was also recorded there (Ref. 9c 1602) during the third quarter of the 1960. On both occasions the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Collett.
5R11	Roy Collett was born in 1928 at Nuneaton, the only child of Ernest Collett and Matilda Bowles. His birth was recorded there (Ref. 6d 877) during the final three months of that year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed at Bowles. Roy was thirty when he married Norma E Cain, the event recorded at Birmingham register office (Ref. 9c 421) during the last quarter of 1958. Once married the couple settled in the Solihull area of Warwickshire, where the two sons were born.
	5S4	Neil S Collett	Born in 1963 at Meriden, Solihull
	5S5	Robert A Collett	Born in 1965 at Solihull
5R13	Charles Fernleigh Collett was born at Devonport on 26^th March 1922, the only child of William Charles Collett and Edith R Claridge. His birth was recorded at Devonport (Ref. 5b 468) during the second quarter of 1922, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Claridge. When he was baptised in 1922 his name was written as Charles Fernley Collett whereas, upon his death on 2^nd March 2003, he was recorded as Charles Fernleigh Collett who died at Tiverton in Devon at the age of (almost) 81. His passing was recorded at Devon register office (Vol. 4211 34d).
	Although no record has been found to suggest he every married, what is interesting is a possible son with the same name who died in 2019 and was buried at the Royal Wootton Bassett Cemetery in Wiltshire on 15^th October 2019 as Charles Fernleigh Collett.
5R15	Douglas S Collett was born in the east London area of West Ham in 1936, the older of the two sons of Sydney Charles George Collett and Alice May Watson. His birth was recorded at West Ham (Ref. 4a 43) during the first quarter of 1936, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Watson. There is the possibility that the two Essex marriages of a Douglas S Collett were for the son of Sydney and Alice. The first of them was recorded at the South-Western Essex register office (Ref. 5a 785) during the third quarter of 1958, when he was 22 and his bride was Jean P Reeve.
	The later second Essex marriage of Douglas S Collett was recorded at Southend-on-Sea register office (Vol. 475 0157) during the third quarter of 1998 when the bride was named as Judith North. By then Douglas would have been 60 years old, while seven years earlier his eldest son Ian was married in Southend.
	The first marriage produced three children for the couple, when all three births were recorded within the County of Essex, with the mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Reeve. The known details for the two eldest children are provided under their respective names, while the birth of son Graham Timothy are as follows, with his birth recorded at Havering (Ref. 5e 28) during the second quarter of 1968.
	5S6	Ian D Collett	Born in 1961 at West Ham, Essex
	5S7	Hazel J Collett	Born in 1965 at Waltham Forest, Essex
	5S8	Graham Timothy Collett	Born in 1968 at Havering, Essex
5R16	David J Collett was born at Leyton in Essex in 1940 with his birth recorded at the South-Western Essex register office (Ref. 4a 510) during the second quarter of 1940, with his mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Watson.
5R17	Marjorie E Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1920 and was the first of the two children of William Reeves Collett and Alfreda E Robinson. Her birth was recorded there (Ref. 6a 963) during the second quarter of that year 1920 whose mother’s maiden-name was Robinson. Marjorie was still in her teenage years when the marriage of Marjorie E Collett and Rupert Roberts was recorded at Cheltenham register office (Ref. 6a 1519) during the third quarter of 1936.
	Marjorie was already with-child on their wedding day, with the birth of her first child Howard W R Roberts registered at Cheltenham (Ref. 6a 616) during the last three months of the same year. Their son was followed by a further four children whose births were all recorded at Cheltenham, and they were David J Roberts in the summer of 1938 (Ref. 6a 558), Sylvia J Roberts during the summer of 1941 (Ref. 6a 848), Rupert Roberts in the summer of 1942 (Ref. 6a 675), and eight years later Colin V H Roberts during the summer of 1954 (Ref. 7b 489). In each case, the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed at Collett.
5R18	Alfred C Collett was born at Tewkesbury in 1925 where his birth was recorded (Ref. 6a 658) during the first three months of that year, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Robinson. Alfred was twenty-five years old when the marriage of Alfred C Collett and Edith A Williams was recorded at Gloucestershire register office (Ref. 7b 721) during the first quarter of 1951.
	Their married life started out in Cheltenham, where their first two children’s births were recorded, while it was between 1955 and 1958 that the family moved to the North Cotswold Rural District area of Gloucestershire where the births of the couple’s last three children’s birth were recorded, the last two being twins. Tragically, the younger twin did not survive.
	5S9	Martin J Collett		Born in 1951 at Cheltenham
	5S10	Robin Paul Collett		Born in 1955 at Cheltenham
	5S11	Lynda J Collett		Born in 1958 at North Cotswold
	5S12	Steven C Collett – twin		Born in 1962 at North Cotswold
	5S13	Andrew M Collett - twin		Born in 1962 at North Cotswold
5S2	Martin J Collett was born in 1963 at Nuneaton, where birth was recorded (Ref. 9c 1614) during the last three months of the year, the older of the two children of Gordon J Collett and Vera Sutton. Although not proved, he may have been the Martin J F Collet who married Mandy A Prior in West Oxfordshire in 1986.
5S3	Richard Ian Collett was born in 1966, the younger of the two sons of Gordon and Vera Collett. It was at Nuneaton register office (Ref. 9c 1838) that his birth was recorded during the first three months of 1966. The marriage of Richard I Collett and Nicola A Jones was recorded at the Nuneaton & Bedworth register office (Vol. 31 163) during the spring of 1988. The births of their two sons were also recorded at Nuneaton & Bedworth register office, the first of them towards the end of 1989 (Vol. 31 179), the second early in 1994 (Vol. 7681a a41c), and in each case the mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Jones.
	5T1	Andrew Ian Collett	Born in 1989 at Nuneaton
	5T2	Matthew Ryan Collett	Born in 1994 at Nuneaton
5S4	Neil S Collett was born in 1963 when his parents, Roy Collett and Norma Cain, were living in the village of Meriden within the Borough of Solihull. His birth was recorded there (Ref. 9c 1669) during the first quarter of the year when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Cain. He later married Catherine Lynch, with their wedding recorded at Birmingham (Vol. 32 112) during the first few months of 1985. All three of their children were born at Solihull, where their births were recorded, when their mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Lynch, (Vol. 34 804, 34 638 and 0731b b110f respectively).
	5T3	Liam Alexander Collett		Born in 1988 at Solihull
	5T4	Max Collett		Born in 1991 at Solihull
	5T5	Nathan John Collett		Born in 1996 at Solihull
5S5	Robert A Collett was born in 1965 at Solihull, where his birth was recorded (Ref. 9c 2211) during the first three months of 1963, second of the two sons of Roy and Norma Collett, with his mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Cain.
5S6	Ian D Collett was the first-born child of Douglas S Collett by his first wife Jean P Reeve. His birth was recorded at West Ham register office (Ref. 5a 975) during the third quarter of 1961 when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Reeve. Ian was 23 when his marriage to Alison M Abrams was recorded at Southend-on-Sea (Vol. 9 3741) in the summer of 1984. Six years later the birth of their only known child Timothy Ian Collett was recorded at Southend-on-Sea (Vol. 9 4101) during the first three months of 1991, with the mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Abrams. Ian’s younger brother had the name Timothy, and with nothing found for him, other than his Essex birth, it is possible that Ian’s son was named in memory of his uncle.
	5T6	Timothy Ian Collett		Born in 1991 at Southend-on-Sea
5S7	Hazel J Collett was born in Essex in 1965, the second of the three children of Douglas and Jean Collett. Her birth was recorded at Waltham Forest register office (Ref. 5e 711) during the third quarter of 1965 with her mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Reeve. The later marriage of Hazel J Collett and Trevor I Smith was recorded at Southend-on-Sea (Vol. 9 4217) during the third quarter of 1987. After four years, the birth of their daughter Leanne Marie Smith was also recorded at Southend register office (Vol. 9 3920) in the last three months of 1992
5S9	Martin J Collett was born in 1951 at Cheltenham where his birth was recorded (Ref. 7b 388) during the summer of that year, the first of the five children of Alfred C Collett and Edith A Williams. The birth register confirmed that the mother’s maiden-name was Williams. It was around the time of his twentieth birthday that the wedding of Martin J Collett and Kerwen E Bryant was recorded at North Cotswold register office (Ref. 7b 1649) during the third quarter of 1971. The births of the couple’s three children were recorded at Cheltenham register office, when the mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Bryant, with Simon Andrew’s birth (Vol. 22 1475) recorded during the last three months of 1977.
	5T7	Sharon Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1972 at Cheltenham
	5T8	Emma Louise Collett		Born in 1974 at Cheltenham
	5T9	Simon Andrew Collett		Born in 1977 at Cheltenham
5S10	Robin Paul Collett was born in 1955 and his birth was recorded at Cheltenham register office (Ref. 7b 492) during the first three months of 1955, with his mother’s maiden-name confirmed as Williams. Not long after he was born the family moved east to settle within the rural district of North Cotswold. Unlike his brother Martin (above), Robin was thirty-years-of-age when he married Amanda J Miller, with their wedding day recorded at North Cotswold register office (Vol. 22 2471) during the summer of 1985. Robin Paul Collett, who was known as Toby, was residing in Sherborne, to the east of Northleach, when he died in 2016 at the age of 61 and was laid to rest in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Sherborne.
5S11	Lynda J Collett was born in 1958 after her family left Cheltenham and moved a few miles east to the North Cotswold area where her birth was recorded (Ref. 7b 736) during the last three months of 1958. She was the only daughter of Alfred and Edith Collett, with her birth certificate confirming her mother’s maiden-name as Williams. At the age of 27 the marriage of Lynda J Collett and Michael A Hicks was recorded at North Cotswold register office (Vol. 22 1242) during the last three months of 1985.
5S12	Steven C Collett was the twin brother of Andrew (below) and was born within the North Cotswold area of Gloucestershire where his birth was recorded (Ref. 7b 898 – 10) during the second quarter of 1962. It was as Stephen C Collett that his marriage to Linda M T Hughes was recorded at North Cotswold register office (Vol. 22 1284) during the last three months of 1984.
5S13	Andrew M Collett was the younger twin brother of Steven (above) and was the last of the five children of Alfred C Collett and Edith Williams. His birth was recorded at North Cotswold register office (Ref. 7b 898 – 12) during the spring of 1962, when his mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Williams. Very sadly, he was only two years old when he died with his infant death recorded at North Cotswold register office (Ref. 7b 447) in 1964.
5T7	Sharon Elizabeth Collett was the eldest of the three children of Martin J Collett and Kerwen E Bryant and was born towards the end of 1972 when her birth was recorded at Cheltenham register office (Ref. 7b 1143) and Bryant was confirmed as her mother’s maiden-name. She was around 22 years of age when the marriage of Sharon Elizabeth Collett and Mark W Fussell was recorded at North Cotswold register office (Vol. 485 0386) during the last three months of 1996.
5T8	Emma Louise Collett was born in 1974 another daughter of Martin and Kerwen Collett. Her birth, like those of her two siblings was recorded at Cheltenham register office (Vol. 2 1911) during the summer of 1974 when her mother’s maiden-name was confirmed as Bryant. Emma was around 31 years of age when her marriage to Philip J Wilsdon was recorded at North Cotswold register office (Vol. 485 0005) in 2005. By that time Emma had already given to the first of their two daughters.
	Once married, the couple settled in the Cheltenham area where, previously the birth of Ella J Wilsdon had been recorded (Vol. 479/1 a77d) at the start of 2004. The birth of the second child Jessica Mae Wilsdon was also recorded at Cheltenham register office (Vol. 4791b b85d) during the second quarter of 2006.