Records of David Collet on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for David Collet and the Collet Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Collet Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Collet family tree.

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Some Famous People called David Collet

David Collet

Theodore David Anthony Collet (19 October 1901 – 26 April 1984) was a British rower who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Collet was educated at Cambridge University and rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race in 1922, 1923 and 1924. Cambridge won in 1922 and 1924 and Oxford won in 1923.

Collet joined Leander Club and concentrated on single sculls. In 1927 he won the Wingfield Sculls. In 1928 he competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and won the bronze medal in the single sculls competition. He retained the Wingfield Sculls in 1928 and won again in 1929.

Source: David Collet, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Collet

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