Hi,
If you read Brian Collet's amazing research into the Collett family. Easy to find on a search. You will see an extensive tree, going back to 1500s.
I have copied in part of it.
My partner is a Collett, and descended from the Chedworth Colletts.
Kind regards
Barbara
3N4
John Collett was born at Chedworth on 18.04.1822 and he was a grocer and mealman. During 1845 he married (1) Mary Ann Silk at Bristol and the following year their first child was born at Stonehouse near Stroud. The birth certificate for daughter Martha Ann Collett confirmed the child’s parents as grocer John Collett and Mary Ann Collett formerly Silk.
However, it seems very likely that Mary Ann died shortly after, since John’s second child was born at Stonehouse and baptised at nearby Painswick to parents John and Sarah Collett. It is established that John married Sarah Rowland at Cheltenham during the second quarter of 1855 and it therefore seems very likely that she was his third wife, and the second to be called Sarah.
It must therefore be assumed that, following the death of his first wife Mary Ann Silk, John Collett married (2) Sarah with whom he had two children. Not long after the birth of the first of these two children the family emigrated to Australia, and it was there that Sarah’s second child by John was born at Donta Galla in Victoria
Life may have been particularly hard for the settlers in those early pioneering days, and it would appear that John’s second wife Sarah died while the family was in Australia. This may have been the reason why John and his three young children returned to England between 1851 and 1854.
Once back in England, John and the family may have initially lived in Cheltenham where he married (3) Sarah Rowland between April and June in 1855, following which they settled in John’s home village of Chedworth. And it was at Chedworth that a further four children were added to the family.
Sarah Rowland (see Ref. 10M5) was John’s first cousin once removed, she being the niece of Mary Rowland who married Henry Collett who were the parents of this John Collett’s father Henry Collett (Ref. 2M21).
