Thompson / Corporaal Family History

William Collet ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

William Collet was born at The Hale in Wendover in 1670, the last child of John Collet and Ellen Halsey, and was baptised at St Mary's Church on 14th November 1670. It was in 1692 that he was first sworn of the Manor of The Hale, which happened again in 1732. Between those two dates he married the much younger Elizabeth Kipping (Ref. 63J2) of Wendover with whom he had four sons, although only one survived to adulthood. Elizabeth was born in 1689 and was baptised at Wendover on 19th May that year, the daughter of John Kipping (Ref. 63I1). Two of her siblings were also involved with the Collet family and they were her older sister Hannah Kipping (Ref. 63J1) who married Richard Stratfold (see Section Two of Part 63 \endash The Stratfold-Collet Family of Wendover), and her younger brother Robert Kipping (Ref. 63J3) who was the first guardian of Robert Collet, Elizabeth's youngest son.


William Collett of The Hale died during the last few days of 1735 and was buried at St Mary's Church on 29th December 1735. His Will was proved on 7th January 1736 at the Archdeaconry Court of Buckinghamshire. Sadly his wife Elizabeth Collet nee Kipping had already passed away by then in 1728, when she may have died giving birth to a fifth child who also did not survive.

  Some of his life's milestones were:

He was born in 1670 in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England. ^{1 2} at The Hale

* Reference *:,. ² Refer to Brian Collett's Family History Part 18 for details - http://www.collettfamilyhistory.net/

William married Elizabeth Kipping, daughter of John Kipping and Hannah Moreton, about 1712.¹ (Elizabeth Kipping was born in 1689 in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England ^{5 6}, baptised on May 19, 1689 in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England ^{5 7} and died in 1728 in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England.)