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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Suffolk => Topic started by: windy_miller on Friday 22 June 18 00:37 BST (UK)
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Hello fellow Rooters,
I trying to track down info on Robert Collett, Charles Collett and Mary Collett who were bakers and millers in Halesworth between 1785 and 1813, though maybe a bit either side of this range is probable.
BMD info would be good, but anything relating to their mill would be brilliant!
The mill may have been on Mill Hill, Halesworth; William may have been married to Mary Collett, and Charles may have been their son.
I also suspect there may have been a John Collett pre-dateing all these people, and he may have een alive until about 1788.
Cheers,
Windy
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There is this death notice in 1818:
"Saturday se'nnight died, at Halesworth, much respected, Mrs Collett, wife of Mr Charles Collett, confectioner, aged 74 years."
The Ipswich Journal, Saturday, August 29, 1818
There is also an advertisment for the sale of household furniture, stock etc of Charles COLLETT of Halesworth due to his "intention to decline business" in Sept 1818. I can copy it if you don't already have it?
Modified to add:
And an advertisement for the sale of the Mill at Mill Hill in 1813. Also an ad for the sale of Charles COLLETT's baker's shop at Halesworth in 1833. - I'm guessing you already have these?
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Is this Charles in the 1841 census at "New Court" Halesworth
Charles Collett 85
Mary Collett 69
(both born in County ie Suffolk)
HO107/1015/4 pg 1
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If Mrs Collett, wife of Charles died in 1818, then it can't be the same Mrs Collett on the 1841 census.
It's possible that Charles Collett on the 1841 census was the brother of my 3 x g.grandfather William Collett - and so my 3 x g.g.uncle. His nephew, my 2 x g.grandfather, his wife and 2 children were also living at New Court, Halesworth in 1841.
Windy, I don't know how much info you have about the Colletts or whether you know of the site http://www.collettfamilyhistory.net - if you go to that site and look for Part 18, you will find out all about the Colletts in Suffolk from 1360 to 2010.
Of course, it's very possible that your ancestors are a different branch of the Suffolk Colletts, but if you go to the website above, and scan down to the bottom of the first page you will see the email address of Brian Collett who, with the help of many Collett ancestors, has compiled the family tree. I'm sure he'd be delighted to hear from you with any info you have.
Lizzie
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If Mrs Collett, wife of Charles died in 1818, then it can't be the same Mrs Collett on the 1841 census.
I don't know, but I was thinking given the age difference (and the rounding of the 1841 census) that they may have been father and daughter.
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Hi Maddy & Lizzie,
I'll look into this shortly.
Mrs. Windy Miller had a fall and I'm putting research to one side as I tend to her. I have lots of newspaper stuff, but will need to check things over.
In the meantime a BIG thank you.
Windy
PS I'll look at the Collett link tomorrow, thanks.
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Oh that's no good, I hope she's on the mend soon.
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Oh sorry to hear that Windy, please wish your wife a speedy recovery.
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Hi Lizzie & Maddy,
Maddy, your right; I have most of the paper stuff already.
Lizzie, my interest in the Collett's limited to their being millers, rather than genealogy. I looked at the site but it does not refer to Collett employment. This is what I have. Please feel free to forward it on. And if any Colletts know of early mill-links in Suffolk (esp. Halesworth!) I'd like to add them to my database.
From various sources and all in Halesworth ...
Chas. Collett milling with a Mathew Swan 1791/01/01
Chas. Collett as a miller 1793/12/07
Chas. Collett, baker, took apprentice 1807/09/04
Chas. Collett selling his windmill on Mill Hill, Halesworth 1813/11/13
Robt. & Mary Collet (miller) had son, Chas. Thos. Collett 1815/06/02
Outside of my area of general interest I have ...
John Collet, miller, occ. of farm in Quy, for sale 1803/09/14
John Collett selling s watermill in Little Wilbraham, Cambs 1810/02/17
Death of Susannah Swarm (nee Collett) (d. of Mr. Collett, Quy) 1827/01/17
Death of John Collett, miller, at Stow-cum-Quy, Cambridgeshire 1829/01/21
Marriage of Wm. Kent Collett to Elizabeth Kent in Quy 1831/06/29
Storm damage of Mr. Collett's mill, in Quy 1843/08/16
Death of Widow of John Collett (Quy) at Taversham 1849/12/26
Cheers for now,
Windy
PS. Mrs. Windy is on the mend :)
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Windy the site doesn't refer to Collett employment separately but generally, if it's known, someone's occupation will have been mentioned but, of course, that means doing a search. I'll pass the info you have onto Brian Collett to see if he has any further information.
Glad Mrs Windy is on the mend.
Lizzie
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Lizzie,
I looked at the Suffolk pages (about 3 and they did look comprehensive) and did an F3 search on "miller" and "mill". No joy. Anyway, I hope Brian finds my data useful.
Windy
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Windy - Brian Collett says he hasn't found Charles Thomas Collett son of Robert, but hasn't given up hope of discovering who the family was. The other names from Cambridgeshire were familiar to him.
He's going to go through them all in due course. With such a large tree, he always has people sending him more information each month, I don't know how he finds the time to sort it all out.
From my end, I'm going to see if I can do more research on my Halesworth Colletts to see if I can come up with Charles Thomas son of Robert. I'm sure there must be a connection.
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Robt. & Mary Collet (miller) had son, Chas. Thos. Collett 1815/06/02
So far, Brian Collett has found that Charles Thomas Collett was baptised on 2 June 1815 and sadly died 9 days later. So any Charles who were Millers were not Charles Thomas Collett. He's also found details of other Halesworth Colletts that are not so far on his database. Hopefully, he will eventually be able to sort out information on Robert Collett and the other Halesworth Colletts who were millers.
I'm hoping he can link them into my branch of Colletts.
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Hi Lizzie,
Glad to help with the Colletts. I'll continue with my search of millers and if any thing turns up re: the family I'll pass it on to you.
Windy
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Thank you.
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Windy - do you know of this book?
"Directory of Suffolk Millers 1086-1996", by Eileen Blythe. Available here:
www.parishchest.com/index.php?cmd=viewproduct&cat=&id=P100293&pageOffset=0
Lizzie